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Target: White HouseBy Evan Kohlmann
My colleague James Meek at the New York Daily News has published an interesting piece on senior Al-Qaida leader Abu Faraj al-Libi (described by some as the successor to 9/11-mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) who was captured in Pakistan last spring. According to two law enforcement sources interviewed in Pakistan and the United States, Abu Faraj was actively endeavoring to assassinate President George Bush "in the White House, preferably." A "senior U.S. counterterrorism official" confirmed to Meek, "It was clearly something they wanted to do. There's no question about that. It's the holy grail of jihad." Indeed, Abu Faraj is by no means the only Al-Qaida commander who has coveted President Bush and the White House as a primary target. During his 2003 interrogation by Saudi security forces, convicted American Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Omar Abu Ali admitted that top Saudi Al-Qaida leaders talk[ed] to me about killing Bush one time and another time about [suicide hijacking] operations by planes that take off from Britain and Australia that transit America. This way, the passenger will not need an American visa. The plane would then crash in America. Specifically, in order to kill President Bush, Abu Ali would use either snipers or "martyrdom" volunteers dispatched to him by Ali al-Faqasi. More recently, Zarqawi's Al-Qaida faction in Iraq celebrated the "martyrdom" of a Saudi Arabian suicide bomber in Iraq who was encouraged by specific religious "visions" he had experienced: "Abu Naim [al-Najdi]the first martyrenvisioned himself leaving his house, with his sister asking, Where are you going. [In his vision, Abu Naim] replied, Im going to teach America a lesson that it will never forget. He then boarded an airplane and when he observed the World Trade Center, he said to himself [in his vision], I will crash this plane straight into the White House."
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