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TORONTO - Randy Carlyle called Nazem Kadri's performance Thursday night the best he's seen in a long time.
Kadri had three assists extending his point streak to four games as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Florida Panthers 6-3.
Nikolai Kulemin one-timed a Kadri feed at the four-minute mark of the third period for the game-winner. The assist was Kadri's 100th career N.H.L. point.
"It's a great achievement for myself, but hopefully there's a lot more to come," said Kadri, who has two goals and five assists on his current point steak. "You got to think to yourself when the points are coming easy, it's just not all about that, you got to make sure you're good in your D zone, bearing down on face-offs and just allow the coaching staff to put you on the ice in those crucial situations."
With the Leafs trailing 2-0 in the first, Kadri set up Cody Franson at 16:49 to get Toronto's comeback rolling.
Then with the Leafs leading 4-2 in the third, the 23-year-old London, Ont. native set up Joffrey Lupul at 6:22, on a power play, for the insurance marker.
"Nazy was a difference maker tonight," said Carlyle. "That's probably the best game he's played in a long time and at both ends of the rink obviously with the points and distributing the puck, that was making some big league plays."
Toronto (29-21-6) also got goals from Mason Raymond, James van Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak as they extended their win streak on home ice to five games.
Florida (21-26-7) got first period goals from Nick Bjugstad and Sean Bergenheim. Dmitry Kulikov had the other Panthers goal.
"When a team comes out after they've lost the period, they're probably getting some bad words from the coach," said Kulikov. "We knew they were going to come out strong in the second period and we didn't handle it."
Scott Clemmensen made 26 saves for his fifth loss of the season. Jonathan Bernier made 35 saves in the win.
Toronto won five in a row on home ice from Oct. 22 to Nov. 19. The Leafs have just two regulation losses in their past 11 games.
Florida scored twice on their first seven shots to open a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Bjugstad opened the scoring 1:39 into the first, beating Bernier with a backhand blocker side for his 12th goal of the season.
Bergenheim finished off a 2-on-1 feed from Brad Boyes at 13:50 to give the Panthers a two-goal lead. The assist was the 250th of Boyes' career.
"We were kind of stunned," said Carlyle. "The first shot on goal was in our net. It set us back a little bit and we weren't really moving our feet. We seemed to find a way to get it going."
It was all Toronto after that as the Leafs scored five unanswered goals.
After Franson cut Florida's lead in the first, the Leafs scored twice in the first minute of the second period to take a 3-2 lead.
Raymond scored off the rush, with a wrist shot, glove-side on Clemmensen 27 seconds into the period for his 14th of the season. Van Riemsdyk tipped a Phil Kessel shot past Clemmensen at 57 seconds of the second period, on a power play.
With the goal, van Riemsdyk surpassed his previous single-season goals total of 21 set during the 2010-11 season while he was a member of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Bozak finished off a 2-on-1 feed from Kessel at 18:37 of the third.
"A few weeks ago, it felt like the sky was falling in Toronto," said Kadri of the four-game losing streak. "We understood that it was nothing to panic about, we just rallied around each other. "
Added Franson: "We're moving in the right direction and I don't know if you can call it a swagger, but our play is getting better and at the end of the day that's all you're looking to do is progressively progress."
Toronto concludes its three-game home stand Saturday against the Ottawa Senators.
Notes: Leafs coach Randy Carlyle expects David Clarkson (elbow) to return during the team's two-game road trip in Florida. … Toronto forward David Bolland (ankle) is 50-50 to return to the lineup prior to the Olympic break according to Carlyle. … Florida forward Shawn Matthias (illness) returned to the lineup Thursday.


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Published in The Tennessean, Sunday, July 8, 2012 and Forbes with archives.
by Richard J. Grant
Although the Affordable Care Act contains many new taxes that will soon come into effect, most recent attention has been focused on whether or not the individual mandate provision within the act constitutes a tax.
The Supreme Court has recently ruled, in NFIB v. Sebelius, that what the legislation calls a "penalty" can be construed for constitutional purposes to be a tax. This leaves open the question of what kind of tax it is. The closest that the court came to a clear statement was that it was a tax on "not obtaining health insurance." But this appears to tax inactivity, which suggests that it contains the same defect as the use of Commerce Clause powers to regulate inactivity.
To overcome this objection, the court insists that "the Constitution does not guarantee that individuals may avoid taxation through inactivity." But the first and only example it gives is that of a capitation, a head tax "that everyone must pay simply for existing." Congress may impose such a tax, but it is a direct tax, which means that its revenues must be proportionate among the states according to population.
Since the first administration, revenue-hungry governments have attempted to narrow the definition of "direct tax." But the current court is incorrect to claim that when the Constitution was written "it was unclear what else, other than a capitation," might be a direct tax. The definition clearly included accumulated property, which is why, when Congress passed a tax on ownership of carriages, James Madison objected that it was an unapportioned direct tax. In citing that case, Hylton v. United States, the current court noted that the tax was upheld by "reasoning that apportioning such a tax would make little sense, because it would have required taxing carriage owners at dramatically different rates depending on how many carriages were in their home state." Rather than accept this as an example of narrowness or ambiguity of the definition of "direct tax," the court should have rejected it as an example of expediency that subordinated the demands of the Constitution to the desire for revenue.
Perhaps expediency motivated the current court to reinterpret the individual mandate penalty as a tax. But it skated over what is being taxed. Imposing a tax for "not obtaining health insurance" implies, somehow, that having health insurance is the state of nature and that the taxable action or commodity is its negative.
To tax inactivity and pretend that it's an indirect tax makes no more sense than the "regulation of inactivity," which the court has now limited. The individual mandate's penalty might best be described as a head tax with full exemptions for those who meet the minimum insurance coverage requirement and full or partial exemptions for those with incomes below defined levels. Even with the exemptions, the burden of the tax that remains falls directly on those persons who were the targets of the penalty. It is also unapportioned.
A head tax is a direct tax. That the court failed to demonstrate the constitutionality of its newly discovered tax is clearly recognized by the dissenting justices. They write: "The holding that the individual mandate is a tax raises a difficult constitutional question (what is a direct tax?) that the court resolves with inadequate deliberation."
But if the court is guilty of expediency, the dissenting justices were too polite.
Richard J. Grant is a Professor of Finance and Economics at Lipscomb University and a Senior Fellow at the Beacon Center of Tennessee. His column appears on Sundays.
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Thirsting for water in Kendall County
When drought hits Kendall County, trucker Troy Immel stops hauling milk.
"In the short term, water is more profitable," he said from the cab of his Kenworth tractor that pulls a 6,000-gallon tank.
Working 12 hours or more a day, including weekends and holidays, Immel struggles to meet the growing demand for water in the Hill Country caused by a drop in production from wells drilled in the Trinity Aquifer.
According to preliminary numbers kept by the National Weather Service, the past nine months have been the driest on record in Texas and the second-driest in San Antonio.
More than 72 percent of the state now is in an "exceptional drought," with widespread crop failure and shortages of water in reservoirs, rivers and aquifers, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Kendall County, just north of Bexar County, is facing some of the worst of it. The Kendall County Utility Co. has banned all outdoor watering and threatens to cut off water to homeowners who don't comply. Recently, the private utility, which has 854 accounts, had to hire Immel and another driver to haul water for four days when two of its wells failed.
"We have had some wells go down," said Jay Parker, utility president. "It always seems to happen during a drought."
According to the Cow Creek Ground Water Conservation District, which regulates wells in Kendall County that are drilled into the Trinity, conditions are severe.
"This is probably equal to or worse than the (record) drought of the 1950s," said Micah Voulgaris, general manager of Cow Creek. "The weather patterns are the same, but the demand is so much greater."
Depending on the criteria used, Kendall County has been in a drought since 2009 or even 2005, he said.
The rains aren't as sparse as they were during the 1950s drought, which lasted for more than seven years, but then the county had some 4,000 residents. Now, there are 33,000 and instead of ranches and farms that depended on shallow wells, today's residents are maintaining lawns, playing rounds of golf and relaxing poolside.
The greater water use is made possible by deep wells, Voulgaris said. But those wells can't go much deeper and there is less water to go after.
Although 2010 had above-average rainfall, it was insufficient to fully recharge the Trinity after the 2009 drought. The Trinity simply isn't refilling like it once did.
According to records kept by Cow Creek, the Trinity has been on decline since the early 1990s.
That's about that time the population and housing booms started, Voulgaris and well drillers across the county point out.
"A lot of people back then had windmills," said John Schwope, the eldest son of the H.W. Schwope & Sons Water Well Drilling, which has been drilling in the Hill Country for more than 50 years. "They did not have all these dishwashers and washing machines."
Like Immel, the Schwope family and its employees are racing to meet the demand as pumps in wells across the county burn out and need to be lowered and requests for new wells keep coming.
Long-term concerns
A pipeline from Canyon Lake will help the region get through this summer, but the concern for water managers is the long term.
"People don't realize how big of a contribution the Trinity makes to the Edwards," Voulgaris said.
More than 2 million people get their drinking water from Edwards Aquifer, which was filled to near capacity in 2010.
That water comes from three major sources: rain falling directly on the aquifer's recharge zone and then seeping into the aquifer; streams and rivers crossing the recharge zone and seeping in via faults; and water moving in from neighboring aquifers, like the Trinity, explained Geary Schindel, chief technical officer at Edwards Aquifer Authority.
With the Trinity dropping, the Edwards mostly is reduced to the rainfall that directly hits its recharge zone.
As the rivers and creeks above the Trinity run dry, it's assumed the aquifer's contribution directly to the Edwards also is lower, he added.
"At the end of the year, we will start totaling up our recharge numbers," Schindel said. "I can guarantee you they will be greatly diminished."
The Edwards, with its greater size and depth, can handle a longer drought than the Trinity, Schindel said.
Last week's rain caused the Edwards to jump seven feet, but those gains easily could be lost during the next several weeks and put San Antonio into once-every-other-week watering restrictions by the end of July, according to the EAA.
But because of responsibilities to maintain springflows to protect endangered species and provide water to the cities and industries that also depend on those flows, the EAA will have to keep upping its watering restrictions as the drought continues, Schindel said.
Downstream impacts
Those downstream interests, basically anyone that depends on the Guadalupe River like the city Victoria or companies like Dow Chemical, pay close attention to the Trinity. If it runs low on water, there will be less for the Edwards and thus less for the springs and less water coming to them.
What's currently saving those downstream interests is the water that is stored in Canyon Lake, said Bill West, general manager of the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority.
"If the lake was not there, you would not have anything," West said, explaining that without the ability to slowly release water from Canyon Lake, the lower Guadalupe River would be flowing at even lower levels than it now is and would not come close to meeting demand.
But like the Edwards, Canyon Lake filled up with the above-average rains of 2010. What concerns West is how many droughts in a row the lake can handle and how many times the region will luck out with droughts that last less than two years.
The GBRA helped pay for a tree ring study that showed the drought of the 1950s, which is what regional water plans and the storage capacity of Canyon Lake are based on, was not an anomaly and more severe and longer droughts have occurred.
That means they also could happen again.
For Voulgaris, that's very real concern now.
His aquifer can't recover with the current demand, and more and longer droughts will mean more wells running into trouble and less water for more people.
"Twenty years from now, people are not going to be watering their lawns like they are now," he said.
If that were to occur, Immel would be grateful. He can't get a break from his workload as it is and has no interest in hauling even more water so homeowners can irrigate plants.
"Tell them I don't water lawns," he said.


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If your laptop seems not to have a touchpad disable key or switch, then you can permanently disable it from the Control Panel of Windows. To disable click on the Start Menu and select Control Panel, double-click on Mouse, click on Device Settings, and click on Disable. Finally click on OK and the touchpad will now be disabled.
If the touchpad operates correctly most of the time but just occasionally twitches or moves the pointer a few pixels, then there is software that may save you using a USB mouse when word processing.
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Arlington Middle hitter Hayley Molnar did most of her damage at the net during the Yorktown volleyball team's season opener against South County, but it was the junior's jump serve that provided an electric end to an energetic Patriots' effort in the deciding fifth game.
Molnar elevated near the end line and smashed an ace, putting the finishing touch on a 3-2 (25-23, 25-17, 18-25, 20-25, 15-4) victory at Yorktown High School. The Patriots won the first two games, but South County battled back to force a fifth. Yorktown came out energized, scoring the first four points and seven of the first eight. The Stallions cut their deficit to 7-3, but the Patriots scored eight of the final nine points to close the match.
"It was really exciting," Yorktown setter Reilly Burlingame said. "I was ready for it to end. I was tired."
Molnar obliged. In the fifth set, she tallied five kills, one block and the match-winning ace. She finished with 20 kills, six blocks, six digs and two aces.
"Playing four games is really tough," Molnar said, "but you have to push [in the fifth game] and energy is a big component — and also spirit, because we really wanted to win our first real [match] of the season."
Molnar's 20 kills led an otherwise balanced Yorktown offense. Junior outside hitters Brooke Maloney and Jane Townshend each had six kills, and Burlingame and junior middle Annabel Hungate each had five.
Burlingame, who took over the setter position from her graduated sister, Kaley Burlingame, totaled 35 assists. Molnar and Burlingame play club ball together, as well.
"They're a good two-some," Yorktown head coach Brittanie Behar said. "They play together in club, too, so I think that really helps their consistency. They're both just really aggressive, excited players and I think you can tell that when you watch them play."
Maloney recorded three aces and Burlingame had two. Senior libero Ashley Meredith and Townshend each totaled 15 digs. Maloney finished with nine digs and Burlingame had eight.
Monday's victory marked the third time in the last two seasons Yorktown defeated South County in five games, including the 2011 season opener and the teams' meeting in the regional quarterfinals. The Patriots reached advanced to the semifinals where they lost to Stone Bridge, finishing one win shy of the state tournament. Yorktown also won its first National District title since 2008.
The Patriots will travel to face Oakton at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4.


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Project Fox Big Block Budget Fuel System From Russell - Feed Me, Feed Me!
Project Fox's Thirsty 532 Big-Block Gets Fed With A Budget 1,000hp Fuel System From Russell.
The snowball is rolling, and poised to bury you in an avalanche of debt. But fear not, for exercising a few wise decisions and plotting out your battle plan in advance is all it takes to prevent your budget-built project car from mutating into an oxymoron. As our foray into the promised land of single-digit e.t. 's continues to progress, it came time to plumb up a fuel system for Project Fox's 532. Peering out in misery from between the shock towers like Robert Downey Jr. gazing out the window of a Malibu rehab facility, the 775hp big-block was begging for a hit of some tasty 93-octane brewski. Although feeding a motor with such a voracious appetite can get quite costly, we managed to pull off the feat for $804, thanks to a dollar-stretching turnkey fuel system from Russell Performance.
While budget-priced high-performance hardware is certainly part of the equation, we could have easily spent four times as much money on a fuel system had we stuck with EFI on our '93 Mustang. The 52 lb/hr injectors necessary to fuel nearly 800 hp would have gobbled up two-thirds of our entire $804 budget. Furthermore, the stand-alone engine management system, wiring harness, mondo throttle body, and custom intake manifold mods necessary to run EFI could easily ring up another $3,000. Since plans call for running at either idle or wide-open throttle-and not much in between-who gives a hoot about the driveability advantages of EFI? The comprehensive Russell fuel system (PN 641523) includes a monster 160-gph electric pump, 20 feet of -8AN hose, an inline filter, hose clamps, all necessary fittings and wiring, a pressure regulator, and a fuel pressure gauge.
Keeping things simple and cheap has been the underlying theme of Project Fox since the beginning, and we decided to skip on the mini-tubs while the chassis was under construction. Larger wheel tubs usually require installing either a narrower gas tank or mounting a fuel cell in the trunk, neither of which are appealing in a dual-role street/strip car. Fortunately, with the luxury of being able to retain the stock fuel tank, there's still plenty of room in the trunk to stash fat bags of cash hustled off unassuming victims on cruise night. Or so we've heard.
At the risk of sounding obsessive-compulsive, we have to give a huge thanks to the folks at Bill Buck Race Cars once again for pulling an all-nighter this time around. With Project Fox now plumbed up, all it needs is a cooling system, exhaust, and an interior rehab before it's ready for action.
How Much Pump?
Determining how large of a fuel pump a motor requires is contingent upon power output, brake specific fuel consumption, and target fuel pressure. The BSFC of most naturally aspirated motors ranges from .400-.500 lb/hr (per horsepower), while forced induction applications vary from .600-.650 lb/hr. We know from prior dyno testing that Project Fox's 532 big-block burns between .400- and .450 lb/hr of fuel while cranking out 775 hp. Furthermore, like most carbureted motors, it operates at 6-7 psi of line pressure. Using this info, all it takes is some simple math to calculate the fuel volume necessary to feed this thirsty mill. Since motors are far less forgiving of lean air/fuel mixtures than rich mixtures, it's good practice to add a safety margin of 10 percent to the BSFC figure. Thus, multiplying our big-block's 775 hp by a conservative BSFC of .500 yields a fuel volume requirement of 387.5 lb/hr of fuel.
Like most fuel pumps on the market, the advertised 160-gph rating of the Edelbrock pump included in our Russell kit represents its performance under free-flow conditions. That rating drops to 80 gph at 6.5 psi. Nonetheless, it still flows more than enough fuel for our application. Since gasoline weighs roughly 6 pounds per gallon, the Edelbrock pump's 80 gph rating equates to 480 lb/hr of flow. Even with our safety factor of 10 percent, this beast of a pump flows 20 percent more fuel than our big-block demands. In fact, the pump's output can feed 960 naturally aspirated horsepower, even while assuming a super-conservative BSFC of .500 lb/hr. Using a more realistic BSFC figure of .450 lb/hr, the Edelbrock pump is good for 1,066 hp.
Return Lines
As with most carbureted fuel systems, we opted to run a deadhead-style pressure regulator and forego the return line option. Although return lines are most often associated with EFI, there is a time and place to run them, even in a low-psi carbureted application. In extreme situations, the constant recycling of fuel from the tank, to the motor, and back to the tank decreases the potential for overheating the fuel. Return-style systems also respond more quickly to changing fuel demands, which means that the carb's fuel bowls will stay full a greater percentage of the time. Nevertheless, many of the biggest and baddest carbureted motors around run just fine without a return line. For the sake of keeping things simple and cheap, Project Fox will make do with a more common deadhead-style system. Should the need arise, however, converting to a return-style fuel system is as easy as swapping in a bypass regulator, and plumbing a return line from it to the tank.
Line Sizing
Different brands of fuel hoses have different flow rates, as two hoses with identical outside diameters don't necessarily have the same inside diameter. Consequently, it's difficult to generalize how large of a fuel line a given application requires based on horsepower alone. After selecting a fuel pump that provides adequate flow for an engine's needs, it's simply a matter of matching up the size of the fuel supply line with the same size fittings a manufacturer supplies with the pump. That's because pump manufacturers conduct exhaustive testing to determine the proper inlet and outlet sizes that work best with the flow characteristics of their pumps. According to Russell, using a feed line larger than the size of the pump outlet won't necessarily improve flow. High-pressure EFI motors can get away with running a feed line that's one size (1/8-inch) smaller than the pump outlet, but when factoring in the negligible cost savings in doing so, it make no sense at all.
This same rule of thumb applies to the fuel supply line (from the tank to pump inlet) as well, but with one exception. The only time when it might be beneficial to run a slightly larger supply line is when the pump inlet has an NPT port. In such a scenario, Russell suggests using a supply line that's one size larger than the port inlet. For instance, if a fuel pump has a 3/8-inch NPT inlet port, it's advisable to run a 1/2-inch (-8AN) supply line.
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Dandy Portraits in Paris: Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola
The one and only Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola. The lure of stories I heard about his style, his home, his grand life, brought me to Paris. What an experience it was!
Italian born Massimiliano and his lovely American wife Sorrel gave a warm greeting, and I began to try to take in all the details. Walking into his space I felt the Parisian architecture - the height of the ceiling, the strong sunlight filtering through tall narrow windows, the ornate molding. They talked about how much they loved to throw parties, and I imagined what a fantastic place to come to at night and get lost. One can feel distinctly that living is a fine art for this young couple, and dressing, above all, is the highest art for Massimiliano.
There is a whole room dedicated to Massimiliano's interest in dandyism. As a historian and author he has fantastic collection of rare books and ephemera which share space with his collar pins, cologne, cufflinks, top hats, and at least one powdered wig. I began making portraits, and once we were done with one suit Massimiliano would duck back into his dressing room - which is indeed a whole room filled with clothes - and come out with another more exquisite than the last.
I asked him to show me his oldest book on dandyism: "Du Dandysme et de Georges Brummell" by J. Barbey D'Aurevilly, published in Paris 1879
In the sitting room, a photo of actor Conrad Veidt peeks out from behind layers of assemblage, religious artifacts, feathers and bones.
When Sorrel brought out a tray of coffee served in the most delicate little vintage set, I wished that time would stop so I could always live in that moment.
A gold signet ring bears his family's crest.
Illustrations by Massimiliano hang along side portrait paintings by Sorrel and art collected from various friends.
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Wonderful photos! And what a great subject. Thanks for posting!ReplyDelete
Mesmerizing subject and photos, due in part to how committed he is to this extreme style.ReplyDelete
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* Who does Saif Adel suggest is responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mallings?
Posted by DXer on May 18, 2011
Saif Adel, reported to be Al Qaeda's new acting head, was on Tenet's list of those involved in CBRN. Taking Saif Adel's comments about the December 1996 mailings to newspapers in New York and DC at face value, Saif Adel might not want to be involved in any operation involving the mailing of lethal letters that seemed mere "flirtation." At the time, he seemed to hint that Egyptian Islamic Group, rather than EIJ, was responsible for the 1996 al Hayat letter bombs to newspapers in DC and NYC and people in symbolic positions. Who does Saif Adel suggest is responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mallings?
30 Responses to "* Who does Saif Adel suggest is responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mallings?"
September 24, 2018 at 9:23 am
Iran warns US, Israel of 'devastating' response after deadly parade attack, report says
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News
September 24, 2018 at 7:10 am
What has Iran Revolutionary Guard previously done in retaliation ; what magnitude of "devastating" response is anticipated by US authorities?
Who committed the attack on the Iranian parade?
LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned U.S. and Israeli leaders on Monday to expect a "devastating" response from Tehran, accusing them of involvement in an attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz.
"You have seen our revenge before … You will see that our response will be crushing and devastating and you will regret what you have done," Hossein Salami said in a speech before the funeral of the victims broadcast live on the state television.
August 14, 2018 at 12:13 pm
UN: Iran-based leaders 'have grown more prominent' in al Qaeda's global network
BY THOMAS JOSCELYN | August 14, 2018 | email@example.com | @thomasjoscelyn
Indeed, according to the UN, Adel and Abdullah are playing crucial roles — helping Ayman al-Zawahiri manage al Qaeda's global network.
August 9, 2018 at 7:45 am
U.S. doubles rewards for info about al Qaeda leaders charged for embassy bombings, CBS/AP August 8, 2018, 4:06 PM
November 21, 2017 at 6:30 am
Hey, Dr. Ayman, Is Saif Adel with you? What are you guys up to?
Pakistan's spy agency ISI protecting Ayman al-Zawahiri in Karachi: Report
Updated: Apr 22, 2017, 03.09 PM IST
"Like everything about his location, there's no positive proof," Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran who was the top adviser on South Asia and the Middle East for the past four US presidents, told the magazine.
"There are pretty good indications, including some of the material found in Abbottabad (Pakistan)," where bin Laden was slain, "that point in that direction," he added.
"This would be a logical place to hide out, where he would feel pretty comfortable that the Americans can't come and get him," he said.
Riedel told the weekly that Karachi would be a "very hard" place for the US to conduct the kind of commando raid that got bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
"If he was in someplace along the border with Afghanistan, I think the temptation would be enormous to go after him. But in Karachi, that would be stunning and very difficult," Riedel said. ..
According to the weekly, the US had an unsuccessful drone strike against Al-Zawahiri in January 2016.
But the al-Qaeda chief survived, the weekly said, noting that its information was based on a source from Pakistan who requested anonymity for sharing the information.
"The drone hit next to the room where al-Zawahiri was staying. The shared wall collapsed, and debris from the explosion showered on him and broke his glasses, but luckily he was safe," the unnamed man told ..
"Closed out of the tribal areas, al-Zawahiri was 'moved to Karachi under direction of the black leg,'" the Afghan Taliban's code name for the ISI, according to the group leader who spoke with the magazine.
"He may well have taken (another al-Qaeda leader) Saif al-Adel, indicted in the US in connection with the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, with him," the report said.
June 20, 2017 at 4:18 pm
The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden review – an insider's account of al-Qaida after 9/11
Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy's gripping history of the terrorist network, from 2001 to the present, reveals a dark web of familial and political machinations
June 21, 2017 at 11:35 am
Juliette Kayyem would benefit from reading this book, I think.
June 21, 2017 at 11:37 am
She relies on the fact that Bin Laden did not claim responsibility for the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings — ignoring the fact that he denied responsibility for 9/11.
- June 21, 2017 at 11:37 am
- June 21, 2017 at 11:35 am
November 6, 2015 at 7:27 am
Mysterious al-Qaida figure emerges in Syria
WTOP – 10 hours ago
Saif al-Adel, Al Qaida's legendary and revered field commander has emerged from the shadows and reportedly has been sent to Syria, as an emissary on behalf …
WASHINGTON — The conflict in Syria could be taking a turn for the worse. Saif al-Adel, al-Qaida's revered field commander, was reportedly sent to Syria as an emissary on behalf of al-Qaida leader Ayman Al Zawahri.
Many in the U.S. intelligence community recognize Adel as the savviest operational terrorist in the world.
"They're either going to try to bridge the divide between ISIS and AQ, which is unlikely, or they're going to try to strengthen the al-Qaida affiliate, Jabhat al Nusrah," Skinner said. "But if there's anyone on the planet that can do it, he could."
Adel is wanted by the FBI for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The bombings killed 224 civilians and wounded more than 5,000 others.
Before that, Adel, a former military colonel in Egypt, engineered the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat in 1981.
Skinner said al-Qaida has no one better at all the elements of operational terrorism planning.
"Saif al-Adel is functionally effectively the number one operational planner in al-Qaida," Skinner said. Adel is so respected that "he was temporarily in charge right after Osama bin Laden's death," he added.
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials snap to attention when his name is mentioned because, according to Skinner, a former CIA case officer, they recognize the power he wields in the world of terrorism.
September 18, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Iran released five senior al-Qaida members this year in a move that could re-energize the terrorist group
The New York Times | September 18, 2015 11:17 AM ET
Al-Qaida analyst, Michael S. Smith II of Kronos Advisory, who has tracked al-Adl's rise, describes him as "the biggest fish of the big fish" and argued that al-Qaida's future would rests on the shoulders of Saif al-Adl."
Iran's release of the five men was part of a prisoner swap in March with al-Qaida's branch in Yemen, the group holding an Iranian diplomat, Nour Ahmad Nikbakht. Nikbakht was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in July 2013.
The Iranian government denied that the five men had been freed in a statement Thursday, after the release was reported by Sky News this week. The U.S. official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the matter, confirmed the release of Saif al-Adl, a senior member of al-Qaida's ruling body, known as the Shura Council, who oversaw the organization immediately after bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs in Pakistan in 2011.
September 15, 2015 at 7:50 am
Terror Fears As Iran Frees Al Qaeda Members
Some intelligence agencies warn the five men may travel to Syria and make use of its chaotic landscape to plot attacks elsewhere.
Alongside him was Saif al Adel – considered Number Three in the al Qaeda hierarchy, according to an intelligence report seen by Sky News.
The report said: "In the past, he headed up the organisation's military and security committees and served for years as its leading strategist.
"He took part in terror attacks against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, who was later killed by his captors."
It continued: "Al Adel began his career in the Egyptian military, before serving as an officer. He then turned to terror and played a role in the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981."
February 29, 2012 at 9:53 am
Mr. Makkawi would be a fascinating interview. Long before Mr. Makkawi's arrival at the airport, questions had been raised as to both the identity and picture of the man known as "Saif Adel."
Man arrested at Cairo airport 'not al-Qaeda commander'
February 29, 2012 at 9:57 am
Senior al-Qaeda Militant Saif al-Adel Arrested at Cairo Airport
February 29, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Years ago Atef appointed Saif Adel head of "The Green Team." See memo uploaded among Harmony documents.
February 29, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Dressed in a gray Arab robe and a jacket, Makkawi bore no resemblance to the man in the photograph of Saif al-Adel distributed by the FBI. Makkawi has receding silver hair and wears glasses.
Makkawi said that Saif al-Adel's real name is Mohammed Salah Zidan. Montasser el-Zayat, a lawyer who represented Makkawi in Egypt, also told the AP the same thing last year. A senior Egyptian security official involved in the case said Makkawi was wanted for questioning in Egypt in a case dating back to 1994 that involves the activities of the militant Jihad group, whose members fought the government of ousted president Hosni Mubarak in an insurgency in the early 1990s.
Al-Adel's FBI profile was posted in October 2001 when the FBI "Most Wanted Terrorist" list was created — just a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The name "Mohammed Salah Zidan" is not mentioned in the FBI profile. …
Benotman, now an analyst at the London-based Quilliam Foundation, says he has met both Makkawi and al-Adel.
Benotman, who said he has spoken to security officials in Egypt, said Makkawi flew to Egypt "purposely to clear his name as many former jihadists have been released since all of the political changes in Egypt."
- February 29, 2012 at 9:57 am
June 29, 2011 at 7:47 am
Above is the FBI's photograph of Saif Adel.
But Montasser Al-Zayat, the attorney who announced that Dr. Ayman was going to use anthrax against US targets to retaliate for the rendering of senior EIJ leaders, says the photo is not a photo of Saif Adel.
May 23, 2011 at 9:58 pm
"It has previously been reported that a Karachi businessman Saud Memon owned the nursery where Pearl had been held captive and allegedly had been in the room for discussion relating to anthrax planning.
Was there a connection between Pearl kidnapping and anthrax planners? Was Saif Adel involved in Al Qaeda's anthrax planning along with Ayman Zawahiri, Mohammed Atef, and KSM?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 20, 2011
May 19, 2011 at 7:31 am
Now that his captured courier is cooperating, will Dr. Zawahiri be captured and asked who he thinks is responsible for the anthrax mailings before the wonderful and hardworking USMRC FOIA Officer uploads 6 more items?
I predict one more item uploaded today before the next major capture.
May 19, 2011 at 11:06 am
Widow of anthrax victim doubts FBI's conclusion
By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer © 2011 The Associated Press
May 19, 2011, 10:58AM
MIAMI — The widow of a Florida tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailings is casting fresh doubt on the FBI's conclusion that a lone federal scientist staged the attacks.
Attorneys for Maureen Stevens have filed new sworn statements from two of Bruce Ivins' superiors saying they don't believe he committed the crimes. The statements were filed as part of Stevens' lawsuit against the government over the death of her husband, Robert Stevens. He was one of five people who died in the attacks.
The Justice Department formally closed the case last year after the FBI concluded Ivins was the sole perpetrator. Ivins committed suicide in 2008.
Ivins' former bosses raised numerous questions about his guilt in their depositions taken earlier this year.
May 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm
When Hatfill was suing the government we saw FBI, DOJ officials and even the Attorney General (Ashcroft) deposed.
We may yet see FBI scientists deposed under oath. I have a few questions I'd like to suggest they are asked.
- May 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm
- May 19, 2011 at 11:06 am
May 18, 2011 at 6:28 am
Hallmark Greetings: Egyptian Islamists' Earlier WTC Letter Bombs To Washington DC And New York City Newspapers And Symbolic Targets
A memo seized in the 1995 arrest proposed flying an explosive laden plane into CIA headquarters. Anyone reading the Washington Post in the mid-1990s read about the plan to fly a plane into CIA headquarters over their morning coffee. The earlier plot to fly an airliner into the Eiffel tower by some Algerians connected to Bin Laden was also notable. Condi Rice professes not to have imagined the threat even though it was publicly known and even a threat at the G-8 conference.It's important that as a country we learn from our mistakes and not pay short shrift to the evidence on the issue of modus operandi relating to Zawahiri's planned use of anthrax.
This was not the first time the Egyptian islamists sent letter bombs to newspaper offices in connection with an attack on the World Trade Center. NPR set the scene. It was January 2, 1997, at 9:15 a.m. at the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. The employee of the Saudi-owned newspaper Al Hayat began to open a letter. It was a Christmas card — the kind that plays a musical tune. It was white envelope, five and a half inches by six and a half inches, with a computer-generated address label attached. It had foreign postage and a post mark — a postmark appearing to be from Alexandria, Egypt. It looked suspiciously bulky, so he set it down and called the police. Minutes later they found a similar envelope. These were the first two of four letter bombs that would arrive at Al Hayat during the day. A fifth letter bomb addressed to the paper was intercepted at a nearby post office. They all looked the same. Two similar letter bombs addressed to the "parole officer" (a position that does not exist) arrived at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. It seemed evident how some Grinch had spent the holidays in Alexandria, Egypt.
Egyptian Saif Adel (Makawwi), thought to be in Iran, was involved in military planning. Adel was a colonel in the Egyptian Army's Special Forces before joining Al Qaeda. He helped plan the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Africa. He was also a planner in the attack on the USS Cole and has served as the liaison officer between Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. Adel assisted Atef, who had overall responsibility for Al Qaeda's operations. According to Cairo Attorney Al-Zayyat, Makkawi had many times claimed responsibility for operations that were carried out inside Egypt but when the perpetrators were arrested, it would be al-Zawahiri's name whose name they shouted loyalty to from the docks. After the letter al-Hayat letter bombs were sent in January 1997, Saif Adel (Makawwi) gave a statement denying responsibility on behalf of the Vanguards of Conquest.
On January 7, 1997 Saif Adel purporting to be speaking for the Egyptian Vanguards of Islamic Conquest said: "Those are messages of admonishment. There is no flirtation between us and the Americans in order for us to send them such alarming messages in such a manner." Adel said that "the Vanguards of Conquest "are heavyweight and would not embark on such childish actions." US press and political commentaries had hinted at the Vanguards of Conquest organization's involvement in these attempts. In his statement to Al-Hayat, perhaps referring to the Egyptian Islamic Group, Adel added "I am surprised that we in particular, and not other parties, should be accused of such an operation."
He got admonished by the unnamed but official spokesman for the Vanguards organization. This other spokesmanchastisied him as not being authorized to speak for the organization (or even being a member). "We welcome any Muslim who wants to join us, and if Makkawi wants to [join us], he will be welcomed to the Vanguards march, but through the organizational channels. But if words are not coupled with actions, we tell him: Fear God, and you can use a different name other than the Vanguards to speak on its behalf." The spokesman denounced Makkawi's authority to speak for the group, referring to the January 5th statement it had made denying responsibility. The spokesperson for the Vanguards of Conquest apparently was Post Office employee Sattar's friend, Al-Sirri, based in London.
The FBI would not speculate as to who sent the letters or why. But this was your classic "duck that walks like a duck" situation. As NPR reported at the time, "analysts say that letter bombs are rarely sent in batches, and when they are it's generally prompted by politics, not personal animus." Al Hayat was a well respected and moderate newspaper. It was friendly to moderate Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. That, without more, was accurately discerned by observers at the time as sufficient to make the newspaper outlet a target of the militant islamists. The newspaper, its editor explained, does not avoid criticizing militant islamists. The Al Hayat Editor-in-Chief explained: "We've been opposed to all extremists in the Arab world, especially the fundamentalists." Mohammed Salameh, a central defendant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sent to Leavenworth in 1994. The other three Egyptian extremists convicted in the bombing were sent to prisons in California, Indiana and Colorado. Like the blind sheik Abdel-Rahman, Salameh had complained of his conditions and asked to be avenged. The Blind Sheik was particularly irked that the prison officials did not cut his fingernails.
Abdel-Rahman was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy, bombing conspiracy, soliciting an attack on an U.S. military installation, and soliciting the murder of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His followers were indicted for plotting to bomb bridges, tunnels and landmarks in New York for which Rahman allegedly had given his blessings. The mailing of deadly letters in connection with an earlier attack on the World Trade Center was not merely the modus operandi of militant islamists, it was the group's signature. It's their calling card. Khaled Abu el-Dahab, a naturalized American, from Silicon Valley, in a confession detailed Egyptian defense ministry document dated October 28, 1998, explained that he was trained to make booby-trapped letters to send to important people, as well as asked to enroll in American aviation schools to learn how to fly gliders and helicopters. He was a friend of Ali Mohammed, the former special forces officer in the Egyptian army and former US Army Sergeant. The modus operandi of these militant supporters of the blind sheik was known to be planes and booby-trapped letters.
The Al Hayat reporters and editor were not expressing an opinion — though the owner did lay out various possibilities (e.g., Iraq, Iran etc.). The owner of the paper had commanded Saudi forces during the Persian Gulf War, when Bin Laden was so upset about American troops on the Arabian peninsula. Moreover, al Hayat had recently opened up a Bureau in Jerusalem, giving it a dateline of Jerusalem rather than al Quds, which some thought blasphemous. But none of the possibilities would plausibly explain why the letter bomb was sent to Leavensworth where three of the WTC 1993 defendants were imprisoned, including Ramzi Yousef's lieutenant who had asked that his mistreatment be avenged. (That was the criminal genius who returned to Ryder to reclaim his deposit after blowing up the truck at WTC). Egyptian security officials argued that the letters were sent from outside of Egypt, the stamps were not available in Egypt, and that the postmark was not Alexandria as reported. Whatever the place of mailing, the sender likely was someone who was upset that KSM's and Ramzi Yousef's associates had been imprisoned, to include, most notably, the blind sheik. Whoever is responsible for the anthrax mailings, it is a very good bet that they are upset the blind sheik is detained. That should be at the center of any classified profile of the crime.
On December 31, 1996 Mohammed Youssef was in Egypt — having gone to Egypt months before. The al Hayat letter bombs related to the detention and alleged mistreatment of the blind sheikh and the WTC bombers were sent 10 days earlier — on the Day of Measures. In 2006, he was named as co-defendant with Hassoun, Daher, Padilla and Jayyousi. Youssef was born in Alexandria. Do authorities suspect the "Florida cell" of being involved in the al Hayat letter bombs? Kifah Jayyousi's "Islam Report" over the years — distributed by Adham Hassoun in Florida and Kassem Daher in Canada — expressed outrage at detention/extradition due to terrorism law and also what he perceived as attacks on his religion by some newspapers. His headlines on the internet groups blazed "Just In! First Muslim Victim of New Terrorism Law!: US Agents Arrest Paralegal Of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman Without Charge Prepares To Hand Him To Egyptian Regime," soc.religion.islam, dated April 27, 1996 and "Islam Report (Newspaper Attacks Our Religion! Act Now!," soc.religion.islam, Apr. 16, 1996
In connection with the January 1997 letter bombs, Ayman got the know-how to send sophisticated electronic letter bombs from Iraqi intelligence according to one item from the highly controversial Feith memo. In the al Hayat letter bombings, Ayman allowed the finger to be pointed at Libya. In the Amerithrax letters, he allowed the finger to be pointed to a United States biodefense insider by the prosecutor who would have presented to any indictment to the grand jury. Born in Haifa in 1948, the man's daughter then came to represent microbiologist Al-Timimi pro bono.
After the Al Hayat letter bombs to newspapers in DC and NYC and people in symbolic positions, in January 1997, both the Blind Sheikh and his paralegal, Sattar, were quoted in separate articles in Al Hayat (in Arabic) denying that they or their supporters were responsible. The Blind Sheikh commented that al Hayat was fair and balanced in its coverage and his supporters would have no reason to "hit" them. The same sort of counterintuitive theory was raised in connection with the earlier letter bombing of newspapers to DC and New York City and people in symbolic positions. Sattar noted that the bombs were mailed on December 20, one day before the brief in support of the blind sheik on appeal. He questioned whether someone (like the FBI) was trying to undermine the appeal's prospects. This time, Mr. Sattar did not need any help making the argument with respect to the anthrax letters. Numerous people with political agendas rushed to do it for him to include counsel for Bosnia and Herzogovina and legal advisor to the PLO, professor Francis Boyle. In accusing Dr. Ivins on the occasion of his death, the FBI embraced the same sort of theory — that is, when it was not grasping at other untenable theories relating to college sororities, incorrectly perceived anti-abortion news, or perceived financial motive.
In September 2006, in a Sahab Media production called "Knowledge is for acting," there is a clip in which Al Quds editor Atwan refers to his visit with Bin Laden in 1996 (see also his 2006 book The Secret History of al Qaeda). He says that Bin Laden was planning to attack America "and America prisons in particular." That was an apparent reference to the Al Hayat letter bombs sent to newspapers and prisons in January 1997. There were recurrent references to Abdel-Rahman in the tape.
May 18, 2011 at 6:30 am
After Ayman and Atef, among senior Egyptian islamists which of these contemporaries of Dr. Hamid and Dr. Hamouda from Cairo over a quarter century likely would have greater culpability in the anthrax mailings
(assuming for the sake of argument that the FBI's "Ivins Theory" is eventually left in the dustbin of history along with its "Hatfill Theory")?
A. Shehata
B. Saif Adel
C. Taha
D. Hamza
E. Al-Sirri
F. Al-Zayat / Mamdouh Ismail
G. Habib / Sultan
H. Mahjoub
I. Jaballah
J. Islambouli
K. Dr. Al-Sharif
L.. None of the above
M. All of the above.
N. Some combination of the above.
O. Who the heck are these people?
May 18, 2011 at 6:31 am
Thirwat Shehata
Thirwat Shehata, according to a "Most Wanted" listed posted by the Egyptian State Information website, faces two death sentences in Egypt. According to the information posted by the Egyptian government, Shehata went to Afghanistan in 1995 with Zawahiri and Bin Laden, where he was put in charge of EIJ's "security committee which provides logistics to the military wing, the special operations, and the individuals involved in terror attacks. He is a key figure in Bin Laden's organization." Thirwat Shehata had been one of the ones to go to Russia and get Ayman and Mabruk out of jail. Born in 1960, Shehata briefly took over for Ayman as head of EIJ. He, in another life, was Montasser al Zayat's law partner. Al-Zayat was the Cairo lawyer who announced Zawahiri's plan to use anthrax against US targets. Shehata was a member of the 9-member shura council of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service notes that within the ruling council, he was "head of the Security Committee and in charge of collecting intelligence on Egypt's leading civilian and military figures and on Egyptian interests abroad." The CSIS has noted that he "also oversaw counter-espionage and organized logistical support for [EIJ] militants and sympathizers in Egypt." Shehata maintained regular contact with Mahmoud Jaballah in Canada. His wife is Jaballah's sister. The CSIS alleges that "Jaballah provided Shehata with regular updates on his activities in Canada, as well as financial support." In December 1997 and throughout 1997, Al Sibai in London relayed information between Shehata and Jaballah. The London islamist al-Sibai assisted in coordinating financial collection efforts to help get Mabruk out of jail in Dagestan. Al Sibai, according to reports, like Shehata, was an EIJ shura member. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleges that Shehata left Azerbaijan on or about August 8, 1998. According to some reports, he has been in Iran in recent years.
Thomas Joscelyn recently described Mr. Shehata's background here:
Ayman al Zawahiri's deputy releases statement in support of Egyptian opposition
By Thomas JoscelynFebruary 5, 2011
May 18, 2011 at 6:31 am
Yasir Al-Sirri
The London-based Vanguards of Conquest spokesman Yasir Al-Sirri was alleged by the US to have financed the public relations efforts of the Blind Sheik's Lynne Stewart and US Postal employee Ahmed Abdel Sattar. In an April 2002 indictment, the United States alleged that the Egyptian Islamic Group has an active membership in the United States, concentrated in the New York City metropolitan area. Al-Sirri certainly might have been acutely affected by the detention of other London EIJ cell members in the late 1990s.
May 18, 2011 at 6:32 am
Mohammed Islambouli
An equally good guess, however, is Mohammed Islambouli, Sadat's assassin's brother: Islambouli was in a cell with KSM planning attacks on the United States using aircraft and other means. Zawahiri recently revealed him to be the leader of the IG members who have joined Al Qaeda. He was head of the blind sheik's Makhtab Khidmat al-Mujahiden in Peshawar (which had a branch in Brooklyn). The blind sheik stayed with him when he visited Peshawar in 1990. There are the strong pointers to the Sadat assassination. In a December 4, 1998 Presidential Daily Brief to President Clinton, the CIA noted that it was expected that someone sent by Mohammed Islambouli the brother of Sadat's assassin, was expected to travel to the United States to meet with other Egyptian Islamic Group members to discuss options regarding planned attacks on the United States. The planned attacks included attacks involving the hijacking of aircraft in an attempt to free the blind sheik Abdel-Rahman and an imprisoned dissident Saudi sheik who was allied with Bin Laden. Islambouli had headed Khidmat Services in Peshawar and an Al Qaeda training camp. Washington Times reporter and author Bill Gertz reports in the book Breakdown that in 1996, KSM was in a cell with Islambouli in Qatar, where they were given safe harbor by a high level minister of religious affairs. Bin Laden visited Doha, Qatar in 1994 and again sometime within the next couple years. The 1994 Qatar trip, according to the Egyptian weekly, Al-Ahram, involved a meeting between Zawahiri, bin Laden, Islambouli and Mustafa Hamza. In the Amerithrax investigation, the FBI should have given priority to establishing who the man expected to be sent by Mohammed Islambouli, met with when he traveled to the United States. According to Egyptian intelligence officials, Islambouli himself reportedly had two Egyptian passports, a Qatari passport and an Algerian passport in the name Mahmoud Youssef. Who was the man sent by Mohammed Islambouli to discuss options regarding attacks on the United States? Was it Anwar Awlaki who came to the US about then?
Alternatively, was it IANA Gamal Sultan who visited the United States and said the hills of Pittsburgh reminded him of the hills around Kandahar? The two main writers for IANA, an Ann Arbor charity, were EIJ founder Kamal Habib and former EIJ member Gamal Sultan. Both had the connection to IANA's lead speaker Ali Al-Timimi. Kamal Habib knew Ayman well and was in the middle of the attempt to have political parties formed in the Spring of 1999.
May 18, 2011 at 6:33 am
Taha and Hamza
Taha and Hamza both have a strong Sattar/Blind Sheik connection. Hamza became head of the Gama'a al-Islamiya group's shura council in 1998 after an internal split over responsibility for the Luxor massacre of 1997. Iran reportedly handed him over to Egypt as part of trade for information an an exile group living in Egypt. Mustafa Hamza and Jihad leader Ahmed Salama Mabruk had graduated from the same Cairo University class. (Mabruk was the former EIJ military commander who had been Ayman Zawahiri's confidante and who had known about Ayman's plan to use anthrax against US targets upon Mabruk's capture in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1998.) Jailed after Sadat's assassination, after his release from prison, Hamza went to Afghanistan, from where he paid frequent visits to other countries such as Pakistan, Sudan and Iran.
May 18, 2011 at 6:33 am
Rifa'i Taha Musa (Taha) favored a return to armed operations. Taha sets forth his views in an article published in the May 1997 issue off Nida'ul Islam magazine titled "The Islamic State in Egypt is Approaching." Taha in early 2001 published a book in which he attempted to justify terrorist attacks that would cause mass casualties. Like Mustafa, he was in close telephone contact with post office employee Sattar, who in an indictment announced in April 2002 was described as a "surrogate" for the blind sheik. In her webblog, former blind sheik attorney Lynne Stewart says U.S. Postal employee Sattar came to favor Taha's view. When the blind sheik's' US attorney, radical Lynne Stewart, announced in a press release in mid-June 2000 that Abdel-Rahman was withdrawing his support for the cease-fire, Taha said: "Stopping operations [attacks] is a human decision that can be canceled if a majority of the Gama'a finds this to be in its interest, especially after the sheikh's latest instructions, in which he withdrew his support for the initiative." Taha argued that militant groups were never given the opportunity to become political parties. "I have repeatedly said the government will never allow the Islamist trend to play an effective political role through recognised parties." "It will not let anyone else share in the power game." He continued: "When the Gama'a announced a halt of armed operations, it did not say it would give up its opposition of the Egyptian government. In my view, the only way for the Islamist movement to achieve victory is for Islamist factions to unite and mobilize the Egyptian people, led by the army, clerics and university professors, in a revolution that should not stop until the regime is overthrown." In December 1999, the Associated Press reported that Taha threatened in an e-mail published by the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat "The Egyptian government commits a grave mistake if it believes that the Luxor operation is unrepeatable." Taha had grown closer to Bin Laden and Zawahiri while in Afghanistan in the 1990s and also had a close connection to the Taliban. In Fall 2001, Ayman had sent him with several others to form Ansar Al-Islam in Kurdish controlled territory of Iraq. He lived for a time in a suburb of Tehran. Taha was rendered to Egypt while in transit through Syria in 2001, at which time Taha's wife and children lived with Hamza's family in Mashhad, Iran. Who does Taha think is responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings?
- May 18, 2011 at 6:33 am
May 18, 2011 at 6:34 am
Montasser Al-Zayat / Mamdouh Ismail
Al-Zayat / Mamdouh Ismail have an Al-Nashar connection. He was the polymerization expert who had the keys to the 7/7 apartment where the bomb was made. Al-Zayat explained at the time that the blind sheik's US attorney Lynne Stewart announced the Sheikh had withdrawn his support for the cease-fire, that Abdel-Rahman's statement should be viewed merely as a request for the Gama'a to "reevaluate" its decision of maintaining a unilateral cease-fire with the government. He said it was a personal message sent to him via e-mail to be delivered to the Gama'a's imprisoned leaders. (There is no disputing, however, that his US attorney issued a press release and the blind sheik later instructed that he did not want anyone denying that he had issued the press release). While Zawahiri has suggested that Montasser Al-Zayat has too cozy a relationship with Egyptian security services, explaining his access to imprisoned IG leaders, someone else knowledgeable about the movement who knew Ayman Zawahiri and the others growing up assures me that is not true. In his letter, Abdel-Rahman criticized the Egyptian government for maintaining its policy of putting Islamist militants on trial before military courts, conducting mass arrests and imposing death sentences against them. Al-Zayat argued that it was in light of these charges that Abdel-Rahman called on the group's leaders to "reevaluate the policies of the Gama'a." Al-Zayyat urged that the Blind Sheik's position was only that the group assess the "positions that best serve the interests of the group." Al-Zayyat said that Gama'a leaders imprisoned inside Egypt had responded to Abdel-Rahman's letter by a letter of their own in which they asked him to clarify his position on the cease-fire in order to clear up the controversy. The blind sheik's son called Sattar and urged the same so as to smooth things over. In a letter to Abdel-Rahman, the jailed shura members informed him that the government had halted extra-judicial killings, mass arrests and military trials and that it had released some 2,500 militants. Al-Zayat basically was in the role of the great negotiator, announcing his prediction that weaponized anthrax would be used against targets in the US because of the detention of senior Egyptian militants, while at the same time, negotiating the release of many hundreds of those militants. The anthrax appears to have served its purpose while the FBI seemed fixated first on anthrax smelling bloodhounds and then on college panty raids. Due to the long lead times in publication, we still have not moved out of the panty raid era.
May 18, 2011 at 6:34 am
Al-Zayat's partner in attempting to form a political party, fellow islamist attorney Mamdouh Ismail, was arrested in late March 2007 and alleged to be the chief conduit between Ayman Zawahiri and jihadists in Egypt, Iraq and Egypt. The government alleges he took his instructions, in part, from intermediary al-Sibai based in London. Both he and al-Zayat had worked closely with fellow attorney Shehata, head of the EIJ civilian branch in charge of special operations. This past month, Attorney Mamdouh Ismail reacted angrily to news of Bin Laden's death:
"The U.S. "acted like a cowboy, thugs, and not a civilized country," said Mamdouh Ismail, a defense lawyer for Islamic militants and the founder of Al Nahda, an Islamic fundamentalist party. He was angered by the American violation of Pakistan's sovereignty by going in to kill bin Laden.
"What Obama said is untrue. It wasn't a victory. On the contrary, it is bin Laden who won because he achieved what he said he wanted in his speeches…he said he won't be arrested and will fight and become a martyr," said Ismail.
But it was bin Laden's reported burial at sea that Ismail found utterly shocking and unforgivable.
"I think this kind of news will provoke an angry reaction in the whole Islamic world because we have rules about how to bury the dead and this will ignite a furious reaction because they did not follow Islamic practice," said Ismail. "This is against all human rights, principles and respect for the dead."
Who does Attorney Ismail think is responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings?
- May 18, 2011 at 6:34 am
May 18, 2011 at 6:35 am
Mahmoud Mahjoub
Mahmoud Mahjoub was second in command of the Vanguards of Conquest, after Agiza (who later was succeeded by Zawahiri). Mahjoub worked at the Alternar Almubarakah Agricultural Company as Deputy Director General and Supervisor in the agricultural project at Damazin, Sudan, starting February 1992 until May 1993. A letter confirming the employment was provided by Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim has been described in government documents as a manager of finances for Bin Laden and an intermediary in the group's efforts to buy arms and material for nuclear weapons. He had met with Bin Laden for about 1-2 hours in interviewing for the job. Bin Laden told him to take a week to study the project. At the end of the week, Mahjoub met with the General Manager of Bin Laden's company and accepted the position. He reports he met with Bin Laden only on three occasions during his employment. He decided to leave the job because he was offended that people with a lower job title and level of responsibility were being paid more. In the late 1990s, authorities kept Mahjoub under surveillance. In December 1998, he looked over his shoulder three times for no apparent reason before making a call. In January 2000, Mahjoub's associate asked Mahjoub whether he had any news and Mahjoub said he wanted to talk face to face. His associate asked whether Mahjoub was referring to the civil or the military "Moukhabarat." Mahjoub replied, "both."
Mahjoub had lived with Khadr's in-laws for 3 weeks when he first arrived in Canada — which was before he met his wife. (Khadr had been head of the so-called "Canadian cell"). Both his wife and Jaballah's wife were close to Khadr's in-laws, the Elsamnahs. Jaballah said his wife visited them often. When Mahjoub was arrested, he had the telephone and address "Abu Ahmed 289-2361″, the telephone number associated with Jaballah. Mahjoub had initially denied knowing Essam Hafez Marzouk but his address was found in Mahjoub's belongings and he eventually admitted knowing him. Telephone records reportedly show several calls in 1997 and 1998 between Mahjoub's home number and Marzouk. Marzouk was involved in the planning of the 1998 embassy bombings. Marzouk was a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, where had fought alongside bin Laden. Stationery from Marzouk's British Columbia "U-Enterprises" turned up in Kabul. In 1997 to fight against the Serbs in Kosovo. Marzouk was arrested in Azerbaijan in August 1998 and handed over to Egyptian authorities. Former Silicon Valley car salesman Dahab and former US Army Sergeant Ali Mohammed went to get Marzouk out of jail when he was stopped trying to cross the border into the US. By the time the anthrax planning got underway in earnest, Mahjoub had been detained.
Who does Mahmoud Mahjoub think was responsible for the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings?
- May 18, 2011 at 6:30 am


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It is interesting to see how some companies like to claim that their absinthe is Swiss or that it is based on an old Swiss recipe. Here are two examples:
According to their website "Logan Fils - La Blanche is made according to the old traditional recipe that was acquired in Switzerland from the region of Val-de-Travers where Absinthe was invented. Swiss La Bleue is distilled from carefully selected herbs and made from eau-de-vie, distilled from selected wine. It comes crystal clear in the bottle and turns milky when ice cubes are added. Our Swiss La Bleue is carefully balanced as to its taste and is just slightly bitter."
I have been told that it is not Swiss. Is it?
And here is another:
With this copy from one of the many sites that sells it:-
"Originally based on a Swiss recipe this Czech Absinthe has no artificial color or preservatives, and contains 100mg of the psychoactive thujone adored by some of the world's most notorious artists and writers. Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway…Bob Dylan, Marilyn Manson and Eminem are just a few who used and drew inspiration from this original Absinthe and its effects."
I'd be interested to see this Swiss recipe but also wonder why, with the distilling heritage they have in the Czech Republic, they needed to get the recipe from Switzerland. And I'd be interested to know how Van Gogh could have drunk this particular absinth as claimed.
Finally some related updates .. A sighting in Moscow and an interesting use of a domain name to re-direct web traffic intended for one of the first absinthes to legally enter the USA.
Seen in Moscow, 2007:
Does the eye look similar? Especially with the words "La Fée" underneath? As far as I know, this product has nothing to do with the more famous La Fée absinthe range.
I found a different type of brand/trade mark "borrowing," in fact an incorrect domain name registration and re-direction, recently: type in "www.lucidabsinthe.com" and see where it takes you .... Anything to do with Lucid absinthe? No.
Are these fair and normal practices at work here? Probably not.


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Conrad Gayson's other wife is coming to town!
NYPD Blue alum Gail O'Grady has been cast as Conrad's first wife on Revenge, TVGuide.com has confirmed. As first reported by E! Online, O'Grady's character will surprise her former hubby (Henry Czerny) and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) when she reappears unexpectedly in Episode 13.
O'Grady's character, whom Conrad dumped for Victoria 25 years ago, is described as "West Coast posh."
Mega Buzz: Who shoots Emily on Revenge?
"That's someone who has always been out there and now we're pretty much planning on having her introduced at some point in time," showrunner Sunil Nayar recently told reporters following a screening of the midseason finale. "We're pretty excited about the part and she brings with her secrets that will also blow you guys away that are going to be great."
O'Grady, who earned three Emmy nominations for her work on NYPD Blue, is also known for her roles on American Dreams, Boston Legal and Desperate Housewives.
Revenge's midseason finale airs Sunday at 9/8c on ABC. Are you excited to meet the first Mrs. Grayson?


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Wal-Mart to offer lockers for in-store pickup of online orders in 'tenacious' anti-Amazon campaign
Following Amazon's lead, Wal-Mart announced Tuesday that it will begin offering a locker service to store online purchases, part of a larger e-commerce strategy to overtake competitors in mobile and Internet sales.
The locker service, unveiled at Wal-Mart's e-commerce offices in San Bruno, is part of the company's plan to combine its brick-and-mortar prowess with online and mobile technology to keep up with Amazon. The world's largest retailer says it wants to become as much a technology company as it is a one-stop shop for diapers and groceries by offering shoppers mobile and online products that are as innovative and sexy as Apple's.
"We are absolutely tenacious about building best-in-class e-commerce," said Neil Ashe, president and chief executive of Walmart Global eCommerce. "But we are the only ones who can marry that with the largest retailer in the world."
A brick-and-mortar footprint has often been viewed as a handicap for retailers trying to make a splash in e-commerce, but Wal-Mart is out to prove otherwise. About two-thirds of people in the U.S. live within five miles of a Walmart, giving the company possibly the largest distribution network of any retailer.
"No one else has 4,000 points of distribution within a stone's throw of every customer," Ashe said. He said mixing the company's expanding online and mobile technology with its well-oiled store management will create a commerce experience that even Amazon can't touch.
"We pay close attention to them," Ashe said. "But they pay attention to us."
Wal-Mart will begin testing the lockers this summer at about a dozen stores, although the company did not say where. Shoppers who choose to use the locker service will be notified when and where their item arrives, and use an access code to open the locker. Wal-Mart will store the items for about two weeks after delivery.
"They will have 24/7 access to their product whenever they want it," said Jeff McAllister, senior vice president of innovations.
Amazon, one of the mightiest foes to brick-and-mortar retailers, rolled out its locker delivery program in 2011. Amazon lockers are similar to giant post-office boxes installed in places such as 7-Eleven and Rite Aid stores.
Wal-Mart is one of the few retailers with the resources to match Amazon's services, and it seems intent on doing so. The Walmart website offers shoppers suggestions based on their past purchases and what they "like" on Facebook, similar to Amazon's personalized shopping experience. And when Wal-Mart rolled out same-day delivery service last year in a handful of test markets, including San Jose and San Francisco, it was mimicking a service Amazon started offering in 2009.
Joel Anderson, president and chief executive of Walmart.com, stayed tight-lipped when asked about progress on the same-day delivery test, a business model that many retail experts have called financially risky and a logistical nightmare. He said the company had delivered thousands of orders since starting the service, and has expanded it to five cities.
While most shoppers still think of Amazon as the go-to for online shopping, Wal-Mart's e-commerce revenues aren't insignificant. The company is on pace to surpass $9 billion in online sales this year, and Ashe said about one-third of online traffic comes from mobile devices. More than half of Wal-Mart customers have mobile phones with Internet access.
At Tuesday's event, officials also outlined plans for more mobile app features that would store digital coupons and gift cards that are automatically applied to a purchase at checkout. This month, the company expanded its "Scan & Go" feature to more than 200 stores, including San Jose. The app lets customers scan items, tally their spending and pay at self-checkout counters using their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.


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