Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
Pastor Dale Morgan
Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe*
June 18, 2007 4:45 PM
Brian Ross Reports:
ABC News
Exclusive_suici_mn_2 Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are
being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence
contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great
Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp
graduation ceremony held June 9.
A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some
300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on
their suicide missions.
Photos: Inside an al Qaeda/Taliban 'Graduation'
The tape shows Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah, whose
brother was killed by the U.S. last month, introducing and
congratulating each team as they stood.
"These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to
Afghanistan from faraway places," Dadullah says on the tape. "Why
shouldn't we go after them?"
The leader of the team assigned to attack Great Britain spoke in English.
"So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for
a suicide attack in Britain," he said. "Whether my colleagues,
companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our
blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible)."
U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of
"an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign."
Others take it very seriously.
"It doesn't take too many who are willing to actually do it and be able
to slip through the net and get into the United States or England and
cause a lot of damage," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, the
former White House counterterrorism official.