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Counterterrorism Official Calls Kuwaiti Operational Mastermind of Sept. 11 Attacks
Associated Press/Fox News ^ | 6.4.02

Posted on 06/04/2002 4:42:35 PM PDT by mhking

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators believe they have identified a Kuwaiti lieutenant of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as the likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, designated one of the FBI (news - web sites)'s most-wanted terrorists, is at large in Afghanistan (news - web sites) or nearby, the official told The Associated Press.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; binladen; september11; shaikhmohammed; sheikhmohammad; terror; terrorwar
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1 posted on 06/04/2002 4:42:35 PM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
New bad guy!

1.) Osama bin Laden
2.) Mulluh "One-Eye" Omar
3.) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
4.) Yasser Ara... nevermind.

2 posted on 06/04/2002 4:46:08 PM PDT by SunStar
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To: mhking
"Thanks USA for saving my country" </ sarcasm>
3 posted on 06/04/2002 4:58:58 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: mhking
Investigators believe they have identified a Kuwaiti lieutenant of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as the likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday.

Note to self: Self, give Dubya a call in the morning. Let him know that you will take this guy off his hands and that not another American needs to worry about him again... EVER.

4 posted on 06/04/2002 4:59:25 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: mhking

"My goat give me chubby!"

5 posted on 06/04/2002 5:00:51 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: mhking
Just one more soon to be dead motherf*cker.
6 posted on 06/04/2002 5:02:08 PM PDT by shadowman99
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To: SunStar
Actually, Dale Brown was the mastermind. His book, Storming Heaven, told them how.


7 posted on 06/04/2002 5:02:10 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: rdb3
he is faithfull and its against islam to cut the beard so he does not dut it
8 posted on 06/04/2002 5:05:20 PM PDT by realteeguru
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To: mhking
"There's lots of links that tie him to 9-11," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He's the most significant operational player out there right now."

anonymity?? what no balls?

9 posted on 06/04/2002 5:09:02 PM PDT by ex-snook
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To: snopercod
DEAD MAN WALKING


10 posted on 06/04/2002 5:12:35 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
No, last time I saw Dale Brown's picture, he didn't have a beard.
11 posted on 06/04/2002 5:15:23 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: Lockbox
"Thanks USA for saving my country" </ sarcasm>

And here some of us are chomping at the bit to find a reason to bomb the sh*t out of Iraq...

My, my - how grateful the citizens are of the countries we've liberated. France also comes to mind... Has anyone started to get a clue that foreign intervention has only brought us more sorrow as a nation?

And to add to the insanity, our fearless "leaders" who have vowed to protect us from more terrorist attacks, insist that we remain members of the U.N., a global organization filled with other despotic towelheads who want nothing less than our destruction.

And what's up with us stepping into the middle of the Pakistan/India conflict? Isn't India doing its part to fight the "War on Terrorism" - just like Uncle W said? Why does he NOW have a problem with that? I'm sure playing peacemaker there will only give us more of the same. When will we learn?

12 posted on 06/04/2002 5:19:44 PM PDT by pocat
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To: mhking
"Al-Zawahri's family was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan."

This is how we do it...

13 posted on 06/04/2002 5:25:08 PM PDT by VaBthang4
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To: *TerrorWar
*Index Bump
14 posted on 06/04/2002 5:25:16 PM PDT by Fish out of Water
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To: realteeguru
he is faithfull and its against islam to cut the beard so he does not dut it

Um, yeah. Whatever.

15 posted on 06/04/2002 5:25:27 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: pocat
After something drastic occurs(i hope) as if 3000+ dead Americans weren't enough. Every terrorist's trail goes to pakistan.
16 posted on 06/04/2002 5:54:12 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
Clarification: I Hope means I hope we will learn and crackdown hard everywhere.
17 posted on 06/04/2002 5:54:46 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: mhking
Here's another take on this (from Jane's- September 2001):

Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (I've selected a few paragraphs from the article)

Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the world’s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden.

The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the world’s most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought to be based in Egypt. He could be Bin Laden’s chief representative outside Afghanistan.

...Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al airliner above Tel Aviv...

..."Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . "The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation." ...


18 posted on 06/04/2002 6:53:51 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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Best way to take care of 'im: Fill Yankee Stadium with cops and firefighters. Helicopter Muhammad's butt to second base. Give him one instruction -- "If you can get out of the stadium alive, you can go free." Then take off in the chopper. The SOB wouldn't make it two feet off of the bag.
19 posted on 06/04/2002 7:01:55 PM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
Sort of like that scene from "Escape From LA" where Kurt Russell has to score ten points (or whatever it was) on the basketball court or die.
20 posted on 06/04/2002 7:08:39 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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