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- Paris Attackers Listed In Leaked Isis Files
Paris attackers listed in leaked ISIS files Berlin (AFP) - A trove of leaked Islamic State group documents features the names of the three jihadists who carried out the assault on the Bataclan theatre during November's terror attacks in Paris, German...
- How Wikileaks Vindicated Bush’s Anti-terrorism Strategy
From Donald Rumsfeld at the Washington Post: Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces is a major success in our country’s war against al-Qaeda. As a result of the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program...
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Front Page Mag: Germany on High Alert Posted by Ryan Mauro Germany has gone on high alert until next year due to a suspected impending terrorist attack on the country. It has been reported that the Reichstag parliament building is one target, but it could...
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Emirates 24/7 h/t Will: Up to 20 Britons training in Pak terror camps By AFPPublished Thursday, September 30, 2010 Up to 20 Britons are undertaking terrorist training in Pakistan to launch attacks in Britain, a report said Thursday, citing intelligence...
- Norwegian Citizen Arrested At World Cup
From: News from Norway Nothing suggests that the Norwegian citizen who was apprehended by German police in Kiel, in June this year, was involved in the failed plot to blow up several passenger trains in Germany. German police apprehended a twenty nine...
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‘Treasure trove’ of al-Qaeda documents uncovered in Germany
From IntelNews:
German police have uncovered what appears to be the most significant collection of al-Qaeda planning documents to be acquired by Western intelligence since last year’s assassination of Osama bin Laden. It has been reported that the United States Navy Seals, who raided the late bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan nearly a year ago, obtained thousands of al-Qaeda documents.
But the latest acquisition, which reportedly consists of over 100 digital documents, is described by Western intelligence sources as “pure gold”. The documents were in possession of Maqsood Lodin, a 22-year-old Austrian, who was detained by German police last year as he was returning to Europe from a trip to Pakistan, via the Hungarian capital Budapest.
During his detention, German authorities found hidden in his underwear a number of digital storage devices. One of them contained a pornographic video called “Kick Ass”, which, upon further investigation, was found to contain encrypted documents, in .pdf format, that had been disguised to look like video files.
According to German newspaper Die Zeit, which first reported on the finding in March, many of the documents were training manuals written in several different languages, including Arabic, German, and English. But intelligence experts are mostly interested in a collection of documents entitled “Future Works”. These contain notes from what seem like al-Qaeda brainstorming sessions on plans for possible terrorist plots in Europe. Among them is a suggestion to “seize passenger ships and use them to put pressure on the public”, according to Die Zeit.
A subsequent section in the document discusses the idea of ordering passengers in the hijacked ship or ships to dress in orange-color jumpsuits, similar to those used by the United States in the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba. That section is somewhat obscure, but Die Zeit interprets it as a plan to stage public executions of passengers as a way of pressuring Western governments to release al-Qaeda-affiliated detainees.
Other plans, according to the German newspaper, discuss the possibility of carrying out armed suicide raids in European cities, similar to the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed nearly 200 people in India’s most populous city.
The paper quotes “intelligence sources” who argue that the documents —most of which date to 2009— show that al-Qaeda has been considering plans to carry out several low-profile attacks as decoys to preoccupy Western intelligence services, while secretly planning a large-scale, high-profile attack reminiscent of 9/11.
- Paris Attackers Listed In Leaked Isis Files
Paris attackers listed in leaked ISIS files Berlin (AFP) - A trove of leaked Islamic State group documents features the names of the three jihadists who carried out the assault on the Bataclan theatre during November's terror attacks in Paris, German...
- How Wikileaks Vindicated Bush’s Anti-terrorism Strategy
From Donald Rumsfeld at the Washington Post: Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces is a major success in our country’s war against al-Qaeda. As a result of the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program...
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Front Page Mag: Germany on High Alert Posted by Ryan Mauro Germany has gone on high alert until next year due to a suspected impending terrorist attack on the country. It has been reported that the Reichstag parliament building is one target, but it could...
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Emirates 24/7 h/t Will: Up to 20 Britons training in Pak terror camps By AFPPublished Thursday, September 30, 2010 Up to 20 Britons are undertaking terrorist training in Pakistan to launch attacks in Britain, a report said Thursday, citing intelligence...
- Norwegian Citizen Arrested At World Cup
From: News from Norway Nothing suggests that the Norwegian citizen who was apprehended by German police in Kiel, in June this year, was involved in the failed plot to blow up several passenger trains in Germany. German police apprehended a twenty nine...