Posted on 09/21/2009 2:12:06 PM PDT by george76
Federal agents from Denver and New York to Pakistan are still racing to solve an Al Qaeda bomb plot, unsure whether the arrest of three suspects has put the terror gang out of business.
"They're still looking," a senior counterterror official told the Daily News. As to whether they have identified all the conspirators, "nobody knows the answer for sure," ...
Also nabbed for lying to feds was Flushing mosque Imam Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, an NYPD snitch who the FBI says alerted Zazi and his father, Mohammed, 53, after cops quizzed him about the son.
The senior official said the feds believe the plot is now "compromised" and would be "hard to bring forward."
"We think we have a pretty good handle on the threat, but we'd know a lot more if Afzali hadn't tipped them in the beginning," ...
The source added that court papers released yesterday reveal only a "sliver" of the conspiracy.
"The FBI is investigating several individuals in the U.S., Pakistan and elsewhere, relating to a plot to detonate improvised explosive devices in the U.S.," ... The FBI said Zazi admitted last week that Osama Bin Laden's goons trained him in "weapons and explosives" last year at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan's war-torn Pashtun tribal areas
Zazi, a Pashtun, used an e-mail address to send the images to himself under the alias "Kado Khan" - an 18th-century Afghan executed for plotting to kill a Pashtun tribal king.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Wa******rding might help.
Al Qaeda has long sought operatives with “clean” passports who can travel easily into the U.S., as Zazi did for years after visiting Pakistan
they had 9 backpacks ready
al Qaeda never abandons a good plot- they just postpone it and come back to finish it later (ala WTC)
Call in Jack Bauer.
If we lose hundreds of lives lost because the feds were unable or unwilling to say, “Please tell us where you put the bombs...”, then we’re suicidal idiots, and deserve a Darwin award.
Whatever they do, they should not torture him.
We would not want to make his state appointed attorney mad. He could sue the government.
Just to make sure we have this straight, we captured a terrorist which knows how, when and where an attack is “going” to take place, but he will not voluntarily tell us? We should schedule his trial right away so he can be convicted and punished with probation.
Per the koran, muslums are forbidden to surrender.
The closest they can get is ‘hudna’, a truce to re-arm for the next battle.
And they are required to restart hostilities within 10 years of the start of the hudna.
Well, they missed destroying the Pentagon, the US Capitol (or whatever was Flt 93’s target on 9-11) and maybe several other targets as well when Bush grounded all airliners.
So they have a follow-up to carry out. 10 years will be 2011.
It's worth noting that the first attempt to take down the WTC was 1993, they didn't wait the full ten years.
I suspect that the practice isn't to wait the full 10 years, as that would put one in danger of violating the satanic koranic imperative in event of an unforeseeable delay.
If they keep the same interval (and there is no particular reason to think that they will), the next hit would be ≈ April 15, 2010
pp and j? Doesn't that get them all wee wee'd up?
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