THREAT INFO CAME FROM CAPTURED AL QAEDA COMPUTER GEEK (DRUDGE SIREN)

Drudge Report ^ | 8/2/04 | Matt Drudge

[jimbo123]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31951-2004Aug1.html

Such sophistication of planning is a hallmark of al Qaeda. At the U.S. embassy bombings trial in 2001, Jamal Amed al-Fadl, a former associate of Osama bin Laden's, testified that similar surveillance took place four years before the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed in 1998. Testimony showed that a team arrived in Nairobi in 1994, headed by Ali Mohammed, a former U.S. Army Green Beret now in prison, who had taught surveillance to al Qaeda recruits in Afghanistan training camps.

The team photographed buildings; analyzed access routes, building entrances and guard stations; and kept track of crowd flow around the embassy and other buildings in the area. Surveillance reports were sent to Afghanistan for review by bin Laden and Muhammad Atef, then his chief military planner. Atef, who made one visit to Kenya to review the scene, was killed in November 2001 during a U.S. bombing raid in Afghanistan.

[dandelion]

Why does the word "ducky" show up in the document source? Just curious - I'm looking for words encrypted in source, and I came up with "ducky"... weird...

[TX Bluebonnet]

A failed photo op is so much more fun now with the internet and PhotoShop. Freepers could have had a field day with the Dukakis tank photo.

[SCHROLL]

It's stupid to make this even public and let al Qaeda know we have him. Kinda makes you wonder if these idiots would have told the Japanese we'd broken their code prior to Midway. Instead, they should have remained silent and used the guy to maneuver the terrorists into situations where they could have been apprehended before committing their acts.

Imagine this scenario: We take the guy down and break their code along with it. Keeping him in place, we get a heads up on what's being planned. We delay the transmission of orders by say a couple of hours while we pass it along to our guys. We get names, dates, and places of where to pick these guys up. We spring the trap and scoop them up. When releasing details of the ops to the press, specify that we got our info from one of the guys we picked up. We begin the process of undermining al Qaeda from within by making them question just how loyal their operatives are. They'll be more worried about their own skin than they are the cause. Sooner or later one of them will rat out the top guys to save their own ass.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Forced to dress as a blinfolded Wicked Witch of the West was the ball breaker.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[spokeshave]

"Mr. Khan had told investigators that most of Al Qaeda's communications were now done through the Internet, "

Thanks to Al Bore for inventing the internet

[tinamina]

Newsday article says it's the Bank of America building in SF.

[ArmstedFragg]

What's in SF anyway?

TransAmerica tower. Another of those "symbol of America" buildings.

[SandRat]

Think about this -- on this day in 1861 the first Income Tax was passed. Then it was 3% on incomes above $800. That translates in 2003 $ to 3% of incomes above $16,608.60. That's a double tax break if we could return to that.