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The hunt for Iraqi ‘sleeper cells’;men had been discovered filming bridges and tunnels,
MSNBC.COM ^
| March 6, 2003
| Lisa Meyers
Posted on 03/07/2003 7:52:08 PM PST by RaceBannon
Edited on 03/07/2003 7:54:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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March 6 The expulsions of two Iraqi attachés came as FBI agents fanned out to interview thousands of Iraqis in the United States. Click "Play" to watch Lisa Myers' report for "NBC Nightly News."
By Lisa Myers NBC NEWS WASHINGTON, March 6 The FBI is conducting an intensive hunt for potential sleeper cells of Iraqi agents planted to strike in the event of war after two attachés at Iraqs U.N. mission in New York were caught filming bridges and tunnels, U.S. officials told NBC News. At least 70 Iraqi nationals are under active surveillance, law enforcement officials said, and agents have spread out to interview thousands of Iraqi men in an attempt to track down hundreds who came to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War and disappeared.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts; US: New Jersey; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; jihadinamerica; pictures; terrorism
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To: GailA
Yeah right. Sounds real romantic. LOL
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Its actually the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations. The diplomatic representation to the United Nations.
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posted on
03/07/2003 9:24:16 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: July 4th
Cables on suspension bridges are several feet in diameter - unless they're going to "cut" them with a bomb...nothing's getting cut.I heard of a plot to crash gasoline tanker trucks on the bridges. This was last week and it had to with recent arrests overseas.
To: areafiftyone
How did he know they were FBI?
My Boyfriend works at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART in NYC at night and its right across from the Iraqi Mission and the FBI were there all night last night. SCARY!!!
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posted on
03/07/2003 9:40:42 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: sheik yerbouty
They may use acid at strategic structural points. Oh, wow, man. The colors!
To: GOPJ
He is a dispatcher in the command post for Security and believe me the museum is very well fortified and is quite aware when the police or any law enforcement is in the area especially around the Iraqi Mission. The Museum also has a camera watching the Iraqi Mission.
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posted on
03/07/2003 9:46:16 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: Auntie Dem
Yep, if we visualize peace, the sleepers will become our friends and then go home. Ted and Tom and Joe would never lie to us...
But if we leave Iraq alone, all those sleepers will leave us alone--won't they? I'm sure they will because Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschole, and Joe LIEberman all say so, and they wouldn't lie to us would they?
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posted on
03/07/2003 9:48:49 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: areafiftyone
Thanks for explaining..That is scary..I wonder what they were there for!
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posted on
03/07/2003 10:29:10 PM PST
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: ganeshpuri89
Whenever it has sought to attack the United States itself, Iraq has preferred to rely on its own operatives. Thus, Iraqi agentsnot terrorist proxieswere involved in attempted bombings of U.S. facilities in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia during the first Gulf War. What is the difference between these agents and Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, authors of the first and second WTC attacks, respectively?
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posted on
03/07/2003 10:36:45 PM PST
by
The Great Satan
(Revenge, Terror and Extortion: A Guide for the Perplexed)
To: Dog Gone
Kicking "diplomats" out is not done on a whim, and we followed it up by notifying foreign governments of the danger.There was an attache in the Phillipines, I think, who was kicked out earlier this year because he was found to have had dealings with the local Muslim terrorist groups. Sounds like these guys were doing something similar.
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posted on
03/07/2003 10:49:15 PM PST
by
SuziQ
Comment #51 Removed by Moderator
To: RaceBannon
Once again, Middle Eastern men taking pictures of dams, bridges, and whatever...
Fair notice to our guests from Middle Eastern countries...
...if you are roughed up by an over-enthusiatic bunch of US citizens while you
are videotaping nuclear plants, oil refineries, tall buildings and the like...
DON'T expect ANY jury in the United States of America to convict those who club you...
Not saying I advocate "jury nullification"...
...just given y'all practical advice so you can go back to Iraq, France, Germany, Belgium...
you know, one of those Islamic Republics.
Probably the best advice is to just turn yourself in and hope you get a free stay
in beautiful, tropical Guantanamo Bay!
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posted on
03/07/2003 11:09:49 PM PST
by
VOA
To: GLDNGUN
You know? It rattles me too, on the Benicia bridge, the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge... how stupid is this? We shouldn't have them there at all, and I know I will be slammed for this one... what a no brainer. It is sickening to me!
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posted on
03/07/2003 11:16:06 PM PST
by
Terridan
To: Fabozz
And we can tell this holds true 100% how? We've had reports of illegal muslims posing as illegal Mexicans... I don't care what they are, we can't be sure so let's not trust them in certain postions unless they are cleared, profiling or not! Slam away...
54
posted on
03/07/2003 11:19:36 PM PST
by
Terridan
To: Jeff Chandler
Far out man!
To: RaceBannon
I live in New York City and well remember that the Iraqi mission to the UN was the only diplomatic mission that didn't lower its flag to half-staff right after 9/11.
It was given much play in the local newspapers at the time.
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posted on
03/08/2003 12:35:49 AM PST
by
Larry381
To: arkady_renko
Don't you just wonder what GWB really knows about things like this that he can't tell the howling press? This is a war. I can tell you from my former experience when holding a high Top Secret clearance: our President knows far more, and far more scary, things than anybody in the press has any concept of.
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posted on
03/08/2003 1:05:48 AM PST
by
AFPhys
To: oceanview
And where do you think the post 9/11 anthrax came from? If that anthrax did NOT come courtesy of Saadumb, I'll eat my hat.
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posted on
03/08/2003 1:07:16 AM PST
by
AFPhys
To: July 4th
Cables on suspension bridges are several feet in diameter - unless they're going to "cut" them with a bomb...nothing's getting cut.
*****
Got magnesium?
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posted on
03/08/2003 4:25:56 AM PST
by
We Happy Few
("we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother;")
To: areafiftyone
Loose lips probably just sank your boyfriend's ship.
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