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schrodingers_cat Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 07:15 PM
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Probing al-Qaida (al-Libbi connection to 7/7)
BY KNUT ROYCE
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT; Craig Gordon and Tom Brune of Newsday's Washington Bureau contributed to this story.

July 8, 2005


WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence had picked up warnings recently that the al-Qaida terror network or its followers were seeking to duplicate the dramatic 3/11 Madrid train bombings in another European city, two knowledgeable sources said yesterday.
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Some of that information had been culled from a notebook belonging to Abu Faraj al-Libbi, the No.3 official in al-Qaida and the group's operations chief, who was arrested in Pakistan in May, one intelligence source said.


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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woqaid084335120jul08,0,3030867.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 07:16 PM
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1. intelligence
I was wondering why they didnt wait until 7/11, or was it too convenient not to
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 07:17 PM
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2. Again
They know about this stuff and tell no one.
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allemand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 07:26 PM
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4. And the threat level for London had just been lowered
some days before the attack. It seems that somebody didn't pass the information.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 07:20 PM
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3. Pakistan
Again?

But, but Pakistan is our ally.

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