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| Who's doing the recruiting? |
| 2002-06-15 |
Dr Frank links to this UPI article — UPI's tearin' 'em up lately — on the al-Qaeda and Taliban detritus being swept up in the wake of the Padilla arrest. He goes on to observe'We're still missing an answer on the tantalizing question of how these guys end up going there in the first place. It'll be interesting to see if there is a consistent prison connection, and if such a connection can be associated with particular prisons or particular imams or religious education programs.'Those are good questions, and it would be in the interests of police agencies, domestic and foreign, to take a deep, deep look into the recruiting structure. It's a part of another structure, probably kept separate from the shoot-bomb-kill people end of the business, that's concerned with the minutiae of picking these guys up at the prison gate, getting them accomodations and getting them settled in with groceries and clothing and a roof over their heads. The newly-recruited tough guy has to be matched up with a reception station on friendly soil — meaning reliable communications with someone, in Afghanistan before, in NWFP or Chechnya now. He needs ground transportation, pocket money, and airline tickets to get to his destination and somebody to pick him up once he's gotten there. That reception part of it appears to be critical. That's where Binny got his start, working with Azzam with the Jihad Service Bureau. Abu Zubaydah filled the same function. The majority of the many snags that have been made in Europe seem to have been the couriers and passport artists and controllers and money men at the back end of the terror machine. We know about al-Qaeda fronts in Britain, and similar organizations in Belgium and the Netherlands. We would know, with a little digging and a bit less squeamishness, about similar organizations in the U.S. and Canada — I'd venture, in fact, that the Feds do know about them, and they're playing the information close. We know the funding comes from the "charities," and that these tie in with the Soddy royals. So it seems we have the outline of the terror structure pretty well worked out, unless they're hiring the (mentally) handicapped at FBI and CIA. They should have lots of little details that aren't available to us poor guys and gals who have to rely exclusively on open source stuff. We can only hope that they're also making plans to do something with it, whether all at once and dramatically, or piece by piece in the shadows, I don't care. But by now we know what the problem is, who's running it, and what the structure is. Much as I'd like to see Sammy and his Republican Guard flattened, I think the Soddy terror machine is a lot more dangerous threat, and it should be killed first. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 The House of Parasites (AKA: Saud) can't seem to identify with the civilized world, in the counter-terror war. As a civilized individual, I have problems in recognizing Saudi territory. In fact, I don't see how some table-cloth heads can claim sovereignty over oil fields that were discovered by a UK enterprise: British Petroleum. Our de facto recognition of their territorial claims, is conditional on their containment of Wahabi social idiocy within their worthless little sandbox. Since they have chose aggression against the democracies, once we get the Iraqi aircraft carrier, we should launch on the sand-hoppers. |
| Posted by: RG Fulton 2002-06-16 01:50:56 |