Posted on 08/29/2004 6:14:44 PM PDT by quidnunc
A little-noticed investigation by Swiss federal police has uncovered the existence of an apparent terror-support network with ties to the upper levels of Al Qaeda — including an operative believed to have played a role in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the May 2003 bombing of a housing complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The discovery of a largely invisible Al Qaeda network in the peaceful alpine nation has gotten virtually no public attention outside of Switzerland.
But criminal charges outlined in a July 30 Swiss prosecutor’s report — obtained by Newsweek — seem to confirm the worst fears of many U.S. counterterrorism officials: that, despite a concerted assault by Western intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, Osama bin Laden’s organization has maintained a resilient operational structure that has a global reach, even larger than had been previously suspected.
The Swiss case began with a startling, and previously unreported, piece of evidence discovered in late May 2003: one of the suspects in the devastating Riyadh bombing had a cell phone with 36 Swiss mobile-telephone numbers recorded in its memory. Following up on those numbers, Swiss police over the next nine months arrested 10 suspects — mostly Yemeni and Somali natives who were found to have been engaging in mostly low-level criminal activity, including forging documents and human smuggling.
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But there's no way in hell they were in Iraq........snicker.
Everywhere BUT Iraq.
They were picking out their virgin prototypes. Hey, if you were promised 72 virgins where would you rather them be coming from?
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The discovery of a largely invisible Al Qaeda network in the peaceful alpine nation has gotten virtually no public attention outside of Switzerland.Probably very little inside it...
All the Saudi princes who are anybody in KSA have homes in Switzerland.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Wake-up call.
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