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Its so-called moderates and conservatives play their own virtuoso version of the "good-cop versus bad-cop" game. | 1clean |
Iran sponsors Syrian terrorism, it is certainly behind much of the action in Iraq, it is fully funding the Hezbollah and, through it, the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad; it performed acts of terror at least in Europe and in South America and probably also in Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia and it truly leads a multi-n... | 1clean |
Nevertheless, most European countries still trade with Iran, try to appease it and refuse to read the clear signals. | 1clean |
We have seen it already in Algeria and, to a certain extent, in Turkey. | 1clean |
I have no doubt that the civilized world will prevail. | 1clean |
Zawahiri and the Vanguards of Conquest were seeking to recreate Mohammed's taking of mecca by a small band through violent attacks on Egyptian leaders. | 1clean |
By 1998, Zawahiri had determined that the Egyptian Islamic Jihad should focus on its struggle against the United States and hold off on further attacks against the Egyptian regime. | 1clean |
A key question is how they acquired the anthrax strain first isolated by the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab in 1980. | 1clean |
In early June 2003, a Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") report publicly disclosed that the reason for Mohammed Atta's and Zacarias Moussaoui's inquiries into cropdusters was for the contemplated use in dispersing biological agents such as anthrax. | 1clean |
An early September 2003 Newsweek article included a rumor by a Taliban source that at a meeting in April 2003 Bin Laden was planning an "unbelievable" biological attack, the plans for which had suffered a setback upon the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ("KSM"). | 1clean |
He had been captured the previous month in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. | 1clean |
In November 2003, a report by a UN Panel of experts concluded that Al Qaeda is determined to use chemical and biological weapons and is restrained only by technical difficulties. | 1clean |
In a statement issued June 16, 2004, the 9/11 Commission Staff concluded that "Al Qaeda had an ambitious biological weapons program and was making advances in its ability to produce anthrax prior to September 11. | 1clean |
Photographs from a seized computer disc included the controls and the locks on the door between the passengers and pilot. | 1clean |
In a bulletin, the FBI noted that the surveillance might relate to a plot to disperse a chemical or biological weapon. | 1clean |
The CIA reportedly has been quietly building a case that the anthrax mailings were an international plot. | 1clean |
Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings served as a threat and warning. | 1clean |
Princeton islamist scholar Bernard Lewis has explained that while islamists may disagree about whether killing innocents is sanctioned by the laws of jihad, extremists like Zawahiri agree that notice must be given before biochemical weapons are used. | 1clean |
"The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997 to newspaper branches in Washington,... | 1clean |
Handwritten notes and files on a laptop seized upon the capture of KSM, Al Qaeda's #3, included a feasible anthrax production plan using a spray dryer and addressed the recruitment of necessary expertise. | 1clean |
There is a risk that observers underestimate the time that Al Qaeda has had to make progress in such recruitment and research and development. | 1clean |
Others argue that he was to be part of a second wave of airliners directed to targets on the West Coast. | 1clean |
There is an e-mail by Moussaoui, however, dated July 31, 2001 indicating that he sought to take a crop dusting course that was to last up to 6 months. | 1clean |
In March 2003, Mohammed reportedly said that Moussaoui was not going to be part of 9/11 but was to be part of a "second wave." | 1clean |
Although Ramzi Binalshibh provided him $14,000 in July, accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told his trial judge that he had an al Qaeda mission that would have come after the terrorist attacks. | 1clean |
KSM explained that Moussaoui's inquiries about crop dusters may have been related to the anthrax work being done by US-trained biochemist and Al Qaeda operative, Malaysian Yazid Sufaat. | 1clean |
Zacarias Moussaoui, never the sharpest tool in the shed and thought by his superiors to be unreliable, has told the judge at his trial in a filing that he wants "anthrax for Jew sympathizer only." | 1clean |
Al Qaeda's regional operative, Hambali, who was at a key January 2000 meeting and supervised Sufaat, has been captured. | 1clean |
Hambali reportedly is cooperating to some degree. | 1clean |
KSM and Hambali sent al-Hindi (al-Britani), along with Jafar the Pilot, to case NYC targets for a second wave. | 1clean |
Sufaat, according to both KSM and Hambali, did not have the virulent US Army Ames strain that would be used. | 1clean |
The islamist had been released from Egyptian prison and had known Zawahiri well for many years. | 1clean |
Emails from Zawahiri to Atef in the Spring of 1999 indicate that Ayman was a close student of the USAMRIID anthrax program. | 1clean |
He believed that the koran instructed that a jihadist should use the weapons used by the crusader. | 1clean |
"What we know is that he's always said it was a religious obligation to have the same weapons as their enemies," former CIA OBL unit counter terrorism chief Michael Scheuer has said. | 1clean |
The Wall Street Journal reported that a computer used by Zawahiri contains a June 1999 memo that "said the program should seek cover and talent in educational institutions, which it said were'more beneficial to us and allow easy access to specialists, which will greatly benefit us in the first stage, God willing.' '' | 1clean |
Zawahiri and the Vanguards of Conquest were seeking to recreate Mohammed's taking of mecca by a small band through violent attacks on Egyptian leaders. | 1clean |
By 1998, Zawahiri had determined that the Egyptian Islamic Jihad should focus on its struggle against the United States and hold off on further attacks against the Egyptian regime. | 1clean |
A key question is how they acquired the anthrax strain first isolated by the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab in 1980. | 1clean |
After the alert condition had long since returned to yellow, Zawahiri in late February issued another audiotape. | 1clean |
He urged the President that brigades and brigades would be coming under the banner of jihad carrying death and seeking paradise. | 1clean |
Zawahiri said that the US should expect another 9/11 on US soil. | 1clean |
Wherever he is, authorities need to focus on the traceable connection between him and those he or Atef recruited. | 1clean |
In October 2001, did the FBI profilers know of the draft message Khalid Mohammed had on the seized laptop (from 1995) that was signed "Khalid Sheik Bojinka"? | 1clean |
The letter threatened to use biochemical weapons if the blind sheik was not released. | 1clean |
(Khalid Mohammed's involvement dates back to Bojinka, as does Hambali's). | 1clean |
In May 2004, Patrick Hughes, Lieutenant General (Retired), Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis, Homeland Security Department testified before the 9/11 Commission. | 1clean |
He explained that interrogations and other evidence revealed that Al Qaeda wanted to strike the US with a nonconventional weapon, most notably anthrax. | 1clean |
The same week, the WTC head testified that while they had not received any briefing on the use of planes, they had taken steps to prepare for an attack using anthrax based on intelligence that had been received. | 1clean |
Al Qaeda has had anthrax, the raw seed product in its unweaponized form, since at least 1997, when it was purchased by Bin Laden through the Moro Islamic Liberation Front ("Moro Front" or "MILF"). | 1clean |
The CIA has known of Zawahiri's plans to use anthrax for a half decade. | 1clean |
The confidante and right-hand man of Dr. Ayman Zawahiri admitted that Zawahiri succeeded in obtaining anthrax and intended to use it against US targets. | 1clean |
Another senior Al Qaeda member (a shura or policy-making council member no less) was working for the Egyptian intelligence services and he confirmed the report in a sworn lengthy confession. | 1clean |
Even Zawahiri's attorney in 1999 said that Bin Laden and Zawahiri were likely to resort to the biological and chemical agents they possessed given the extradition pressure senior Al Qaeda leaders faced. | 1clean |
A recently released islamist who had been a close associate of Zawahiri said that Zawahiri spent a decade and had made 15 separate attempts to recruit the necessary expertise to weaponize anthrax in Russia and the Middle East. | 1clean |
There was lax control over the distribution of the Ames strain that was used, especially in light of the fact that transfers were not even required to be recorded prior to 1997. | 1clean |
Significantly, the individual who isolated it nearly a quarter century ago (now retired), upon being contacted, does not even report that he necessarily sent the only copy of the strain to Ft. Detrick. | 1clean |
Senator Patrick Leahy at a Congressional hearing in the Spring of 2002 noted that the FBI had collected the Ames strain from 20 sources. | 1clean |
In Fall 2004, MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reports that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had Ames that was a match from 16 to 4 but can not rule out that it was made overseas. | 1clean |
Al Qaeda's anthrax production plans on Khalid Mohammed's computer did not evidence knowledge of advanced techniques in the most efficient biological weapons. | 1clean |
At least according to the public comments by bioweaponeer experts William Patrick and Kenneth Alibek, under the optimal method, there is no electrostatic charge. | 1clean |
In the case of the anthrax used in the mailings, there was an electrostatic charge. | 1clean |
Although there was a dominance of single spores and a trillion spore concentration, there were clumps as large as 40 - 100 microns. | 1clean |
The reported finding at Dugway undermines the argument of both the "bomb Iraq" crowd and the liberals focused on Dr. Steve Hatfill who object to US biodefense research because they view it as being useful for offensive purposes. | 1clean |
USDA employee Johnelle Bryant first told us, in sensational detail, of Atta's inquiries about purchasing and retrofitting a cropduster. | 1clean |
Khalid Mohammed then told interrogators that Zacarias Moussaoui's inquiries about crop dusting may have related to Yazid Sufaat's anthrax manufacturing plans. | 1clean |
Al Qaeda had both the means and opportunity. | 1clean |
US-trained Malaysian biochemist Yazid Sufaat met with 9/11 plotters and two hijackers in January 2000. | 1clean |
JI has ties with the Moro Front. | 1clean |
Sufaat used his company called Green Laboratory Medicine to buy items useful to Al Qaeda. | 1clean |
(Green symbolizes "Islam" and Prophet Mohammed's holy war). | 1clean |
Zacarias Moussaoui, who had a crop dusting manual when he was arrested, stayed at Sufaat's condominium in 2000 when he was trying to arrange for flight lessons in Malaysia. | 1clean |
Yazid Sufaat provided Moussaoui with a letter indicating that he was a marketing representative for Infocus Technologies and allegedly provided him $35,000. | 1clean |
The crop dusters were to be part of a "second wave." | 1clean |
After 9/11, Yazid Sufaat traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to work for the Taliban Medical Brigade and to continue his work with anthrax. | 1clean |
The fellow was carrying papers from Zawahiri and bragging about his ability to manipulate anthrax. | 1clean |
Newsweek reported that a "second wave" involving biological attacks had been thwarted upon the arrest of Al Qaeda members who had been intended to provide logistical support. | 1clean |
The Pakistani press reported that she was nabbed in Karachi after being spotted at the airport in late March or early April 2003. | 1clean |
If mistaken, how did those reports first come about? | 1clean |
The CIA did not even allow the FBI access to KSM for 10 days after his arrest. | 1clean |
Her mother Ismat last saw Aafia and her grandchildren before they left in a minicab at the end of March. | 1clean |
The reports say she is suspected of having been a member of Al Qaeda's "Chemical Wire Group." | 1clean |
The family's lawyer advises me that Aafia did not have enough money to pay for airfare tickets for herself and the kids and called Ismat from the train station. | 1clean |
Aafia never reached the uncle's house. | 1clean |
Perhaps something got lost in the translation, but the phrase "Chemical Wire Group" has appeared in all the english Pakistan and India papers. | 1clean |
The family's attorney advises me that Aafia had no knowledge of chemicals (and that would not appear to be her training). | 1clean |
There still is a very hot pursuit of the "Atta-level" Floridian, Adnan El Shukrijumah, who Siddiqui is thought to have known and been assisting. | 1clean |
A senior DOJ official reports that Adnan has experience as a commercial pilot. | 1clean |
The United States truly no longer has time for faulty analysis or politically-based preconceptions. | 1clean |
In early June 2003, a CIA report concluded that the reason for Atta's and Zacarias Moussaoui's inquiries into cropdusters was in fact for the contemplated use in dispersing biological agents such as anthrax. | 1clean |
It has long been known Osama Bin Laden was interested in using cropdusters to disperse biological agents (since the testimony of millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam). | 1clean |
The hijacker Ahmed Alhaznawi appears to have contracted cutaneous anthrax in Afghanistan. | 1clean |
The present evidence relating to Atta's alleged travel to Prague does not warrant a conclusion that Al Qaeda obtained the Ames strain from Iraq. | 1clean |
Iraq, however, remains a possible source of the Ames. | 1clean |
Former Russian bioweaponeer Ken Alibek has said that a key Russian scientist assisted Iraq and that Russia had the Ames strain. | 1clean |
Zawahiri did travel to Baghdad in 1998 with an entourage to attend the birthday party of Saddam's son. | 1clean |
The papers found at headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Iraq's secret police, show that an entourage from Al Qaeda group was sent to the Iraqi capital in March 1998 from Sudan. | 1clean |
According to at least some reports, Bin Laden rejected the suggestion of a closer alliance -- preferring to pursue his own concept of jihad. | 1clean |
Two top Iraqi scientists, code named Charlie and Alpha, are helping the coalition to learn more about Iraqi's anthrax program, according to Dr. David Kay, head of the Iraq survey group in charge of the hunt for WMD. | 1clean |
He has said that the Iraqis made surprising innovations in the milling and drying processes needed to weaponize anthrax. | 1clean |
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