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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3973)	9/19/2001 6:47:30 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Talking peace, making war aci.net

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3973)	9/19/2001 7:20:59 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

American sources say the information being given in Riyadh by Tayyib relates to the distribution of money to Arab communities in Brooklyn, Jersey City in New Jersey, and Detroit. Tayyib has apparently given details of bin Laden's bank accounts in Pakistan and Afghanistan from which money has been sent to London and Detroit for passing on to individuals. His information is thought to have been the reason a federal grand jury has been secretly convened in New York to examine the financing of terrorism in America. The CIA believes that bin Laden had advance knowledge of two Saudi bombings that killed 24 US servicemen. He is thought to have provided the money, with Iran supplying the muscle through Hizbollah. miraserve.com

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3973)	9/19/2001 7:56:55 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

However, looked at more closely, the various facets of this complex, precise and coordinated attack seem quite familiar to the terrorism specialist: Hijacking of planes is by far the most common form of attack on commercial aviation and is an old stand-by of Middle Eastern and Islamist terrorists. The method has been used by Palestinians (the initiators of this form of terrorism in the 1970’s), Shi’ites (in the 1980’s) and occasionally others, as seen in last year’s hijackings by Chechen and Kashmiri rebels. A coordinated hijacking of four planes has, indeed, already taken place. In September 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine diverted a Pan-Am airliner to Cairo while three others—TWA, Swissair, and BOAC planes—were diverted to Dawson airport in Jordan. All were blown up on the ground. Based on intelligence, the hijacking of a plane in order to crash it in a populated area has been feared in Israel since the mid-1970’s. This is why, in 1972, a Libyan plane that penetrated Israeli airspace was downed by Israeli warplanes when it and failed to react to Israeli warnings. A similar incident occurred on May 24, 2001, when a small Lebanese civilian plane was shot down north of Tel-Aviv by Apache attack helicopters, because it was feared to be part of a Hizballah suicide operation. In December 1994 an Air-France Airbus was hijacked by Algerian GIA terrorists, landed in Marseille for refueling and was stormed by French counter-terrorist teams when it became clear that they were planning a suicide mission over Paris ict.org.il The reaction must be swift, massive and ruthless. The first target is known: bin Laden and his acolytes in Afghanistan and the rogue Taliban regime, already proved to be responsible actively or passively in the suicide bombings against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. The other actors can wait their turn, and in the meanwhile, their peoples should be urged to decide on which side they want to be, and encouraged to take the necessary steps against their own rogue regimes.