Three targets cited were in the United States, including plans to use hijacked airplanes to attack the West Coast in mid-2002 and the East Coast in mid-2003. . . . The third was the case of Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who converted to Islam and allegedly plotted with top al-Qaida commanders to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. . . . the other seven attacks included plans to: • Bomb several sites in Britain in mid-2004. • Attack Westerners at several places in Karachi, Pakistan, in spring 2003. • Attack Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners in 2003. • Carry out a large-scale bombing in Britain in spring 2004. • Attack ships in the Arabian Gulf in late 2002/2003. • Attack ships in the Straits of Hormuz, a narrow part of the Persian Gulf where it opens into the Arabian Sea, in 2002. • Attack a tourist site outside the United States in 2003.
And then there's a letter from Osama's #2, al-Zawahiri, to the Iraqi Al Qaeda chief, Zarqawi: In the letter al-Zawahri urges Zarqawi — who has declared war on Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority — to avoid bombing mosques and slaughtering hostages to avoid alienating the masses, Whitman said. He also said that al-Zawahri asked Zarqawi for some financial support.
Zawahiri is asking *Zarqawi* for money? Interesting. Bush: U.S. Foiled at Least 10 Terror Plots |