Terrorists Planning Summer Attack

[Stephen Joseph 0]

It's lack of representation in the WWE

They want Iron Sheik to get a run with the title.

[Styles 0]

Indeed one is a woman, in fact these are some multicultural terrorists. The left would love the diversity in Al Qaeda!

 

PANAMA CITY, Panama — Global intelligence and police agencies are on a worldwide hunt for terrorists with ties to places as disparate as Boston, Islamabad, and Panama City, part of a U.S. scramble to head off what officials fear could be a massive attack this summer.

 

The U.S. Justice Department (search) released a list of seven people wanted for questioning Wednesday after authorities received a stream of credible intelligence reports pointing to a terror attack of Sept. 11 proportions in the United States this summer. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (search) asked American citizens to give any information they can, and foreign governments have been recruited.

 

Those on the list include a man who grew up on a goat ranch in California before converting to Islam; a Tunisian who obtained Canadian citizenship; a Tanzanian who goes by the names "Foopie," "Fupi" and "Ahmed the Tanzanian;" a Pakistani woman who received a biology degree in Boston; and a native of the Comoros Republic in the Indian Ocean who is believed to be Al Qaeda point-man in eastern Africa.

 

Even Panama, a country known more for its canal than terrorism, has been included in the search. Officials said Wednesday they are trying to track down a man identified as Adnan Gulshair El Shukrijumah, of Saudi Arabia.

 

Panamanian Security Council Chief Ramiro Jarvis said El Shukrijumah arrived in Panama legally from the United States in April 2001 — five months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks — and stayed in Panama for 10 days. He also visited Trinidad and Tobago for six days the next month.

 

"We don't know exactly what he did during his stay and it is important to find out," Jarvis said.

 

Migration records show El Shukrijumah returned to the United States, Interior Department spokesman David Salayandia said. The last place he was seen, however, was in Panama.

 

The revelation was one of the few indicators that have tied Latin America to the global terrorism threat. Officials have long worried that terrorists would use the region to attack the United States, but so far there has been little evidence to support that fear.

 

Two of the suspects were also from Canada, according to Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan. She said there was no evidence they are currently in the country, but she urged Canadians to report suspicious activity.

 

"We know that we are not immune to terrorism, and that we must be vigilant," she said.

 

One of the men, Abderraouf Jdey, a Tunisian who obtained Canadian citizenship in 1995, was among five people who left suicide messages on videotapes recovered in Afghanistan at the home of Mohammed Atef. Atef, reportedly Usama bin Laden's military chief, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2001.

 

Pakistani security officials are also looking for information on Aafia Siddiqui, 32, a Pakistani woman who received a biology degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote a doctoral thesis on neurological sciences at Brandeis University, outside Boston, in 2001.

 

Authorities say she returned to Pakistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks with her husband and three children. Her whereabouts have been a mystery since March 2003, when the FBI issued a global alert for her arrest for possible links to Al Qaeda (search). The FBI also wants to talk to her husband.

 

U.S. authorities have not alleged that Siddiqui is a full-fledged member of Al Qaeda, but believe she could be a "fixer" — someone with knowledge of the United States who can support and help get things done for other operatives.

 

A senior Pakistani security official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the United States had made no new request for Pakistan to find Siddiqui but that one issued last year was still in effect despite turning up nothing at the time. The official said she had gone underground, and it wasn't even known if she was still in Pakistan.

 

Another suspect is Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, under indictment in the United States for the 1998 Al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Tanzanian also goes by the names "Foopie," "Fupi" and "Ahmed the Tanzanian."

 

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, is also a suspect. He goes by the names Adam Pearlman and Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki. FBI Director Robert Mueller says he attended Al Qaeda training camps and has served as an Al Qaeda translator.

 

Gadahn says on an Islamic Internet site that he grew up on a goat ranch in Riverside County, Calif., and converted to Islam in his later teenage years after moving to Garden Grove, Calif.

 

Although El Shukrijumah appears to have left Panama, the tiny country is still looking for evidence he might have returned.

 

"His whereabouts are unknown, but we are on alert," Jarvis said, adding that authorities were tightening security at airports and along the country's borders.

 

Believed to be 29 years old, El Shukrijumah was once a legal U.S. resident of the United States and his father lives in Florida.

 

In March 2003, the FBI said it wanted to question El Shukrijumah on suspicion of involvement in plotting Al Qaeda attacks on the United States, but that he faced no formal charges.

 

The attention last year led to the firing of El Shukrijumah's father, Gulshair Muhammad El Shukrijumah, from a leadership position at a U.S. mosque in Miramar, Florida. His father said then that when he last talked to his son, in 2002, he was teaching English in Morocco.

 

U.S. authorities have said they are working to establish links between El Shukrijumah and other terror suspects, including Jose Padilla, an American arrested in 2002 for allegedly plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb. The two apparently both lived in south Florida in the 1990s.

 

U.S. authorities have said El Shukrijumah has many aliases and may be carrying passports from Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Canada. Police in Guyana have said he also holds a valid passport from that South American country, where his father was born.

 

"It's incredible how these people move from place to place," said Panamanian housewife Irma Rivas, 37, after she heard the news. "Now it's not safe anywhere."

 

Can we PLEASE do something about the immigration problem in this country!? Troops on the boarders, something! The only thing more unsettling than knowing these asshole are planning attacks is that they all seem to have formal ties to past operations and have gone largely unmonitored around the world and their whereabouts now unknown.

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A 25-year-old U.S. citizen, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, is also a suspect. He goes by the names Adam Pearlman and Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki. FBI Director Robert Mueller says he attended Al Qaeda training camps and has served as an Al Qaeda translator.

 

The ultimate traitor. An American with Jewish blood fighting for an organization hell bent on the destruction of Isreal, and the United States.

[Guest Anglesault]

I was about to ask if Adam Pearlman sounded Jewish to you too.

[Vern Gagne 0]

I heard on Fox News his grandfather was jewish.

[Guest Anglesault]

Well, someone in the family line had to be. It's a Jewish name.

[2GOLD 0]

Is it just me, or does the second guy in row two look like the lead singer of Seether?

[Lando Griffin 0]

Anyone else not really a fan of the term "chatter"?

 

It just sounds so...non-threatening.

Hey batter batter batter batter suhhh-wing batter batter batter

[Guest MikeSC]

This is just scaremongering. A political distraction.

But, Bush should've done more to prevent 9/11, according to some.

 

So, giving out info is "scare mongering" and a "political distraction". NOT giving out info (that one does not actually have) is "letting people die". Nice Catch-22.

So exactly where's the information?

 

There is none, what they're hunching this on is confidential and they plan to keep it this way.

Again, if Bush doesn't release EVERY tiny sliver of intel --- he's "letting people die". He does release every tiny sliver and he's just scare-mongering.

 

The left (and alleged moderates) can't have it both ways.

 

Heck, if one ignores WTC 1993, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, Khobar Towers, AND WTC 2001 --- there really is no need to worry.

-=Mike

[Jobber of the Week 0]

It's from intercepted phone calls and emails basically...That's been reported many times

 

And of course its confidential...should we just GIVE AWAY our intelligence resources when we're trying to find these people?

So the guys who were plotting away recently are now going to assume the big scary press conference was spurred on by somebody else?

 

Can we PLEASE do something about the immigration problem in this country!? Troops on the boarders, something!

You're as bad as Bill O'Reilly. Troops don't know how to be police. They know how to kill, and that's what they do. You should know that after the past few months of Iraq.

[Guest MikeSC]

Can we PLEASE do something about the immigration problem in this country!? Troops on the boarders, something!

You're as bad as Bill O'Reilly. Troops don't know how to be police. They know how to kill, and that's what they do. You should know that after the past few months of Iraq.

It's from intercepted phone calls and emails basically...That's been reported many times

 

And of course its confidential...should we just GIVE AWAY our intelligence resources when we're trying to find these people?

So the guys who were plotting away recently are now going to assume the big scary press conference was spurred on by somebody else?

Heck, we should've given out names. Hate to see terrorist groups kill members who DON'T leak info...wait a minute, we'd like that TOO!

-=Mike

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Troops don't know how to be police. They know how to kill, and that's what they do. You should know that after the past few months of Iraq.

Judging from the media coverage over the last month, they seem to know how to put panties on peoples' heads and how to form naked human pyramids.

 

Maybe we can humiliate illegals to stay in their country...

[2GOLD 0]

You know....our bat insane militias in Montana are just itching for some action.

 

They might enjoy being border police. Just don't get anywhere near the border when they are on duty.

[Guest MikeSC]

Troops don't know how to be police. They know how to kill, and that's what they do. You should know that after the past few months of Iraq.

Judging from the media coverage over the last month, they seem to know how to put panties on peoples' heads and how to form naked human pyramids.

 

Maybe we can humiliate illegals to stay in their country...

Heck, according to Amnesty Int'l, we have engaged in the most systematic rejection of the Universal Statement of Human Rights (1948) EVER.

 

Or, in OTHER words, Abu Gharib is worse than, say, the Soviet gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, Mao's various genocidal schemes, the Rwandan massacre, etc.

 

Yup, we've done WORSE.

 

And THIS is why it's so hard to take the far left seriously. Even when they have an actual point --- they overstate their case so badly it's impossible to NOT mock it.

-=Mike

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

And that is the reason why I wipe my ass with Amnesty International press releases...

[Guest MikeSC]

And that is the reason why I wipe my ass with Amnesty International press releases...

They're nowhere near fluffy soft enough for my delicate ass cheeks.

-=Mike

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5087301/

 

In warning Americans to brace for a possible attack, Ashcroft cited what he called “credible intelligence from multiple sources,” saying that “just after New Year's, al-Qaida announced openly that preparations for an attack on the United States were 70 percent complete.… After the March 11 attack in Madrid, Spain, an al-Qaida spokesman announced that 90 percent of the arrangements for an attack in the United States were complete.”

 

But terrorism experts tell NBC News there's no evidence a credible al-Qaida spokesman ever said that, and the claims actually were made by a largely discredited group, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, known for putting propaganda on the Internet.

 

“This particular group is not really taken seriously by Western intelligence,” said terrorism expert M.J. Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, an international policy assessment group. “It does not appear to have any real field operational capability. But it is certainly part of the global jihad movement — part of its propaganda wing, if you like. It likes to weave a web of lies; it likes to put out disinformation so that the truth is deeply buried. So it is a dangerous group in that sense, but it is not taken seriously in terms of its operational capability.”

 

The group has claimed responsibility for the power blackout in the Northeast last year, a power outage in London and the Madrid bombing. None of the claims was found to be credible.

 

(...)

 

Friday, Ashcroft's spokesman blamed the FBI, and the FBI admitted claims that terrorists were 90 percent ready to attack came not from al-Qaida, but from the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades’ statements. 

[2GOLD 0]

Oh for god sake.

Nice, real nice.

 

I really don't know what to say but my confidence in the FBI is already low. I'm sure there are some very intelligent FBI agents but the leadership is what I am questioning.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

I guess there just wasn't enough time for Ashcroft or the DOJ people to ask "Hey FBI, where did you get this information from?"

 

The Brigade is a front for something, that's for sure.

[Art Sandusky 0]

It's odd how they can make a number like 90% up. I mean, say they're really close or something. Assigning an actual quantity makes it sound like you would know how to stop this 90% from being 100%.

[Vyce 0]

Troops don't know how to be police. They know how to kill, and that's what they do. You should know that after the past few months of Iraq.

Judging from the media coverage over the last month, they seem to know how to put panties on peoples' heads and how to form naked human pyramids.

 

Maybe we can humiliate illegals to stay in their country...

Heck, according to Amnesty Int'l, we have engaged in the most systematic rejection of the Universal Statement of Human Rights (1948) EVER.

 

Or, in OTHER words, Abu Gharib is worse than, say, the Soviet gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, Mao's various genocidal schemes, the Rwandan massacre, etc.

 

Yup, we've done WORSE.

 

And THIS is why it's so hard to take the far left seriously. Even when they have an actual point --- they overstate their case so badly it's impossible to NOT mock it.

-=Mike

But it was worse, Mike. So much worse than all of those events.

 

Sure, others have committed genocide and engaged in mass murder on a near biblical scale, but we fed them PORK.

 

PORK.

 

We Americans are the worst of God's creatures.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

But it was worse, Mike. So much worse than all of those events.

 

Sure, others have committed genocide and engaged in mass murder on a near biblical scale, but we fed them PORK.

 

PORK.

 

We Americans are the worst of God's creatures.

Frankly I wasn't surprised by that one, after all pork is the official food of the US government.

[NYU 0]

So, wait one second.

 

On 9/11/2001, there was an attack that the government didn't know too many details about. They had an inkling that there might be an attack on New York City in that timeframe, but they didn't know that planes would be involved. And they didn't know just what exactly would happen.

 

Following 9/11, the U.S. almost immediately went into Afghanistan. This was done with the intention to fight terrorism and keep our country safe from another terrible attack.

 

Following the War on Terror in Afghanistan that had not quite finished, the U.S. decided to go into Iraq in March 2003. Again, this was done with the intention to fight terrorism and prevent any other gruesome attacks in the future.

 

So, try to follow along with me so far. We went into Afghanistan and Iraq to heavily fight back on terrorism and make a country a safer place. This is the kind of platform Bush is trying to stand on for his reelection, correct?

 

Okay.

 

Then why the fuck are we getting warnings about a possible summer attack with no details about HOW the attack may come, WHEN the attack will come, WHERE the attack will happen, or anything useful that can prevent something in the future?

 

It's about two-and-a-half years following 9/11, and there was supposed to be some HUGE gains made in the battle against terror. But looking at it from a neutral point of view.....what exactly has changed? There are a few more guys locked up than there would have been before. Yet, this country is still hopelessly oblivious when it comes to trying to combat a major terrorist attack from happening again. For all the confidential information, for all the secret interviews done in jail cell with the accused terrorists, for all the battles we had to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.......what is there to show for it? Apparently, we know that an attack MIGHT occur throughout the time span of THREE MONTHS in a CITY......or then again, it could not.

 

Why are we having the exact same problem that we had in 2001?

[Guest MikeSC]

Then why the fuck are we getting warnings about a possible summer attack with no details about HOW the attack may come, WHEN the attack will come, WHERE the attack will happen, or anything useful that can prevent something in the future?

 

It's about two-and-a-half years following 9/11, and there was supposed to be some HUGE gains made in the battle against terror. But looking at it from a neutral point of view.....what exactly has changed? There are a few more guys locked up than there would have been before. Yet, this country is still hopelessly oblivious when it comes to trying to combat a major terrorist attack from happening again. For all the confidential information, for all the secret interviews done in jail cell with the accused terrorists, for all the battles we had to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.......what is there to show for it? Apparently, we know that an attack MIGHT occur throughout the time span of THREE MONTHS in a CITY......or then again, it could not.

 

Why are we having the exact same problem that we had in 2001?

Bush got TONS of heat for not "doing enough" to prevent 9/11 --- so they're putting out all of the info.

 

And, this is a huge problem that will take YEARS to correct. People expect things far too quickly.

-=Mike

[Guest INXS]

Yeah, Bush admin are in a catch 22 here. Some more details might make the public take these alerts a little more seriously.

[Guest MikeSC]

Yeah, Bush admin are in a catch 22 here. Some more details might make the public take these alerts a little more seriously.

They don't HAVE more details. They didn't have them before the 9/11 attacks, either.

-=Mike