Documents and other intelligence gathered at the Pakistani compound of Osama bin Laden indicate that Los Angeles was among the possible targets for future attacks on the United States, according to CBS2. The memos, shared with the FBI and Homeland Security following the killing of bin Laden, discuss attack plans being concocted for Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C.
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L.A.'s Rail System Named as Potential Al-Qaeda Target on Attack 'Wish List'
Osama Bin Laden Dead, Obama Calls Late-Night Press Conference [UPDATED]
Osama Bin Laden, considered the mastermind of Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks on the United States, is reportedly dead. Major news outlets have made the declaration, and President Barack Obama is expected to address the press, the nation, and the world shortly to confirm the reports. UPDATE 8:49PM: Obama confirmed that Osama Bin Laden was killed by a U.S. attack, and that the body was taken into possession by U.S. forces. Bin Laden was killed today on a compound in Pakistan, and no Americans were harmed in the attack.
Riverside Al Qaeda Operative Still on the Loose
Over the weekend, Pakistan officials thought they had arrested Adam Gadahn, the Riverside man who is a spokesman and named the "top propagandist" for Al Qaeda. They were wrong. They actually have Abu Yahya Mujahideen Adam, a Pennsylvania native, according to the LA Times. 31-year-old Gadahn (pictured here) "is on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists and is the first American since the World War II era to be charged with treason."
Al Qaeda Would-Be LAX Bomber Resentenced to 22 Years
Yesterday in Seattle, a judge resentenced Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber" who was convicted for planning to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Years Eve in 1999, to 22 years. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour did not believe that Ressam had gone back to his Al Qaeda ways after working with the feds catch other terrorists, therefore he would not be a danger when released in 2019. But prosecutors say he did not live up to his deal by retracting everything he said to help the government up until 2003 when he stopped talking. Ultimately, that cost them two high-profile terrorism prosecutions, they said.
MWM Seeks Terrorists To Not Torture
Where are the bad guys hiding? Where are they? We need to smoke them out of their holes and find them. Oh good news! I found them. They’re in my secret CIA prisons all over the world. I wonder if George hides his own Easter eggs too and then celebrates when he finds a hollow, chocolate bunny. The meat of yesterday’s Bush address was that we now have a bunch of top-notch terrorists being...
Threat Press
LA Observed pointed us towards LA Cowboy yesterday who wrote about Good Morning America's playing of a supposed Al Qaeda threat against Melbourne, Australia and Los Angeles. The Cowboy wants to know why this isn't front page news for the Times. So does Mickey Kaus who notes that it is in Melbourne.
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