Bin
Laden May Focus Ramadan Attacks on US and Saudi Targets:
Flight 587 crash in New York link to Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda possess small nuclear bombs
DEBKA file (Israeli News Letter) Summary 11.15.2001
DEBKAfile’s military sources, the United States believes
that most of the Taliban’s 60,000-strong fighting force and
its weaponry in Afghanistan have escaped with low casualties from
the heavy US bombing strikes and the lightning Northern Alliance
offensive. Information from the battlefront shows no more than
900 Taliban fighters have been killed.
Taliban
arsenals of between 250 and 300 Scud ground-to-ground missile
arsenals, hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan, remain intact.
Intelligence
sources reveal that the Taliban command, though ordering its own
forces to retreat, instructed Al Qaeda fighters to hold the line,
fight until the last man and not surrender, so as to cover their
pullback. Al Qaeda men obeyed the order and most were killed.
However,
military sources note that bin Laden’s primary fighting force,
Brigade 55, retreated with the Taliban and escaped virtually unscathed,
although elements of the brigade remained in the besieged Taliban
fortress-city of Konduz.
The
Russian Spetznaz, special forces, and Uzbek commandos that spearheaded
the Northern Alliance offensive took the greatest number of casualties,
an estimated 120 killed. American fatalities stand between 30
and 35. Some were killed by friendly fire – bombs or missiles
fired by US warplanes.
Those
same intelligence sources point to mounting signs that Al Qaeda
operatives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
the United States, Canada and western Europe – especially
Britain – plan a wave of painful terrorist attacks in the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan, starting around November 17
Flight
587 crash in New York link to Al Qaeda
According
to DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources, a number of people linked
to Al Qaeda in New York behaved suspiciously several hours before
the crash; some, who were under surveillance following the September
11 attacks, managed to disappear, with the FBI unable to determine
how they slipped away or trace their current whereabouts.
The
morning after, Wednesday, November 14, divers were seen scouring
the marsh area for signs that missiles had been fired at the plane,
such as a launcher or a scuttled boat, on the assumption that
the terrorist who fired the missile escaped in a scuba suit.
Despite
adamant denials by the US Federal Aviation Authority, it is now
becoming clear that prior to the crash, US intelligence did indeed
receive numerous warnings from intelligence sources outside the
United States that a terrorist strike was likely on Tuesday, Veterans
Day, to mark the two-month anniversary of the attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon.
Al
Qaeda's nuclear bombs smuggled into the United States
DEBKAfile’s
sources are certain that senior intelligence officials –
including Americans -- believe that Al Qaeda does indeed possess
small nuclear bombs called “suitcase bombs”. They estimate
that two to three terrorist cells armed with nuclear weapons have
infiltrated the United States.
According
to those sources, Pakistani prime minister Pervez Musharraf and
Indian president Atal Bihari Vajpayee, both of whom visited Washington
last week, gave President George W. Bush information about Al
Qaeda’s nuclear weapons and the possibility of the devices
having been smuggled into the United States
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