Report: Iraqi spies in U.S.

New York Daily News ^ | 1/30/03 | JAMES GORDON MEEK

[kattracks]

NY DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE

WASHINGTON - Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News.

The classified document also reveals a plot by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Zimbabwe to attack American targets in that country and elsewhere if the U.S. declares war on Iraq.

It suggests the group, Tablik Ja'maat, could be a "conduit for communication" between Osama Bin Laden's terror network and Iraqi leaders.

The threats, disclosed to U.S. spy agencies yesterday, are detailed in a secret report prepared by an intelligence unit in the Homeland Security Department.

It comes as the White House weighs the release of classified information to prove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda and efforts to evade UN weapons inspectors.

A source identified as a member of the Iraqi opposition told U.S. agents that Iraqis in Canada were ordered to recruit Arabs and other foreigners for espionage missions in the U.S., the report said.

The Iraqi Embassy in Ottawa sent operatives to New York and Washington with instructions to "intensify spying activities and to carry out anti-U.S. demonstrations to stop a war against Iraq," the report said.

The report said the Iraqis were willing to spend "large sums" to back the effort.

The report also describes a plot by Tablik Ja'maat to carry out "coordinated attacks" against U.S targets in Zimbabwe if war is declared on Iraq. Other attacks, revealed by the group's leader at a Jan. 18 meeting at a mosque in Harare, would take place in Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, South Africa and Israel, the report said.

An Associated Press report last week said that the FBI is looking to question as many as 50,000 Iraqis living in the U.S. to root out potential spies and terror cells.

[kattracks]

It suggests the group, Tablik Ja'maat, could be a "conduit for communication" between Osama Bin Laden's terror network and Iraqi leaders.

I think we're going to start hearing a lot more aout an Iraqi/al Qaeda links in the coming days.

[kattracks]

ping

[Mo1]

Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News.

Gee would this be the same rally the Nit Wits like Jessica Lange, Ramsey Clark and other supported in DC and San Fran??

[kattracks]

Mo, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that some of these useful idiots were on Saddam's payroll.

[RobFromGa]

Who could imagine ANTI-American AQ members disguised as Canadians?

The only thing they have in common is they are ANTI-American Canadians. SHUT THE BORDER TO CANADA.

[Cindy]

GOOGLE Search Term: "Tablih Jamaat"

"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Click Here.)

[DB]

Thank you for the ping.

We have a hard year ahead.

[Cindy]

stepping back in time...THE MICHIGAN DAILY (AP): "FOURTH RUSSIAN BUILDING BOMBED" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "His statement came after the latest early-morning explosion at an apartment building. The four explosions together have killed at least 292 people." ..."Yesterday, police discovered a "huge amount" of explosive powder in a southern Moscow suburb, hidden among sacks of sugar from a plant in southern Russia, a spokesperson said. The Interfax news agency reported that the cache was almost 3 1/2 tons. Police also uncovered six timing devices, apparently designed to detonate bombs, the Federal Security Service said.

Yesterday's bomb, hidden in a truck or an underground pipe, sheared off the front of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk, about 500 miles south of Moscow, around dawn, officials said. The blast left a crater 16 1/2 feet deep in front of the building and severely damaged a nearby police station and about 20 other buildings, Interior Ministry officials said.

Traces of explosives were found in the wreckage, the Federal Security Service said. The force of the blast was equivalent to about 100 to 300 tons of TNT, it said." ...

"Volgodonsk, a city of 250,000 people, is close to the volatile North Caucasus Mountains region, where Russian forces have been battling Islamic militants since early August.

Authorities have blamed the three previous apartment explosions - one in the southern city of Buinaksk, and two in Moscow - on the militants. Those explosions claimed 275 lives.

The latest bombing came amid massive security sweeps in Moscow and other major Russian cities. Police have been rounding up thousands of suspects and searching for explosives.

Police in the central Russian region of Tatarstan detained the head of an Islamic organization called Tablik and six of its members, ITAR-Tass reported.

"There is circumstantial evidence that this organization, under the cover of 'pure Islam,' conducted anti-state activities," ITAR-Tass quoted Rinat Timerzyanov, first deputy interior minister of Tatarstan, as saying.

In the Far East, near the port of Vladivostok, security officers found a cache of explosives, grenades and detonators in a wooded area, the Federal Security Service said." (September 17, 1999)
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-17-99/news/news14.html

[The Raven]

I hope they didn't bring any of those weapons (they don't have) with them.

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST:

***NATIONAL POST.com (A Part of Canada.com): "AID OFFICIALS FEAR MONEY GOING TO TERRORISTS" by Stewart Bell (012903)

PAK TODAY.com - PAKISTAN TODAY: "THE FRANCHISING OF HEZBOLLAH" by Avi Davis (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Western intelligence has now revealed a high level of cooperation between Bin Laden and Imad Muganiyeh, the Hezbullah terrorist who masterminded some of Hezbollah's most spectacular atrocities and kidnappings in Lebanon. Reports have Muganiyeh first meeting with Bin Laden as early as 1995 and those meetings have continued. More than this, since al-Qaida fled Afghanistan at the end of last year, the Sunday Telegraph reports, between 80 and 100 al- Qaida fighters were provided with false passports by Hezbollah before being relocated to southern Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The same report acknowledges that Hezbollah, working hand in hand with al-Qaida, has set up cells in the Far East - including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. It is well known that Hezbollah has operated in Gaza and the West Bank for years, but the recent revelation by the Shin Bet in Israel that al- Qaida has now also joined them there, is chilling evidence of a level of cooperation previously unsuspected. Such news comes as a dire warning to American, Israeli and Jewish communities throughout the world.") (122702)

ALBAWABA.com: "IS HIZBULLAH INVISIBLE LEADER INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES IN CANADA?" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the United States, authorities believe that perhaps one of the world's most wanted men is behind the Canadian organization, which has raised funds, falsified documents and purchased military equipment for Hizbullah. In Washington, officials currently suspect that the agents sent to Canada to gather support for the Hizbullah work for Mugniyah, a top-level Hizbullah leader and the suspected mastermind of numerous attacks worldwide.") (120102)

NATIONAL POST.com: "LEADING TERROR SUSPECT TIED TO CANADIAN CELL Imad Mugniyah: Academic Fears Operations Could Be Launched 'In and From' Canada" by Stewart Bell (111202)

***FBI.gov: MOST WANTED TERRORISTS: "IMAD FAYEZ MUGNIYAH" aka "Hajj" (WANTED POSTER SNIPPETS: "Mugniyah is the alleged head of the security apparatus for the terrorist organization, Lebanese Hizballah."..."The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension and/or conviction of Imad Fayez Mugniyah."..."SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS")

[Straight Vermonter]

The discovery channel had a program about US/USSR relations during the Reagan era. One of the former Soviet intellingence ofiicers that they interviewed said that the no nukes crowd was essential for them to get what they wanted from the West. It seems that Saddam has learned this lesson well.

[Boot Hill]

Daily News says:   "Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations..."

Would that be Iraqi spies or Libertarians?

(Libertarians Join Anti-War Protests)

--Boot Hill

[Lion's Cub]

Maybe the administration deliberately leaked this. But I believe congress was just given a briefing right after the State of the Union address, weren't they?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Maybe the administration deliberately leaked this...

I tend to agree with your assessment. It seems to be in our national security interest to provide ongoing terrorist threat assessments while exposing the real agenda of the anti-war anarchist vermin.

[Dog]

Mo and kat.....who is funding Ramsey Clark.

Kristinn any way we can find out who funds ANSWER??

[Dog]

That briefing was for members of the House. So it seems we have someone leaking..

[happygrl]

WASHINGTON - Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News.

The classified document also reveals a plot by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Zimbabwe to attack American targets in that country and elsewhere if the U.S. declares war on Iraq.

Ping!

[EternalVigilance]

Kristinn any way we can find out who funds ANSWER??

I have heard repeatedly from credible sources that ANSWER is a front group for the communist World Worker's Party.

[mewzilla]

Let's not forget Susan Sarandon, either. Someone on FOX this morning was talking about Iraqi spies, and suggested the Feds look in Sarandon's house and the rest of Hollyweird for them.

[aristeides]

Is there any connection between Tablik Ja'maat in Zimbabwe and the worldwide Tabligh-i-Jamaat, which at least one Indian newspaper article says includes Farrakhan?

This report raises with new urgency the question of who funds ANSWER.