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| Source: Terror attack to be in early September |
| 2004-08-04 |
| More financial institutions than previously disclosed may be at risk of attack, and an al-Qaida operative has told British intelligence that the group's target date is early September, intelligence sources said yesterday. The operative, described as "credible" by British intelligence, told his debriefers that the attack would take place "60 days before the presidential election" on Nov. 2, according to a former senior National Security Council official. On Sept. 2 President George W. Bush is expected to address the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden. Counterterrorism officials are analyzing data from a computer seized in Pakistan last month to see if financial institutions in addition to the five disclosed Sunday are at risk of attack, U.S. officials said yesterday. The former senior National Security Council official said he was told by British intelligence that they are interrogating an al-Qaida operative who confirmed that financial institutions are being targeted and that an attack was planned for September. And a U.S. official familiar with the ongoing analysis of the computer said, "There are references to other things [buildings]" in the al-Qaida computer's data, including a picture of the Bank of America building in San Francisco. "There is mention of other places." The laptop computer was seized on July 25 following the arrest after a 12-hour gun battle of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Pakistan's information minister confirmed to The Associated Press yesterday that e-mail data retrieved from Ghailani's computer indicated planned attacks in both the United States and Britain. A British official said that the threat to the U.K. was not specific. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #10 One broken headlight... One drive away without paying for gas... One pissed off loud-mouthed stateside ex-wife... That's all it takes to unravel an operation. I think the worst Al Qaeda can pull off is to kill other Moose Limbs and then in Eurostan. And I think Oasama's next big move is when what is left of his remains comes off the wall of a Toro Bora cave. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-08-29 9:52:01 PM |
| #9 This guy Paul Williams has been blitzing all media outlets promoting his new book. Personally, I think he is using the proven Jack Van Impe formula of "fear for profit". (FYI: JVI is a televangelist who reads newspaper articles and relates them to scripture. He's been doing this for years and it's made him a multi-millionaire). Mr. Williams is first and foremost a Capitalist, as I'm sure first thing he does in the morning is run outside to his mailbox to collect his royalty checks before terrifying listeners on another media outlet. Just my .02. |
| Posted by: Mike from Philly 2004-08-29 9:42:57 PM |
| #8 I think the Reps and the Dems can share blame on failing to deal with this one, but disagree that a former soviet nuke scientist throws the maintenance argument out the door. You need more equipment than a screwdriver and a set of gap wrenches to do that work right - hard to get, hard to hide and probably another set of maintenace headaches all its own. Given that I work two blocks from some of the targets of the week, maybe I just don't want to think too hard about this, either. |
| Posted by: VAMark 2004-08-04 7:56:32 PM |
| #7 WEll, isnt this something...and here I just made arrangements to go to NYC for my birthday Sept `11..yeah, 9-11. I've been there every year since 2001....my wife is a LOT concerned about this...and I dont blame her really, but hell...what are ya gonna do? Not go? Go? No answer to this one...you either do or you dont...and how do you decide? I have my tickets and we have hotel reservations...and intend to be there that whole week...including 9-11.... Now, would you go up there knowing this? would you feel comfortable walking the streets of NY on Sept 11? We're going....but will I regret it? Hope not...wish us luck... |
| Posted by: Live to ride 2004-08-04 3:47:19 PM |
| #6 Remote - totally concur but we do not have luxury of debate about maintenance issues (which are well founded and as you stated, reviewed extensively hear at rb). money is a mover and shaker and just what if binny was able (either through aq or a proxy) to lure fomer soviet nuke scientist into their organization? if true the maintenace agruement is thrown out the door. and there are many reports to this affect. are they valid, dunno know, but if they are it becomes trully scary. all i can say is the dems should of listened to nunn and lugar! when they controlled both the pres and the congress in the eary 90's when this issue could of/ should of been dealt with. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-08-04 2:24:36 PM |
| #5 Dan, I agree and I think that our gov't would not take this lightly if they believed this threat to be real/imminent. The waiting/patience issue runs into the technical hurdle of weapon maintenance that RB'ers with the knowledge of such things have reviewed extensively. It doesn't sound as though that maintenance is easy at all and doing same on multiple weapons in mutiple locations would be well nigh impossible without significant support (which would make detection easier). Both make me sceptical of this guy's opinion. Maybe I just don't want to really believe it. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-08-04 1:56:35 PM |
| #4 i would have to disagree - islam teaches patience and it was 8 years between the first attack on the towers and 9-11...this is really scary stuff and should not be taken lightly... if the govt does have credible evidence an announcment should be made. if we are attacked with nukes then iran will be destroyed, damascus, north korea , northwest pakistan ,medina , northern sudan.... spread the pain to all.. and not with suitcase nukes but with our largest yeild weapons. and just maybe with this knowledge the govt's that support these asshats would move to stop any planned operations. we need to forget about open borders and love they neighbor and get a little midevil on our enemies. with all of our self-censure about some panties on prisoners head and dem politics about wmd's we look very weak to our enemies. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-08-04 1:00:35 PM |
| #3 I can't see these idiots waiting if they had even one stashed someplace. They'd light it off immediately. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-08-04 12:39:16 PM |
| #2 He said that Osama has 7 nukes spread around the US and is planning on exploding them sometime in the next few weeks. I doubt the nuke info is correct. Seems to me the Islamofascists would have already used them if they were actually able to smuggle them into the country. G-d help us if he's right, though. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-08-04 12:36:42 PM |
| #1 I was just listening to a guy named Paul Williams on KSFO here in San Francisco. This guy is a terrorism expert, consultant to the FBI, etc and author of the book Osama's Revenge--The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You. He said that Osama has 7 nukes spread around the US and is planning on exploding them sometime in the next few weeks. That is a hairy claim. Very scary! |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-08-04 12:28:41 PM |