Here's one for Mr. Gertz.
Posted on 02/03/2003 10:51:37 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Al Qaeda is planning a mass-casualty attack to rival September 11, but preparations have been disrupted by arrests of terrorists during the past several months, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Recent intelligence reports indicate that communications among clandestine cells of al Qaeda members are being restored gradually, the intelligence officials said.
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I still can't get over the attitude about the enemy (radical? islam). It might be that another really big attack is neccessary to galvanize public opinion. Personally, I don't think the war will be won until there are mass arrests/detentions/deportations domestically and 6-10 "regime changes" in moslem countries. The moslems are teaching hatred to their children and until that practise ends, we are in for it.
Arrests of al-Qaeda Terrorists Disrupt Iraqi Attacks on U.S.
Newsmax is reporting this story differently than the Washington Times
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003
WASHINGTON – Plans for a mass terrorist attack have reportedly been disrupted through the arrest of terror suspects, and U.S. officials plan to subvert other such threats by detaining suspected Iraqi agents should a war in Iraq begin.
Two newspapers today reported the anti-terror moves. Al-Qaeda plans a series of smaller assaults, including assassination of political figures, before launching a large-scale attack, the Washington Times said. The Washington Post reported that the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies were tracking suspected Iraqi agents and planned to forestall any retaliatory acts should the United States go to war with Iraq.
"We and our allies are bracing for a terrorist offensive, and we are keeping track of Iraqi intelligence officers around the world," the Post quoted a senior U.S. intelligence official as saying.
Thousands of Iraqi Illegal Aliens
The newspaper said allies were tracking suspected Iraqi agents in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. The FBI is reportedly searching for several thousand Iraqis, in the United States illegally, who are missing.
Officials said the campaign stemmed from the suspicion that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein would order terror-style assaults on U.S. interests should Iraq be attacked.
The Post said CIA Director George Tenet sent Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., a letter that said Saddam "might decide that the extreme step of assisting Islamic terrorists in conducting a WMD [weapons of mass destruction] attack against the United States would be his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him."
The Times said recent intelligence reports showed that communications between cells of al-Qaeda operatives were picking up. The newspaper said the threat was included in reports sent to the White House last week. The warning did not say whether the main assault would be in the United States or some other country.
"This attack will be large-scale," an unnamed intelligence official told the Times.
Although details were not reported by the newspaper, it did say the main strike would come after smaller attacks, including assassinations.
Copyright 2003 by United Press International.
FBI SWEEP GRILLS 50,000 IRAQIS IN U.S.
"January 25, 2003 -- The FBI has launched a sweeping probe of 50,000 Iraqis living in the United States to find terrorists and spies - or potential allies - in a military move to oust Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi nationals are being questioned in what appears to be biggest intelligence sweep since World War II, officials said yesterday. "
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I wonder if the FBI will finally question Hussein Al-Hussaini, also known as John Doe 2. Al-Hussaini was a former member of the Iraqi Republican Guard, but was living and working in OKC on April 19, 1995. Many witnesses placed him with McVeigh prior to and on the morning of the bombing. The FBI never questioned him in the OKC bombing investigation. Maybe they will get around to it this time, since the "20th hijacker", Moussaoui, had a black Muslim roommate named Menepta connected to the OKC bombing,according to court testimony at the roommate's bail hearing.
For those interested, Al-Hussaini was working at Boston's Logan Airport prior to 9-11. The last account I had of him was in August of 2002 he reportedly was still living within 60 miles of Logan with two roommates who were previously employed at Logan.
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Unit 999 based at Salman Pak
Former CIA Director Woolsey maintains Salman Pak was the site of a training ground for terrorist hijackers using only knives to takeover a plane.
Salman Pak was the center of Iraq's biological weapons program.
Where did they find the name Unit 999 for an Iraqi Intelligence Unit based at a bioweapons center with a hijacking school.
I find it interesting John Doe 2 was a member of Iraqi Intelligence Unit 999
What can you say, it's just an upside down world these days.
Paging ASA Vet! Delivery for Mr. Gertz....
However, according to the UN, Iraq's most effective biological weapons platform was a helicopter-borne aerosol generator that worked like an insecticide disseminator (perhaps this was intended for domestic use or against Iranian troops close to the Iraqi border). The disseminator was successfully field tested. Dispersal research for biological weapons was conducted by the Salman Pak Technical Research Center. Iraq engaged in genetic engineering research in order to produce antibiotic resistant strains of anthrax spores. The success of this research is unknown.
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worked like an insecticide disseminator
Sounds like a crop duster. Some of the hijackers, who were possibly trained at Salman Pak, were very interested in crop dusters.
Moussaoui Linked to 9/11 Mastermind(Khalid Shaikh Mohammed)
Khalid Mohammed is linked to Moussaoui.
Moussaoui is linked to his roommate, Mujahid Menepta.
Menepta is linked to the OKC bombing, according to court testimony at his bail hearing.
Khalid Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef and was his roommate in the Philippines.
Ramzi Yousef is linked to Terry Nichols in the Philippines in a sworn statement by Edwin Angeles.Both Nichols and Yousef abruptly fled the Philippines in January 1995 after the Operation Bojinka bombing plot was uncovered as a result of a fire in a Manilia apartment during bomb making.
Terry Nichols is linked to the OKC bombing.
How can this be? The Democrats say the war against Iraq is distracting us from the war against terrorism.
At least they're consistent, always wrong.
And why do we get apologist shills on FR who insist that perfectly secure borders are impossible. Of course that's true, but it's not the point. Point is: Arrests of AQ people have stopped attacks, or at least delayed or blunted attacks. A real effort at securing our border will do the same: reduce the number of infiltrators, reduce the number of attacks, and save many American lives.
I'm no Bircher, either. I'm pro legal immigration especially on a selective basis. But the border situation is inexcusable.
Upside down, indeed.
Here's one for Mr. Gertz.
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