The ScoreWelcome to 670 The Score, the home of Cubs Radio, on CBSChicago. The Score is partners with CBS 2 TV and WBBM 780, and they give you the best Chicago. This is a list of fiction set in or near the city of Chicago. MACON, Ga. AP Authorities say a Yellow Cab driver in Georgia was shot in the chest and drove himself to a hospital. Hearst Television participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. First Blood Was Meir Kahanes murder al Qaedas earliest attack on U. S. soil By Peter Lance. Tablet Magazine. In the fall of 2. I received a cryptic email from Emad Salem, the ex Egyptian Army major who was the FBIs first undercover asset in what would become known as the war on terror. Id told Salems remarkable story in my last three books, which were critical of the bureaus counterterrorism record. Because I had treated him fairly, Salem reached out to me after years in the Federal Witness Protection Program. We made plans to meet in early November, after a lecture I was giving at New York University. But Salem didnt show. I went back to my hotel that night and had chalked it up as a lost opportunity. The phone rang at 2 in the morning. Installing A Threshold Between Rooms With Wooden more. It was Salem, summoning me to a meeting outside 2. Federal Plaza, the building that houses the FBIs New York office. Very cloak and dagger, but thats how this man rolls. You dont infiltrate the cell responsible for the 1. World Trade Center bombing without practicing a little tradecraft. Anyway, when my cab pulled in to Foley Square a few minutes later, Salem was standing in the shadows. That was the start of a series of interviews that led to some astonishing revelations about two of the most infamous al Qaida murders since Osama Bin Laden formed his terror network. The first onein fact, arguably the first blood spilled by al Qaida on U. S. soiloccurred on the night of November 5, 1. Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the ultra nationalist Jewish Defense League, finished a speech at the Marriott East Side in New York. Kahane, a volatile figure who had been expelled from the Israeli Knesset in the mid 1. United States to warn American Jews about what he believed to be a second holocaust at the hands of radical Islam, was gunned down by El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian migr. The New York Police Department initially labeled him a lone gunman. I have argued that it was much more than that an unsolved murder with dire implications for the war on terror. Now, as a result of new intelligence Ive learned from Salem, its clear for the first time that the rabbis death was directly linked to Osama Bin Laden. More surprising, there was a second gunman on the night of Kahanes murder a young Jordanian cab driver named Bilal Alkaisi. 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The spare tire, commonly used by enclosed trailers, came from the southbound lanes of Interstate 69 and flew into the cab of a northbound semi. This new intelligence, about a pair of historic terror related homicides in New York City, lay buried for years in the files of the Joint Terrorism Task Forceuntil I obtained them from a government source. As I tell it in The Spy Who Came in for the Heat, an investigative piece I wrote for Playboys September issue, Emad Salem was arguably the most important asset in the U. S. war with al Qaida. But my interviews with him and the intel they have kicked loose provide shocking new insights into the ongoing failure of the FBI to reform its counterterrorism capabilities almost a decade after the Sept. In order to fully appreciate the significance of these two murders in the history of the war on terror, we need to go back to the summer of 1. George Bush was in the White House and terrorism was considered a backwater assignment at the FBI. The First Shots Fired in Bin Ladens War Against America. The story begins a year and half before El Sayyid Nosair, wearing a yarmulke, walked into the Morgan D Room at the New York Marriott and killed Kahane. On four successive weekends in July 1. FBIs Special Operations Group followed a group of MEsFBI speak for Middle Eastern Menfrom the al Farooq Mosque on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn to the Calverton shooting range, a large outdoor sand pit located at the end of Long Island. Firing a series of weapons, including AK 4. MEs at the Calverton range included Nosair, then a 3. Port Said, Egypt, who reportedly popped Prozac and worked in the basement of the Civil Courthouse on Centre Street in Manhattan Mahmoud Abouhalima, aka The Red, a 6 foot 2 inch Egyptian cab and limo driver Mohammed Salameh, a diminutive Palestinian and Nidal Ayyad, a Kuwaiti who had graduated from Rutgers University. According to interviews with former FBI agent Jack Cloonan, each of them had been instructed by Ali Aboelseoud Mohamed, an ex Egyptian Army commando from the unit that assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1. Mohamed was the focus of my last book, Triple Cross. In the early 1. 98. Egyptian Army for his radical views, Mohamed came under the influence of Ayman al Zawahiri, the Cairo surgeon who had been jailed for a time for the Sadat murder and went on to form the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. By the end of the decade, after al Zawahiri met Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and merged his Egyptian Islamic Jihad group into what would become al Qaida, Ali Mohamed became the terror networks principal espionage agent. Screen-Shot-2016-03-12-at-10.07.37-PM.png' alt='Cab Driver Chicago Murder' title='Cab Driver Chicago Murder' />In 1. Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA briefly in Hamburg, Germany, got past a watch list to enter the United States a year later, enlisted in the U. S. Army and, astonishingly, managed to get posted to the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, where elite Green Beret officers study. From there, he traveled to New York City on weekends to train the Calverton shooters. Mohamed was so trusted by Bin Laden that he moved the Saudi billionaires entire entourage from Afghanistan to Sudan in 1. Qaidas training camps there, and trained Bin Ladens personal body guards. He was also one of the principal planners in the simultaneous truck bomb attacks on the U. S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1. Three of Mohameds Calverton trainees were convicted in the 1. World Trade Center bombing plot. Nosair was convicted in the Kahane killing. A U. S. born Muslim named Clement Hampton El was convicted with Nosair in the 1. Day of Terror plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, the United Nations, and 2. Federal Plaza, the building that houses the FBIs New York office. At the time of the Calverton surveillance, the FBIs Special Operations Group clearly knew that these men were terrorists in training. New York Police Det. Tommy Corrigan, a former senior member of the NYPD FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, told me in an interview for Triple Cross that the surveillance stemmed from a tip that PLO terrorists were threatening to blow up casinos in Atlantic City. But for unknown reasons the FBI shut down the surveillance. By the end of that summer of 1. MEs and their Green Beret linked leader faded back into the shadows. In July 1. Ali Mohameds, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual emir of al Qaida who became known as the blind sheikh, got a visa, slipped past the same State Department watch list, and landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. He was met at the airport by Mustafa Shalabi, a big, burly 3. Egypt who ran the Alkifah Center at the al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn. Oracle 8 For Windows Xp. The Alkifah was the principal U.