Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1881-1000467734-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 13877 invoked by uid 510); 14 Sep 2001 11:42:53 -0000 Received: from n12.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.62) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 11:42:53 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1881-1000467734-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by n12.onelist.org with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2001 11:42:12 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 14 Sep 2001 11:42:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 23453 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2001 11:05:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Sep 2001 11:05:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 11:05:30 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id EAA24111 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:05:30 -0700 Message-Id: <200109141105.EAA24111@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Osama-bin-Laden-Formally-Named-as-Suspect-in-WTC-and-Pentagon-Terrorist-Attacks] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 00:00CDT/01:00CDT - 14 Sep 2001 Osama Bin Laden Formally Named as Suspect in WTC and Pentagon Terrorist Attacks Background Information by the Emergency Response & Research Institute (ERRI) By Jeremy Zakis, ERRI Analyst C. L. Staten, ERRI Sr. National Security Analyst US Secretary of State Colin L Powell announced late Thursday that Osama bin Laden was officially the leading suspect for organizing the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon last Tuesday. The announcement has confirmed speculation from the beginning that the master terrorist had a hand in the attacks. He will now be pursued by the US government. Osama bin Laden is recognized as the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Officially unconfirmed OSINT reports, received within the past four hours, would suggest that Bin Laden and his closest bodyguards fled his most current hiding place within minutes of the brutal sneak attacks on the United States. His present location is unknown by ERRI/EmergencyNet News. Since Tuesday's terrorist attacks in DC and NYC, there have been several reports from Kandahar of "Arab nationals," associated with Bin Laden, moving out of the area -- presumably to avoid potential U.S. retaliation. ------------------------------ THE AL-QAEDA NETWORK (SUMMARY) ------------------------------ Founded and headed by Osama bin Laden. Formed around 1985 as part of the Maktab al-Kidamat (MAK), otherwise known as the Services Office, to supply fighters and money to the Afghan resistance in Peshawar. OBJECTIVE: ---------- To create a central Islamic state in the east Asia and liberate the Middle East from "Zionists (Jews) and Crusaders (US forces)." HEADQUARTERS AND AREA OF OPERATION: ----------------------------------- US intelligence believes that its headquarters are in the mountains near Kabul, Afghanistan. However, independent journalists claim that Osama bin Laden rarely remains in one location and has been seen on numerous occasions crossing the Afghan desert in a convoy of white four-wheel-drive vehicles. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda is also operates from the neighboring country of Turkmenistan. The border between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan is long and largely unguard, making crossings easy and unnoticed. A recent Congressional Research Service reports that al-Qaeda cells have been identified or suspected in 34 countries, including, but not limited too: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States itself. The report also lists 19 Near Eastern terrorist organizations, and ranks Al-Qaeda as the only one with an "extremely high" terrorist activity level. For comparison, only two were ranked "very high": the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, both Palestinian organizations. ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AL-QAEDA NETWORK: -------------------------------------- The al-Qaeda network is associated and connected with: The Armed Islamic Group (Algeria), Islamic Group (Egypt), Al-Jihad (Egypt), Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (southern Egypt), Jamait-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan (Pakistan), Jihad Movement (Bangladesh), Palestine Islamic Jihad (Syria), Abu Sayyaf Group (Philippines), Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines). Suspected association with: Jaish-e-Mohammed (Pakistan) and New Peoples Army (Philippines). Major association with: Ayman Al-Zawari, who was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death for the 1981 assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Considered by some to be Bin Laden's "right-hand" man or deputy commander...likely to take his place should Bin Laden be incapacitated or killed. ASSETS: ------- The al-Qaeda network is believed to have assets in excess of $US300 million and access to aircraft, vehicles and an unknown quantity of weaponary including explosives, automatic rifles and machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and possibly American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Concerns have been raised by both U.S. and other governments that elements associated with Bin Laden have been attempting to acquire Weapons of Mass Destruction (Chemical/Biological/Nuclear) during the past two years. Their success is not officially confirmed. KNOWN/SUSPECTED TERRORIST ATTACKS: --------------------------------- FEBRUARY 26, 1993 - Bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York City. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 injured. Four people associated with al-Qaeda were later convicted for the bombing. NOVEMBER 13, 1995 - A car bomb exploded outside the Saudi Arabian National Guard training facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five US service personnel and two Indian's. Sixty people were injured in the blast including 34 Americans. Four Saudi Nationals connected with an organisation funded by al-Qaeda, were convicted and later executed. JUNE 25, 1996 - The Al-Khobar housing complex in Dahran was bombed killing 19 American service personnel and wounding 300 others. The al-Qaeda network was suspected played a major role in setting up and executing this attack. AUGUST 7, 1998 - The US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, were bombed ten minutes apart killing 220 people, including 12 Americans, and wounding more than 4,000. Four al-Qaeda operatives were later arrested for the bombings and found guilty in a trial held early 2001 in New York City. Bin Laden was also an indicted conspirator in the African embassy bombings. OCTOBER 12, 2000 - The U.S.S Cole was damaged by suicide bombers riding a boat laden with explosives, in Aden Harbor, Yemen with the loss of 17 American personnel. FBI investigators reveal two months after the attack that forensic evidence connects al-Qaeda terrorists to the attack. **The above information is compiled from extensive ERRI data on this topic and contains analysis by Jeremy Zakis, ERRI Analyst, and C. L. Staten, ERRI Sr. National Security Analyst. © EmergencyNet News Service, 2001. All rights reserved. May not be redistributed or otherwise published without the expressed permission of ERRI/EmergencyNet News. Routine permission will be granted to U.S. emergency, military, and intelligence agencies for reproduction. Emergency Response & Research Institute EmergencyNet News Service 6348 N. 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