Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

New York Post ^ | February 24, 2004 | By NILES LATHEM

[Revel]

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

[judicial meanz]

Personally Jersey, I think there has been a radical change of mind in their operations, and they are beginning to lash out with any operations they can launch to keep some legitimacy.

The first tier has been decimated, and the second is not doing much better. I think the third tier that is largely coming to power are younger and more prone to rash action.

They will also be more prone to mistakes, and we have to maximize those mistakes to decimate them.

[jerseygirl]

Wish we could figure out the 10% remaining undone, and foil their attack plans.
I'm concerned they may have already initiated the plague attack via contagious jihadi on international flights.

[JustPiper]

Hard not to hit him with the car when he comes out isn't it Gal? Good for you for being such a good citizen! Keep us updated, and why won't the police arrest him?

[jerseygirl]

Well said. How may I be of assistance?

[Revel]

The 3/13 date is mysteriously very close to all of this.

[judicial meanz]

We just keep on kicking them in the butt, Jersey, like we have been doing.

This thread does a lot to combat terror, whether we know it or not. Might surprise some people to know who checks in and reads it day by day...LOL

In addition, the posts we keep can act as evidence or help produce evidence in the case of an attack. its a virtual archive, constantly being updated and maintained by people with proven loyalty to our country.

[judicial meanz]

Speaking of plague, wonder how long the vaccinations are good for?

Most US Military personnel have had the plague series as part of the overseas shots they get.

Its a really painful, pain in the tukas shot too...make no mistake.

[Barnacle]

Isn't he the same guy who and said things in the past like there is only so much time to evacuate a particular city, etc? And then nothing happens. If so, what's the point of giving him more air time here? His tactic is to frighten Americans. He can only do harm if his message gets out.

[Lady Heron]

You know that was a very cute rant, but I think that Mrs. Xtrmst had a good point. France has been a big part of the problem, some think enemy, in the war on terrorism. It looks like they might actually be waking up to their own safty now that the cloud that was obscuring their morals (money from the UN food for oil kick-backs) has been eleminated with no chance for returning. This is an intresting development in their new foreign policy.

That comment she made had nothing to do with the mindset of muslims terrorist, it was a comment on France.

[jerseygirl]

It certainly is! However, wouldn't they want to strike us on a regular work day- particularly if they are interested in going after symbolic buildings, the UN for one, the Whitehouse for another? Transit, etc.( I still think they intend on destroying the Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty.)

Then again (thinking out loud), when do they have their major religious prayers? Would there be any thought to wanting to have their people safely esconced in mosques during an attack? They are warning their people not to go in US buildings- civilian or military.

[Revel]

We don't censor the news and intell here in this thread. That would be a really dumb thing to do unless it was going to directly affect our national security. Are you not able to come to your own conclusions. Perhaps we could get John Kerry to tell us all what we can post and not post.

[JustPiper]

sonic boom?

[Revel]

Never mind the hit and run censor posters. I am very glad that you posted that message here. We will be able to judge it for acuracy as time goes on.

[TexKat]

Me thinks that she is just a real wack job.

Susan Landauer is being reported to be a second cousin to Andy Card and worked for at least 2 congressional democratic offices. She was a member of the anti-war crowd per MSNBC.

Ex-Aide in Congress Charged As Iraq Spy

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - A former journalist and one-time press secretary for four members of Congress was arrested Thursday on charges she served as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service before and after the U.S. invasion.

Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.

She was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein. Prosecutors say she accepted $10,000 for he work.

"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible. I'm very proud and I'll stand by my achievements."

Lindauer worked at Fortune, U.S. News & World Report and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before beginning her career as a political publicist.

She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. in 1993 and then Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994 before joining the office of former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun as press secretary in 1996. From March to May 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

"Her position was eliminated in the downsizing following the 1994 elections," said Josh Kardon, chief of staff for now-Sen. Wyden. "She worked for us a short period of time."

Braun's current spokesperson, Loretta Kane, said the former senator does not remember Lindauer.

According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Lindauer made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations (news - web sites) in Manhattan. The indictment makes no mention of her congressional staff work.

There, she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq that allegedly has played a role in terrorist operations, including an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush, the indictment alleged.

The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002.

Her acceptance of the money and her willingness to bring it home from Iraq violated a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors international terrorism, the government said. The indictment did not specify a motive.

The charges against Lindauer were included in an expanded indictment in the case against Raed Rokan Al-Anbuge, 28, and Wisam Noman Al-Anbuke, the sons of Iraq's former liaison with United Nations weapons inspectors.

The brothers were charged last year with acting as Iraqi government agents and conspiring to do so, prosecutors said. The indictment said Lindauer conspired with the brothers.

On Jan. 8, 2003, prosecutors said, Lindauer tried to influence U.S. foreign policy by delivering to the home of a U.S. government official a letter in which she conveyed her access to and contacts with members of Saddam's regime. The official was not identified in the indictment.

The United States invaded Iraq in March of last year, and the government fell the following month.

The indictment said she met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. It said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.

According to the indictment, she continued to correspond with the undercover agent until last month and followed the agent's instructions to leave packages on two occasions in August in "dead drop" operations.

Lindauer, who was not immediately assigned a defense lawyer, faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if she is convicted, prosecutors said.

More than a half dozen FBI agents could be seen searching Lindauer's residence in Takoma Park, a city known for its liberal views. Her neighbors recalled her as friendly.

Joao Luiz Vieire de Castro, 39, described Lindauer as "a regular American who walks her dog in the mornings and the afternoon."

"It's a big surprise. Who would think that it's (espionage) in your neighborhood?" said Dean Paris, 45, who sometimes greeted Lindauer on the street, which is less than a mile from the District of Columbia line. Paris said he never saw anything suspicious.

But Malvina Lacey, who lives next door to Lindauer, added, "She lives in a fantasy world."

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Associated Press writer Derrill Holly in Takoma Park, Md., contributed to this story.

[jerseygirl]

Pathetic.

[Indie]

Our Job on the net has been done and this is the last messege from Daleel Almojahid, the next time you will our name will be in the heart of your beloved America by the hands of the mojahideen.

We'll be waiting for you Daleel, locked and loaded. Get ready to meet your virgins.

[Eurotwit]

You might have found it already, but this seems to be a full text of the Al Qaeda letter.