Rock Star Heads Al Queda

[Nbadan]

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From Winger to Stingers?

California Man Revealed as al Qaeda Leader


For the first time, a former Orange County, Calif. teenage rock music fan has revealed his role as a top al Qaeda leader.

Adam Gadahn, who disappeared from California seven years ago, appeared unmasked on an al Qaeda tape made public on the internet today.

As previously reported by ABC News, the FBI had concluded that the masked man was Gadahn based on voice analysis of previous al Qaeda tapes. On today's tape, Gadahn is bearded, wearing a turban.

He denounces U.S. soldiers in Iraq and their alleged murder and rapes of Iraqi citizens.

"Who are the real terrorists?" Gadahn asks.

ABC News (http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/07/california_man_.html)

Conclusive proof of the link between rock music and Al Queda.

[Yonivore]

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From Winger to Stingers?

California Man Revealed as al Qaeda Leader



ABC News (http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/07/california_man_.html)

Conclusive proof of the link between rock music and Al Queda.
Another reason the SWIFT and NSA Programs are (were) an important tool in this war. There are Americans who want to destroy America.

Nice going NYTimes.

[Nbadan]

:rolleyes

Yeah, and there are American troops back from Iraq who want to destroy America too...

Fri Jul 7, 2006 01:17 PM ET


TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier recently returned from Iraq tried to force his way into the cockpit of a Tampa-bound Delta Air Lines jet and was subdued by other passengers, a Tampa International Airport spokeswoman said on Friday.

The 24-year-old man was undergoing mental evaluation at a Tampa hospital, and the FBI was investigating whether charges should be filed, airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said.

The man, Neftali Alexander Laimendez, was flying with his brother to see their mother in Tampa and seek medical attention, Geoghagan said.

As the flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport approached Tampa on Thursday night, he ignored flight attendants' instructions to sit down and fasten his seat belt, and ran up the aisle of the plane and into the first class cabin, Geoghagan said.

"As he is running, he is ramming the cockpit door, falling on the aisle, getting up and repeatedly doing this," she said. "Three or four of the passengers restrained him and held him on the floor."

Reuters (http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=12775768&src=rss/domesticNews)

[Yonivore]

:rolleyes

Yeah, and there are American troops back from Iraq who want to destroy America too...
Sounds to me like he just wanted to destroy that plane and/or himself. I don't get the analogy between a troubled veteran and an American citizen turned al Qaeda.

[Nbadan]

If the SWIFT program was a product of 911 then why did the Bush administration start the program at least 4 months before 911?

[Yonivore]

If the SWIFT program was a product of 911 then why did the Bush administration start the program at least 4 months before 911?
911 was a product of decades old hostilities between Islamofascism and the West. Who ever said SWIFT was a product of 911?

Maybe it should have been started a lot earlier and we wouldn't be where we are today.

[Nbadan]

You mean before they were usefull to the US against the Soviets in Afghanistan, right?

[Yonivore]

You mean before they were usefull to the US against the Soviets in Afghanistan, right?
Yep, that's what I mean. Although, it would probably have been useful then, as well.

[xrayzebra]

If the SWIFT program was a product of 911 then why did the Bush administration start the program at least 4 months before 911?

Is it an illegal program? Just checking.

And do you have that much money you are worried someone will know where
you stash it? Just checking.

Oh, dan, get a life other than the left wing blogs and NYT.

And besides, you have always wondered why Bush didn't try to keep
tabs on what Clinton left over. Now you know......lol

[Nbadan]

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Jawbreaker details how special ops troops were twice
denied the opportunity to take bin Laden in Pakistan


Probably would have been useful if the current adminstration hadn't stopped looking for Osama bin forgotten..


The man who led America's hunt for Osama bin Laden says the CIA was wrong to disband the only unit devoted entirely to the Islamist leader's pursuit - just at a time when al-Qaida is reasserting its influence over the global jihad.

Shutting down the Bin Laden unit squandered 10 years of expertise in the war on terror, said Michael Scheuer, who founded the unit in 1995 and arguably knows more about Bin Laden than any other western intelligence official. He believes the unit was dismantled because of bureaucratic jealousies within the CIA, and that the closure delivers a further setback to a pursuit that has been squeezed for resources for the past two years.

"What it robs you of is a critical mass of officers who have been working on this together for a decade," he told the Guardian. "We had a breed of specialists rare in an intelligence community that prides itself on generalists. It provided a base from which to build a cadre of people specialising in attacking Sunni extremist operations, who sacrificed promotions and other emollients in their employment in the clandestine service, where specialists were looked on as nerds."

A 22-year CIA veteran, Mr Scheuer became aware of Bin Laden in the 1980s when the Saudi-born militant was on the fringes of the US-backed mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In 1995, when western intelligence agencies knew little about Bin Laden, Mr Scheuer was charged with setting up a unit that would track what support he was giving to Islamist groups, and determine whether he himself was a threat. Mr Scheuer left the agency in 2004 after writing a scathing book about its counter-terrorism efforts called Imperial Hubris. He is now a consultant on terrorism.

Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1815728,00.html)