Bush Admin. Outed Khan - AN AL QAEDA MOLE! Why isn't the media reporting?

[Windy]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5902856

This is important information to relay to the american people!


Unmasking of Qaeda Mole a U.S. Security Blunder-Experts
Sat Aug 7, 2004 12:46 PM ET

By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - The revelation that a mole within al Qaeda was exposed after Washington launched its "orange alert" this month has shocked security experts, who say the outing of the source may have set back the war on terror.

Reuters learned from Pakistani intelligence sources on Friday that computer expert Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, arrested secretly in July, was working under cover to help the authorities track down al Qaeda militants in Britain and the United States when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers.

"After his capture he admitted being an al Qaeda member and agreed to send e-mails to his contacts," a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters. "He sent encoded e-mails and received encoded replies. He's a great hacker and even the U.S. agents said he was a computer whiz."

Last Sunday, U.S. officials told reporters that someone held secretly by Pakistan was the source of the bulk of the information justifying the alert. The New York Times obtained Khan's name independently, and U.S. officials confirmed it when it appeared in the paper the next morning.

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[nostamj]

1. front page story in the NY Times

and no mention of the outing...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/politics/08plot.html?pagewanted=1&hp

but boy oh boy are they pimping the 'terrorists are going to attack the election' line... :nuke:

p.s. you're post violates the copyright rule. 3-4 paragraphs only with a link...

[Windy]

2. the new york times isn't widely read. It needs

to be reported on CNN/MSNBC.... abc, nbc cbs...

And I've given credit to the author and the paper... don't think its violative... and that not the point...this information needs to be more widely disseminated!

[iconoclastic cat]

4. He's right, Windy.

[carpetbagger]

3. It's gathering steam

I heard CNN mention it this morning. I;m not sure how prominent it is, since I don't leave the dial on CNN any more, but while surfing I did hear mention.

[justgamma]

5. Any thinking person

would know how hard it is to infiltrate these groups. By outing the mole, we have set back the war on terrorists. Not only that, but how hard will it be to recruit anyone to work for us?

[Moderator]

6. Windy - please read

please limit your copy and paste to 4 paragraphs
as per the Democratic Underground rules .

[AmandaRuth]

7. wow

i sure fear for this mans family

[AussieInCA]

8. Rice admitted the Bush Admin outed him (CNN, MSNBC) - juancole.com

snip:

The story of how the Bush administration prematurely outed Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a double agent working for Pakistan against al-Qaeda, has finally hit cable television news. MSNBC picked up the story on Saturday.

On Sunday at around 12:30 pm, Wolf Blitzer's show referred to it. New York Senator Charles Schumer criticized the Bush administration for revealing Khan's name. He noted the annoyance of British Home Minister Blunkett (see below) and Pakistani Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat with the Americans for blowing Khan's cover. He said Hayat complained that if Khan's name had not been reveaeled to the New York Times by the Bush administration, he might well have provided information that would have led to the capture of Usamah Bin Laden himself!

Blitzer then revealed that he had discussed the Khan case with US National Security Adviser Condaleeza Rice on background. He reported that she had admitted that the Bush administration had in fact revealed Khan's name to the press. She said she did not know if Khan was a double agent working for the Pakistani government. (!!!)

endsnip

[DeepModem Mom]

9. That's what I THOUGHT I heard Condi say to Wolf, but didn't believe...

my ears -- she didn't know???

[Xenus Sister]

11. Sibel Edmonds warned us!

There are, at best incompetent, at worst secret agents, working in the FBI translation units. Whoever revealed the name had to have found out via translation.

Please, someone, tell me heads will roll and Edmonds will finally be taken seriously.

Please, someone, tell me that the 9/11 Commission will explain why they ignored Edmonds.

Please, someone, tell me that I'm living in an alternate universe, and that in the REAL world, none of this could possibly happen.

My anger-at-this-administration-and-the-Pravda-like-media meter is so maxed out, I'm exhausted.

[Blue Gardener]

10. Let's hope for John Stewart or Keith Olberman

Either one of them might bring it up this week.

[unfrigginreal]

12. The networks aren't going to push this unless Democratic congressfolk...

start making an issue of it. Why we've been silent is a real mystery to me.