Posted on 09/25/2001 6:15:15 PM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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"...a convicted terrorist...recounted how he trained for chemical attacks..."
"...the terrorist trainers at the camp recommended inserting poison into the intake vents of buildings to ensure the maximum number of causalities ..."
"...we were speaking about America ..."
"...learned how to mix poisons with oily substances and smear them on doorknobs so those who touched them would be killed by toxins coursing through their blood..."
"...From 50 to 100 people were at the camp at any given time..."
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I know this is serious stuff, but I get a kick out of typos. I don't think I've ever seen one like this in the WP.
Get PETA after them!
Vaudine
Even attending such a training camp should brand them as criminals we cannot tolerate in society.
I believe we need to include covert operations to terrorize them...and my bet is we can come up with more creative and effective ways to take them out.
This kind of thing explains why the beloved members of Congress are looking sooo upset!
Bet this has special meaning to Gary Bauer!
Tuesday September 25 7:41 PM ET
Chemical Weapons Training Revealed
By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - In chilling testimony just two months ago, a convicted terrorist collaborator recounted how he trained for chemical attacks at a camp in Afghanistan (news - web sites) where poison was unleashed to kill dogs.
``In regard to targets in general ... we were speaking about America,'' Ahmed Ressam told a court in July.
Ressam also testified that the terrorist trainers at the camp recommended inserting poison into the intake vents of buildings to ensure the maximum number of causalities
Ressam testified in the trial of a man accused of conspiring with him to bomb the Los Angeles airport as part of a millennium terror plot. Ressam was convicted and became a cooperating witness in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence.
He told the court that his chemical weapons training at the camp in 1998 included watching his ``chief'' place a dog in a box and lace the box with cyanide and sulfuric acid.
It took the dog about four minutes to die, Ressam testified.
``We wanted to know what is the effect of the gas,'' Ressam told the federal court in New York. ``In regard to targets in general, yes. Yes, we were speaking about America as an enemy of Islam.
Those at the camp learned how to place cyanide near a building's air intake to kill as many people as they could without endangering themselves, he testified.
Ressam said he also learned how to mix poisons with oily substances and smear them on doorknobs so those who touched them would be killed by toxins coursing through their blood.
Law enforcement authorities investigating the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites) are investigating whether additional attacks using crop-dusters or hazardous chemical tankers were planned.
They have issued warnings to police to guard against the hijackings of such vehicles.
Saudi Arabian multimillionaire Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his al-Qaida network are the U.S. governments prime suspects in the attacks. Bin Laden runs terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, U.S. investigators say.
Ressam has told U.S. officials he was allied to a London man with close ties to bin Laden.
Ressam, an Algerian living in Montreal, was stopped in December 1999 trying to enter Washington state by ferry from British Columbia in a car packed with bomb-making materials.
Investigators say Ressam was part of a broader plot to bomb U.S. targets during millennium celebrations. He testified at the trial of another Montreal Algerian, Mokhtar Haouari, who was also convicted on conspiracy charges stemming from the scheme.
At Haouari's trial in New York, Ressam testified that he spent about six months training at a camp in Khalden, Afghanistan.
From 50 to 100 people were at the camp at any given time, Ressam said.
``It had people from all nationalities who were getting training there, and each group stayed together, those who will have some work to do together later on,'' he testified. ``Each group was formed depending on the country they came from.''
They included people from Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Germany, France, Turkey and the Chechnya (news - web sites) region of Russia, Ressam said.
"...people from Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Germany, France, Turkey and the Chechnya region of Russia..."
Who? All of these countries?
Maybe Arabic residents in those countries. Just like many could be "from" the US as well, I'd imagine.
We should have already nuked the region/country we feel is most responsible for terrorism......we have no choice but to make those left standing very afraid of us.....very afraid.
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New York Law Journal Algerian Convicted In Bombing Plot An Algerian national was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on Friday of terrorism charges for playing a pivotal role in a plot to detonate a suitcase bomb at Los Angeles International Airport just prior to the millennium. |
The French-speaking defendant, who heard the verdict via an interpreter, was convicted of the top count of the indictment: conspiracy to supply material support to a terrorist act. The Manhattan jury also convicted Mr. Haouari, who lived in Canada, of conspiracy to commit identification document fraud and three other fraud counts. But it acquitted him of knowingly aiding and abetting the planned airport bombing rather than an unspecified terrorist act. The prosecution case hinged on the testimony of two co-conspirators: Ahmed Ressam and Abdel Ghani Meskini. Both were convicted for their roles in the plot. During Mr. Meskini's testimony, Mr. Haouari became so enraged that he smashed his head against the wooden defense table, knocking himself woozy. Mr. Haouari, 32, will be sentenced Oct. 17. Defense attorney Daniel J. Ollen promised an appeal of the verdict. |
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