http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hambali/ en-us Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:49:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts Excerpt from book: “The anthrax spores in the letter to Daschle were so professionally refined, the Central Intelligence Agency believed the powder must have been sent by an experienced terrorist organization, most probably Al Qaeda, as a sequel to the group’s September 11 attacks. During a [October 17] meeting of the White House’s National Security Council that day, Cheney, who was sitting in for the President because Bush was traveling abroad, urged everyone to keep this inflammatory speculation secret. ... They thought Cheney had already been lethally infected. ... *** Cheney in particular was so stricken by the potential for... ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:49:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820979/posts Canadian admits to plotting attacksReport details role of St. Catharines man  Stewart Bell, National Post.   Friday, January 10, 2003 A Canadian man has confessed he was sent to Southeast Asia by al-Qaeda to organize a terrorist cell that plotted a massive assault that involved setting off simultaneous truck bombs at six Western buildings in Singapore. A 50-page report released yesterday by the government of Singapore provides the first official details of the terrorist activities of Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a 20-year-old student from St. Catharines. It said Mr. Jabarah had admitted he was dispatched by al-Qaeda after Sept. 11 to... National Post (Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820979/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:48:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186775/posts August 7, 2004THE OVERVIEWBin Laden Sent Suspect to U.S., Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM ASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - American intelligence officials now believe that Issa al-Hindi, the alleged Qaeda operative now in British custody, was dispatched to the United States in early 2001 by the mastermind of the Sept. 11 plot at the direction of Osama bin Laden to case potential targets in New York City, senior government officials said Friday. The officials said that Mr. Hindi was the same person as the figure identified in the Sept. 11 commission report as Issa al-Britani. The... The New York times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186775/posts#comment Sat, 7 Aug 2004 04:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066910/posts KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah... AP Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066910/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698511/posts HAMBALI, the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombing, has been transferred to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from a secret CIA prison and is expected to face a military trial. For more than two years since Thai authorities captured Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, and handed him over to US authorities, the Bush administration has refused to comment on his whereabouts. But President George W.Bush admitted yesterday that Hambali, Jemaah Islamiah's operational commander and senior al-Qa'ida leader, had been held in a secret CIA detention system outside the US - believed to be in eastern Europe - along with 13... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698511/posts#comment Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595435/posts Jakarta, 13 March (AKI) - Terrorism and the Palestinian question top the agenda of the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's visit to Indonesia. Rice is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Monday evening. In the days preceeding the visit, Rice expressed Washington's appreciation for the firm way in which Jakarta has been fighting the threat of global terrorism. Rice also said that she was ready to discuss any assistance Washington can provide Jakarta in the fight against terrorism. On the occasion of Rice's visit, Jakarta is also expected to ask, yet again, for access to Riduan Isamuddin, better known... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595435/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576323/posts How US stopped Hambali Natalie O'Brien and Patrick Walters February 11, 2006 IT should have been no surprise that the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah and its operations chief Hambali were named by US President George W. Bush as the figures behind a 2002 plot to fly a plane into California's tallest building. JI and Hambali, mastermind of the Bali bombing, were not only intimately connected with al-Qa'ida's chief strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the plan to destroy the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, they had been in cahoots for years, planning to blow up US airliners and... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576323/posts#comment Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1534672/posts ABC News is reporting that Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert. The disgrunted intelligence officers even disclosed an actual list of 12 high-value targets allegedly held by the CIA, and ABC is reporting it : Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi: Held in... Never Yet Melted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1534672/posts#comment Tue, 6 Dec 2005 03:24:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522587/posts A KEY Jemaah Islamiah operative sent to Australia by captured terrorist leader Hambali to set up a terror cell has been questioned by Australian Federal Police investigating the activities of the Sydney and Melbourne suspects charged last week. Two AFP officers flew to Kuala Lumpur in August to question Azman Hashim, the JI military expert who ran a paramilitary weapons training camp for Australians in the Blue Mountains. Reports out of Malaysia have said that Hashim, who has been detained under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, had revealed that some Australians had trained in the camp in 2002. The AFP yesterday... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522587/posts#comment Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498820/posts Government counterterrorism officials gave new details on Friday of what the White House said was a foiled 2002 plot to fly hijacked airplanes into targets on the West Coast, but their account suggested that the Bush administration might not have understood the dimensions of the plot until two major terror suspects were caught in 2003. Both suspects, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, had been involved in plans for such an attack, they said. President Bush referred obliquely to the planning in a speech on Thursday, when he said the United States and its partners had... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498820/posts#comment Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:28:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts#comment Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310793/posts A Cambodian court has sentenced the Indonesian Islamist known as Hambali and three others to life in jail for planning bomb attacks in Phnom Penh. Hambali, already in US custody, was convicted in absentia over plans to attack the UK embassy in Cambodia. A lawyer for the other defendants, two Thais and a Cambodian, said they may launch an appeal. Hambali is regarded as a key member of Jemaah Islamiah, the Asian militant group said to have ties to al-Qaeda. The Indonesian authorities suspect him of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people. He was arrested... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310793/posts#comment Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230812/posts Indonesian police arrest Hambali keyman JAKARTA (Indonesia) - Indonesian police have arrested a key associate of alleged South-east Asian terror mastermind Hambali on an island in the country's far north-east, Koran Tempo newspaper reported on Wednesday. Adrian Ali, alias Amin, was arrested on Tinakareng, in the north Sulawesi province, after police found equipment used to make identity papers in his house, the paper quoted local police as saying. Two other suspects were arrested with Ali. The report did not say when the arrests took place, nor what the men would be charged with. Tinakareng lies just south of the Philippine's... Straits Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230812/posts#comment Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178016/posts Jemaah Islamiyah has tried in the last year to carry out terror attacks in Southeast Asia, but failed because of a lack of funds and support from other militant groups, and an absence of planners among its ranks, officials said. The al-Qaida-linked organization's ability to mount attacks was severely dented by the arrest of scores of militants after September 11, 2001, including Hambali, the group's alleged operations chief, a Malaysian government official told The Associated Press on Friday. Remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah have made several unsuccessful attempts to regroup in Indonesia so they could launch more strikes, the official said... eTaiwan News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178016/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:07:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1159091/posts Terror mastermind Hambali had fake Spanish passport when arrested KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Southeast Asian terror mastermind Hambali had a fake Spanish passport that portrayed him as a well-groomed businessman when he was arrested last year in Thailand, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Hambali, a high-ranking leader of al-Qaeda and the brains behind its regional ally, Jamaah Islamiyah, was Southeast Asia's most-wanted fugitive and is suspected of orchestrating the Bali bombing in 2002 and of playing a support role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Thai police captured him in August 2003 and turned him over to U.S. custody. His... The Jakarta Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1159091/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:29:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113647/posts According to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. investigators after his capture last year that a high-ranking Qaeda lieutenant known as Khallad originally was "selected" to participate in the 9/11 attacks as a "bouncer"--one of the musclemen assigned to corral and subdue passengers on a hijacked plane. Khallad, a one-legged Yemeni also known as Tawfiq bin Attash, attended a January 2000 "summit" meeting in Malaysia at which he allegedly went over plans for 9/11 with two future hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. After the meeting, Almihdhar and Alhazmi traveled to the United States.... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113647/posts#comment Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110309/posts Police in Thailand believe a relative of Bali bombing mastermind Hambali was among the thieves who stole a large quantity of a bomb-making ingredient this week. Authorities say Islamic separatists stole a batch of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser and bomb-making ingredient, in an armed raid on a quarry in the country's south. The 10 thieves escaped with more than 1,300 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 58 sticks of dynamite and 170 blasting caps. Ammonium nitrate was the main explosive used in the Bali bombings. Security forces in southern Thailand are on high alert. They fear a major bomb attack is being... Australian Broadcasting Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110309/posts#comment Fri, 2 Apr 2004 21:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107688/posts <p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107688/posts#comment Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106919/posts IT makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of US skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles – which was "blown up" in the film Independence Day – were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of al-Qa'ida operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his captors. He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf, his nephew by marriage, who was the man behind the... The Australian, From The Sunday Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106919/posts#comment Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:38:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106703/posts 'I met Osama Bin Laden in Kabul. It was at this time we discussed the Heathrow operation' It makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of American skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles — which was “blown up” in the film Independence Day — were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief. “We were looking for symbols of economic might,” he told his captors. He recounted... Sunday Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106703/posts#comment Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:02:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1099958/posts Indonesia has received 125 valuable transcripts from the United States interrogation of top terror suspect Hambali, a Foreign Ministry official says. Dino Pati Djalal, the director of the North America desk at the ministry, said: "They do contain valuable intelligence information. "The police will study this information further and make use of it as they see fit." He did not reveal the contents or say whether the transcripts might be used to open a new case against militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, whose three-year jail sentence for immigration offences and document forgery was halved by the Supreme Court this month.... Australian Broadcasting Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1099958/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085843/posts America's norther neighbor continues to serve as a favorite operational base and transit country for terrorists. An American courtroom just witnessed the first conviction ever of a Canadian citizen in the War on Terror. Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 21, originally from Kuwait, pleaded guilty to several charges of planning attacks against American interests outside the United States. The charges include conspiracy to kill US nationals, destroy US property abroad with weapons of mass destruction, kill American employees while on duty, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The WMD, in this case, was dynamite. According to Canadian newspapers, Jabarah was... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085843/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:40:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085355/posts Indonesia has been allowed for the first time to indirectly question the US-held regional terror suspect Hambali, the country's intelligence chief said on Wednesday. A M Hendropriyono said Indonesia had received answers to written questions from Hambali which had shed some light on his terror network in the world's most populous Muslim nation. "We have not received physical access, but we have received (answers) to a list of important questions. From those we have a picture of the size of the network and the targets for their plans," Mr Hendropriyono told reporters. He declined to give further details. Asked when... Australian Broadcasting Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085355/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069479/posts JUST before his September 11 attacks on the US, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sent a friendly invitation to the now imprisoned Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. "Greetings from Osama bin Laden," the extremist leader said in the invitation, apparently forwarded to Indonesia via Jemaah Islamiah ringleader Hambali. Known as al-Qaeda's linkman in Asia, Hambali was then in Afghanistan for unclear reasons. He passed the verbal message on to Mohammad Rais - a detained Jemaah Islamiah operative who was then heading to Indonesia. "Osama bin Laden invites Ustad Abu Bakar Bashir to come to Afghanistan if the conditions for Ustad... The Sunday Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069479/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:30:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065670/posts <p>An al-Qaida program to develop chemical and biological weapons was in the early "conceptual stages" when it was cut short by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. and Malaysian security officials told the Associated Press.</p> <p>The information on the state of Osama bin Laden's weapons plan came from interrogations of terrorist suspects captured in Southeast Asia and from clues gathered in the Afghan battlefield, the authorities said.</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065670/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:49:35 GMT