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Terror tales from terrorist camps
WASHINGTON: Trainees at terrorist camps in Afghanistan learned how to
assassinate, commit sabotage, unleash poisons and build explosives, a
convicted terrorist collaborator testified in chilling testimony two
months ago.
Ahmed Ressam told a court in July that his training for chemical
attacks included watching his "chief" place a dog in a box and lace
the box with cyanide and sulphuric acid.
It took the dog about four minutes to die, Ressam testified.
"We wanted to know what is the effect of the gas," Ressam told the
court. "In regard to targets in general, yes. Yes, we were speaking
about America as an enemy of Islam."
Ressam testified in the trial of a man accused of conspiring with him
to bomb the Los Angeles airport as part of a millennium terror plot.
Ressam was convicted and became a cooperating witness in hopes of
receiving a shorter sentence.
Those at the camp with him in 1998 learned how to place cyanide near a
building's air intake to kill as many people as they could without
endangering themselves, he testified.
Ressam told authorities that while at the camp, he learned how to mix
poisons with oily substances and smear them on doorknobs so those who
touched them would be killed by toxins coursing through their blood.
Law enforcement authorities investigating the September 11 attacks on
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are investigating whether
additional attacks using crop-dusters or hazardous chemical tankers
were planned.
They have issued warnings to police to guard against the hijackings of
such vehicles.
Saudi Arabian multimillionaire Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaida
network are the US governments prime suspects in the attacks. Bin
Laden runs terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, US investigators
say.
Ressam has told US officials he was allied to a London man with close
ties to Bin Laden.
Ressam, an Algerian living in Montreal, was stopped in December 1999
trying to enter Washington state by ferry from British Columbia in a
car packed with bomb-making materials.
Investigators say Ressam was part of a broader plot to bomb US targets
during millennium festivities. He testified at the trial of another
Montreal Algerian, Mokhtar Haouari, who was also convicted on
conspiracy charges stemming from the scheme.
At Haouari's New York trial, Ressam testified that he spent about six
months training in Afghanistan.
From 50 to 100 people were at the Khalden camp at any given time,
Ressam said.
They included people from Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia,
Sweden, Germany, France, Turkey and the Chechen region of Russia,
Ressam testified.
Ressam, who had ties to Algeria's violent Armed Islamic Group, said he
was grouped with about 30 fellow Algerians at the camp. They were
further divided into groups of five or six known as cells. Each cell
had a certain area, such as Europe, and a leader, Ressam testified.
His cell discussed a plan to meet in Canada, rob banks to raise money
and use it to finance an attack on a US airport, he said.
Ressam said that in the course of training, he received instruction in
light weapons, handguns, machine guns, a rocket launcher and
explosives. Ressam told the court that the weapons and ammunition were
purchased from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
The training included sabotage, "how to blow up the infrastructure of
a country," such as military installations, electric plants,
corporations, airports and railroads, Ressam testified.( AP )
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