(Washington Post) An Ohio truck driver who met with Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed plotted to bring down New York's Brooklyn Bridge and launch a simultaneous unspecified attack in Washington as recently as a few months ago, according to court papers unsealed Thursday. Iyman Faris, a Kashmiri-born naturalized American citizen who is in federal custody, pleaded guilty May 1 to providing material support to a terrorist organization. See also U.S. v. Faris: Criminal Information; Statement of Facts; Plea Agreement (FindLaw) Osama Bides His Time - Sanjay Anand Bin Laden is not dead and the organization he leads is not on the verge of disintegration. He is alive and living in northwest Pakistan, probably near the Afghan border, in an area which neither the Pakistani government nor the Americans control. He is protected by the fundamentalist state within a state which controls Pakistan’s northwest province. General Musharraf’s regime is unable, or unwilling, to do anything to stop him. With a new Taliban regime being created around him, Osama bin Laden sits in the shade planning mass murder on an ever larger scale. (Spectator-UK)
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