Were Iraq, Iran and Al Queda behind the OK city bombing, and did they successfully lay the blame on right wing extremists?
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This New Jackals book points out connections between Yousef in the Phillipines and Nichols:
From the book New Jackals:
Ramsi Yousef's movements in the days after the PAL bombing may be crucial because they may help to determine whether he was involved in the next great horror that stunned America. The massive bomb that ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma on 19 April 1995 killed 168 people and injured 600. Since the bombing there have been extraordinary claims that Yousef met and trained Terry L. Nichols, one of the two men charged with the atrocity. ONe of Yousef's friends has even claimed that Yousef's gan was responsible for the bombing.
The possible linke was uncovered by Stephen Jones, the chief defence lawyer for Timothy J. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death ... FBI agents have dismissed Jone's claims as a legal manoeuvre to try and shift the burden of guilt from his one-time client to Nichols and create a wider conspiracy. 'He's just trying to portray McViegh as the patsy,' said one FBI source. Others believe the links are more than just mere coincidence.
The exact origins of the plot to attack the federal building in Oklahoma are still unclear, but in mid-November 1994, Terry Nichols left the US to spend Christmas with Marife, his Filipino 'mail-order' bride, and her family in Cebu.
read on here:
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From the book New Jackals:
Ramsi Yousef's movements in the days after the PAL bombing may be crucial because they may help to determine whether he was involved in the next great horror that stunned America. The massive bomb that ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma on 19 April 1995 killed 168 people and injured 600. Since the bombing there have been extraordinary claims that Yousef met and trained Terry L. Nichols, one of the two men charged with the atrocity. ONe of Yousef's friends has even claimed that Yousef's gan was responsible for the bombing.
The possible linke was uncovered by Stephen Jones, the chief defence lawyer for Timothy J. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death ... FBI agents have dismissed Jone's claims as a legal manoeuvre to try and shift the burden of guilt from his one-time client to Nichols and create a wider conspiracy. 'He's just trying to portray McViegh as the patsy,' said one FBI source. Others believe the links are more than just mere coincidence.
The exact origins of the plot to attack the federal building in Oklahoma are still unclear, but in mid-November 1994, Terry Nichols left the US to spend Christmas with Marife, his Filipino 'mail-order' bride, and her family in Cebu.
read on here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=VQjpziNmoE4C&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=the+new+jackals+oklahoma&source=bl&ots=H4JCHqg55g&sig=NJrA03UeCEOzfcWe4F5a2-9GqfA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XYvyTvwuguSIAtXkjKYO&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
The New Jackals
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism is a book by Simon Reeve.
Published in 1998, this New York Times bestseller was the first book on Osama bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Al-Qaeda. Classified documents obtained by the author detailed the existence, development, and aims of al Qaeda.
According to The New Jackals, a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the Afghan War of 1980s, later dominated international terrorism. Author Simon Reeve warned that many of these men, known as the ‘Afghan Arabs’, became the core of al Qaeda. Reeve states these men were a new breed of terrorist, militants with no restrictions on mass killing. The New Jackals concluded that by 1988, the world was entering a new age of apocalyptic terrorism; Reeve predicted al Qaeda would launch massive attacks on Western targets.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the book was republished with a new epilogue, which warns the West remains vulnerable to further attacks, possibly from biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
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The first book on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, this New York Times bestseller warns of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism. According to ‘The New Jackals’ a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the 1980s Afghan War have since dominated international terrorism. Author Simon Reeve warns that many of these men, known as the ‘Afghan Arabs’, have become a new breed of terrorist, militants with no restrictions on mass killing. Reeve spent years investigating the two most dangerous ‘Afghan Arabs’: Osama bin Laden, currently the most wanted man in the world, and Ramzi Yousef, the young British-educated mastermind of the massive bombing of the World Trade Center bombing (WTC) in 1993. Yousef’s attack resulted in more hospital casualties than any event in American history since the Civil War. He is described by experts as a modern ‘Carlos the Jackal’ because of his astonishing crimes. The New Jackals is a true-life investigative thriller, with details of a tense two-year manhunt told through interviews with a senior FBI agent, but it also includes a series of major revelations. For example the book offers the first real insight into bin Laden’s early years. The New Jackals also reveals that in the 1993 WTC attack Ramzi Yousef wanted to topple one tower of the building into the other (killing perhaps 250,000 people) with a massive radioactive bomb that would have forced the evacuation of much of New York. The author details how Yousef detonated a bomb on a plane over Japan, planned to kill the Pope and President Clinton, blew-up an Iranian shrine, plotted to attack CIA headquarters with chemical weapons, and was stopped just days before he was due to simultaneously destroy 11 airliners over the Pacific. The New Jackals sheds new light on Yousef and bin Laden, describing them as the first of a new breed of terrorist, and reveals how they have been responsible for some of the bloodiest and most audacious acts of terrorism in history. Highly detailed and yet immensely readable, The New Jackals is one of the most prophetic books of the last decade. It is essential reading for anyone seeking insights into the new breed of terrorist behind the devastating strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. A new epilogue by author Simon Reeve assesses the current status of the sinister al Qaeda network and warns the West remains vulnerable to further apocalyptic attacks.
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future Of Terrorism
by Simon Reeve
Northeastern University Press, $26.95, 294 pages, illus
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes
Washington Times
December 5, 1999
Northeastern University Press, $26.95, 294 pages, illus
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes
Washington Times
December 5, 1999
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The names Ramzi Yousef and Osama bin Laden, two men who have devoted themselves to killing Americans at random, conjure up images of hatred and mayhem; but as individuals they are murky, even mysterious. Simon Reeve, an investigative journalist formerly with London's Sunday Times and now a freelance author, makes these arch-terrorists come to life in an unusual dual biography.
In a compelling reconstruction, Mr. Reeve takes the many disparate factoids we already know (that a World Trade Center bomber went back to the rental company to claim the $400 deposit on the truck he had blown up; that the pharmaceutical factory in Sudan bombed by U.S. missiles turned out to be legitimate) and makes them into a coherent and slightly horrifying account.
His two central characters cannot help but rivet one's attention. Yousef (born 1968) grew up as a second-class citizen in Kuwait, while bin Laden (born 1957) is the 17th son of one of Saudi Arabia's richest men. Both studied engineering and had their youthful wayward years.
Both then found their (anti-American) political cause and quickly rose through the ranks to become leaders. Yousef is described as an "evil genius" who invented new and undetectable kinds of bombs; bin Ladin, inspired by an extremist vision of Islam, used his huge fortune to create a personal army.
Yousef, now a lifelong guest at the Florence Correctional Institute in Colorado, is considered the most dangerous prisoner in the entire U.S. penal system; bin Laden, living out of animal-infested caves in Afghanistan, ranks as America's most dangerous criminal still on the loose.
Mr. Reeve unearths fascinating material about these two. The bomb used in the World Trade Center explosion was "the largest by weight and damage of any improvised explosive device" the FBI had ever seen.
Ramzi Yousef's laptop computer contained a cyber-business card identifying him as "International Terrorist." From this mass of information comes important insights into the nature of the current terrorism wave.
For example, Mr. Reeve shows that although Yousef has a reputation as an Islamic militant, he had a girlfriend while living in the Philippines and was "gallivanting around Manila's bars, strip-joints and karaoke clubs, flirting with women." From this and other suggestions of loose living, the author finds "scant evidence to support any description of Yousef as a religious warrior." The FBI agent in charge of investigating Yousef finds that "he hid behind a cloak of Islam." Mr. Reeve concludes that identifying Yousef simply as an Islamic terrorist is not only inaccurate, it also does an injustice to one of the world's great religions."
So, then, what motivated him? Here, Mr. Reeve mistakenly argues that Yousef had no real ideology - "no clear or definable political goals" and a generalized hatred of the United States. This analysis, however, overlooks Mr. Reeve's own plentiful evidence in "The New Jackals" that Yousef, who called himself "Pakistani by birth, Palestinian by choice," made anti-Zionism the core belief of his wretched existence.
In another note found on his computer, for example, he threatened more attacks on American targets "in response to the . . . assistance given to the Jewish State . . . by the American government."
Yousef did have a clear and definable goal: the destruction of Israel. Finding Israeli installations too well defended, he attacked American ones instead. In short, he is a Palestinian terrorist.
What makes Yousef's case odd, as again Mr. Reeve notes, is his lack of contact with Israel, never ever having been in that country. " Despite a Pakistani father and a Pakistan passport, despite a secure upbringing [in Kuwait], and several years of education in the West, Yousef chose to affiliate himself with the Palestinians and launch a devastating terrorist war against America on their behalf."
Seeking a cause, in other words, he voluntarily took up a Palestinian identity. In this he is far from alone: As Commentary magazine recently revealed, Edward Said made this same conceptual leap in the 1970s, just as he took up politics. Before him, Yasir Arafat did likewise in the 1950s; and even earlier, the leading Arab intellectual George Antonius did something similar in the 1930s.
If Mr. Reeve's account offers many such insights, it is also true he makes too many mistakes; they are minor, but for a book in which most information is uncheckable, they raise red flags. James Woolsey, a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, was not an admiral. The fourth "Rightly-Guided" caliph of Islam was not named "Ali Radiallahu" (radi Allah `anhu is an honorific meaning may God be pleased with him). Rif`at al-Mahjub, speaker of the Egyptian parliament, was killed not in 1993 but in 1990. Jonathan Pollard was never jailed at the "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo.
Nor is it reassuring to find contested, even conspiratorial, notions reported as facts: Mr. Reeve blithely states that CIA arranged for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to enter the United States (as opposed to the accepted version that he entered due to a low-level consular error).
Mr. Reeve concludes with a rousing call to arms against the new wave of terrorism represented by Yousef and bin Ladin; noting that "Bin Ladin commands an army of some 5,000 terrorists" (a figure that also includes individuals linked to groups under his umbrella organization), the author points to extraordinary dangers ahead. To the question, why so relatively few actual incidents have taken place, he indicates that they are biding their time. Some are classic "sleepers" waiting to be activated, while others are preparing for the right moment to launch an unprecedented reign of terror.
In other words, Mr. Reeve's important work, though slightly marred by its inaccuracies, is an outstanding account describing a terrible and growing peril.
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Overview
Simon Reeve is a journalist and writer. He worked for The Sunday Times for five years before leaving to finish co-writing The Millennium Bomb, published in 1996. He has since contributed to books on corruption, organized crime and terrorism, and has written investigative feature articles for publications ranging from Time magazine to Esquire. He lives in London.
During research for The New Jackals Reeve has eaten ice cream sorbet with Benazir Bhutto, spent hours sitting in stairwells on a London housing estate waiting for a former Lebanese smuggler, met American intelligence officials in suburban burger bars and a Chinese restaurant, and been followed by agents from two different countries during meetings with a renegade Asian spy.
Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the 'Afghan Arabs' have "dominated international terrorism as it relates to the United States and Europe [in the 1990s]. At the international level the only terrorist apparatus that the United States has had to deal with over the past several years has been Osama bin Laden and before that Ramzi Yousef." Oliver 'Buck' Revell, former Deputy Director of the FBI.
"Ramzi Yousef is an evil genius." Senior Pakistani intelligence officer.
"Yousef was a pretty unique person. He liked the bar scene, he liked women, he liked moving around. Yousef was very good. He was well trained, very clever. He'll certainly be ranked right up there with the all-timers. Even to this day, he is a very shadowy figure that we really don't know that much about, even after all that's been done and all that's been investigated on him." Neil Herman, the FBI Supervisory Special Agent who led the New York Joint Terrorist Task Force during the hunt for Yousef.
"Yes, I am a terrorist, and I'm proud of it." Ramzi Yousef.
"In the past, we were fighting terrorists with an organisational structure and some attainable goal like land or the release of political prisoners. But Ramzi Yousef is the new breed, who are more difficult and hazardous. They want nothing less than the overthrow of the West, and since that's not going to happen, they just want to punish - the more casualties the better." Oliver 'Buck' Revell, former Deputy Director of the FBI.
"He's a cold-blooded terrorist. He doesn't care who he kills. He may be the most dangerous man in the world." Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao of the Philippines National Police describing Yousef.
"One man said to me 'remember there will only be those who believe and those who will die. There will only be the dead and the believers'." Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
"If Russia can be destroyed, the United States can also be beheaded." Osama bin Laden.
"In my personal view [Osama bin Laden] is very much interested in obtaining weapons of mass destruction and he has the money to pay for them. It's certainly a credible threat." Peter Probst, Pentagon terrorism expert.
"We don't consider it a crime if we tried to have nuclear, chemical, biological weapons. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so." Osama bin Laden.
"Terrorism is changing. We expect biological attacks in the future." Marvin Cetron, author of the Pentagon's secret Terror 2000 investigation.
The New Jackals is a true-life investigative thriller that provides unsettling insight into what may well be tomorrow's headlines. Reeve concludes that Yousef and bin Laden are the first of a new breed of terrorists, men dedicated to mass killing and willing to die for their cause.
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Editorial Reviews
From Barnes & Noble
In the aftermath of the despicable terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, fingers are being pointed in the direction of Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden. In The New Jackals, journalist Simon Reeve documents the activities and motives of bin Laden and his accomplice Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 bomb blast at the World Trade Center. Written prior to the destruction of the World Trade Center, Reeve's book offers some clues to the mind-set behind the mass murder of innocents and stands as a chilling and prophetic early warning of a new era in the war against global terrorism.
Library Journal
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the United States assisted in training the rebels fighting the Soviets. Little did it know that it was thereby paving the way for future terrorism. Reeve, an investigative journalist and freelance writer, explains how two men who eventually benefited from this military training have terrorized the world during the past decade. He argues that Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the bombing of the World Trade Center, acted from a mixture of political and religious motives and shows that he was captured only through the hard work (and a little luck) of the FBI and other intelligence agencies around the world. Reeve also provides a better understanding of Osama bin Laden, who funds the terrorism movement (he is from an extremely wealthy family) and was responsible for the double U.S. Embassy bombing in Africa in 1998. Reeve argues that even if bin Laden were captured, someone else will take his place: "It is no longer a question of if terrorists will successfully use a weapon of mass destruction, but when." This ought to bring chills to your spine. Well written and researched, this belongs in public libraries.--Michael Sawyer, Northwestern Regional Lib., Elkin, NC Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/new-jackals-simon-reeve/1102815301?ean=9781555535094
Overview
Simon Reeve is a journalist and writer. He worked for The Sunday Times for five years before leaving to finish co-writing The Millennium Bomb, published in 1996. He has since contributed to books on corruption, organized crime and terrorism, and has written investigative feature articles for publications ranging from Time magazine to Esquire. He lives in London.
During research for The New Jackals Reeve has eaten ice cream sorbet with Benazir Bhutto, spent hours sitting in stairwells on a London housing estate waiting for a former Lebanese smuggler, met American intelligence officials in suburban burger bars and a Chinese restaurant, and been followed by agents from two different countries during meetings with a renegade Asian spy.
Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the 'Afghan Arabs' have "dominated international terrorism as it relates to the United States and Europe [in the 1990s]. At the international level the only terrorist apparatus that the United States has had to deal with over the past several years has been Osama bin Laden and before that Ramzi Yousef." Oliver 'Buck' Revell, former Deputy Director of the FBI.
"Ramzi Yousef is an evil genius." Senior Pakistani intelligence officer.
"Yousef was a pretty unique person. He liked the bar scene, he liked women, he liked moving around. Yousef was very good. He was well trained, very clever. He'll certainly be ranked right up there with the all-timers. Even to this day, he is a very shadowy figure that we really don't know that much about, even after all that's been done and all that's been investigated on him." Neil Herman, the FBI Supervisory Special Agent who led the New York Joint Terrorist Task Force during the hunt for Yousef.
"Yes, I am a terrorist, and I'm proud of it." Ramzi Yousef.
"In the past, we were fighting terrorists with an organisational structure and some attainable goal like land or the release of political prisoners. But Ramzi Yousef is the new breed, who are more difficult and hazardous. They want nothing less than the overthrow of the West, and since that's not going to happen, they just want to punish - the more casualties the better." Oliver 'Buck' Revell, former Deputy Director of the FBI.
"He's a cold-blooded terrorist. He doesn't care who he kills. He may be the most dangerous man in the world." Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao of the Philippines National Police describing Yousef.
"One man said to me 'remember there will only be those who believe and those who will die. There will only be the dead and the believers'." Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
"If Russia can be destroyed, the United States can also be beheaded." Osama bin Laden.
"In my personal view [Osama bin Laden] is very much interested in obtaining weapons of mass destruction and he has the money to pay for them. It's certainly a credible threat." Peter Probst, Pentagon terrorism expert.
"We don't consider it a crime if we tried to have nuclear, chemical, biological weapons. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so." Osama bin Laden.
"Terrorism is changing. We expect biological attacks in the future." Marvin Cetron, author of the Pentagon's secret Terror 2000 investigation.
The New Jackals is a true-life investigative thriller that provides unsettling insight into what may well be tomorrow's headlines. Reeve concludes that Yousef and bin Laden are the first of a new breed of terrorists, men dedicated to mass killing and willing to die for their cause.
Show Less
Editorial Reviews
From Barnes & Noble
In the aftermath of the despicable terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, fingers are being pointed in the direction of Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden. In The New Jackals, journalist Simon Reeve documents the activities and motives of bin Laden and his accomplice Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 bomb blast at the World Trade Center. Written prior to the destruction of the World Trade Center, Reeve's book offers some clues to the mind-set behind the mass murder of innocents and stands as a chilling and prophetic early warning of a new era in the war against global terrorism.
Library Journal
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the United States assisted in training the rebels fighting the Soviets. Little did it know that it was thereby paving the way for future terrorism. Reeve, an investigative journalist and freelance writer, explains how two men who eventually benefited from this military training have terrorized the world during the past decade. He argues that Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the bombing of the World Trade Center, acted from a mixture of political and religious motives and shows that he was captured only through the hard work (and a little luck) of the FBI and other intelligence agencies around the world. Reeve also provides a better understanding of Osama bin Laden, who funds the terrorism movement (he is from an extremely wealthy family) and was responsible for the double U.S. Embassy bombing in Africa in 1998. Reeve argues that even if bin Laden were captured, someone else will take his place: "It is no longer a question of if terrorists will successfully use a weapon of mass destruction, but when." This ought to bring chills to your spine. Well written and researched, this belongs in public libraries.--Michael Sawyer, Northwestern Regional Lib., Elkin, NC Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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