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Allegations of FBI foreknowledge In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, a former Egyptian army officer named Emad A. Salem. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992. Salem's role as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of the hundreds of possible suspects.
Salem, initially believing that this was to be a sting operation, claimed that the FBI's original plan was for Salem to supply the conspirators with a harmless powder instead of actual explosive to build their bomb, but that the FBI chose to use him for other purposes instead. He secretly recorded hundreds of hours of telephone conversations with his FBI handlers; reported by Ralph Blumenthal in the New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993, secton A,Page 1.
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Feds: Man planned to blow up Ill. mall
AP | December 9, 2006
MIKE ROBINSON
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CHICAGO - A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage
jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off
hand grenades at a shopping mall at the height of the Christmas rush, authorities said.
Investigators said Derrick Shareef, 22, an American citizen from Rockford,
was acting alone and never actually obtained any grenades.
He was arrested Wednesday when he met with an undercover
agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers
for four hand grenades and a gun, authorities said.
"He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday ...
because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought
that would be the highest concentration of shoppers
that he could kill and injure," said Robert Grant,
the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office.
Authorities said Shareef had been under investigation since September,
when he told an acquaintance that "he wanted to commit acts of
violent jihad against targets in the United States as well as commit other crimes."
The acquaintance immediately informed the FBI, officials said.
Federal officials said Shareef planned to set off four hand grenades
in garbage cans at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford,
about 90 miles northwest of Chicago.
Other potential targets that Shareef allegedly discussed included
government facilities such as courthouses and city hall, authorities said.
An affidavit quoted him as saying: "I just want to smoke a judge."
Shareef was born in the United States and converted to Islam, officials said.
They believe he might have learned about jihad through videos and Web sites.
"While these are very serious charges, at no time was the public
in any imminent peril," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement.
Shareef appeared briefly before a judge Friday and was ordered held without bond.
He was charged with one count of attempting to damage or destroy
a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Defense attorney Michael B. Mann declined to comment on the charges.
Shareef and his acquaintance cased the mall on Nov. 30, discussing
the layout and spots where they might set off several grenades
simultaneously to create more pandemonium, according to an FBI affidavit.
A spokeswoman for the mall said officials were cooperating with the investigation but referred all other questions to the U.S. attorney's office
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NY Post turns Iraq Study Group into 'surrender monkeys' on front page NY Post turns Iraq Study Group into 'surrender monkeys' on front page
Raw Story | December 7, 2006
Ron Brynaert
Thursday's front page of the New York Post depicts the two chairman
of the Iraq Study Group as "surrender monkeys," suggesting that
the bipartisan independent panel has urged the U.S. to "give up"
and admit defeat in the war in Iraq.
The faces of James Baker, a former chief of staff for President
Reagan who led President Bush's recount fight in Florida six years ago,
and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, who also served
as Vice Chair for the 9/11 Commission, were photoshopped onto the bodies of monkeys.
This isn't the first time that the Post has "monkeyed around" with
nature to make a political statement on behalf of the Bush Administration.
In February of 2003, just weeks before the invasion of Iraq, the New York City
based tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire depicted
the French and German representatives at the United Nations
as half men and half weasels. That front page came one month
after outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized
to the two countries for referring to them as the "Axis of Weasels"
because of their staunch opposition to the war.
"The Iraq Study Group report delivered to President Bush yesterday
contains 79 separate recommendations -- but not one that explains
how American forces can defeat the terrorist insurgents,
only ways to bring the troops home," Niles Latham writes in the Post's cover story.
"Declaring the situation 'grave and deteriorating,' the high-powered
commission proposed the United States talk directly to terror abettors
Iran and Syria to get their cooperation, and commit to removing U.S.
combat troops in early 2008," the article continues.
The paper's editorial page also accused the Iraq Study Group of recommending
surrender, though "not in so many words, of course."
According to the paper, the ISG "counsels cowardice -- and, ultimately,
a shameful defeat."
Blogosphere reactions
On a thread at the Free Republic Web site, most commenters seemed
to enjoy the Post's cover.
"I was walking by the Newspaper stand in Manhattan this morning on my way
to work and I did a doubletake!" Freeper "areafiftyone" writes.
"I thought the guys from the NY Post had been reading Free Republic!"
Another user thanked the fact that neither Iraq Study Group
chairman was African-American.
"I am just glad neither one of them is black," wrote "Long Island Pete.
" "Al Sharpton would have a field day."
"Mark was here" joked, "Obviously a doctored photo,
monkeys dont wear glasses."
At Wizbang!, Kim Priestap blogs that the tabloid is "right on."
"They're right on and I'm glad they're not afraid to say it," Priestap writes.
"I also call the ISG the Iraq Surrender Group."
On the other side of the political spectrum, Daily Kos diarist
"allmost liberal european" writes that this "ugly picture that
really tells you all you need to know" about the right wing.
According to the diarist, the outrage from the right directed
at the Group's report is all about "fear."
"There has been lot of criticism of the ISG proposal but the right is scared,"
writes the Daily Kos diarist. "Anything but a total war is unacceptable
for them and they know that they are not going to get it (no, they are not going to fight in that war, but cheering)."
At Iddybud Journal, Jude Nagurney Camwell digs up a gossip tabloid
cover and asks her readers to guess which is the Weekly World News
and which is the New York Post.
Darryl Mason at Your New Reality thinks that the "cackling-shriek
of vice-president Dick Cheney and Karl Rove must have been echoing
up and down the corridors of the White House all morning,"
after the Post cover hit the newsstands.
Story ~~~David Shayler on Sky News 05th December 2006 **
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