[harpseal]

To Islamic_violence bump list.

[Travis McGee]

Bojinka Bump.

We will not even profile middle eastern men at the airports, (PC over the survival of air travelers), so there is zero chance that we will subject any of our known terrorists in custody to "tactical interrogation", (possibly learning of and stopping the next 9-11).

America is still not serious about battling terrorism within its borders.

[MizSterious]

Great find, as always, Wallaby!

[Fred Mertz]

There were street maps of Manila, plotting the papal motorcade's route; two remote-control pipe bombs; and a phone message from a tailor saying the cassock Saeed had ordered was ready for a final fitting.

Outstanding post Wallaby! Lots and lots of info in this one.

[VOA]

bump

[fightu4it]

We should bring Aida over here and put her in charge of national security.

[Publius6961]

FBI spokesperson John E. Collingwood denies that the bureau had advance knowledge of a plot to turn airliners into flying bombs. "The FBI had no warnings about any hijack plots. There was a widely publicized 1995 conspiracy in Manila to remotely blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific," Collingwood said in a letter to the Washington Post in October, "but that was disrupted. And, as is the practice, what was learned in that investigation was widely disseminated, even internationally, and thoroughly analyzed by multiple agencies. It does not connect to the current case."

If this clown Collingwood "sees no connection" between the 1995 events and what happened 911, he needs to be removed real quickly from any job requiring critical thinking, indeed any thinking at all...

[Publius6961]

"There certainly were enough precursors that should have led analysts to suspect that the U.S could come under domestic attack,"

D'OH!

What gave it away finally?
That only US airlines were mentioned in the material found in the explosives lab computer and the airlines schedule?

Is this a Clinton thing or are our intelligence agencies now the New Keystone Kops?

[hsszionist]

The warning was given that the viper was in the sandbox, and still the children were allow to play there and one was bitten. Well the viper is still there and so are the children, may be the viper won't strike again.

[annalex]

I vaguely associate you with Bojinka threads; I am not sure why. Bump, boink, boink.

[CommiesOut]

More

[tallhappy]

Among the best articles on Bojinka were in the LA Times and Washington Post, so I couldn;t post them, or even link to them because their archives aren't available on line.

Suffice to say that the plan to hijack an airplane and fly it in to the CIA headquarters was made known by the terrorists as a consequence of the investigations.

This Bojinka, where they planned to blow up 5 to 10 jets plying east Asian routes (Manilla, Taipi, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore) concommitantly with assassinating the Pope in the Philippines and the stuff they learned from the first WTC bombing and the African embassy bombings should have led investigators to put two and two together better than they did.

But it was the time of Clinton.

[flamefront]

Great article find.

Here is the link to the original article in the Toronto Star.

It is clearly consistent that the only people paying attention are the people lowest on the rungs of command. Here it is the work of officer Aida Fariscal. On last months flight it was the work of the flight attendent to discover the shoe bomber, Reid. On Flight 93, Beemer, Glick, and the others. Here on FreeRepublic, the same emerges. Connect those dots!

[novakeo]

Bump

[Magician]

In addition to the material captured by Fariscal, which outlined an attack using airliners as flying bombs, the CIA had forewarning of the 9-11 attack by at least four allied intelligence agencies (France, Israel, Germany, Russia). The Mossad sent a delegation to the CIA in Langley (as per Janes Intelligence Weekly) and told them that an attack using airliners would be mounted within several weeks by Al Qaida, involving about 200 operatives, and run by Amad Mugniyeh (Marine barracks bonber) and Ayman Al-Zawahiri (assasination of Sadat), who are bin Laden lieutenants.

Was the lack of response terminal incompetence or complicity?

[aculeus]

Excellent find!

I wonder if the CIA/FBI suffer from the 'we know better' syndrome too many Americans exhibit when dealing with people from the third world?

In Isaac's Storm (about the Galveston hurricane) American weathermen ignored Cubans who warned -- accurately -- that the great storm was heading for Texas. It was a matter of arrogant dismissal of a 'lesser breed.'

If the FBI treats police in American cities as inferiors how did they treat this Filipina and her colleagues?

[thinden]

Shah turned out to be Bojinka's unlikely finance officer. To launder incoming funds, Shah used bank accounts belonging to his live-in Filipino girlfriend and a number of other Manila women, one of whom was an employee at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, and others who were described as bar hostesses. Most of the transfers were surprisingly small - $500 or $1,000 handed over at a Wendy's or a karaoke bar late at night. Under "tactical interrogation" at Camp Crame, Shah admitted that most of the funds were channelled to Adam Sali, an alias used by Ramzi Yousef, through a Philippine bank account belonging to Omar Abu Omar,,/b> a Syrian-born man working at a local Islamic organization known as the International Relations and Information Centre - run by one Mohammed Jalal Khalifa, bin Laden's brother-in-law.

a couple of things jump out of this paragraph:

1. was terry nichols using filapino women in money laundering a la Bojinka?
2. was Bojinka's money laundering Omar Abu Omar the same "Omar" hanging out with the kingman, AZ gang?

[Sueann]

Geeeee, and on the "smartest woman in the world"'s watch!! Hmmmmm?? I guess we now know the truth about that!!

[lowbridge]

bump

[RaceBannon]

how did this get to my feed???