Terrorism Knowledge Base
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Mohamed, Fazul Abdullah
Aliases: Abdallah Fazul, Abu Al Fazul Al-Qamari, Abu Seif Al Sudani, Fadel Abdallah Mohammed Ali, Fadil Abdallah Muhamad, Fazul Abdilahi Mohammed, Haroon , Harun Fazul
Education (at time of indictment): Vocational school graduate; Associate degree
Marital Status (at time of indictment): Single
Gender: Male
Biography: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is originally from the Comoros Islands off the coast of Southeastern Africa. He speaks English, French, Swahili, Arabic, and Comoran.
Mohammed has been indicted for his alleged involvement in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks resulted in the death of 224 innocent civilians and wounded over 5,000 others.
His indictment, handed down on September 17, 1998 in the Southern District of New York, carries the charges of: murder of US nationals outside the United States; conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the United States; attack on a federal facility resulting in death. The US Government is offering a reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction, in any country, of those people listed above.
Mohammed is known to wear baseball caps and dress casually and is good with computers.
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In fact, this past October the U.S. Army issued its latest "urban operations" manual.
"Given the global population trends and the likely strategies and tactics of future threats," it declares, "Army forces will likely conduct operations in, around, and over urban areas -- not as a matter of fate, but as a deliberate choice linked to national security objectives and strategy, and at a time, place, and method of the commander's choosing."
Global economic deprivation and poor housing, the hallmarks of the urban slum, are, the manual asserts, what makes "urban areas potential sources of unrest" and thus, "[i]ncreases the likelihood of the Army's involvement in stability operations." And "idle" urban youth (long a target of security forces in the U.S. homeland), loosed in the future slum city from the "traditional social controls" of "village elders and clan leaders" and prey to manipulation by "nonstate actors" draw particular concern from the manual's authors.
Given the assumed need to be in the urban Iraqs of the future, the question for the U.S. military becomes a practical one: How to deal with these uppity children of the third world.
That's where DARPA and other Department of Defense (DoD) dreamers come in. According to DARPA's 2004 report, what's needed are "new systems and technologies for prosecution of urban warfare...[and] new operational methods for our soldiers, Marines, and special operations forces."
Today, DARPA, and other Pentagon ventures like the Small Business Innovation Research Program (in which the "DoD funds early-stage R&D projects at small technology companies") and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (where funding goes to "cooperative R&D projects involving a small business and a research institution") are awash in "urban operations-oriented programs."
These go by the acronym of UO and are designed to support tomorrow's interventions and occupations.
The Director of DARPA's Information Exploitation Office put it this way:
See rest at link above.
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But, I have to post this blurb ... fascinating:
"Z-Man: Copyright infringement was probably the only thing that stopped this DARPA program from being called the "Spiderman Project."
Basically, Z-Man seeks to "develop climbing aids that will enable an individual soldier to scale vertical walls constructed of typical building materials without the need for ropes or ladders."
The Pentagon is aiming to find methods similar to those employed by "geckos, spiders, and small animals [to] scale vertical surfaces, that is, by using unique biological material systems that enable controllable adhesion."
This weaponized wall-crawler, assumedly capable of creeping into some 2025 apartment window in Baghdad, Beruit, or Kerachi "carrying a combat load," definitely is not meant to be your friendly neighborhood Spiderman."
well we saved some court costs this way