Al Qaeda Agent Traversed Asia Targeting 'White Meat'

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | 1-21-03 | JAMES HOOKWAY and JAY SOLOMON

[SJackson]

On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, a 19-year-old al Qaeda recruit took a flight from Pakistan to Hong Kong with $10,000 in cash and a bad case of nerves.

Mohammed Mansour Jabarah had been sent to Asia by one of al Qaeda's top terror strategists, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to oversee a bombing campaign against U.S. and Israeli targets. As Mr. Jabarah sat in his Hong Kong hotel watching coverage of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center the next day, he fretted over his own ability to do anything so audacious. But, he later recalled to investigators, he calmed his jitters with the knowledge that he had the confidence of Osama bin Laden.

[Dog]

fyi...

[SJackson]

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[xJones]

Mr. Jabarah "volunteered to speak with American authorities," says an official of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The U.S. Justice Department says he is "cooperating."

So he's now singing like a canary. This young idiot had nothing better to do with his life but play wannabe terrorist. And look at all the money, just send an e-mail to Mr. Khalid. They are nothing but nihilists out having *fun*.

"The whole world is picking on Muslims -- look at Palestine, look at Chechnya," says Mr. Jabarah's father, Mansour Jabarah, who moved back to Kuwait from Canada last year. He denies that his son is involved in terrorism, saying, "It's all propaganda. He's too young to be part of anything like that."

There it goes again, the familiar wail that everybody's picking on the innocent Muslims. And naturally, his son didn't do anything, even though Jr. is talking.

[Catspaw]

And his father was more than willing to send his child off to an almost certain death--or, in this case, imprisonment for life.

[swarthyguy]

Excellent Find. Thanks for posting.

[Aaron_A]

mark for later reading.

[river rat]

I hope we now plan to kill this bastard..and as many of his friends as we can lay our hands on...

These folks should be given less consideration, and shown less compassion than one would show a cockroach...

Too bad we can't also destroy the wombs that ejected them into the world...

Kill them.... soon...
Semper Fi

[SJackson]

Too bad we can't also destroy the wombs that ejected them into the world...

He's a spawn of his culture, and we can still deal with that.