Posted on 11/14/2003 3:51:53 PM PST by knak
Investigators in Turin Study Video on Imam's Computer to See if It Has New Bin Laden Footage
The Associated Press
ROME Nov. 14 — Anti-terrorism police in Turin Friday were studying a video on a Senegalese imam's computer to determine if it might show fresh film of Osama bin Laden.
Turin daily La Stampa said that two computers, cassettes, CD-ROMs and boxes full of documents were seized from the Muslim preacher's home in a Turin suburb Thursday morning.
The anti-terrorist squad declined to talk about the case by phone, but La Stampa quoted investigators as saying they were being cautious about the video because dozens of similar videos have been circulating on the Internet.
The imam, Abdel Qadir Fadh Allah Mamour, whom Italian news reports described as a consultant to an Islamic financial company in Zurich, Switzerland, was questioned for several hours at Turin police headquarters Thursday and later returned home, La Stampa said.
Interviewed recently on a late-night talk show on state TV, the preacher said Italian soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq would be attacked because they were aiding the U.S.-led military presence in both countries. He also said that attacks would then follow against Italian diplomats and next in Italy.
The suicide bombing Wednesday which killed 18 Italians at their military compound in southern Iraq, shocking the nation, brought fresh attention to his predictions.
In an interview with La Stampa, the imam's wife, a Milanese woman converted to Islam to marry him, said her husband in those comments was merely analyzing the situation in Iraq and wasn't making any predictions.
An Italian RAI state TV crew which was interviewing Mamour just before the police arrived said his computer also had a video featuring testimony by four suicide attackers in a Riyadh bombing.
According to RAI, the man who appeared to be bin Laden on the video urged followers to martyrdom. RAI said the video would be shown next week and cautioned that it had no immediate way of knowing if it were new or when or where it might have been made. It quoted the imam as saying he downloaded the video from an Arabic Web site.
Last month, an al-Qaida-style recording that surfaced on the Internet included what is described as audio of militants launching a suicide bomb attack in Saudi Arabia in May and four purported attackers delivering last testaments.
Stay tuned.
Wonder if Binny has changed his looks..
Seriesly, hope we pick up some good info. Sometimes, I'm not sure these should be publicized but then, it does make some wiggle, and we have "wiggle finders".
Is that the video where Osama says "Is the diaper on my head on straight?" I think I have that one.
“[Tariq] Ramadan’s address was found in a register of the Al Taqwa Bank, which is part of a network of financial institutions that the U.S. State Department believes is helping to fund terrorism.” ...
“...State Department spokesman Darby Holladay said Wednesday that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling the scholars’ entry if they obtain visas. The professors are Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University and Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg.
Holladay said Clinton decided to use her exemption authority for the benefit of the professors. Ramadan, naturally, is thrilled to be able to come back and spew his anti-American, anti-Semitic bilge on college campuses....”
“...Altalib worked for one of Al Taqwa Bank’s main owners, Youssef Nada. Altalib’s more prominent Muslim Brotherhood partner, Jamal Barzinji (one of the champions of the Ground Zero mosque), also worked for Nada. FBI and Customs officials believe SAAR/SAFA laundered money for a plethora of violent Muslim terrorist groups, from Hamas and Hezbollah to al-Qaida and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. ....”
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“...On Friday, March 30, 2012, Hisham Y. Altalib visited the White House. According to visitor logs, Altalib was received by Joshua DuBois, the director of President Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Four days later, White House officials welcomed a foreign delegation of the radical Sharia-enforcing Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt.
The White House meeting with overseas Muslim Brotherhood leaders was reported in April by a few mainstream journalists and questioned loudly by conservative media. But the White House confab in March with U.S.-based Altalib — which appears to be a prep session with the global Muslim Brotherhood’s American advance team — has received no attention until now.
So, who is Hisham Yahya Altalib? What is his agenda?
And why exactly did the Obama administration conduct domestic “faith-based” outreach with this Muslim Brotherhood figure in Virginia, who just happens to be 1) tied to bloody jihad and 2) a major contributor to the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights, the group of jihadi-sympathizing lawyers who helped spring suspected Benghazi terror plotter Abu Sufian bin Qumu from Gitmo? ...”
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Senior investigators and analysts in the U.S. government have concluded that Iraq acted as a state sponsor of terrorism against Americans and logistically supported the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States - confirming news reports that until now have emerged only in bits and pieces. A senior government official responsible for investigating terrorism tells Insight that while Saddam Hussein may not have had details of the Sept. 11 attacks in advance, he “gave assistance for whatever al-Qaeda came up with.” That assistance, confirmed independently, came in a variety of ways, including financial support spun out through a complex web of financial institutions in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and elsewhere. Long suspected of having terrorist ties to al-Qaeda, they now have been linked to Iraq as well.
The official says the United States uncovered the key “money-laundering operation” in the months following Sept. 11, 2001, when authorities raided the homes and offices of two Arab bankers, Youssef M. Nada and Ali Himat, principals at Nada Management (formerly al-Taqwa Management). Himat, Nada and the names of both companies are all listed on the U.S. Treasury Department’s roll of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” ...
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...A UN report last month criticised Switzerland for failing to prevent support reaching Osama bin Laden’s network and the Afghan Taliban. It alleged that Switzerland was being used as a revolving door for weapons smuggling and that money for terrorism was passing through the country.
The report focused on two businessmen in Switzerland, Youssef Nada, an Egyptian, and Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, of Ethiopian descent. Both are linked to businesses allegedly involved in financing al-Qaida. ...
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