[lbo-talk] new member of the ABB club: ObL

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 11 10:25:05 PDT 2004


Doug quoted:


>The assassination would signal the launch of more terrorist attacks
>involving "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the United States,
>the officials said.
>
>They said the "very detailed" plans were found on a laptop computer of
>suspected Al-Qaeda computer expert Naeem Noor Khan, arrested in Pakistan
>last month.

Isn't this from the same source that had stuff that was supposed to be years out of date?


>The major sting operation centered on the figure of Mohammad Naeem Noor
>Khan, the 25-year->old computer expert arrested by Pakistani security
>forces in Lahore last month. On August 1, top >Bush administration
>officials released his name, claiming that he was the principal source of
>the >information that led to last week’s raising of the terror alert level
>from yellow to orange in New >York City, Washington, D.C., and Newark, New
>Jersey. The officials described his computer as >a “treasure trove” of data
>on Al Qaeda’s operations and potential US targets of terrorist attacks.
>
>It was subsequently revealed that information on the computer pointing to
>the surveillance of >financial institutions in the US was several years
>old, predating the September 11, 2001, attacks >on New York and Washington,
>and that there was no intelligence pointing to any imminent threat >or
>terrorist plot.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/stng-a11.shtml

Todd

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