Posted on 08/01/2004 7:26:33 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
REPUBLICANS PLAN PUSH FOR ELIMINATION OF IRS
http://www.drudgereport.com/rnc.htm
The Speaker of the House will push for replacing the nation's current tax system with a national sales tax or a value added tax, Hill sources tell DRUDGE.
This too !
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/politics/02intel.html
Captured Qaeda Figure Led Way to Information Behind Warning
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID ROHDE
Published: August 2, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 - The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence Agency to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert on Sunday, according to senior American officials.
The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old computer engineer, arrested July 13, who had used and helped to operate a secret Qaeda communications system where information was transferred via coded messages.
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The Pakistani official described Mr. Khan as a fluent English speaker who had told investigators that he had visited the United States, Britain, Germany and other countries. Mr. Khan was one of thousands of Pakistani militants who trained in Afghanistan under the Taliban in the 1990's, the Pakistani official said.
If indeed Mr. Khan was the man whose arrest led the C.I.A. to new evidence, his role as a kind of clearinghouse of Qaeda communications, as described by the Pakistani intelligence official, could have made him a vital source of information. Since his arrest, Mr. Khan has described an elaborate communications system that involves the use of high and low technology, the Pakistani official said.
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The Qaeda communications system that Mr. Khan used and helped operate relied on Web sites and e-mail addresses in Turkey, Nigeria and the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan, according to the information provided by a Pakistani intelligence official.
The official said Mr. Khan had told investigators that couriers carried handwritten messages or computer disks from senior Qaeda leaders hiding in isolated border areas to hard-line religious schools in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province.
Other couriers then ferried them to Mr. Khan on the other side of the country in the eastern city of Lahore, and the computer expert then posted the messages in code on Web sites or relayed them electronically, the Pakistani official said.
Mr. Khan had told investigators that most of Al Qaeda's communications were now done through the Internet, the official said. After a message was sent and read by the recipient, the entire communication and related files were deleted to maintain secrecy, he said. Mr. Khan had told investigators that e-mail addresses were generally not used more than a few times.
The young computer engineer, who received a bachelor's degree from a university in Karachi, is the unemployed son of an employee of Pakistan's state airline and a college botany professor, the official said. Heavily built and 6 feet 2 inches tall, he speaks English with a British accent, and was arrested carrying a fake Pakistani identification card.
The Pakistani official said Mr. Khan told investigators that he had received 25 days of training at a militant camp in Afghanistan in June 1998. By the time Mr. Khan had risen to his current position, the official said, Qaeda figures had arranged his marriage and were paying him $170 a month for rent for his house in Lahore and $90 for expenses.
Mr. Khan was in contact with the brother of the Indonesian Qaeda leader Hambali, who was studying in a religious school in Karachi, and who was recently deported. Mr. Khan has told interrogators that his Qaeda handler was a Pakistani he knew as Adil or Imran, who assigned him tasks related to computer work, Web design and managing the handler's messages. His correspondents included a Saudi-based Yemeni, Egyptian and Palestinian nationals and Arabs in unknown locations, and someone described as the "in-charge" in the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan.
Asked about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mr. Khan has told interrogators that even the top Qaeda commanders do not know, the Pakistani intelligence official said.
The graphic has been making the rounds on the Arabic message boards, not known if those are the actual image taken from the hard drive of computer geek..
John Kerry: "What's a hard drive?"
No, it's worse than you can imagine, the Kerry campaign has learned that we threatened to put panties on his head! Edwards is preparing a lawsuit as we speak!
Hr reminds me of Willy Wanka.
more details here.. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/nyc-codered0801,0,3670322.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Or to find their weaknesses.
He probably thinks it's a football play.
I think they're sending in the "moles" with a different story for every person. Only a very few will know the "real deal".
This one makes sense.
And it's like a bat-cave to Al-Qaeda.
God bless Musharraf; he likely has to sleep in a different bed every night to keep from being murdered.
I wonder if they really mean NYC & DC. What if NYC is a code word for LA & DC is a code word for Chicago.
Captured Al Qaeda Computer Geek + Car Battery + Electrodes = Lots of useful information.
Pakistan is a hellhole with nukes.
Well with all of this coming out I hope they don't have back up targets. What's in SF anyway?
Leni
" Mr. Khan was one of thousands of Pakistani militants who trained in Afghanistan under the Taliban in the 1990's, the Pakistani official said. "
" The Pakistani official said Mr. Khan told investigators that he had received 25 days of training at a militant camp in Afghanistan in June 1998."
Now, remind me-where was George Bush in the 90s and where was John Kerry aka The Hanoi Hamster ??
Its what happens to Kerry everytime he dresses in a bunny suit and listens to the tellitubbie tune!
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