Terrorists Use Modern Technology To Plan Attacks

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Terrorists Use Modern Technology To Plan Attacks

May 2. 2009

It's rare that you see such beauty and polish coming from a man (al-Qaeda's Khalid Shaikh Mohammed)

According to an Associated Press article, al-Qaeda chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed used a free Hot Mail email account in, "Carrying out an attack." He also surfed the internet for information on items such as cyanide.

A terrorist...with a mullet! (shakes head). The above posted photo is of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al Marri, who is facing many years in prison for assisting terrorists. He should really consider just using his initials, as it took me a long time to type his name out. Thanks in advance.

Al-Qaeda used Hotmail, phone codes

WASHINGTON - In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, alleged al-Qaeda operations mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty-plea agreement filed by Ali al-Marri in federal court.

The document shows how al-Qaeda, at least in 2001, embraced prosaic technologies like prepaid calling cards, public phones, computer search engines, and simplistic codes to communicate, plan, and carry out its operations.

Marri also surfed the Internet to research cyanide gas, using software to cover his tracks, according to the document filed Thursday in federal court in Peoria, Ill. He marked locations of dams, waterways, and tunnels in the United States in an almanac. The government says this reflects intelligence that al-Qaeda planned to use cyanide gas to attack those sites...

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