The Hunt for Sleeper Terrorist Cells

The Hunt for Sleeper Terrorist Cells...

Is attending a Qaeda training camp a crime? A case study in Buffalo shows the new realities of fighting the specter of terror at home...

FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF days, federal prosecutors tried to convince federal Magistrate H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. that the young men, all Americans of Yemeni descent, were members of a Qaeda sleeper cell who trained in an Afghanistan camp in the summer of 2001. They were taught how to shoot Kalashnikovs, attended a fiery anti-American speech by Osama bin Laden—and then, the government claims, returned home to Lackawanna, N.Y., to patiently await orders from the terrorist mastermind.
    The prosecutors admitted they had no evidence that the men were planning to carry out terrorist strikes. They claimed one of the men sent a cryptic e-mail to a friend hinting at a future attack: a “big meal” was coming, he wrote. “No one will be able to withstand it, except people of faith.” The lawyers also introduced a rifle and a tiny pistol they’d found in his home.
    In spring 2001, members of a Muslim evangelical group invited the men to attend a religious gathering in Pakistan. According to prosecutors, the men paid $1,300 for plane tickets and spent a week in Karachi, where they apparently studied and prayed. —From there, things become a bit murky. In Pakistan, federal officials say, the men met up with another Lackawanna friend, an Islamic activist named Kamal Derwish. At the time, Derwish was allegedly living in the Middle East, and later underwent advanced weapons training in bin Laden’s Al Farooq camp. Derwish invited the men to come to Afghanistan, and allegedly arranged for them to be driven over the border to the camp. (Derwish and eighth suspect Jaber Elbaneh, who are believed to be in hiding in Yemen, are still being sought by the United States.) At the camp, the men underwent a few weeks’ training in combat skills. One day, bin Laden showed up to inspire his new recruits to wage jihad against the United States and Israel. A few weeks later, they went home.
    Almost as soon as they returned, the Feds were on their trail. In the months that followed, the authorities interviewed some of the men several times, and followed them in unmarked cars. “You’d have to be blind to miss [the agents],” says Lackawanna Police Chief Dennis O’Hara. Though they didn’t see evidence of terrorist activity, the Feds did wonder where several of the men got large amounts of money. Officials are especially curious how 24-year-old Yasein Taher, who was fired from his job as a bill collector, could afford a new Mustang convertible and a sleek Ninja motorcycle. The Feds say Taher’s friend, 24-year-old Shafal Mosed, spent $89,000 at a nearby Canadian casino—though he claimed his only income came from his job as a telemarketer. (His lawyer says the total may include large sums spent by his friends.)
The Feds got a break on Sept. 11 of this year when one of the men, 22-year-old Mukhtar Ali Albakri, was arrested in Bahrain the morning after his wedding, and beaten up by local police. He was later turned over to the FBI, and admitted that he’d been to the Qaeda camp. He also named some of the others. It was Albakri who sent the mysterious “big meal” e-mail that the Feds now say was possible evidence of a coming attack. Albakri’s lawyer says prosecutors misunderstood the missive. He claims the “big meal” was actually a warning about a rumored attack in Afghanistan itself. Albakri’s lawyer says the puzzled recipient of the e-mail wrote back to Albakri: “What are you talking about? What is this meal? Do you mean a hamburger or what?”
Back in Lackawanna, agents interviewed another member of the group, 29-year-old Sahim Alwan. He, too, admitted he’d been to the camp—but he told the Feds he had been desperate to leave from the moment he realized what he’d gotten himself into. Alwan claimed he’d begged his hosts to let him go, and even faked an ankle injury to get out of training. He was allowed to leave after about 10 days—weeks earlier than the others.
Agents soon arrested Alwan. The Feds then fanned out across the Buffalo area and arrested the four others. One friend of the men, who asked not to be identified, told NEWSWEEK that at least some people in the community knew they were going to Afghanistan—though not necessarily to the camps. “I knew they were going, to learn more about Islam. I don’t think anyone thinks that’s a crime.” Maybe not in Lackawanna. In Washington, however, there are plenty of people who believe it’s a crime that should get them 15 years.

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

MAJOR INVASION
"Man was created to live peacefully. Man was created to know his God, and in this manner to have a world that is not a paradise, but one in which man could live in peace and security. But now all of the leaders of the world run about and they say it is peace, it is security. Their words are like two prongs from the mouth: they say those words, but then they turn their backs and they are busy getting ready for a major invasion of the United States and Canada.
"Yes, My child, all who read and listen to the Message must know that there is a plan now for Russia, a plan against the United States and Canada. Your nation and Canada are surrounded!" - Our Lady, March 26, 1983

YOU MUST TURN BACK
"Your country, the United States of America, and Canada shall not be free from invasion. That is why you must pray a constant vigil of prayer going throughout the whole world, and you must turn back from your sin or you will die!
"My child and My children, I wish in My heart that I could bring to you a more bright and cheerful message, but that would not be true, for there is at this time too many souls falling into hell-souls that listened, but somehow turned back onto the wide road, the road to perdition." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

DANGER AHEAD FOR INVASION
"I have come this evening, My children and My child, specifically to warn you of the vast danger that the United States of America and Canada are approaching. The enemies now are gathered from within. I say also, My children, that this also will caution those who live near the waters of the great seas. There is danger ahead for invasion. O My children, pray-pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Wars are a punishment for man's sin." - Our Lady, June 18, 1983

HEART OF THE AMERICAS
"And your country, My child, the United States, and Canada also, will receive the heavy hand of the Father soon upon them. We can no longer protect them from what is to come about within the next several months. Yes, My child, there will be blood flowing in the streets of the United States. There will be carnage such as has never been seen before in the United States and Canada. Do not take lightly the threats of those murderers in the European states that have felt this carnage. They are now setting up their plans to bring destruction to the heart of the Americas." - Our Lady, September 27, 1986

TO DESTROY THE MORALE
"The enemy will come from foreign nations now to try to shed this blood. Do not take their words to you lightly. They will enter the United States for one purpose—to destroy the morale."
Our Lady, September 27, 1986

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
Veronica - Well, I see two men. I don't know if they're Moslems. They have a different-colored skin, but they're not exactly black. Now they are walking through a building, and they're carrying with them, now, bags; but the bags are extra large, which makes it most suspicious.
Jesus - "In those bags they are carrying all the implements of destruction."
Veronica - Oh! I can see now; they're pointing across the street, and I recognize the Empire State Building. Oh, no!
Jesus - "My child, they will choose the Empire State Building to bring more notoriety to the world." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

MASS DESTRUCTION, SLAUGHTER
"America, your country, the United States, a land of plenty, has never witnessed mass slaughter and death, but My children, unless and I say, unless you turn back now, your country will witness death such as never has gripped the heart of man before, a terror brought about by the knowledge that there has been a rejection of truth, a rejection of your God." - Jesus, December 7, 1976

GREAT DESTRUCTIVE ACT
"There will be a great destructive act committed in your city of New York." - Our Lady, September 14, 1976

AMERICA THE GREAT
"Your country, America the Great, and your neighbor, Canada, have set themselves, by their actions that offend the Eternal Father, onto a road of chastisement. Your country, My children, the United States, has not known the terror, the agonizing heartbreak of death in the streets. You are fast approaching a major calamity. Blood shall flow in your streets." - Our Lady, November 1, 1975

WILL YOU BE READY?
"Only you now, you, My children of reasoning, of the age of reasoning, must now make a full inventory of the graces you have gathered. For in an instant death will come upon your land, and many shall be claimed. Will you be ready? Have you prepared your children? Have you prepared your households? Many parents shall cry. Families shall be torn asunder. Blood shall be in the streets." - Our Lady, June 18, 1981

CRUCIFIX ON YOUR DOORS
"I must reveal, My children, to the world again, that you are to keep a crucifix on your front door and your back door. All entrances to your home must be guarded by the crucifix. There has not been one home on Long Island that had a crucifix on its door that did fall to any evil." - Jesus, October 5, 1985

Directives from Heaven...
D10 - Consecrate Russia
D104 - Invasion
D139 - Preparations: Spiritual
D140 - Preparations: Material
D156 - Terrorism
D158 - America the Beautiful

Outside links...

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Bio Threat: Worse Than You're Told http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/14/185846.shtml

10 things you need to know about anthrax http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/12/anthrax.qanda/index.html

Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks' http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,573908,00.html

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