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Al-Qa'ida operative reveals code words
independent ^ | 2/18/03

Posted on 02/17/2003 3:00:10 PM PST by knak

Western intelligence officials say they have obtained a glossary of al-Qa'ida code words following the capture of an associate of one of the network's senior operatives.

Words such as "honey", "toy" and "little girl" – overheard by electronic eavesdropping of conversations between suspected terrorists – have been revealed to have a sinister meaning.

The breakthrough has come as result of the interrogation of Shadi Abdullah, who was arrested last April by police in Germany. The 26-year-old was seized after officials intercepted a phone conversation between him and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man accused by the US of being the link between al-Qa'ida and the Iraqi regime. The two men were allegedly discussing a terror attack.

While Mr Zarqawi is still at large, Mr Abdullah has apparently become one of the most useful and credible al-Qa'ida informers.

"There are few al-Qa'ida members in Europe or anywhere who have been as useful as he has been to us," a Bush administration official told The New York Times.

Officials said that much of Mr Abdullah's value has been in providing a glossary.

According to documents released by the German authorities in association with the trial of another alleged al-Qa'ida operative, Mr Abdullah has told police that "seven seas" referred to a forged visa used to gain entrance to European Union countries. "Honey" was a CD-Rom containing recipes for making explosives, a "toy" was a pistol while a "little girl" was a forged driver's licence.

Officials said Mr Abdullah, a Jordanian, has provided information about al-Qa'ida's efforts to reform following the US-led military operation in Afghanistan.

While he is not considered to be a senior operative, it appears he has information about a wide range of topics relating to al-Qa'ida. He has provided information about training camps in Afghanistan and told how al-Qa'ida fighters were taught to break attacks into stages, with separate small groups responsible for distinct tasks.


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To: knak
With due deference to my libertarian friends on this board, it's time to impose wartime censorship with wartime (i.e. World War II, not Vietnam) penalties for violation. Such as a suspended sentence from the gallows.
21 posted on 02/17/2003 3:40:45 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: A CA Guy
Democrats use the code words as well

racist = person that doesn't vote democrat

22 posted on 02/17/2003 3:43:05 PM PST by alrea
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To: knak
Well, maybe this was leaked once they already were changed... Just trying to come up with a best-case scenario...
23 posted on 02/17/2003 3:48:38 PM PST by PianoMan (prefer music to hot air)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Langley Virginia...

background hiss...
ABDUL: Mo? You got the doll?
MOHAMMED: The chicken has laid an egg.
ABDUL: Splendid. Did Ronald McDonald change his diapir?
MOHAMMED: No, we still need blasting caps...
audible click}
ABDUL: Oh, s**t...(in arabic)
MOHAMMED: The camel has spied the mongoose.
click, click, dialtone...
24 posted on 02/17/2003 3:50:00 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: knak
It's all a mistake, it's all a mistake. Sorry, but the words "Honey, toy, and little girl" were words intercepted from a Clinton phone call.
25 posted on 02/17/2003 3:52:35 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: alrea
Yep, I think we can add that to the list for sure.
26 posted on 02/17/2003 4:12:32 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Defiant
Maybe we should explain to them what "Little Boy" means.


Little Boy Boogie
 
 Wake up Little Boy.
 No it's not for tests or school.
 It's a lovely day to laugh and play,
 and dance in the dust of Kabul.
 
 Come on sleepy head,
 it's been such a long long while.
 That the world's almost forgotten
 the brilliance of your smile.
 
 Let's fly to Damascus
 We'll go skipping cross the dunes.
 We'll have such fun, we'll outshine the Sun,
 and shout echoes off the Moon.
 
 I just heard the doorbell.
 Take a guess who came around?
 It's the jolly old Fat Man,
 whose footsteps shake the ground.
 
 My bright shining boyo,
 you've been sleeping far too long.
 Time to climb from your deep deep bed,
 and sing your happy song.
 
 Come open your present,
 take a look what you just got.
 A brand new cobalt jacket!
 Man I tell you these are hot.
 
 Little Boy time to go now -
 Bring your friend the Fat Man too.
 We'll have such fun, we'll outshine the Sun,
 when we dance in the dust of Kabul.

27 posted on 02/17/2003 4:18:02 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (To see the ultimate evil, visit the Democrat Party)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch
Publishing this will cause them to change the codes. Idiots.

It will also either shorten the life of Mr Abdullah considerably, or make what is left of it a living hell, probably both.

28 posted on 02/17/2003 4:34:33 PM PST by El Gato
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To: knak
>"little girl" was a forged driver's licence.<

"Paging Mr. Ritter, Mr. Scott Ritter"

29 posted on 02/17/2003 4:35:19 PM PST by StopThePress
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To: Defiant
Maybe we should explain to them what "Little Boy" means.

We don't have that kind anymore. "Fat Man", those we have, although they've lost considerable girth since those days.

30 posted on 02/17/2003 4:36:19 PM PST by El Gato
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To: SauronOfMordor
No, no, no, it has to do with Mikeal Jackson.
31 posted on 02/17/2003 4:37:54 PM PST by Only1choice____Freedom
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To: irish_lad
*PSYOPS*
That's what it had better be!

Our gov't officials couldn't be that stupid, could they?

32 posted on 02/17/2003 4:46:38 PM PST by meema
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To: knak
This doesn't sound like Psyops to me.

The German government, in a typical clintonoid moment released the information as a disclosure during a trial.

Then the Independent picked it up and ran with it. The Independent is the most virulently anti-American rag in the U.K. They don't work for the CIA.
33 posted on 02/17/2003 4:53:15 PM PST by Cicero
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To: SauronOfMordor
I like the little boy boogie. I'm glad we didn't have to dance in Kabul, though, and I don't think we'll have to dance in Baghdad, either. Maybe Mecca someday.
34 posted on 02/17/2003 4:54:20 PM PST by Defiant
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To: Man of the Right
With due deference to my libertarian friends on this board, it's time to impose wartime censorship with wartime (i.e. World War II, not Vietnam) penalties for violation. Such as a suspended sentence from the gallows.

Sounds fine to me, although I'd call it "Giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States", ie Treason by Constitutional definition. It would be helpfull, although not absolutely neccessary if Congress would declare War. It's not absolutely necessary, IMHO, but it would shut up those folks who think the country must be at war to have enemies.

35 posted on 02/17/2003 5:21:37 PM PST by El Gato
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To: CommerceComet
Code word for bin Laden:
Worm food
Daisy pusher
Doornail
Past tense
Afghan dirt
compost

These work?

After considerable deliberation (and much rum), I've settled on "Goatraper"...

36 posted on 02/17/2003 6:14:48 PM PST by fire_eye
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