Sheik Ahmed Yassin was killed via an Israeli Apache helicopter Longbow missile in March 22, 2004. The Bush administration via the idiotic press secretary Scott McClellan had the nerve to tell Israel to “consider the consequences of its actions” – yeah the consequences of killing Yassin was that there was one less terrorist in the world. A month later on April 17, 2004, Yassin’s replacement, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi aka The Pediatrician of Death met the same fate – now there were two less terrorists the world.
by Yaakov Katz
Seven Israeli Arabs who were arrested last year for murdering a Jewish taxi driver and carrying out a string of terrorist attacks against Jews and Christians never met Osama bin Laden or any of his deputies. The same was the case with the 24-year-old Hebrew University student Muhammad Najem who allegedly plotted shooting down former US President George W. Bush’s helicopter during his visit to Israel in 2008.
The Jaljalat al-Qaida-affiliated organizations that operate in the Gaza Strip such as the Army of Islam – which was involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit – are also not organizationally connected to Afghanistan or Pakistan. They share an ideology, pass on technical information by the Internet and call themselves the same name.
That is because while bin Laden was a leader at one point of a clear hierarchical organization, in the years since the 9/11 attacks the Israeli and US intelligence communities share the assessment that he has served more in a position of a symbolic figurehead.
Al-Qaida has in the meantime metastasized into a worldwide network of independent terror cells which might share the same ideology and browse the same websites but very rarely ever get to meet one another for joint terror operations.
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Nevertheless, the same assessment holds that Israel is one of the primary targets for al-Qaida and will continue to remain so for the coming years. Bin Laden repeatedly referred to Israel and Palestine in his speeches and al-Qaida-affiliated terror cells were behind the attempt in 2002 to shoot down an Israeli passenger plane in Kenya, a bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, the bombing of Jewish targets in 2003 in Morocco, of a synagogue in Istanbul that same year and additional attacks as well.
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Not surprising that an al-Qaida alumni or ally would want to enlist Bin Laden’s help in attacking Israel. By the way, Abu Zubaydah was water boarded and again proves that the procedure works.
by Joshua Hammer
A senior al-Qaida terrorist held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba raised funds to carry out terror attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets, according to one of the US Defense Department’s Guantanamo detainee reports released by WikiLeaks.
Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is listed in the November 2008 detainee assessment as a high-risk threat to the US and its allies and interests, and as a prisoner of high intelligence value with personal connections to Osama bin Laden and other senior terrorists.
The 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) identified Zubaydah as a senior al-Qaida lieutenant, and that both of them were important travel facilitators for the terror group’s operatives, according to the report.
Abu Zubaydah is one of 763 Guantanamo detainees whose files were released by WikiLeaks starting on April 24. They include information on prisoners who have been released or transferred, and those who died in custody. The files also include photographs of most of the detainees.
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Zubaydah, for example, supplied the late al-Qaida commander Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with several thousand dollars, according to the leaked detainee report, for an operation Zubaydah wanted to conduct in the West Bank and Gaza. Al-Zarqawi knew smugglers who could be useful for the operation.He also allegedly plotted with Ayman al-Zawahiri’s former deputy, Abu Samih (Abu Samah al-Masri), to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in Morocco.
The detainee brief states that, simultaneously, Zubaydah suggested attacking Israeli targets in Egypt. He told Abu Dhahhak to ask Wafa Humanitarian Organization fundraiser Abu Ammar to raise $100,000 for anti-Israeli operations. Zubaydah ended up raising $50,000 for an attack against the Israeli Embassy in Egypt, but gave the money to bin Laden, telling him the funding was to be used specifically for attacks on Israeli targets.
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In December, 2000, Zubaydah dispatched Hassan Ghul to Saudi Arabia to raise funds for operations against Israel, the file states. Zubaydah then traveled to Kandahar in March 2001 to meet with bin Laden and Muhammad Atef (also known as Abu Hafs al- Masri) about the possibility of carrying out an attack in Israel.Zubaydah sent passport photos to Said al-Kurdi around May, 2001, so the latter could receive phony Belgian passports, but the document does not state if this was related to the discussed operation in Israel.
Ali Muhammad Abdul Aziz al- Fakhri, the director of the Khalden training camp when Zubaydah first received training there, said Zubaydah was involved in planning the USS Cole bombing and an attack on the US Embassy in Yemen, according to the report.
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