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Bin Laden in Pre-9/11 Video Tape

Bin Laden in Pre-9/11 Video Tape APTN (APTN), World Thu 7 Sep 2006 09:51 PM EDT The Arabic Al-Jazeera network has broadcast a video which it says shows Usama Bin Laden meeting with some of the participants in the 9/11/2001 attacks. (Sept. 7)

Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson (audio) interview on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism, GWOT, Iraq and the role of bloggers

Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson (audio) interview on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism, GWOT, Iraq and the role of bloggers

Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson, author of 3 books and top military advisor to President Clinton, recently made himself available for an extended interview with Regime of Terror. Patterson called upon his military/intelligence contacts and background as he talked about al-Qaeda's strength during 90's and today, the war in Iraq and wider Global War on Terror, bloggers and Saddam Hussein's support of terrorism.
Patterson predicts that the intelligence paper of the former Iraq regime, currently held in the HARMONY database and elsewhere, will "connect a lot of the dots" on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism.
Lt. Col. Patterson also discusses al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri's trip to Baghdad in 1998 (in which he received $300,000, possibly from Saddam Hussein himself), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's medical trip to Baghdad in 2002 and the terrorist training that took place in the Salman Pak camp.
His new book, "War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror ", is available for pre-order through amazon.com and is set for a January 16, 2007 release.
Interview is also available for download here.

URL: http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/08/interview_with_lt_col_buzz_pat/

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Editor's note: Also in this interview (link above), LtCol. Patterson discusses the Operation Bojinka Plot in the Philippines that involved Ramzi Yousef and a plan to bomb airplanes in mid-air, over the Pacific ocean. Various modifications of this plan have also been attributed to other more recent plots, including a recent London scheme to bomb U.S. airplanes leaving the U.K. and traveling across the Atlantic to the USA.

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ERRI's Clark Staten first compared the London plot to Operation Bojinka within hours of the announcement of police raids in London, on Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 03:33:31 AM CDT. That news release read:

VERY Preliminary Analysis of U.K. Terror Plot
By Paul Anderson, Correspondent

CHICAGO, IL: ERRI CEO and Senior Analyst Clark Staten said today that as preliminary details begin to filter in, the situation involved in the terrorist plot in the United Kingdom increasingly sounds just like a 1995 Al-Qaeda terror operation called "Bojinka."
Operation Bojinka was a plot to destroy 11 airliners on January 21 and 22, 1995. It was was developed by Al-Qaida operatives Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed while they were in Manila, Philippines in 1994 and early 1995.
Six years before the Sept. 11 attacks, Philippine police took down an al Qaeda cell in Manila that, among other things, had been plotting to fly liquid explosives-laden planes into the Pentagon -- and possibly some skyscrapers. The CIA knew about the plot, known as Operation Bojinka. So did the FBI. "We told the Americans about the plans to turn planes into flying bombs as far back as 1995," a Philippine inspector says.

The bombs - January 1995

The "Mark II" "microbombs" had Casio digital watches as the timers, stabilizers that looked like cotton wool balls, and an undetectable nitroglycerin as the explosive.
Other ingredients included 5 milliliters of glycerin, xx ml of nitrate, xx ml of sulfuric acid, and minute concentrations of nitrobenzene, silver azide (silver nitride), and liquid acetone. Two 9-Volt batteries in each bomb were used as a power source.
The batteries would be connected to light bulb filaments that would detonate the bomb. The batteries were taken from children's toys. The watch was a database watch that had no arms. Murad and Yousef wired a SCR as the switch to trigger the filiments to detonate the bomb. There was an external socket hidden when the wires were pushed under the watch base as the bomber would wear it. The alteration was so small that the watch could still be worn in a normal manner.
Yousef got batteries past airport security during his December 11 test bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 by hiding them in hollowed-out heels of his shoes. Yousef smuggled the nitroglycerin on board by putting it inside a contact lens solution bottle.
Staten said that the exact type of devices to be used in this most recent plot in England have not been confirmed, but sources close to the investigation are telling EmergencyNet News that the explosives to be used were "liquid chemicals" * that were to be carried on-board the planes in carry-on baggage.
EmergencyNet News continues to monitor events in England very closely and we will bring you updates as circumstances warrant..."

* Postscript: It was later found that the liquid bombs probably contained a TAPT-type substance...please see reference w/ graphics elsewhere on our blog, click here.

Additional references:

Series of EmergencyNet News "Real-Time" Reports Concerning An Attempted Bombing of American Airlines Flt. 63; 22 Dec 2001 to 08 Jan 2002, can be found at: http://www.emergency.com/2001/AA-63_bomb.htm

Peripheral Link: Thursday 12th April 2002, Emerging Asian Threat: Riduan Isamuddin (Hambali) -- The Next Terrorist Mastermind??, can be found at: http://www.emergency.com/2002/hambali.htm

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