FBI worred about mafia/Al Qaeda connection after watching Sopranos

[cynatnite]

WASHINGTON - The FBI's top counterterrorism official harbors lots of concerns: weapons of mass destruction, undetected homegrown terrorists and the possibility that old-fashioned mobsters will team up with al-Qaida for the right price.

Though there is no direct evidence yet of organized crime collaborating with terrorists, the first hints of a connection surfaced in a recent undercover FBI operation. Agents stopped a man with alleged mob ties from selling missiles to an informant posing as a terrorist middleman.

That case and other factors are heightening concerns about a real-life episode of the Sopranos teaming with Osama bin Laden's followers.

"We are continuing to look for a nexus," said Joseph Billy Jr., the FBI's top counterterrorism official. "We are looking at this very aggressively."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_go_ot/terror_and_the_mob

[KittyWampus]

1. someone remind me- the 2 guys who delivered a huge box o'cash to a nuclear

facility but were caught?

[katsy]

2. now... where did those wmds go?

not under the couch.

:eyes:

Really... this whole nightmare is a real life keystone cop episode. Twisted joke. Watching too much teevee, billy boy. It adles your brain.

[pretzel4gore]

3. they should look at bush, haliburton, tom delay

foxnews' rupert murdoch, melon-scaife, blackwater and the entire rightwing plague of locusts ruining US society (which include the top managers of the fbi, actually )..there are no wmd's, no homegrown antibush terrorists and no al quida/mafia link....none. i'm a goddam civvy who knows nada about law winforcement, crime scene investigating or how bad guys work, yet even I know all this for facts!
sheeese

[a la izquierda]

4. ROFL...

well, I would be if I could move.
So, I wonder, will those folks "connected" to the mob be spared from terrorist attacks?

[AIJ Alom]

5. So if the FBI saw a terrorist-political party connection on the now

defunct West Wing, would they consider investigating the president ??

[peacetalksforall]

6. If I am a citizen who questions the WH alQueda players and

relationships, plus WH <> Mafia players and relationships and all their 'co-efforts', then why not wonder about a Mafia <> al Queda relationship?

While George talks about the axis of evil, we have George walking between and holding hands with Israeli Sharon type leaders and the House of Saud.

So why not another three way hook-up?

[AntiFascist]

7. When it comes to Bush, Saudis, and the money-laundering nexus...

law enforcement looks the other way. Look who's about the run our ports and imagine what could smuggled and laundered.