2+2=5 and mention of cryptome

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 12 18:08:23 PDT 2004


Nah.

They wanted to cock-block Kerry and his high visibility as a result of the 
DNC.

As for inconveniencing this New Yorker, it was barely worse than it usually 
is going down to Wall Street. The RNC will be another story altogether, 
however.

-TD


>From: Sunder <sunder at sunder.net>
>To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
>Subject: 2+2=5 and mention of cryptome
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:38:22 -0400 (edt)
>
>
>Original URL:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/al_q_geek_us_overthrow_plot/
>
>Al-Qaeda computer geek nearly overthrew US
>By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk)
>Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 16:45 GMT
>
>Update A White House with a clear determination to draw paranoid
>conclusions from ambiguous data has finally gone over the top. It has now
>implied that the al-Qaeda computer geek arrested last month in Pakistan
>was involved in a plot to destabilize the USA around election time.
>
>Two and two is five
>
>As we reported here
>(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/us_terror_alert_political_football)
>and here
>(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/02/al_qaeda_cyber_terror_panic),
>so-called al-Qaeda "computer expert" Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a
>Pakistani, was arrested on 13 July in possession of detailed but rather
>old surveillance documents related to major financial institutions in New
>York, Newark, and Washington.
>
>Since that time, other intelligence has led the US security apparatus to
>imagine that a plot to attack the USA might be in the works. (No doubt
>there are scores of plots in the works, but we digress.) Therefore, last
>week, the ever-paranoid Bush Administration decided that Khan's building
>surveillance documents, and the hints of imminent danger, had to be
>connected. Indeed, if al Qaeda is to strike at all, it is most likely to
>strike the targets mentioned in Khan's documents, as opposed to thousands
>of others, the Bushies reasoned.
>
>New York, Newark and Washington were immediately put on high alert, at
>great expense, and to the inconvenience of millions of residents.
>
><SNIP>
>
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