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Thanks for the info kattracks. I live about one mile from that mosque. The police have been there everyday since Sept 11th

Please explain how they are going to be able to distinguish between murderous terrorists, and the wacked out extremist head jobs who live and vote here?

The reporter "forgot" to mention that two of the San Diego based terrorists lived for a year at the Lemon Grove home of the founder of the San Diego Islamic Center and mosque.

But he "didn't know nuttin'" and "lawyered up".

(Can you imagine the reaction if German or Japanese "students" went on terror rampages in 1941 after living in the homes of naturalized American citizen Germans and Japanese?)

This is a lot scarier than the "Gold Bomb" white powder stuff. Maybe the public feels better worring about Anthrax.

Terrorists cells...lets see, we have the entire San Diego and Los Angeles areas to screen...plus the border "situation"...I'd say personal security in Southern California is a moving van.

Gov. Gray Davis announced last week that evidence had been found of a terrorist cell based in San Jose, near the heart of Silicon Valley. And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, warns that active terrorist cells are operating in the San Francisco area.

I guess they don't like the competition. After all, Gray, Boxer, Feinswine, and the rest of the liberal Democrats are fully engaged in terrorizing the traditional American family unit and the values that made America great in the first place. Personally, I wonder why these creeps have issued their "warnings". What? They know more about where "terrorist cells" are thriving than the FBI and the Pentagon? No. I smell "me too" politics here. I just cannot believe anything these people say. Oh, and pardon me for sounding "partisan".

". . .Dianne Swinestein, Californicating Demoncrap, warns that terrorist cells are operating in San Francisco. . ." Takes one to know one.

We HAVE to get control of our southern border or simply cave to the terrorists. They enter at will. We catch possibly 5% of the people crossing that border.

(From another thread yesterday.)

CYANIDE THREAT - Tapes reveal poison plan Foreign Affairs Source: UK Sunday Times Published: Sunday 14 2001

SECRETLY recorded tapes have revealed plans by followers of Osama Bin Laden for a chemical weapon attack in Europe using a poisonous invisible gas that security sources say was cyanide.

A gang of terrorists active in Britain, Germany and Italy plotted to use tins of tomatoes to transport "a liquid that suffocates people". The plan was foiled after a Libyan at the centre of the plot was arrested in Munich on Wednesday.

The evidence is the first that Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organisation was preparing to use weapons of mass destruction. The tapes were made by Italian anti-terrorist police, who bugged an apartment outside Milan that the gang thought was a safe house. The suspects discussed getting 10 litres of the poison, enough to kill thousands if released indoors.

One theory is that the group planned to spread the poison in an American government building in London or Rome. A witness who trained in one of Bin Laden's camps said he was instructed how to put cyanide in a building's ventilation system.

The tins of tomatoes could have been used to transport cyanide crystals before they were dissolved into a liquid, which could then be dispersed through the ventilation ducts. If large quantities were available, the vapour produced could kill many occupants of a building within 10 minutes.

The transcripts are part of evidence compiled by Stefano Dambruoso, an Italian prosecutor, against five suspected members of the Salafist Group for Faith and Combat, a militant offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), backed by Bin Laden. The five are in custody in Milan. At least two had links to Britain.

Last Friday the US Treasury named the Islamic Cultural Institute in Milan, to which cell members were linked, as "the most important base of Al-Qaeda in Europe". It said the institute was used by Bin Laden's organisation "as a station from which weapons, men and money travel the whole world".

The clandestine recordings were made in March and April, when gang members were becoming impatient to receive instructions from Bin Laden and to be told the target. They also reveal claims that female followers of Bin Laden were being trained as potential suicide attackers.

The most chilling conversations took place between Ben Heni Mohamed Lased, a 32-year-old Libyan arrested in Munich last week, and Essid Sami Ben Khemais, 31, a Tunisian, believed to be the leader of the Italian cell, who was arrested in Milan in April. Khemais is believed to have met Mohammed Atta, one of the 19 hijackers behind the American attacks.

Khemais and Lased spent a week in an apartment near Milan to plan terrorist atrocities, unaware it was bugged. Lased is heard trying to teach Khemais to conceal a bomb in a personal cassette player, to which Khemais responds by asking about chemical weapons: "I'd like to learn how to use the medicine, I'd like to see what effect it has when someone breathes it in. The Libyan has the formula; he's a chemistry professor."

Another activist said: "What's going on - you are putting down your guns and taking up industrial products?" Lased replied: "There's a liquid which is extremely efficient because it suffocates people. Do you want to try it?" The other man said: "Yes, why not. A few barrels."

In another conversation, Khemais urges Lased to get in touch with "the sheikh", believed to be Bin Laden, about recruiting attackers.

"Talk to the sheikh. I need two people who I have already got in mind, the Libyan and the Kurd from London. What I need is not an army but two people who have got a brain, training and nothing to lose or to gain. They spread the gas and say goodbye. I only need a barrel of 10 litres and a few documents. God is with us."

On the evening of March 9, Lased confided: "Believe me, the sheikh is planning something. He has an objective and he wants to realise it, just like he has achieved all his desires. It's not a little thing."

Predicting the success of Bin Laden's terror campaign, Lased said: "God loves us because Europe is now in our hands. Now we are emigrant fighters, that's the task we've got to carry out with honour. We have to be like snakes. We have to fight and then hide."

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Note the use of the Islamic Cultural Center in Milan as the terrorist HQ.

Note that two of the San Diego based Pentagon terrorists lived with the founder of the San Diego Islamic center.

They new Homeland Security Officier should shut the Islamic center down!

Police are guarding it. Wait until after another 9-11 level event!

Now, why would the police need to guard an Islamic Center? I thought it was a religion of peace. HA!!

Police say Mr. Al-Bayoumi lived in various apartments near the San Diego-based hijackers and attended the same mosque they did.

Was it one of those radical Islam mosques or the regular peace-loving tolerant moderate ones? Maybe he just made a mistake and picked the wrong kind of mosque. Or....there aren't really different kinds of mosques or Islam.

"Terrorists don't look particularly sinister, so in a multicultural society, they can fit right in," said Dipak Gupta, professor of urban studies at San Diego State University.

This sums it up.

Someone who lives there told me that San Diego relies on Mexican nationals for about 30-40% of it's income .... they are going to have a hell of a time balancing that against security.
Bet that security loses out while 'our' political elite postures for the press.

Perhaps after the next attrocity against america someone will pay a call on the Imam and have a friendly discussion with him and he will decide to remember things that he forgot this last time.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

Thanks Travis McGee.

Maybe they will keep it open to tap the phones and follow the perps.