Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1928-1000587257-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); Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18999 invoked by uid 510); 15 Sep 2001 20:54:38 -0000 Received: from n15.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.65) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 20:54:38 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1928-1000587257-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ml.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2001 20:54:19 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 20:54:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 24119 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 20:01:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 20:01:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 20:01:00 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id NAA06244 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:01:00 -0700 Message-Id: <200109152001.NAA06244@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: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:ERRI.Special.Report.#4.-.Sat..15.Sep.2001] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 15 Sep 2001 - 08:30CDT/09:30EDT ERRI SPECIAL TERRORISM REPORTS FOR SATURDAY (#4) SUMMARY-CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION/FBI/CIA/DOS ACTIVITIES ===================================================== By Steve Macko, ERRI Risk Analyst FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: ================================ Latest SitRep ------------- Late on Friday evening, the FBI announced that the voice recorder from the plane crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, has been recovered. An FBI spokeswoman said search crews found the plane's second "black box" at about 2030 EDT, about 25 feet deep into the crater. The voice recorder has been sent to the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington. It was not known what condition the cockpit voice recorder was in. Federal authorities made the first arrest in their worldwide investigation on Friday. The individual is being held in New York under a sealed material witness warrant. The suspect was arrested because authorities have determined that the individual has information highly relevant to the investigation and is a high-flight risk. Citing an "immediate threat of further attacks," POTUS declared a national emergency and moved to call up as many as 50,000 reservists. Congress unanimously approved a $40 billion emergency plan for disaster relief and anti-terrorism efforts. Reports emerged on Friday that as the terrorist attack was unfolding, the U.S. military scrambled fighter jets in a desperate attempt to intervene. It has been learned the FAA alerted U.S. air defense units of a possible hijacking at 0838EDT Tuesday morning and six minutes later, at 0844 EDT, two F-15s received a scramble order at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod. Minutes later, American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the World Trade Center. To the South, there was a new danger and a new response. At 0930 EDT, three F-16s were launched out of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, 150 miles south of Washington. There were reports on Friday that the city of Atlanta was a target of the hijackers. Other information that is now emerging saying that report is believed to be untrue. The FBI, meantime, released the names of 19 individuals it is identifying as hijackers. The hijackers have been identified as: Marwan Al Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi who were flying on United Airlines Flight 175, which destroyed the World Trade Center. Waleed M. Alshehri, Wail Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami were aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which also destroyed the World Trade Center. Khalid Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaq Alhamzi, Salem Alhamzi and Hani Hanjour were on American Airlines Flight 77, which gouged a hole in the Pentagon building. Ahmed Alhaznawi, Ahmed Alnami, Ziad Jarrahi and Saeed Alghamdi were on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside. Officials in Washington, meantime, found flight data and voice recorders from the Pentagon attack site, but may not be able to retrieve any information from them. Federal sources said that the Pentagon crash black boxes were taken to the National Transportation Safety Bureau lab where a quick readout was attempted. But preliminary information shows there is nothing that appears to be useful on the cockpit voice tape. The tape appears to be blank or erased. This is a potentially devastating blow, since investigators had hoped to hear the cockpit sounds in hopes of gaining insight as to how the hijackers' plan unfolded, and what their motives were. Also, the voice recorder was hoped to be able to shed light on what the targets were, since the plane made a turn over Washington before crashing. Investigators said sometimes information can be recovered on subsequent attempts, but they were not optimistic. Data from the Pentagon crash flight data recovered hasn't been processed yet, and a software problem slowed the analysis of the Pennsylvania crash's data recorder. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY: ======================== CIA And Pentagon Search For Bin Laden Targets According to government sources, since 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency has been authorized to use covert means to disrupt and preempt terrorist operations planned abroad by master terrorist Usama bin Laden. U.S. intelligence has observed the elusive "bearded one," thought to be hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan, several times this year. But reliable intelligence on the whereabouts of bin Laden has been rare, despite what one source called a "rich and active" surveillance program. The intelligence directives, known formally as "presidential findings," were issued after terrorists linked by U.S. officials to bin Laden bombed U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. They were designed to give CIA officers maximum capability to stop attacks planned by bin Laden's al Qaeda network against additional American targets, which agency officers succeeded in doing several times. Sources said that the highly classified directives adhered to a legal ban on the assassination of foreign leaders but authorized lethal force for self-defense, which was used by the CIA in several cases when armed terrorists were stopped moments before they initiated attacks. Since 1998, CIA counterterrorist officers, working with "liaison" partners from foreign intelligence organizations, have succeeded in preempting al Qaeda attacks in Jordan, Egypt, Kenya and the Balkans. In regards to striking back at bin Laden now, one intelligence source said: "We have a hell of a targeting problem," noting that Pentagon analysts are attempting to match current intelligence with military capabilities contained in contingency plans for striking terrorist groups. Those analysts are trying to determine whether to attempt to strike bin Laden directly, or to target military action against his aides, training camps, or the broader global network known as al Qaeda, which has connections to other Middle East terrorist groups. It has been learned that intelligence gathered since Tuesday's attacks indicates that bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and his other training centers throughout the Middle East, are now virtually empty. In addition, Iraq has moved military equipment this week. The new information on bin Laden comes as the Pentagon reviews plans for what Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D Wolfowitz described as a "broad and sustained" campaign against those responsible for Tuesday's attacks and any government (or movement) found to have provided them sanctuary. Wolfowitz said: "I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign. I think one thing is clear -- you don't do it with just a single military strike, no matter how dramatic. You don't do it with just military forces alone, you do it with the full resources of the U.S. government." Pentagon planners are said to be focusing on starting any military campaign with sustained bombing raids, first against bin Laden sites in Afghanistan. A senior U.S. official said if that proves ineffective, the plan would call for the bombing of targets associated with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia, which has harbored bin Laden for the past five years. Several military officers said the Pentagon is also considering an array of special forces operations aimed at suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan and Algeria. The Pentagon also is considering flying unmanned drones capable of lingering over terrorist camps for extended periods to provide almost continuous surveillance. U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT: ====================== U.S. Department Of State Issues Public Announcement For Nepal On 13 September, the U.S. State Department issued the following Public Announcement for Nepal: "The Department of State cautions all Americans travelling or living in Nepal that the Communist Party of Nepal Maoists) is reportedly planning large demonstrations in Kathmandu around September 21. A large number of people from outlying towns and villages is expected to enter the capital for the demonstrations. Civil disturbances are possible, and major disruptions of traffic in and around Kathmandu are likely. The possibility for violence also exists. As always, Americans in Nepal are urged to exercise caution and to avoid crowds or demonstrations." INTERNATIONAL: ============== SitRep Briefs: -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban warned of revenge if the U.S. attacked. Yet they deny that Usama bin Laden was involved in the terror attack. Taliban clerics urged Muslims to unite against the U.S. Afghans were making plans to leave the capital, afraid of military strikes. -- Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), is in the spotlight. The ISI is known for its contacts with the Taliban. Pakistan is promising the United States its "unstinted cooperation," despite suspicious by India - among others - it may have supported Muslim extremists in the past. -- German authorities said three of the hijackers were part of a group of Islamic extremists in Hamburg. Investigators said two of the terrorists were Mohamed Atta, age 33, and 23-year-old Marwan Alshehhi, whose training at a Florida flight school is a focus of FBI interest, and said two were from the United Arab Emirates. -- U.S. and Philippine authorities conducted a raid in Manila. President Gloria Arroyo said the "joint action" was taken near the U.S. Embassy. -- Dutch police arrested four people on Friday in the port city of Rotterdam suspected of being members of a radical Islamic network. -- In Madrid, Spain, Interpol set up its first task force, to channel information to U.S. authorities. -- In Belgium, two men have reportedly been detain/arrested with weapons. It is believed that they are associated with terrorist networks in Europe. Emergency Response & Research Institute EmergencyNet News Service 6348 N. 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