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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 cancellations of British, Mexican and French flights are tied to a Muslim connection and shoe bombs. We all remember Richard Reid, a British Muslim convert who was jailed earlier this year for trying to blow up a passenger plane. It seems he has a score of friends who two years later want to do the same thing. Thank goodness one of his fellow Muslim brothers was caught! Sajid Badat was charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion in Britain or elsewhere. During the same week 23 suspected terrorists were netted in raids across England. COMPLETE ARTICLE.