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Life in Shootlerland...
Another shooting this morning, at a bus stop in Montgomery County. The victim was the bus driver, at a rest stop. Victim is in critical condition, in surgery. The area's Aspen Hill, near a cemetary. I'm pretty sure the guy lives in Monkey County — the question is, where?

Shooter Boy left a three page note for the cops at the Ashland shooting. He wants money and threatens more shootings of kids. Guess he's not a terrorist; he's a nut. He wants to get his wad and do a D.B. Cooper.

FoxNews sez the note's in broken English, presumably more broken than the run-of-the-mill high school graduate's. Guesses are that he's a foreigner.

FOLLOWUP:
The victim died.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:00 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fox is also reporting on their website that there were 3 stickers on that Richmond white van - "Bush/Cheney; US Marine Corps; and, Mexico (flag). Wait until the left get a hold of this - a pro-nafta, rightwing, ex-Marine.....Of course, they ain't the right ones but what the hey, they make good copy...
Posted by: Jack || 10/22/2002 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  NY Post reported that the van was also wearing an NRA sticker. Can't wait to hear from the usual suspects on that one.
Posted by: John Rosevear || 10/22/2002 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  It also had temporary tags like you get when you've just bought a vehicle. SO I bet many of the aforementioned stickers are not from the current owners. Hopefully they won't punish the innocent (that is, they won't deport the van with its "owner")
Posted by: Don || 10/22/2002 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Fred,

I was thinking about this on my drive in this morning. It could be possible that the shooter has a number of safe houses in the areas in which he has struck. Just a random thought.

My brother was in the immediate vicinity, he has a bread route, during the incident. He had already spent a couple of hours trying to get off Connecticut onto Georgia Ave. when I talked to him and he decided to wait till tomorrow to visit the rest of his stops. He said that they were checking all vehicles, cars, suvs, trucks (he has a white panel truck) and tractor trailers.
Posted by: Thoth || 10/22/2002 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I heard that the handwriting on the extortion note was different than that on the Tarot card. I'm thinking someone (who's not very bright) is trying to make a fast buck by pretending he is the sniper. Bad move, guy. Don't you know what's going to happen when you try to pick up the money?
That's the one thing the FBI is very good at.
Posted by: Steve || 10/22/2002 13:34 Comments || Top||

#6  i agree with steve , i think theres a copy cat out there , theres got to be a way to catch this sob before he starts killing kids
Posted by: daddyo || 10/22/2002 20:57 Comments || Top||


Shooter Boy sez he'll kill kiddies...
Hours after a bus driver was killed in a shooting that appeared to be the work of the Washington-area sniper, police said Tuesday they received a message warning: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time." The chilling warning apparently was discovered by police Saturday night at the scene of a shooting outside a Virginia steakhouse. Police said in came in the form of a "postscript." Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose also said police "will be responding soon" to the latest message and did not take any questions from the media.
If they take this goober alive, I'm really going to be disappointed...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 06:12 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know what the US legislation is, but considering the fact that he's been doing this in several states, it's a federal offense, and will thus (unless i remember wrong) carry a death sentence. And I think that degenerate deserves some time rotting in a cell knowing his death is certain.
Posted by: Sam || 10/22/2002 22:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Why did he say your children? Why not the children, or just children? It looks like it is the sniper vs. america, and america's children.

The killer(s) are from another country, acting out of hatred for america. Whether al-qaida or eco-leftists from europe, or wherever, these guys are not just lucky, they are trained and disciplined.
Posted by: RB || 10/23/2002 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Or maybe he just couldn't recognize proper grammar if it bit him on the ass. Not enough data.
Posted by: Tripartite || 10/23/2002 9:41 Comments || Top||


Universe to collapse. Film at 11...
If two American professors are correct, the cosmos is middle-aged. And it has not got an old age to look forward to. Despite what recent observations suggest, Professor Andrei Linde from Stanford University and his wife Professor Renata Kallosh say the universe will stop expanding and collapse in the relatively near future. The new approach does not deny that the universe is accelerating. But it predicts that this acceleration will cease and be followed by a cosmic collapse in a "mere" 10 to 20 billion years.
Alright, that does it. I'm leaving...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 08:01 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  these people have to much time on there hands
Posted by: daddyo || 10/22/2002 20:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Alternate headline:

"world ends tommorow - Women and minorities effected most. "
Posted by: Frank Martin || 10/22/2002 20:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ahhh shucks I was looking foward to a long life here.
Posted by: Jack Bross || 10/22/2002 20:51 Comments || Top||


In Re LGF...
By the way, make sure you send a nasty e-mail to bestblog@msnbc.com. If you're not up on MSNBC's craven political correctitude toward Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson, prop., see Best of the Web Today or most other blogs.
On the other hand, does anybody take MSNBC seriously?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 11:05 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Twelve Out on Bail in Kuwait Attack
Kuwaiti authorities released 12 people on bail Tuesday who were detained in connection with the deadly shooting attack on U.S. Marines, a defense lawyer involved in the case said. Lawyer Najib Wugayyan said five Bangladeshis and seven Kuwaitis who had been questioned as suspected accomplices in the Oct. 8 shooting were released on bail ranging from $1,000 to $1,650. Those released, all between the ages of 19 and 23, were suspected of "transporting items for the attackers, selling weapons or mediating efforts to sell weapons," he said.
Perhaps Kuwait might think of dumping the Banglas. They've got enough nutbags of their own...
"It looks like the investigation did not prove they had prior knowledge of the crime," said Wugayyan, who hadn't been allowed access to his clients in jail.
"Whatchoo want all those arms and ammunition for, Mahmoud?"
"Can't tell ya..."
"Hokay. I dunno nothin'."

Wugayyan said the Bangladeshis worked in a mosque in Failaka.
"Just doing odd jobs, y'know? Just normal mosque maintenance. Stuff like sweeping the floors, washing the windows, cleaning weapons..."
The shooters, Anas al-Kandari and Jassem al-Hajiri, spent a night in the mosque before the attack. The shooters were killed in the attack.
"Nearer, my God, to theeee..."
Six Kuwaitis, all between 20- and 24-years-old, remain in custody and could face such charges as joining a hostile organization, having prior knowledge of the crime and training to use weapons. Five of the six are members of the al-Kandari extended family, brothers Adnan and Mohammed, Suleiman, Ahmed and Ibrahim, Wugayyan said. Also still detained was a young man he identified as Ghazi al-Tarrah. If convicted, the six could receive life in prison.
Another family venture. Mom and Dad must be so proud...
Kuwaiti authorities have said they were interrogating 15 suspected accomplices, though they also had detained an unspecified number of material witnesses. It wasn't clear if some of them later were considered suspects.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:20 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Perhaps Kuwait might think of dumping the Banglas. They've got enough nutbags of their own... "

The economic structure in Kuwait is predicated on cheap foreign labor....in the form of indentured servants from around the Islamosphere. These poor bastards have their passports held by their employers until their contracts are fulfilled; said contracts are routinely multi-year and don't pay much. The population of the Emirate of Kuwait is only around two-thirds Kuwaiti, with the majority of the balance being made up of these laborers. Please do not misunderstand me, I am not disagreeing with you about this, I am just offering additional information for those that are interested.
Posted by: Xenophon || 10/23/2002 4:27 Comments || Top||


Anti-American show in Bahrain...
Chanting "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" protesters Friday night angrily called for Bahrain's government to oust the U.S. Navy from the base that serves as its regional headquarters in the Persian Gulf.
Couldn't get a coup attempt together, huh? Had to settle for some street chanting...
Initiated by the local Islamic political organization,
... Who else? ...
the protest was the latest in a series of anti-U.S. demonstrations in recent months, including a rock-throwing march by several thousand people outside the U.S. Embassy in April that left a teenage protester dead after a skirmish with police. Two American sailors were beaten by a crowd a month later.
Didn't hear about those...
On Friday, more than 500 protesters rallied outside the United Nations complex along Embassy Row to urge the world body not to support any U.S. effort to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. With several television stations broadcasting the protest across the Arab world, speakers called for the government of this Persian Gulf island nation to withdraw permission for the U.S. to continue its military presence, which began shortly after World War II. "No to American Bases in Islamic Bahrain," read one banner.
Wonder how much that little show cost Sammy? Or did the Soddies pay for it?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:40 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  maybe both
Posted by: d || 10/22/2002 20:59 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Thousands of Iranians Chant 'Death to Saddam'
Thousands of Iranians Tuesday chanted "Death to Saddam" at a public ceremony to mark a key religious holiday, adding the Iraqi leader's name to denunciations traditionally reserved for Israel and the United States.
That's certainly comforting...
The chants came during an address in Tehran by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who vowed that the Islamic Republic would never adopt Western-style democracy, which he said was based on "lies and propaganda."
As well all know, democracy is a Jewish plot...
The supreme leader, who controls key levers of power in Iran, railed against Western-style democracy, which he said was "captivated by the power of wealth."
He means we can feed our families instead of piously watching them starve to death...
"Most countries have accepted this, but we will not," he said. "Buying people's vote is not democracy ... in religious democracy cheating and committing fraud to obtain votes is a crime," he said.
It is in Western democracies, too. The rules a probably enforced about as often on both sides. On the other hand, we don't have mobs of bully boys running around thumping heads of people who don't vote correctly...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 01:10 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus
Georgia Gives Arab Militants To U.S.
Glenn sends me this piece of heartening news, from Moscow Times, originally in the Washington Post. It's a convoluted world, isn't it? Google has four versions of it up, to include the original in the Post.
Special forces in Georgia have captured 15 Arab militants linked to al-Qaida in recent weeks and turned them over to the United States, Georgian officials said. Georgian authorities seized the men during a series of raids in the lawless Pankisi Gorge, where U.S. intelligence agencies have said a small al-Qaida cell operated in recent years alongside hundreds of Chechen separatists waging war against Russian forces across the border to the north.
Something along the lines of Ansar al-Islam? Or just a coordinating office?
"There were several Arabs who were detained and extradited to the United States and the investigation continued in the United States," Kakha Imnadze, press secretary for President Eduard Shevardnadze, said by telephone from Tbilisi on Monday. "It turned out some of them had connections [to al-Qaida], or probably all of them. Pankisi is not a tourist attraction."
Not unless the tourists are into cutting people's heads off...
Two other Georgian officials, speaking from Tbilisi on condition that they not be identified, confirmed Monday that the operations had succeeded in hunting down 15 Arab militants with suspected links to al-Qaida, as first reported by Time magazine. Georgian Security Minster Valery Khaburzania would not discuss the operations at a briefing Monday. Among the militants caught and transferred to U.S. custody, according to the Time report confirmed by Georgian officials, was Saif al Islam el Masry, identified by testimony in a U.S. court last year as a member of the al-Qaida military committee.
Like Ramzi bin al-Shibh. That'd make him pretty valuable...
In Washington, a knowledgeable U.S. administration official disputed the assertion that Saif al Islam had been apprehended.
"Nope. Wudn't him. It was, ummm... somebody else."
The capture of reported al-Qaida operatives could provide support for U.S. assertions that the terrorist network's tentacles reached into Georgia. Washington dispatched Green Berets to Georgia earlier this year to train local troops how to fight Islamic extremists within their borders.
Are there more than a dozen people in the entire world who don't believe al-Qaeda is involved in Pankisi and in Chechnya in general?
The Georgian raids in Pankisi came in response to U.S. and Russian pressure to clean out the gorge, where Chechen and Arab fighters had taken refuge since 1999. Some former Shevardnadze advisers have said in previous interviews that the Chechens enjoyed the protection of senior government officials, presumably in exchange for money.
Whoa! Careful with that feather! You almost knocked me over! I am so surprised...
Shevardnadze dispatched troops to Pankisi this summer in a highly promoted move intended to address Russian grievances. But unpublicized raids by Georgian special forces, launched with the help of U.S. intelligence, proved more successful in nabbing key figures in the Arab cell one or more at a time, according to Georgian officials. "Once we know for sure there is somebody suspicious hiding in a house, we go in and grab that person," said Imnadze, the press secretary. "Should anybody resist, they'll be eliminated. That's the order." Imnadze said there had been some violent confrontations, but few "major casualties."
And because the Georgians spend so much time looking, and often being, ineffectual, the Bad Guys are so surprised they forget to shoot them up. 'Course, that trick doesn't work too many times...
The special forces conducting the raids had U.S. training before the current $64 million train-and-equip program that began this summer, Imnadze said. The captured men, he said, had passports from Arab countries such as Morocco and Egypt as well as Europe, but the Georgians left it to the Americans to determine their relationship to al-Qaida.
"They ain't Georgians, so y'all can have 'em. Jest don't send 'em back, okay?"
U.S. intelligence agencies have estimated that as many as 100 al-Qaida militants joined hundreds of Chechen fighters who set up base in 1999 in Pankisi. While some of the Arabs worked on charitable projects and constructed a mosque, others built a militant operation that funneled in hundreds of thousands of dollars through couriers or wire transfers and kept in touch with other al-Qaida cells using satellite communications.
And probably most did both...
The militants split their time between helping the Chechens in their war against Russia and helping the international organization in its war against the United States, according to the Time account. One team was trying to obtain explosives to blow up a U.S. or Western installation in Russia, the Georgian investigation determined, while another six-man unit developed poisons for possible attacks against Western targets in Central Asia.
Just busy as little Islamic beavers, weren't they?
Saif al Islam, an Egyptian, was trained by the terrorist group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and was among a group of trusted al-Qaida operatives picked to go to Somalia to fight the U.S. military presence there in the early 1990s, according to testimony at a trial last year stemming from the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Hey! I know some Rangers who'd like to have a long talk with that guy...!
His name surfaced this month in an indictment of a prominent Muslim charity director in the United States. Federal prosecutors in Illinois cited the fact that Saif al Islam had served as an officer of the Chechen branch of the Benevolence International Foundation as evidence of the group's ties to terrorism.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 10:30 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
New Terror Decree in Pakland...
Pakistan's military government defended a controversial new anti-terrorism measure that allows police to detain suspects for up to a year without charge, saying that it was vital to keep dangerous suspects off the streets.
Pakistan certainly has no shortage of those...
The law, signed into effect by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf over the weekend, has been criticized by human rights groups, who say it grants authorities too much power. But Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said the new measure is similar to laws passed in other countries since Sept. 11. "This law is important for when you don't find much evidence but you know for certain that this man is involved, or could be involved in terrorism," Haider said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We do not want these people roaming all over the cities where they could create trouble."
Especially in Pakland, where they create enough trouble even if they're not involved with terrorism...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:23 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


MMA agrees to join coalition government...
After hectic deliberations extensively monitored and manipulated by the military regime, MMA is reportedly agreed to join a coalition government with PML-Q on the condition that Mir Zafarullah Jamali will be the Prime Minister, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani will be the Chairman Senate and Liaquat Baloch will be elected as the Speaker National Assembly.
Jamali is the General Secretary of PML-Q. Noorani is the emir of JUP, and Liaquat Baloch is Qazi's second in command. Liaquat had just been sentenced to two years in jug for failure to appear, when last heard from. Guess he'll be able to fix that now...
MMA is to formally announce the agreement after its central working committee’s meeting to be held here on Wednesday, the sources said. This coalition might be joined by the PPP as well but so far the whole stress of the military government is to keep the PPP and PML-N out of any coalition. While the military regime is interested to keep MMA in the government which would provide the justification to persuade the US authorities to wind up the military operation in Pakistan’s tribal areas and vacate the bases.
It's okay. Don't worry about it. There's plenty of room left on the Axis of Evil, and we don't have any illusions...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:34 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Five Suspected Al-Qaida Officials Arrested
Source: Jihad Unspun
In Quetta, Intelligence agencies have arrested five Al-Qaida officials. According to BBC, two of them are suspected of ties to Al-Qaida. Chairman of Jamiat Ulema Islam, Molvi Noor Mohammad has protested against these arrests.
But naturally. JUI, presumably JUI-F, is Fazl's bunch, though there are several other similar wings, equally vitriolic and xenophobic...
Intelligence agencies formally arrested these men, charging them with crossing the border illegally. The agencies raided several suspected areas in satellite town and Saryab areas in Quetta and arrested the five men. According to sources, one of the arrested is a foreigner. Molvi Noor Mohammad added that seven men were arrested and this initiative is against the Balochistan’s nation and that “We reject this policy of the government of Pakistan.” In Gadani, an American named Anthony tried to commit suicide but was saved due to in time medical treatment.
Wonder why they did that?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:58 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Yasser to try another cabinet list...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has formed a new Cabinet that will be presented to the legislative council for approval next week. Arafat's Cabinet resigned Sept. 11 just as the legislative council prepared to pass a vote of no confidence against the government. A two-week deadline to appoint a new Cabinet was extended until November after Israeli troops besieged Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing.
Guess that did put a crimp on things...
The speaker of the council, Ahmed Qureia, said Tuesday that Arafat had drawn up a new list of ministers. Qureia did not divulge names. The council will meet in a special session next week to vote on the Cabinet. Palestinian officials said that the council was unlikely to approve the new Cabinet since the list contained some officials from the previous Cabinet who have been accused of corruption.
Why be in the cabinet if there's no opportunity to feather one's nest?
Arafat's Fatah party has demanded new faces replace many of his longtime associates. Although Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said last week he would not be in the Cabinet, the officials said he would be.
"Hey! I said I didn't want to be in the cabinet! Stop shooting up my house!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 12:12 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder how Yasser's home renovation project is coming along. Is he waiting for the bank to approve the home equity line?
Posted by: Raj || 10/22/2002 13:05 Comments || Top||


Israel says new terror cells are not Arafat's
Terrorist attacks in Israel are now being directed from abroad, Israeli intelligence sources said one day after a suicide attack killed at least 14 Israelis on a bus. Israeli officials said the government will not respond with widescale retaliation after Monday's attack.
They're holding off so as not to complicate things for the Merkins...
A jeep filled with 120 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to an Israeli passenger bus. The vehicle was said to have been driven by two Palestinian insurgents from the Jenin refugee camp. "The terrorist campaign has been largely taken out of the hands of Palestinian leaders," an intelligence source said. "Instead, the orders and money come from abroad and the cells are being composed of a range of groups."
We've seen that. Hamas and Islamic Jihad never were in Yasser's control, and al-Aqsa hasn't been for almost a year...
Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement, the Iranian-backed group said the suicide mission was in retaliation for the killing of eight Palestinians in an Israeli military operation last week.
It's always in retaliation for something, isn't it?
The planning for the attack was attributed to Iyad Sawalha, 30, a resident of Jenin. Sawalha was also alleged to have planned a massive bombing attack in northern Israel in July. That attack was foiled.
I doubt he was the one who exploded. Eventually he will, just not at the time and place of his chosing...
On Tuesday, a senior Israeli intelligence officer told parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that authorities have recently foiled seven suicide bombings and dozens of other plots. Israeli intelligence sources said Iraq has been directing cells composed of several groups to launch suicide bombings against Israel. The sources said the insurgency cells include members of such groups as Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
There wouldn't be Iraqis involved directly, and the planning and financing will be hidden in Syrian and Iranian channels. But this is part of Sammy's "preemptive strike," just like the demonstrations in Bahrain and the coup attempt in Qatar...
The new Palestinian cells are mostly operating in the northern West Bank, the sources said. They said they are based in the cities of Nablus and Jenin as well as surrounding villages and are often in contact with Israeli Arabs.
With all the day-to-day lunacy in the area, who's going to notice a few more? Unless they're looking for it...
PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, officials said, would not be a target in any Israeli retaliation. Last month, Israeli troops surrounded Arafat's compound in Ramallah, which prompted U.S. and European pressure on Israel to withdraw.
Yasser spends a lot of time lately standing around looking stupified. He knows he's not in control, too. But he's the one who unleashed the wind...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 07:10 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Indons say Abu isn't a suspect...
Indonesian police confirmed that Abu Bakar Basyir, the arrested Indonesian Islamic leader and chairman of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) is not linked to the Bali blast that killed almost 200 people on Saturday, October 12, news agencies said Monday, October 21.
Bet they had to work hard to come to that conclusion. It involves ignoring or explaining away a lot of evidence. Toldja they'd try to do nothing...
Basyir, linked to al-Qaeda in a leaked Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report published by Time magazine and accused of a series of terrorist attacks in South East Asia, could also be freed soon after interrogation. Abu Bakar Basyir, 64, was arrested as he lay in a hospital bed in his home city, Solo, apparently suffering from exhaustion after a vitriol-filled vibrant Khutbah (religious speech on Fridays) in which he asked the crowd to pray for the safety of Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire.
Whereupon God didn't strike him dead on the spot, but maybe gave him a little warning?
The arrest of Basyir, long urged by the United States, “does not mean he will be put in jail,” Gen. Aryanto Sutadi, director of the police department’s criminal division, said at a news conference after visiting the cleric in the hospital the NY times wrote.
Oh, certainly not! We never really expected it to...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/22/2002 08:27 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bagus kembali! That's bahasa Indonesian for Very Good. Its those clove cigarettes that makes them the way they are...
Posted by: Jack || 10/22/2002 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Millionaire? Do they refer to Hitler as a German Entrepreneur? Pol Pot the Cambodian Fashion Designer? Hell, why not call Ted Kaczynski a stamp enthusiast?
Posted by: Sam || 10/22/2002 10:17 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Ansar al-Islam linked to al-Qaeda...
Ansar al-Islam was created by Osama bin Laden from terrorist cells shifted from Afghanistan just before the Sept. 11 attacks, a top Iraqi Kurdish leader claimed Tuesday. Local intelligence sources also support U.S. allegations that the group has conducted chemical weapons tests, said Barham Salih, prime minister of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK.
We pretty much guessed that. Nice to have your guesses corroborated...
The PUK, the second largest of the pro-Western Iraqi Kurdish political groups, controls eastern parts of the semiautonomous region where Ansar al-Islam operates. "We have very solid information corroborating (an al-Qaida link) from our own sources," said Salih, who was the target of an assassination attempt in April by suspected Ansar al-Islam gunmen. He declined to give further details on the evidence gathered. But he said clues suggest bin Laden had a direct role in creating an al-Qaida foothold in northern Iraq.
There are probably other groups as well, in other countries who seem likely candidates for a little Islamic revolutionizing...
According to Iraqi Kurdish evidence, the core of Ansar al-Islam, or Supporters of Islam, was created 10 days before the Sept. 11 attacks as part of bin Laden's plans to disperse his terrorist network before an expected U.S. strike on al-Qaida's command in Afghanistan, Salih said.
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Mon 2002-10-21
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