Al-Qaida Used Hotmail, Public Phones In Planning

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty plea agreement filed by Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.

The document shows how al-Qaida, at least in 2001, embraced prosaic technologies like pre-paid calling cards, public phones, computer search engines and simplistic codes to communicate, plan and carry out its operations.

Al-Marri also surfed the Internet to research cyanide gas, using software to cover his tracks, according to the document filed Thursday in federal court in Peoria, Ill. He marked the locations of dams, waterways and tunnels in the United States in an almanac. The government claims this reflects intelligence that al-Qaida was planning to use cyanide gas to attack those sites.

As a result of his guilty plea, al-Marri could be sentenced up to a maximum 15-year term in federal prison.



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[Deja Q]

1. Hotmail? Hmmm, where's the "I'm a PC!" ad that nobody wants to talk about?

:evilgrin:

Good thing we're nixing public phones; we all have cell phones now and I once got a cootie from a public phone. The "l" was scratched off every instance of the word "public" too, hence the cootie...

[frylock]

2. crafty devils

[XemaSab]

3. He was going to use cyanide gas to attack a dam? Oh noes!

Wait, what? :shrug:

[24601]

7. Cyanide gas against a dam, probably not a big deal (unless you

work there), in the Holland Tunnel - really bad (possibly fatal based on the concentration) for anyone there. Isn't cyanide what was used in gas chamber executions?

But releasing it into water supplies may have the widest effects. When I make organic bubbles in the bathtub, it doesn't seem to hurt the water - but I'm not producing cyanide. From the DHS website (http://www.nationalterroralert.com/cyanide/), it's inferred that cyanide is absorbed into the water and if then ingested, causes neurological effects like Parkinson's.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Well I never

Now there's a surprise.

[bemildred]

5. And paper, and pencils, and the Post Office, and cars, and ...

And they ate food while they were planning too. And they spoke, using sound in the air, and drank water. All these things must be monitored to fight the terrists.

[ohio2007]

6. Khalid Sheik Mohammed intended to use infidels techonology to destroy the infidel world

well..
after 7 1/2 years

hows that working out for ya mohamad?


btw;
what city did they track you down in ?

ahhh yes.

[SoxFan]

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