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The Counter Terrorist Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
July 2007
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A Sense of Unease: What Can a Stronger Al Qaeda Do By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff
July 23, 2007 issue - Last April, the U.S. Embassy in Berlin posted a cryptic bulletin on its Web site urging all Americans in Germany to "increase their vigilance." The message offered no further explanation. But it wasn't issued lightly: the warning was prompted by German intelligence that an obscure terror network-based in Uzbekistan but with apparent Qaeda ties-was plotting a spectacular attack against U.S. facilities in Germany.
The group, known as the Islamic Jihad Union, had claimed responsibility three years ago for suicide attacks against the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Tashkent. There were now signs it had recruited members inside Germany. German investigators acknowledge they have been unable to figure out what the group may be attempting to pull off. It could be "one big thing or many things," says one German counterterrorism official who, like other U.S. and European government sources NEWSWEEK interviewed, asked not to be identified talking about security matters.
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Our counter-terror sources report exclusively that a frantic effort by al Qaeda and Taliban to head off the pursuit set afoot the bloody battle in Islamabad's Red Mosque, the attempts to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf's plane and the suicide attacks on Pakistani military convoys, which cost 68 lives Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15.
Until the middle of last week, Zuwahiri sheltered with the local Pashtun tribes in Bannu, a town in the northwest Pakistan tribal federation of North Waziristan. The approach of Pakistani and US intelligence and special forces caused him to switch hiding places and move to Tank or Tang, a town 120 km south of Bannu.
On Saturday, two soldiers were injured by a bomb explosion in that town, having just missed their quarry.
Musharraf meanwhile decided last week to storm the Red Mosque on a tip-off from his own Inter-Service Intelligence that two of Zawahiri's closest lieutenants, Majid Hassan al-Tawil and Mohammad Othman, were inside.
They were reported to be preparing a mega-attack in Islamabad and other important Pakistani towns to disrupt the combined Pakistani-US operation to capture their master.
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Islamic Terrorists Reach Significant Threshold in London Doctor's Plot, Warns PharmAthene CEO David Wright
The London Doctor's Plot should be viewed as a significant threshold reached by Islamic terrorists in their goal to mount a biological attack, said David Wright, CEO of PharmAthene, a leading biodefense company that develops and commercializes biomedical products to counter chemical and biological weapons.
"Previously physicians have been in the top leadership of terrorist organizations," said Wright. "Now physicians are moving to the frontlines to directly mount terrorist attacks against the West."
Terrorist leaders who are doctors have included Dr. George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy. In the London vehicle attacks, six of the eight suspects are doctors and members of an operational terrorist cell.
"Doctors have knowledge, money, and access to laboratory equipment - everything necessary to develop a biological weapon," Wright said. "Instead of building a fuel-air explosive bomb, next time terrorist doctors may attack with an anthrax weapon."
Web of Terror, Part 1: Extremists Take to the Net & Web of Terror, Part 2: Chasing a Moving Target
There's no denying that the Internet has changed the world for both good and bad, but few elements of its dark side inspire more fear than its use by terrorists.
Observers around the world were horrified when a video of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was disseminated on the Web, and other gruesome images have followed. It may not always be clear where such communications originate, but one thing has become certain: Terrorist organizations are making full use of the Internet today.
"All the capabilities and advantages the Internet provides for businesses and individuals are equally attractive for terrorist organizations and criminals of every kind," Herbert Strauss, research vice president at Gartner (NYSE: IT) focusing on national security, told TechNewsWorld. "Even more disconcerting is that the level of sophistication among terrorist organizations is increasing," he added.
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With all the talk about al Qaeda "leaders," al Qaeda "factions" and militants with "links" to al Qaeda, it is useful to take a step backand clarify precisely what al Qaeda actually is. Al Qaeda is a small core group of people who share strategic and operational characteristics that set them apart from all other militants -- Islamist or otherwise -- the world over. All signs indicate this group is no longer functional and cannot be replicated. Whether or not Osama bin Laden is still alive, al Qaeda as it once was is dead.
Strategically, these men envisioned a world in which the caliphate would rise anew as a consequence of events they would set into motion. The chief obstacle to this goal was not the United States but the panoply of secular, corrupt governments of the Middle East. Al Qaeda knew its limited numbers precluded it from defeating these governments, so it sought to provoke the Muslim masses into overthrowing them. Al Qaeda also knew it lacked the strength to do this provoking by itself so it sought to trick someone more powerful into doing it.
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U.S. May be Numb to Terror Threats as Real Evil Lurks
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
To Americans who have grown skeptical of terrorism warnings, the professionals in the intelligence community say they understand. They also say this time, it could be for real.
That's because the level of worldwide jihadist activity this year appears disturbingly familiar to those who hunted Al Qaeda even before the 9/11 attacks.
"What you've been seeing has had a feeling, to me, a lot like the summer of 2001, where you've got a lot of things happening," a senior U.S. intelligence official said on Friday.
"It would not surprise me at all to see another terrorist event this summer in the United States," the official told the Daily News. Yet many Americans have grown deeply distrustful of such doomsday scenarios which rarely materialize.
President Bush has seeded much of this confusion - as he did last week amid reports of Al Qaeda's rebirth - when he simultaneously called Osama Bin Laden a "serious threat" and boasted that the U.S. has hurt his ability to strike the homeland.
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Could Terrorists Spread Killer Virus Terrorists who have infiltrated the NHS could easily get access to deadly viruses and dangerous chemicals, according to a security specialist.
The unnamed expert said lax security in Britain's hospitals left them vulnerable to the theft of lethal substances.
The Health Service Journal quoted him as saying such thefts could go unnoticed for days. "Most hospitals give staff cards that let them into certain areas, but it's easy to lend someone your pass,"he said.
"The official view is that the threat to hospitals is fairly low, but we're just as vulnerable as any nightclub - these people want maximum impact."
The warning comes days after it emerged that seven of the eight people held over the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow had links to the NHS.
David Amos, the Department Of Health's former deputy director general of workforce, said up to one in five NHS trusts were not following guidelines on screening staff.
NEFA Foundation: Irhaby007's American Connections U.S.-Based Plotters On July 19, 2006, Syed Harris Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen studying at Georgia Tech University, and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a U.S. citizen who reportedly met Ahmed at the Al-Farooq Masjid in Atlanta,1 were indicted for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
When announcing the indictments, David Nahmias, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, commented, "The indictment does not [emphasis in the Department of Justice press release] allege that these defendants had proceeded to the point that they posed an imminent threat to the United States. But in today's world we no longer wait until a bomb is built and ready to explode. Providing additional analysis, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Intelligence Committee in January 2007 that Ahmed and Sadequee "had long-term goals of creating a large network of extremists in preparation for conducting attacks, possibly inside the United States.
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Following the Clues: The Role of Forensics in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism Sidney Niemeyer and David K. Although the more than 50 incidents of trafficking in nuclear and radiological materials each year are worrisome, these cases also provide valuable insight to the movement of these materials worldwide. Conducting thorough investigations that utilize nuclear forensics techniques to determine the source of interdicted nuclear materials can help prevent additional trafficking and ultimately terrorist use of nuclear weapons.
After all, the most likely early warning of an adversary's planned nuclear attack will be previous involvement in illicit transfer of nuclear materials. Until now, however, local authorities have viewed such incidents as narrow violations of domestic laws rather than as threats to national and international security.
If nuclear forensic investigations become the norm for interdicted nuclear materials, investigators could analyze nuclear materials, devices or associated material to identify the source and the route of transit and ultimately help to identify the traffickers. In particular, a nuclear forensics investigation might help answer such questions as: Is there a leak in one of the known holdings of nuclear material? Where was legitimate control lost? How did the material come to be where we found it? Can we link this material to the perpetrators? Is this case connected to previous cases?
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