Posted on 11/10/2001 3:52:08 AM PST by Clive
Toronto police have been investigating dozens of FBI-generated leads following the U.S. arrest of a Parkdale refugee claimant who is alleged to be a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden.
Officers said Nabil Al-Marabh left a huge trail of evidence in Toronto and U.S. police are interested in his ties with the suicide pilots and their accomplices who plowed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
"There was a lot of activity taking place," one senior Toronto cop said yesterday. "It is unbelievable."
U.S. police said Al-Marabh is among their top five suspects of 1,200 detained in the U.S.
Police said they've questioned dozens of bin Laden supporters in the Toronto area since Al-Marabh's arrest in Chicago for his role in the U.S. attacks. A number of suspects have been placed under surveillance and their phones tapped.
An Al-Marabh associate, Hassan Almrei, 27, of Mississauga, has been detained as a threat to national security.
Police said they've checked hundreds of pages of phone and financial records, searched dozens of licence plates and credit card purchases as part of their hunt for al-Qaida operatives here.
The Toronto investigation, which has taken officers away from other duties, has prompted Chief Julian Fantino to call for the creation of an anti-terrorism task force.
Even police association boss Craig Bromell said there should be a unit to hunt terrorists. "There are a lot of people to chase down."
U.S. police said many of the suspected al-Qaida terrorists were nabbed through the use of the state-of-the-art computer software program Promis.
The system interfaces with any database and can provide information on credit card, banking, pension, tax, criminal and immigration records.
Police can input an alleged terrorist name or credit card and the software will provide details of the person's movements through purchases or phone records.
In other developments, the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority has given the green light to Air Canada to begin flying to Washington's Dulles airport on Monday with two armed Mounties on each flight. The Mounties will remain on the Air Canada jet in Washington. The jet also has to be guarded at Pearson.
Meanwhile, Peel police have arrested a Toronto man who allegedly assaulted an elderly man and flight stewardess on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong on Thursday.
The system interfaces with any database and can provide information on credit card, banking, pension, tax, criminal and immigration records.
Oh well ... so much for privacy. Sigh.
So it's hard to reconcile your reaction with the PCs telling you that racial profiling is a bad thing? When you get it figured out, let me know.
Quite seriously, I'm trying to deal with the guilt I have over the thought that what I want to happen equates with genocide.
Yeah, right ... a terrible dilemma indeed, I stay awake at night worrying about it! ;)
" U.S. police said many of the suspected al-Qaida terrorists were nabbed through the use of the state-of-the-art computer software program Promis."
So Promis is (allegedly) still "state-of-the-art" after all these years.
Does anyone know what became of those detained/arrested last week that were coming in from the Phillipines? I've been expecting to see some Islamic Asian terrorists slipping into the country now that we are all concentrating on the 'mid-easterner' types.
Isn't that the 'secret' spy program that was sold to all our enemies, including Bin Laden?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
According to some folks with Agendas on here (Fred2.5, Poohbah, sinkspur, etc.) Promis is just KooK material now. Obsoleted, down the tubes, trashed...... Just like all the KooKy stuff about OKC, Waco, Ruby Ridge and Mena.
But most their comments are deleted, after a respectable time, huh?
Thanks (as always) for the heads up.
words for the new millenium, as seen on a commercial, with apologies to karl malden--- "cash--don't leave home without it!"
add in, spare throw away quickstore/truckstop pre-paid cell phone
A bureaucrat was making a routine inquiry. The government, he said, was using Promis and was hoping a French version was available. Some 900 government offices had it.
Alarm bells went off at Inslaw. Canada wasn't licensed to use the case- management software.
Later, officials in Ottawa insisted there had been a mistake and the software wasn't Inslaw's Promis after all. At that time, both the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service denied they were using Promis or a version of it.
TALE OF SPIES AND CONSPIRACIES [INSLAW and PROMIS return to the news]
There are some links on it, but beware, I think some "intel" types played a game with some of them. They get you to a "XXX" entry site that runs you around in circles trying to get back out :-)
However, here's a link to another of Uncle Bill's excellent compilations, with tons of links, some info about Promis, some links about the 'blood trail'. Folks can take off from there, and hopefully find more.
Vince Foster - The Mirage of Suicide and the Reality of Murder
You all might be interested in the name of the town - "Parkdale."
Remember the Vassar expert, Don Foster, thought the writer of the anthrax letters may have had a Canadian connection.
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