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So much for not worrying about the (apparent) screw-ups whom authorities have apprehended and thus consoling ourselves that they were just nutjobs. I never really bought that comfort anyway, but I know plenty of people who subscribe to that line of thinking.
Maybe with the article below having been published in the Washington Post on August 24, 2008 , those ostriches will extricate their heads and take more notice. I have my doubts, however, the further we get in time from 9/11:
- More On The Terror Threat To Europe
It's not just Debka warning about it. h/t Jawa The Moderate Voice: Terrorism: Should Europe and the US Go to Red Alert? Posted by JOERG WOLF in International, Media, War. Sep 24th, 2010 Counterterrorism officials in France, Germany, Britain, and...
- Secret Enclaves Of Al-qaeda Extremists Based In London, Birmingham And Luton Are Planning Mass-casualty Attacks In Britain
From the London Telegraph: The document, which was drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, states that "some thousands" of extremists are active in the UK. They are predominantly UK-born and aged between...
- The British Muslim Beheading Plot
From the British paper, News of the World (thanks to Religion of Pieces): THE al-Qaeda plot to behead a British Muslim soldier was smashed after MI5 intercepted a panic order to the kidnap gang: "If you can't find a Muslim, ANY squaddie will do."...
- One Year Ago
Today is the one-year anniversay of the London Bombings. Despite evidence to the contrary, many government officials and some terrorism experts have indicated that the attacks on London were not the work of Al Qaeda. In "Al-Qaeda, Still in Business,"...
- Europe Has "thrown A Blanket Of Surveillance" Over Terrorist Cells
Sometime last week the FBI and the Justice Department announced that they have launched "urgent new probes" against terrorist cells in New York City, and other parts of the United States. My comments with regards to this announcement included the following:...
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I Never Said That Al-Qaeda Is Stupid
So much for not worrying about the (apparent) screw-ups whom authorities have apprehended and thus consoling ourselves that they were just nutjobs. I never really bought that comfort anyway, but I know plenty of people who subscribe to that line of thinking.Maybe with the article below having been published in the Washington Post on August 24, 2008 , those ostriches will extricate their heads and take more notice. I have my doubts, however, the further we get in time from 9/11:
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, al-Qaeda has increasingly turned to local cells that run extremely low-cost operations and generate cash through criminal scams, bypassing the global financial dragnet set up by the United States and Europe.Read the rest.
Although al-Qaeda spent an estimated $500,000 to plan and execute the Sept. 11 attacks, many of the group's bombings and assaults since then in Europe, North Africa and Southeast Asia have cost one-tenth as much, or less.
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[But] the cell responsible for the July 7, 2005, transit bombings in London needed only about $15,000 to finance the entire conspiracy, including the cost of airfare to Pakistan to consult with al-Qaeda supervisors, according to official British government probes.
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Law enforcement officials in London said al-Qaeda cells are trained to plot and live on the cheap. Operatives lead ascetic lives, often keeping their day jobs or depending on their families to cover expenses. Above all, they are taught to build bombs that are lethal but crude and inexpensive. Almost every terrorist plot in Europe in recent years has followed a simple formula: homemade explosives stuffed into backpacks, shoes, suitcases or car trunks.
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Cliff Knuckley, a former chief money-laundering investigator for Scotland Yard, said it's difficult to detect potential terrorist plots just by monitoring cash flows or bank transfers -- the basis of many of the anti-terrorism financing laws in place today.
"You're looking for a needle in a haystack, and unfortunately you have a field full of haystacks," Knuckley said.
- More On The Terror Threat To Europe
It's not just Debka warning about it. h/t Jawa The Moderate Voice: Terrorism: Should Europe and the US Go to Red Alert? Posted by JOERG WOLF in International, Media, War. Sep 24th, 2010 Counterterrorism officials in France, Germany, Britain, and...
- Secret Enclaves Of Al-qaeda Extremists Based In London, Birmingham And Luton Are Planning Mass-casualty Attacks In Britain
From the London Telegraph: The document, which was drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, states that "some thousands" of extremists are active in the UK. They are predominantly UK-born and aged between...
- The British Muslim Beheading Plot
From the British paper, News of the World (thanks to Religion of Pieces): THE al-Qaeda plot to behead a British Muslim soldier was smashed after MI5 intercepted a panic order to the kidnap gang: "If you can't find a Muslim, ANY squaddie will do."...
- One Year Ago
Today is the one-year anniversay of the London Bombings. Despite evidence to the contrary, many government officials and some terrorism experts have indicated that the attacks on London were not the work of Al Qaeda. In "Al-Qaeda, Still in Business,"...
- Europe Has "thrown A Blanket Of Surveillance" Over Terrorist Cells
Sometime last week the FBI and the Justice Department announced that they have launched "urgent new probes" against terrorist cells in New York City, and other parts of the United States. My comments with regards to this announcement included the following:...