MaliLink Forum Archive: Re: [malilink] Complot pour faire saute

To me, this is an empty story with nothing concrete but an arrangement of
special keywords without specifics just to make the story "interesting".
It's a paranoia to immediately tie false passports and cash to plots against
american interests. Forgery is older than Christopher Colombus and so is
cash.

No such violence can take place in Mali and some of those sensation-driven
columnists should be held accountable for smearing entire countries with
such murky articles. Remember Blair from the Times?

>From: "Niang Amadou" <niangam@hotmail.com>
>To: malilink@mali.net
>Subject: Re: [malilink] Complot pour faire sauter l'ambassade des E-U a
>BKO?
>Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:05:55 +0000
>

Well if this plan to reinforce military intelligence in the North of Mali could contribute to putting an end to criminal attacks in our Northern regions, then let it be. Furthermore, a terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Mali would be particularly terrible in many respects. Any human life is highly valuable therefore any attempt against human life wherever it happens is hideous and should be prevented. The U.S Embassy in Bamako is located in a commercial area, so I don't want to even think about the possibility of a terrorist blow against this structure. I have yet to imagine the political and economic implications for our country of such an attack.

My thoughts go to all the U.S. Embassy employees in Bamako.

May God inspire us in finding the best ways to avoid such a catastrophe.

Amen!

Amadou Niang

University of Utah

Salt Lake City

>From:

>To: malilink@mali.net

>Subject: [malilink] Complot pour faire sauter l'ambassade des E-U a BKO?

>Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:17:28 -0400

>Chers amis,

>L'article ci-dessous se trouve sur le site d'actualite quotiden ABC News: http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/ITeamInsider.html

>Verite ou simple rumeur? A vous de decider....

>Bruce Whitehouse dit Sekou Keita

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>Truck Bomb Plot Targeted U.S Embassy

>By Alexis Debat, ABCNEWS Consultant

>June 5 — An Algerian terrorist group, believed by several international intelligence agencies to have links to al Qaeda, was preparing this May to attack a regional U.S. embassy, mimicking bombing tactics used by al Qaeda against embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, senior foreign intelligence sources told ABCNEWS.

>A coalition of African anti-terror units frustrated specific plans last month by the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (known by the acronym GSPC) to attack the U.S. Embassy in Mali's capital, Bamako, the sources said.

>Elite Algerian anti-terror units and their Malian counterparts seized false French passports, $5,000 in cash, and documents described to ABCNEWS as sketches of the projected truck bombing intended to strike the embassy.

>Al Qaeda used truck bombs in 1998 against the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 224 people and injuring hundreds.

>The incriminating documents about the Mali plot were discovered in northern Malian villages where a well-known GSPC representative with alleged al Qaeda connections named Mokhtar Belmokhtar is said to have been hiding.

>Algerian intelligence authorities have concluded, based on Belmokhtar's associations, that al Qaeda's interest in the region has increased over the past year.

>Mali, Niger and Mauritania have been placed high on the list of targets for al Qaeda-related terrorism since a representative of Osama bin Laden's terror network met with Belmokhtar during a visit to Niger and Mali last summer, sources told ABCNEWS.

>The meeting involved a Yemeni named Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed Alwan (aka Abu Mohamed, aka Sidi Ahmed Habiballah), whom French intelligence sources described as al Qaeda's representative in Northern Africa.

>Alwan was said to have had a long association with bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and allegedly had contact with USS Cole bombing suspect Muhammad Hamdi al-Ahdal (aka Abu Ali), and the now-captured senior al Qaeda planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in the summer of 2002, sources told ABCNEWS.

>French intelligence and counterterrorism analysts say that the visit by Alwan to GSPC strongholds was far from routine, especially at time when al Qaeda was, and is, desperately looking to establish its operational capacity in remote and desolate areas of new countries after losing its grip in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and parts of Yemen.

>The analysts further believe that Alwan's visit can be interpreted as a prelude to a surge in terrorist activities in the Saharan states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad — a belief that may now be confirmed by the uncovered truck-bomb plot.

>The same sources say that Alwan's presence in southern Algeria coincided with the delivery of several tons of arms, including several mortar launchers, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and possibly surface-to-air missiles, from Niger to Algeria. The arms are said to have come from Sudan and Chad.

>Based on this information, which was relayed to U.S. authorities by the Algerian government during a meeting in Washington in late September 2002, sources said, a U.S. delegation visited Bamako in October for discussions which included the question of establishing a new military task force, which would include U.S. special forces and CIA operatives, in northern Mali.

>A U.S. State Department official had no specific information on the planned attack, and declined to comment further.

>Risa Molitz contributed to this report.

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Re: [malilink] Complot pour faire sauter l'ambassade des E-U a BKO?