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U.S. Is Tracking Yasin and Zarqawi | ||||
2003-09-29 | ||||
EFL/FU: As United States officials try to determine what role Al Qaeda may have had in recent attacks in Iraq, investigators and Special Forces are also pursuing two men known to have had previous connections to Osama bin Laden. On a half-dozen occasions in recent weeks, one of the men, Abdul Rahman Yasin, slipped through the net. He has been indicted in connection with the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and is on the F.B.I.’s most wanted terrorist list. He has been living in Iraq for about 10 years. The Americans have also been trying to track Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a more senior Qaeda operative; according to American officials, he has been moving in and out of Iraq since the war ended this spring.
I think pretty much everyone describes them that way. German authorities have linked Mr. Zarqawi, who was in Iranian custody for a time, to a militant Palestinian group, and said he ran training camps in Afghanistan alongside Mr. bin Laden.
Sammy began this process himself, years ago. Building mosques and having a copy of the koran written with his own blood.
Plus they don’t carry membership cards.
Not likely. He was born in 1960 in Bloomington, Ind., where his father was a graduate student, and grew up in Baghdad. He returned to the United States in the early 1990’s, to live with his mother and a brother who were living in Jersey City. It was then that he met Ramzi Yousef, an early operative for Mr. bin Laden long before he had become a notorious public figure. Mr. Yousef recruited Mr. Yasin for the plot to blow up the World Trade Center. Mr. Yasin helped mix the chemicals, at one point severely burning his leg. The scar should help i.d. his body. The F.B.I. detained Mr. Yasin after the attack and then released him, but only after he provided information about Mr. Yousef, the mastermind. Mr. Yousef fled to Pakistan, then Manila, where he was plotting to blow up 12 airliners over the Pacific, a precursor to the Sept. 11 attacks. He was later captured. Mr. Yasin returned to Iraq. Ostensibly, Mr. Hussein put Mr. Yasin under house arrest, but American officials said this week that they now have evidence he was being liberally supplied with money, women and alcohol. So much for the "Saddam didn’t support al-Q meme. In an interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in June 2002, Mr. Yasin expressed regret for what he had done. "I’m very sorry for what happened," he said. "I don’t know what to do to make it up." Well, have you thought about sticking a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger? There is a $25 million bounty for information leading to his arrest. But officials say it may not be money that brings him in. "It will be some transgression," said an American official involved in the search for Mr. Yasin, Mr. Hussein and others. That was the case with the $30 million reward that was offered for information about Uday and Qusay Hussein, two of Mr. Hussein’s sons, Western officials said. According to that account, the brothers’ landlord gave them away after they started molesting his wife and daughter. Special Operations soldiers killed the brothers at the home. Hadn’t heard that, but it sounds typical of them. | ||||
Posted by:Steve |
#4 Track them with an armed predator drone. |
Posted by: Superhose 2003-9-29 3:18:40 PM |
#3 Track them with an armed predator drone. |
Posted by: Superhose 2003-9-29 3:18:40 PM |
#2 "...said at least 19 Qaeda members were in custody here.." That number again. |
Posted by: mhw 2003-9-29 12:13:10 PM |
#1 "...said at least 19 Qaeda members were in custody here.." That number again. |
Posted by: mhw 2003-9-29 12:13:10 PM |