In November of 2002, U.S. intelligence officials warned al Qaeda was planning, “more spectacular attacks” that could cause “mass casualties.”
CBS News Letters were the only way Osama bin Laden communicated with al Qaeda associates for nearly a decade because he was trying to evade capture. He wrote that rather than hijacking a plane, operatives should charter one for their next attack on the U.S. And adds if that’s too difficult, they should target U.S. railways.
Al Qaeda did not anticipate that the United States would go to war right after 9/11. They thought possibly a limited airstrike, but they didn’t think the U.S. would go beyond that, believing that the American people would take to the streets, replicate the anti-Vietnam war protests and they would put pressure on their government to withdraw from Muslim majority states.
By 2010, it was bin Laden’s plan to target multiple crude oil tankers and major shipping routes around the Middle East and Africa. He details how al Qaeda operatives should integrate themselves into those port areas as fishermen. He instructs them exactly where to buy a specific kind of wooden boat to evade radar and then, once again, goes into the granular details of his plan. “The boats need to carry a large volume of explosives, preferably placed in an arch position, facing the vessel.” So he is not only telling them what explosives to buy, he’s telling them how to place the explosives.
U.S. intelligence agencies say most al Qaeda terrorist activity is now being carried out by smaller al Qaeda offshoots. Bin Laden’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, now heads al Qaeda. This month, he appeared in a new video denouncing the enemies of Islam.
Az gal says
There are a lot of Civil Engineers, not many are murderers, though. Bin Laden: half human, half donkey.
Bikinis not Burkas says
It martyrdom is such a high point to achieve, why are there so many old Imams, why aren’t they rushing to get the “vast reward” or do they know that it is easy to fool brainwashed people for their own evil ends.
Ted says
It is time for israel and USA to have targetted killings on th terror leaders. kill one another comes up, kill them each time taking out that level of expertise. Soon they will learn
BLR says
the bin Laden lesson is a closed chapter for most of the western world , but if you dismiss the devil in this lesson who do you think will reappear in his place not Santa Clause ! children
Inspired Infidel says
These animals have been inbreeding amongst family members for 1400 years. They have a specific day of the week that they have sex with underage children. They glorify suicide as long as it is in the name of Allah. The word Islam needs to be stricken from the English language. Let these vermin kill each other in their desert homeland. They will never be accepted in America.
Bikinis not Burkas says
Come now the American Government loves the adherents to the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM!
They are in your Government, in your Schools, in your Military, in your Police Forces in fact head sniffing Joe said he wants them everywhere in Government!
Don’t go to Dearborn Michigan!
I’m watching America implode from Australia.
Lets go Brandon!
Linda Rivera says
This is NORMATIVE Islam. It’s what the BLOODTHIRSTY Quran War Book teaches.