08-20-2008, 07:43 PM
It hasn’t been widely published in the media but the US has been rolling up the Operations Wing of Al Qaeda the past month or so.
Since July 1, we have taken out several terrorists that specialize in bomb making, chemical and biological weapons. But a recent incident in Denver worries me big time.
On July 17, 2008, we captured a “big fish” in Afghanistan-- No. 4 on the FBI’s “Most Wanted List’—Miss Aafia Siddiqui, an Al Qaeda specialist in chemical and biological weapons. She has degrees in biology and neuro-science from MIT and Brandeis. At the time of her capture she had maps of New York City, and information on subway systems, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and Plum Island Animal Disease Clinic located off of Long Island. She was also caught with a flash drive containing emails to and from other terrorist suspects.
Perhaps information derived from this data was used to take out Abu Khabab al-Masri, another Al Qaeda chemical weapons specialist killed on July 28 when a missile fired from a Predator drone destroyed a “safe house” in Pakistan.
And just last week, Pakistani helicopter gunships killed, Abu Saeed al-Masri, the “# 3” man in al Qaeda, during a raid on a compound in the Bajaur Tribal Region of Northwest Pakistan. Abu Saeed was the commander of AQ forces in Afghanistan.
And for something a bit closer to home, we still don’t know what Saleman Abdirahman Dirie was up to. Dirie, a Somali-born Muslim Canadian citizen, was found dead August 11 in a Denver Hotel room with a pound of sodium cyanide on him. Today the Denver Medial Examiner ruled Dirie’s death a suicide. The hotel where Dirie’s was found is located only 4 blocks from the Colorado capital building.
Denver Police call the Dirie matter an “isolated incident” and have denied any association with terrorism.
What concerns me is that Canadian citizens have a lot easier time getting in to the United States.
And we know what starts up in Denver this week…
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/...eda_ma.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...467148.ece
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/...her_do.php
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updat...-pakistan/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403982,00.html
Since July 1, we have taken out several terrorists that specialize in bomb making, chemical and biological weapons. But a recent incident in Denver worries me big time.
On July 17, 2008, we captured a “big fish” in Afghanistan-- No. 4 on the FBI’s “Most Wanted List’—Miss Aafia Siddiqui, an Al Qaeda specialist in chemical and biological weapons. She has degrees in biology and neuro-science from MIT and Brandeis. At the time of her capture she had maps of New York City, and information on subway systems, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and Plum Island Animal Disease Clinic located off of Long Island. She was also caught with a flash drive containing emails to and from other terrorist suspects.
Perhaps information derived from this data was used to take out Abu Khabab al-Masri, another Al Qaeda chemical weapons specialist killed on July 28 when a missile fired from a Predator drone destroyed a “safe house” in Pakistan.
And just last week, Pakistani helicopter gunships killed, Abu Saeed al-Masri, the “# 3” man in al Qaeda, during a raid on a compound in the Bajaur Tribal Region of Northwest Pakistan. Abu Saeed was the commander of AQ forces in Afghanistan.
And for something a bit closer to home, we still don’t know what Saleman Abdirahman Dirie was up to. Dirie, a Somali-born Muslim Canadian citizen, was found dead August 11 in a Denver Hotel room with a pound of sodium cyanide on him. Today the Denver Medial Examiner ruled Dirie’s death a suicide. The hotel where Dirie’s was found is located only 4 blocks from the Colorado capital building.
Denver Police call the Dirie matter an “isolated incident” and have denied any association with terrorism.
What concerns me is that Canadian citizens have a lot easier time getting in to the United States.
And we know what starts up in Denver this week…
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/...eda_ma.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...467148.ece
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/...her_do.php
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updat...-pakistan/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403982,00.html
