Suspect in New Terror Alerts Fed U.S. False Info in 2002

[lil-petunia]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4972.shtml


From the article:

"The White House described the latest information as "another new stream of intelligence" that supported its decision to issue warnings. It arrived days before the public alert, even as officials were reviewing reams of documents and photographs that showed surveillance of five such financial buildings in New York, New Jersey and Washington carried out years ago by al-Qaida.

But Capitol Hill Blue has learned the terror suspect is Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida honcho captured in Pakistan in March, 2002. At that time, Zubaydah claimed suicide bomb attacks against the same financial institutions were imminent and U.S. officials responded by raising the terror alert status only to lower it a short time later and admit Zubaydah's information was "questionable."

"Old information isn't irrelevant information - particularly with this kind of enemy," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

"Horseshit," muttered a DHS agent who, for obvious reasons, asked that his name be withheld. "We're chasing ghosts and we're chasing our tails. How many times must this clown lead us around by the nose before we learn we have been made fools of once again?""



JUST WHAT IS GOING ON?

[Jacobin]

1. Your source has been very questionable in the past

I'm not suggesting that the article is wrong. But, other stories they have run in the past few years have not panned out as being accurate.

(Don't get me wrong. I think these Terra Lerts are political bullshit)

[lil-petunia]

3. as she said in balzing saddles,

its twue, its twue

[Brotherjohn]

2. Yes, the first thing that makes CHB so suspect is they always seem...

...to have people deep inside (of many different places, apparently), who always seem to give them inflammatory quotes (which, if true, would break open a major story), and whose names are never revealed.

This is the equivalent of the "Russian scientists" that Weekly World News used to always cite when revealing their "rock solid" evidence of UFOs, Bigfoot, or some other such wonder.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Compare with this Knight Ridder report from Monday

" Two were pivotal al-Qaida figures arrested last month in Pakistan in separate raids where documentary evidence also was captured, the officials said. The more important of the two was an al-Qaida computer engineer who relayed communications to the network's members, they said.

The third is a member of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network who's in British custody and is cooperating, one official said. "

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9304367.htm

Their followup on Wednesday was:

"The intelligence that led to this week's heightened terrorism alert came in part from a senior al-Qaida operative in British custody who disclosed that the terrorist network was continuing to plan an attack in New York, possibly around the time of the Republican National Convention, U.S. officials said Wednesday."

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9320619.htm

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