- An American Taliban fighter held captive by Marines in
Afghanistan has told American officials that al Qaeda's next attack on
the United States will take place in days and involve biological weapons,
U.S. intelligence officials told The Washington Times.
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- John Walker Lindh, the Taliban guerrilla captured near
Mazar-e-Sharif, said in intelligence debriefings at the U.S. Marine Corps
base near Kandahar that "Phase II" of al Qaeda's war against
the United States will occur at the end of the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan,
which ends Sunday.
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- Mr. Lindh told U.S. intelligence officials that the
Ramadan
attack will involve the use of biological weapons.
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- A third phase of al Qaeda's war on the United States
will result in the destruction of the entire country, the Islamic convert
stated.
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- The officials said they have questioned the credibility
of Mr. Lindh's claim because of his relatively low-level position.
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- Still, the information was among other intelligence
reports
that led the Bush administration to issue a public warning last week about
a possible terrorist attack, the officials said.
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- No other details were available about Mr. Lindh's
debriefing.
However, the intelligence about the impending attack is an indication Mr.
Lindh may have been part of the al Qaeda network in addition to fighting
on behalf of the Taliban militia.
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- A CIA spokesman declined to comment.
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- Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said on Sunday that Mr. Lindh was providing information.
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- "He's been pretty close to the action, and he has
provided from the Afghan perspective some useful information," Gen.
Myers said on "Fox News Sunday."
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- "I think the evidence is pretty strong that he was
right in the middle of it."
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- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told reporters
the American had provided information that has been "very
helpful"
to the United States, including information on the prisoner uprising at
Mazar-e-Sharif that led to the death of CIA officer Johnny "Mike"
Spann.
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- "Obviously the people who really have the
information
that we really want to get are those top al Qaeda leaders and maybe some
of the Taliban leaders and maybe we'll find it in documents in places we
are now able to get into," Mr. Wolfowitz said Sunday.
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- "But I think anyone who knows anything about that
organization is a potentially valuable source of information."
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- The Pentagon has not decided how to handle Mr. Lindh
and whether he will be charged with treason.
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- The U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said in a
statement
that Mr. Lindh was being treated as an enemy prisoner of war.
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- Mr. Lindh, 20, was videotaped as he was interrogated
by the CIA officer hours before his death at the hands of rebelling Taliban
and al Qaeda prisoners at a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif. He initially
gave his name as Abdul Hamid.
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- The Marines are using a large green metal shipping
container
to hold Mr. Lindh at their base in southern Afghanistan, according to pool
reports from the base.
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- Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton said he had
no information about Mr. Lindh being held in the container, which is
surrounded
by barbed wire and Marine guards.
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- A second Marine spokesman, Capt. David Romley, said later
that the only detainee at the camp was Mr. Lindh.
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- At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
told reporters that valuable intelligence is being collected as U.S. and
Afghan opposition forces take over areas once ruled by the Taliban.
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- "There's documentation being found and discovered
and analyzed and translated, so that each day we learn more and know
more,"
Mr. Rumsfeld said. "As more address books are found and phone books
are found and computer hard drives are found as people have left areas,
clearly our knowledge base is going up."
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- http://washingtontimes.com
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- Comment
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- From Dick Eastman
- eastman@wolfenet.com
- 12-12-1
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- John Walker Lindh, the American (who converted to Islam
-ed) and who fought for Afgan indepenence with the al Qaeda is suddenly
claiming that he knows al Qaeda is about to use bilogical weapons on the
US.
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- THIS IS ABSURD. Remember that bin Laden himself did not
know about the WTC attack until he heard it on American news programs.
Remember that al-Qaeda has had its lines of communication cut. Remember
that John Walker Lindh is an American and that on the battlefields of
Afghanistan
there would be no purpose served by telling him of intentions to harm his
countrymen. This never happened. John Walker Lindh has been subjected to
psychological procedures that result in him making these claims. By why
would the US WTC frame-up conspirators want to plant disniformaton about
impending bio attacks? Simple. They've been caught by many of the American
people and want another frame-up to distract...to buy them time...the give
them the options that otherwise have run out.
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- EXPECT BIO-WARFARE AND BE ASSURED IT IS OF
ANGLO-AMERICAN-ISRAELI
PROVENANCE.
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- Dick Eastman
- Yakima, Washington
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- www.whatreallyhappened.com
- www.copvcia.com
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