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Home Front: WoT
Seven Sought By FBI For Links to Al-Qaeda
2004-05-27

Washington -- U.S. officials issued their most severe warning in months on Wednesday that a terrorist attack is imminent, saying that intelligence gathered by law enforcement and public statements by al Qaeda indicate the terrorist network plans to "hit the United States hard" this summer.

Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller also made an unusual plea for public help at a news conference in Washington, releasing photos and the names of seven suspects wanted for questioning in terrorism investigations.

Nearly all the suspects had been named previously, and their photos have appeared on the FBI’s Web site, except one: a 25-year-old U.S. citizen named Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who grew up in Southern California, converted to Islam as a teenager and allegedly attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and served as a translator for the group.

Ashcroft said the names and faces were released again in hopes that an alert public could help find the suspects and disrupt or at least delay the terrorists’ plot. . .

The story is eerie in that I know a Moslem that attended what I believe is the same mosque in Garden Grove, CA, as "Adam Yahiye Gadahn". This fellow I knew was a naturalized citizen from Egypt. He thought Saddahm and Osama should be "gotten rid of" because they were besmirching Islam with their "inhumanity and violence". My Egyptian acquaintance taught computer programming courses I attended. During Ramadan, he took us to an Egyptian restaurant for lamb kebabs at the "break-fast" after sundown. He was trying to show us non-Moslems that 9/11 was perpitrated by a few nut cases. But, it seems that there is an endemic percentage of nut cases that permeate every mosque.
Posted by:BigEd

#6  (Remember he was attacked by a Komodo Dragon at the L A Zoo)


Yep. He was told (as I remember the story) not to wear white shoes because the nearly brainless Komodo dragons can't tell the difference between a white shoe and the white bunnies they're fed. So he shows up in white shoes, and gets munched.

What a pity he didn't get a massive infection and die.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-05-27 2:43:50 PM  

#5  #s 3,4 -The Comical Chronicle has Phil Bronstein, as its editor, the ex-husband, of Sharon Stone, and well known lizard dinner. . . (Remember he was attacked by a Komodo Dragon at the L A Zoo)


It is in a city where Ralph Nader ran second in some precincts behind loony Al.

Consider the source.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-27 1:32:52 PM  

#4  Yes they did. What the F are they thinking?! They are on the side of the terrorists. For all I care, Ashcroft can just line up these SF Chronicle traitors against the wall and shoot them.
Posted by: ed   2004-05-27 1:11:55 PM  

#3  They put Ashcroft's face in the lineup.
Posted by: Shan   2004-05-27 1:04:42 PM  

#2  Finally they give us a face to look for. I was growing tired of randomly slapping around the nearest Muslim when we changed terror alerts. I bet we find one or two of these people by next week.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2004-05-27 12:37:39 PM  

#1  Corrected Link
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-27 12:18:44 PM  

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