Sept 11 mastermind trapped by phone call (ANOTHER AL QAEDA HOLD MUH BEER ALERT)

The Sunday Times ^ | September 15, 2002 | Nick Fielding and Nicholas Rufford

[MadIvan]

Some of our intelligence agencies could be accused of having "hold muh beer" problems, but fortunately, ones not as bad as Al Qaeda these days. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[aruanan]

Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacariah Moses. Pretty funny name for a Muslim.

[Paleo Conservative]

Have any Muslims compromised MI5 the way Communists did in the 40s and 50s?

[MadIvan]

Have any Muslims compromised MI5 the way Communists did in the 40s and 50s?

Not so far as I am aware. There is no "Mohammed Philby". ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Lucas1]

Ummm hmmm...did everyone CATCH THIS

The National Security Agency, America’s electronic eavesdropping centre, can scan telephone traffic searching for matching voice prints. Binalshibh’s voice was broadcast for the first time earlier this month on Al-Jazeera TV, the Qatari television station, when he and another Al-Qaeda ringleader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, bragged about being the masterminds behind September 11. The $25m reward offered by the American government for Binalshibh’s capture may also have contributed to his arrest.

WOW...read that slowly :) and then read it again....

[fire_eye]

WOW...read that slowly :) and then read it again...

Yeah... lesseee... This time I'm reading, "Damn... Allah didn't tell me to use a voice scrambler!"

[KingKongCobra]

I wish this paper had kept their mouth shut. I'd hate to think they gave away too much useful information to the enemy. OTOH, wouldn't it be great if this were just disinformation put out to disrupt the comunications of the terrorists.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Well, they aren't supposed to drink beer, so maybe it's "Hold muh goat."

[MadIvan]

Well, they aren't supposed to drink beer, so maybe it's "Hold muh goat."

I stand corrected. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MarMema]

Well I guess President Bush got to add another check on his list.

[OldFriend]

Didn't I hear that this phone interview was given several months ago and only just now broadcast?

[AmericaUnited]

This technology has been in place for at least 20 years and is not really such a "secret".

[ArcLight]

Zacariah Moses. Pretty funny name for a Muslim.

Why? Muslims revere Moses as a prophet of Allah; Jesus too for that matter.

[ArcLight]

Surely this is a "hold the phone" alert...

[speedy]

A bad couple of days for the Islamist wackos. Time to dust off that "awakened a sleeping giant" speech again. We're rolling some nice momentum here, and the doubters are starting to fall into line or at least shut their mouths. Beautiful.

[RipSawyer]

What I am reading is, "Damn, do I really want to use a cell phone?"

[jedwardtremlett]

Talk to Al-Jazeera, go to jail.

I love it

J

[Dog]

Afternoon Ivan...

This sentence caught my eye....you heard anything of who this might be ....

Up to nine other suspects, including one other possible senior Al-Qaeda figure,