al-Qaeda Alive and Well

GDP · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:23 pm

From newsmax.com:

Al-Qaida Bomb-Maker Revives WMD Program

"A dangerous al-Qaida bomb-maker, whom the Pakistan military reported was killed two years ago, is in fact alive and well and working to develop chemical, biological, and radiological weapons — and perhaps nuclear weapons as well.

"That’s the chilling word from Beirut-based Ed Blanche, who writes in The Middle East magazine that Egyptian-born chemical engineer Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar — known as Osama bin Laden’s “sorcerer” — is working in secret laboratories in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal area.

"The Pakistani military claimed that in January 2006, Mursi was one of several senior al-Qaida figures killed by missiles fired from a CIA Predator at a clandestine gathering in a village near the Afghan border.

"U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical, and now even the Pakistani intelligence chiefs admit that he’s still alive — with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head.

"American officials say that electronic surveillance of known al-Qaida figures recently turned up conversations in which Mursi is spoken about in the present tense, Blanche reports.

"U.S. officials have also learned that Mursi is working to manufacture cyanide, chlorine and other lethal poisons, and has helped revive the al-Qaida chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program that was disrupted by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

"Former CIA analyst Chris Quillen stated earlier this year that Mursi and his associates may have made progress in their hideouts in Pakistan’s tribal region.

“'I’m not saying the programs are great and ready for an attack tomorrow, but whatever they lost in the 2001 invasion, they’re back at that level at this point,' he said.

"American officials have warned that al-Qaida is seeking to produce botulism toxin, smallpox, plague, or Ebola.

"Blanche asserts that the U.S. believes Mursi is training operatives to carry out CBW attacks in Europe. But attacks in the U.S. have been planned previously.

"A plot to launch an attack with cyanide gas in the New York City subway system was reportedly scheduled for the spring of 2003. The plot was first disclosed in 2006 in a book, “The One Percent Doctrine” by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ron Suskind, which was excerpted by Time magazine.

"'Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was apparently in charge of the plot, called off the attack 45 days before it was to be launched,' Blanche writes, 'possibly because it was not deemed apocalyptic enough to surpass the 9/11 carnage.'”
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GDP · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:24 am

Al-queda continues to suffer losses of key leaders. Their primary operative, al-Masri, has been taken out, and OBL has been kept in check. For those who think the OBL hunt has been a failure, have you considered that he is being stalked and then anyone who meets with him becomes a target? To kill off OBL would be to just make him a martyr and fuel the fires. To use him as your bird dog to point out targets, genius!

http://www.military.com/news/article/al-qaida-admits-death-of-top-commander.html?ESRC=eb.nl

Three cheers for the Bush administration for their faithful commitment to rid the world of those who would rain terror on those who love freedom.

Heaven help us if Barak the Beloved rises to the Presidency.
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world" -C.S. Lewis