PDB: "bin Ladin Determined to Strike" released

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a ...(redacted portion) ... service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an ... (redacted portion) ... service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.

Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... (redacted portion) ... service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.

White House fact sheet: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040410-5.html

whats the millenium plotting in Canada in 1999?

Bob Kerry insisted that this PDB had information with specifics to Bin Ladens attacks on 9/11. Now that it is declassified, i hope him and his possie feel like fools for making such a hype about it. All this PDB is doing is stating past instances where Bin Laden has attempted attacks - sort of a reminder - and showed our nations progress in tracking what al-Qaeda's plans are at the moment.

What did they expect it to say? "Al-Qaeda will hijack several planes on the 11th of September, and run them into buildings. Be sure to do absolutely nothing about it, thanks - GW." This PDB is just PROVING how useless the "trials" are.

Nos.

I don't really give a crap either. I've always known he probably had been warned but there's no way he would know how or when. I'm just not happy with how we've attacked iraq. But thats another debate.

The entire Middle East should be carpet bombed. All of it. Let's try out all the weapons and technologies we've only dreamed about using.

Then we should build a kevlar and depleted-uranium dome over the United Fortress of America. With giant sun-like track lighting on the inside of the dome. Nobody gets in or out without a hall pass.

Then, the U.F.A.'s military priorities should be shifted to send out teams of G.I.'s and Special Force's guys to just go take whatever hard goods we want and bring them back to the dome.

In the meantime, the U.F.A.'s military will be searching and scouring every nook and cranny of our newly-domed freeland for signs of dissidence, then eliminating them, either by stealthy death or by boating them outside our lovely dome.

And we'll all grow flowers and have happy Wednesday Bridge Club coffee klatches.

[QUOTE=Utopian23]The entire Middle East should be carpet bombed. All of it. Let's try out all the weapons and technologies we've only dreamed about using.

Then we should build a kevlar and depleted-uranium dome over the United Fortress of America. With giant sun-like track lighting on the inside of the dome. Nobody gets in or out without a hall pass.

Then, the U.F.A.'s military priorities should be shifted to send out teams of G.I.'s and Special Force's guys to just go take whatever hard goods we want and bring them back to the dome.

In the meantime, the U.F.A.'s military will be searching and scouring every nook and cranny of our newly-domed freeland for signs of dissidence, then eliminating them, either by stealthy death or by boating them outside our lovely dome.

And we'll all grow flowers and have happy Wednesday Bridge Club coffee klatches.[/QUOTE]

Or we can just stop sending aid... :p

Just wait another 10-15 years...

I had a friend who worked for one of the hospitals near Dearborn, Michigan. A suburb of Detroit, Michigan (Ford Motor Co. world headqtrs is there). It is a heavy mid-eastern population. She said it was with great frequency that women from the middle east would

1) move here to live with family
2) get pregnant
3) have their child in the hospital
4) grab the American birth certificate
5) take their baby and certificate and leave the country within 2 weeks of having the child

The next generation of terrorists will be trained over 'there', and then move here with their citizenship and birth certificate when they're of suicide age, and wait for their chance to strike back at the 'head of the serpent'.

Hope this helps you sleep tonite.