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| Al-Qaida Suspect Arrives In US |
| 2002-07-27 |
| A suspected terrorist planner linked to al-Qaida has been flown to the United States, where he is cooperating with the FBI, U.S. officials told NBC News. Officials said Friday that the man had admitted his involvement in a plot to bomb the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Singapore and could be called to testify against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged with direct involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The man, Mohamed Mansour Jabarah, 20, of Ontario, was arrested in Oman earlier this year. Omani officials passed along information from Jabarah to U.S. officials, who then brought him to the United States to face probable terrorism charges. He was being detained Friday at a military base in the Northeast, where he was providing important information about Osama bin Ladenâs al-Qaida terrorist network, officials said. NBC News agreed to U.S. law enforcement officialsâ requests that it not disclose Jabarahâs exact location to protect his safety. Hmmm... Hadn't heard about this one... Officials said Jabarah was known as ''Sammy'' and was the mastermind of the Singapore bombing plot. Jabarah allegedly helped make home videotapes of potential targets in Singapore, including the U.S. and Israeli embassies. The Singapore Home Affairs Ministry said this week that âSammyâ ordered members of the cell to buy 17 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to load onto truck bombs. That is the material Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. U.S. and Singaporean security officials uncovered the plot in December. They discovered Sammyâs surveillance tape and arrested 15 men alleged to be part of Jemaah Islamiya. The officials said Jabarah had knowledge of al-Qaida terrorist plans drawn up since Sept. 11 and could be called on to testify at the coming trials of other suspected al-Qaida terrorists, explaining how the organization works. Among those they said Jabarah could testify against are Moussaoui; Jose Padilla, the former Chicago gang member who was arrested in May on suspicion of plotting to detonate a radioactive âdirtyâ bomb in the United States; and Richard Reid, the British airline passenger who was arrested in December after a trans-Atlantic flight on which he allegedly tried to set off bombs in his shoes. If his testimony's only on the mechanics of the organizations, he's not that great a catch. If it's because he knows something about their actual plans because of his position as a runner, that's a different matter — he could be very valuable without being one of the organization's Bigs. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Fred, you're alright... ©¿© |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-07-27 16:22:49 |
| #2 Very large men, with magnificent moustachios! |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-07-27 14:51:57 |
| #1 Wonder how the Omanis got that information from him in the first place? Do the 'Big Guys with Truncheons©' have moustaches in Oman? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-07-27 10:34:28 |