Quote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065
“Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.S.
Former Guantanamo Prisoners Believed Behind Northwest Airlines Bomb Plot; Sent to Saudi Arabia in 2007”
By BRIAN ROSS, ANNA SCHECTER and JOSEPH RHEE
Dec. 28, 2009
SNIPPET: “Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.”
SNIPPET: “Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-airlines-bomb-photos/story?id=9436297
“EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Bomb
Accused Bomber Abdulmutallab’s Underwear, Explosive Packet and Detonator”
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
Dec. 28, 2009
SNIPPET: “UNDERWEAR WITH EXPLOSIVE PACKET
In the second photo (below), the packet of actual explosive powder has been removed from the underpants and displayed separately.”
SSNIPPET: “UNDERWEAR AND EXPLOSIVE PACKET
It is a six-inch long packet of the high explosive chemical called PETN, less than a half cup in volume, weighing about 80 grams.
A government test with 50 grams of PETN blew a hole in the side of an airliner. That was the amount in the bomb carried by the so-called shoe bomber Richard Reid over Christmas 2001.
The underpants bomb would have been one and a half times as powerful.”
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaAQIYChristmas1209.pdf
www.nefafoundation.org/documents-area-yemen.html#aqiytgtairports
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaAQIYTGTAirports1209.pdf
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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/12/al-qaida_in_yemen_claims_respo.php
“Al-Qaida in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Christmas Day Airline Terror Plot”
By Evan Kohlmann
SNIPPET: “Al-Qaida’s network in Yemen (otherwise known as “Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula”) has issued an official communique claiming responsibility for the failed terrorist bomb plot targeting a Delta/Northwest airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. The communique included original photographs of would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab grinning in front of an Al-Qaida banner. The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would “continue on this path until we achieve success.” The statement also congratulated Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan and urged fellow Muslims to follow in his footsteps and kill American soldiers.
A complete translation of the communique from AQIY/AQAP can be accessed via the NEFA Foundation website.
December 28, 2009 08:51 PM
