***looks around***
SCREAMS BLOODY MURDER!!!!
How did this happen? I am behind on not one -- but two -- threads. Two threads. This is a first. I have not read any posts since early Sunday evening and I only posted posts yesterday -- had no time to read much yesterday at all. And now there's a new thread that has over 100 posts already. ACK.
I cannot read anything until later tonight. See everyone later.
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P.S. Please have some compassion everyone and slow the pace of news and events today. I know I am not the only one in this predicament right now. I bet when I return later there will be no less than a few hundred more posts! And I have to start back on the previous thread... Double ACK. :)
Al Qaeda rebuilding ranks: report
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network has named new leaders to replace those who have been killed or captured, promoting from within and recruiting new operatives to run the organisation, The New York Times reports.
The newspaper cites intelligence officials and refers to computer records, documents and email addresses seized after the arrest in Pakistan of 25-year-old Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan.
"Al-Qaeda's upper ranks are being filled by lower-ranking members and more recent recruits," the daily said.
Khan's computer contained photos and surveillance reports on financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, New Jersey, as well as London's Heathrow airport.
"The results create a far more complex picture of Al Qaeda's status," the daily said.
"The new evidence suggests that the organisation is regenerating and bringing in new blood." The New York Times notes that intelligence officials have not yet pinpointed Al Qaeda's top leaders.
Authorities are examining whether bin Laden is still at the helm of the organisation or whether he has passed those responsibilities on to his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1173402.htm
I have 200 posts ahead of me on this thread, and still some from 1! Go thru carefully there are some amazing things on new thread already, that require reading/opinions!