Al-Qaida member trained by U.S. Air Force

[rainbow4321]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=8d7e4286c160d658


A Saudi military official with links to al-Qaida was apprehended by the FBI after training at a U.S. Air Force base, the New York Daily News said Tuesday.

No names or locations were given in the report, which the newspaper quoted from a publication by the Office of Strategic Influence.

FBI agents stopped and quizzed the suspect and his family at a U.S. airport last year as they were leaving the country. The man was allowed to return to Saudi Arabia, where he was detained and interrogated further, sources said. As a result, arrests of other al-Qaida operatives were made elsewhere, sources said.

"We have since established a process to screen and monitor activities of foreign students to focus on early discovery of other possible penetrations. In addition to capturing that al-Qaida member in the United States, 51 others were arrested overseas," Air Force Brig. Gen. Eric Patterson wrote in Global Reliance magazine

[spooked911]

1. I'm sure he isn't the first Al Qaeda member to train at a US military base

A few of the 9/11 hijackers are thought to have done this as well.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. And then there is this......

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301238.shtml

Lt. Col. Steve Butler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California -- a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s.

"Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed in the Oval Office by a conservative supreme court. The economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something on which to hang his presidency.... This guy is a joke. What is sleazy and contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain."