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The audiotape from Islamabad.
Timeline
date=29 November 2002.
For reason of trying to be a bit complete I have
placed some Media info around the attacks emerging from the first audio
tape. It was found on CNN, I just quote;
Dozen held in Kenya attacks
Friday, November 29, 2002 Posted: 10:38 AM EST (1538 GMT)
Mombasa, Kenya(CNN) -- Twelve people are being held for questioning in connection with synchronized attacks against Israelis in Kenya that left 16 people dead, police say.
Three suicide bombers blew up the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa on Thursday, killing 13 people. A short time earlier, unknown assailants fired two missiles at an Israeli charter plane carrying 271 people but missed their target.
A man and a woman were taken into custody on Thursday near the site of the hotel bombing, and another man was apprehended in Mombasa on Thursday night, police spokesman Kingori Mwangi said.
On Friday, police said an additional 10 people had been detained.
"Immediately after the incident we detained two for interrogation and I feel they could give us useful information," Police Commissioner Philemon Abong'o told a news conference.
"By this morning we had also detained a further 10 people who are under our custody because we feel that some of them have information which could be useful to us."
He declined to give the nationalities of those held. A police spokesman said the first three seized were "all foreigners."
Staff at Mombasa's Le Soleil Beach Club said the man and woman taken into custody on Thursday had stayed at their hotel and were carrying U.S. passports.
Hotel general manager Ben Wafula told Reuters that the pair, who appeared to be in their 20s, said they were from Florida.
They tried to check out on Thursday morning about two hours after the bombing and had phoned Spain soon after the blast, he said.
Wafula said the pair were held after his staff called police, who had asked to be notified of any people checking out of area hotels following the blast, Reuters reported.
Al Queda links investigated
Investigators are looking at whether al Qaeda was behind the attacks.
Several hundred Israeli officials arrived overnight in Mombasa to investigate the attacks and deal with the aftermath of the bombing.
Five aircraft arrived with the contingent, including doctors, rabbis, psychologists, security officials and investigators, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Gilad Millo said.
Israel's Mossad spy agency, which has a long record of hunting terror suspects, is leading the investigation into the twin attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya.
Early on Friday, Israeli military planes evacuated more than 250 tourists, including survivors of bombing, Millo said.
The bodies of three Israelis killed in the attack were on the first plane that arrived back in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli victims were identified as two brothers aged 13 and 15 and a 61-year-old man, Reuters reported.
Other victims included members of a traditional African dance troupe welcoming tourists to the hotel.
Various officials have suggested the attack bears all the hallmarks of al Qaeda, which is blamed for the 1998 dual bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.
"There line is a direct line between New York, Washington, Moscow and Mombasa," said Millo. "International terrorism has struck again."
Referring to the missile attack, he said: "It's a very dangerous escalation of terrorism."
Israeli Army Radio identified one of the three suicide bombers as Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah -- a name that matches one of the most wanted al Qaeda terrorists sought by the FBI.
The name of one of the other bombers also is similar to a wanted al Qaeda terrorist. Both of the men were indicted in absentia in connection with the deadly 1998 twin U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa that killed 224 people.
The FBI in Washington had no immediate comment on the identities of Thursday's bombers.
Meanwhile, Australian authorities said on Friday they were alerted to a threat in Mombasa two weeks earlier.
In a statement, Canberra said it had warned Australians on November 12 to "defer all non-essential travel to Mombasa" because of the risk of terrorist attacks against Westerners in the coastal city.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer emphasized the country had no specific information about the timing, location or method of the possible attacks.
Sharon: 'Long arm shall reach terrorists'
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, fresh from winning re-election as Likud Party leader, vowed to find those responsible for the attacks.
"Our long arm shall reach the terrorists and those who dispatch them," he promised. "Israel shall chase down those who spill the blood of its citizens. No one will emerge unscathed."
He was also reacting to an attack in northern Israel Thursday in which two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus station and Likud polling station in Beit Shean, leaving at least six Israelis dead. The two gunmen were killed by Israeli police in an exchange of gunfire.
In Kenya, Investigators combing through the debris at the hotel found a box with a wire on it, which officials said may have been part of the manual detonator of the bomb. Some reports said as much as 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of explosives may have been used in the attack.
A previously unknown group calling itself "The Army of Palestine" faxed a claim of responsibility for the attacks to the Reuters News Agency in Beirut. Another such fax was received by Al-Manar, Hezbollah television, where editors said it did not appear credible.
In its fax, the group said the attacks were meant to coincide with the November 29, 1947, U.N. decision that partitioned Palestine and allowed for the creation of Israel.
The Kenyan ambassador to Israel said he believed the attacks were the work of al Qaeda, while some intelligence sources said they believed they were a joint effort by al Qaeda and Hezbollah.
A spokesman for U.S. President George W. Bush said it was premature to say whether the attack was linked to Osama bin Laden's group.
"The U.S. government deplores this violence, and we stand ready to assist the governments of Kenya and Israel in investigating these attacks," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Israel Army Radio identified Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, of Egyptian origin, and Faed Ali Sayam, a Kenyan Muslim, as two of the three suicide bombers. The third attacker was not immediately identified.
The name Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah is well known to authorities and terrorism experts.
Abdullah, an Egyptian also known as "Saleh," is the al Qaeda leader of East African cells and a member of al Qaeda's leadership group, the shura council, according to federal prosecutors.
Abdullah is accused of having a direct role in plotting the 1998 embassy bombings and is on the FBI's most wanted list with a $25 million reward.
He was among the last five persons originally indicted in the alleged worldwide conspiracy led by Saudi exile bin Laden to kill Americans abroad and destroy U.S. government property.
The other man identified in Thursday's blast, Faed Ali Sayam, is similar to one on the FBI's wanted list: Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, who has several aliases, including Fahid Ali Salem.
Msalam, 26, a Kenyan national, was one of five men originally accused of direct involvement in the Dar es Salaam embassy bombing that killed 11 Tanzanians on August 7, 1998. He was also charged with the murders of those killed in the Kenya embassy attack.
Bomb vehicle crashed through hotel gate
In Thursday's suicide bombing at the Paradise Hotel, at least 26 people were wounded, including 13 Israelis.
Officials said that about 8:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m. ET), a green four-wheel-drive vehicle with three male occupants pulled up to the entrance of the Paradise Hotel in Malindi, north of Mombasa, where 160 people had just arrived after a flight from the Middle East and were checking in.
A guard at the entrance refused to allow the vehicle to enter. For as many as 10 minutes, it drove back and forth in front of the hotel. Finally, it rammed through the gate and came to rest in front of the lobby, where it blew up, police said.
Kenyan police said the car appeared to have been packed with plastic explosives.
Screaming children covered in blood searched desperately for their parents amid the wreckage, witnesses said.
A few miles from the hotel, and less than an hour before the hotel attack, at 7:40 a.m. (11:40 p.m. Wednesday ET), two missiles were fired at a Boeing 757 as it took off from Mombasa airport carrying 261 passengers and 10 crew members.
Arkia Flight 582 is a weekly charter flight to Tel Aviv.
Israeli intelligence sources told CNN that Kenyan authorities recovered two launch tubes from a field adjacent to the airport.
The missiles fired were "almost certainly SA-7s, or Strela Missiles," the sources said, because Stingers and SA-18s are heat-seeking, and therefore unlikely to miss.
-- CNN Correspondent Catherine Bond, Correspondent Rula Amin, International Correspondent Sheila MacVicar and CNN Producer Phil Hirschkorn contributed to this report.
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Reinko says; Of course I have some
comments on this since I am somehow under the impression that there is
some direct line between the publication of my arrest and the fall out
in Mombasa. But until now (wrote this file on 05 April 2003) the local
authorities think it is only 'coincidence' and not 'logical'. Therefore
I have some important announcement to give:
| In case I am arrested again and
in case you like to help me, may I strongly ask you to make some kind
of 'Bali-bang-bang soup' into the borders of this Dutch landscape?
There is no reason to think this would harm
me in anyway, when this actually happens the local authorities will
still not able to draw some rather simple line between these events.
And after all, being 'coincidental' is at the very root of this entire
website, and as long the heartbeat of international terrorism follows
the rhythm of 'the story' it is fine by me.
So when your time has come just act harsh and think with light and
give me good 'simultaneous attacks'. Thanks for your attention. |
Beside this I would like to zoom in
on some details found in the above, let me quote it again:
A previously unknown group calling itself "The Army of Palestine" faxed a claim of responsibility for the attacks to the Reuters News Agency in Beirut. Another such fax was received by
Al-Manar, Hezbollah television, where editors said it did not appear credible.
In its fax, the group said the attacks were meant to coincide with the November 29, 1947, U.N. decision that partitioned Palestine and allowed for the creation of Israel. |
Some unknown group? And was it not
observed that the al Queda did set up an entire branch for the so called
'liberation of Palestine'? To a lot of authorities this was a very
surprising development, but these brain dead authorities probably never
knew what details I (Reinko) did exactly write on that 'Chinese anti
terror wall' that is being build in Israel. I will not quote these
writings again, they were on the previous version of this website.
No, why requote? Let the debile authorities be in the dark they love for
so many months by now. I do consider these (local&global)
authorities full of shit, I do consider them being rather stupid and
very brain dead. If grey mouse steps into some kind of 'mouse trap' and
if the grey mouse is killed by that, do we have to mourn the loss of
'real people' or can we say it was only grey mouse stuff?
With that wisdom I would like to leave you alone, do your thinking and
when you have some possibility to act harsh on a moment the story needs
it, please just do it.
End of file&eof.
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