Kathianne
05-01-2009, 08:32 PM
Torture?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_go_ot/us_enemy_combatant_technology
Al-Qaida used Hotmail, simple codes in planning
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
2 hrs 23 mins ago
WASHINGTON – In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik 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 Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.
The document shows how al-Qaida, at least in 2001, embraced prosaic technologies like pre-paid calling cards, public phones, computer search engines and simplistic codes to communicate, plan and carry out its operations.
...An attempt by The Associated Press to reach that address did not indicate the account had been closed, but it went unanswered.
Al-Marri initially tried to use a Yahoo e-mail account to contact Mohammed, but it failed to go through. So he switched to Hotmail as well. When al-Marri arrived in the United States, he created five new e-mail accounts to communicate with Mohammed, using the 10-code to send him his cell phone number in Peoria.
From September to November, al-Marri tried and failed to contact members of al-Qaida in Pakistan using prepaid calling cards and public phones, sometimes traveling 160 miles to use a different phone.
Al-Marri was arrested in December 2001, three months after entering the U.S. on a student visa. He was shortly thereafter declared an "enemy combatant" and taken into military custody.
The "enemy combatant" designation was dropped when he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Illinois.
Suspected as an al-Qaida sleeper agent, he was held without charge for more than five years. His attorneys say he was tortured there. There is no indication in the plea agreement that al-Marri ever made contact with other alleged al-Qaida agents inside the United States.
Al-Marri admitted that before entering the U.S., he met and had regular contact with Khalid Sheik Mohammed and with Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who allegedly helped the Sept. 11 hijackers with money and Western-style clothing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_go_ot/us_enemy_combatant_technology
Al-Qaida used Hotmail, simple codes in planning
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
2 hrs 23 mins ago
WASHINGTON – In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheik 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 Al Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in federal court.
The document shows how al-Qaida, at least in 2001, embraced prosaic technologies like pre-paid calling cards, public phones, computer search engines and simplistic codes to communicate, plan and carry out its operations.
...An attempt by The Associated Press to reach that address did not indicate the account had been closed, but it went unanswered.
Al-Marri initially tried to use a Yahoo e-mail account to contact Mohammed, but it failed to go through. So he switched to Hotmail as well. When al-Marri arrived in the United States, he created five new e-mail accounts to communicate with Mohammed, using the 10-code to send him his cell phone number in Peoria.
From September to November, al-Marri tried and failed to contact members of al-Qaida in Pakistan using prepaid calling cards and public phones, sometimes traveling 160 miles to use a different phone.
Al-Marri was arrested in December 2001, three months after entering the U.S. on a student visa. He was shortly thereafter declared an "enemy combatant" and taken into military custody.
The "enemy combatant" designation was dropped when he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Illinois.
Suspected as an al-Qaida sleeper agent, he was held without charge for more than five years. His attorneys say he was tortured there. There is no indication in the plea agreement that al-Marri ever made contact with other alleged al-Qaida agents inside the United States.
Al-Marri admitted that before entering the U.S., he met and had regular contact with Khalid Sheik Mohammed and with Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who allegedly helped the Sept. 11 hijackers with money and Western-style clothing.