Wiretaps show how Al Qaeda sought to create in Iraq a substitute for training camps in Afghanistan.

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 28,2003 | Sebastian Rotella

[Kay Soze]

A Road to Ansar Began in Italy Wiretaps are said to show how Al Qaeda sought to create in northern Iraq a substitute for training camps in Afghanistan.

Investigators say the case offers a picture of how Al Qaeda sought to transform Ansar's Iraqi stronghold into a substitute, on a smaller scale, for the Afghan camps to which the terrorist network had sent aspiring holy warriors before the U.S. defeated the Taliban in late 2001. After the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, members of a network commanded by Abu Musab Zarqawi, a top Al Qaeda figure, fled to the Russian republic of Chechnya and northeastern Iraq. U.S. and European investigators say Zarqawi's specialists used a camp in the village of Sargat, near Kurmal, to experiment with cyanide poisons, toxic gas and ricin, a castor bean extract that can be used as a biological weapon.

[Kay Soze]

Taliban, Saddam,Osama Bin Laden Syria,Iran, France

[Huck]

Russia

[xJones]

A June 15 conversation laid out a blueprint of the network's evolution and survival despite law enforcement pressure. An unidentified visitor from Germany counseled the Egyptian imam of the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan to avoid communicating via the Internet, to speak in code with associates and to use messengers. Funding was still plentiful, the visitor said.

"Don't ever worry about money, because Saudi Arabia's money is your money," the visitor said, speaking cultured Arabic with a North African accent.

[js1138]

+ Saudi Arabia + any number of South and Central American Countries.

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[ellery]

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[Grampa Dave]

I guess that PETA doesn't protest when these Islamofacists set up terrorist training grounds like they do when we want have a place to train our military.

[Shermy]

Bears repeating:

"Don't ever worry about money, because Saudi Arabia's money is your money," the visitor said, speaking cultured Arabic with a North African accent.

[Grampa Dave]

So where did this dude come from with his "Cultured Arabic with a North African accent."?

That is not the normal Saudi voice/accent.

[MEG33]

Great read..Wow.

[lainde]

Can someone summarize please. I refuse to read the LA times...I live on the left coast and not purchasing, not registering and giving their telemarketers a lecture seem to be the only way to boycott their rag.