Gotcha, Paracha: SWIFT disrupted Baltimore Bombing
An excellent, in-depth Vent at Hotair today covers of Riverside County goat-farmer and Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn and the network of terrorists he is involved with—including a plot to blow up a Baltimore gas station.
Two names I recognized from this presentation are the father-and-son terror-finance team of Uzair and Saifullah Paracha, whom I blogged about here. My post pointed out how at least Paracha Junior was caught through SWIFT monitoring, and probably his father as well. At the time, as I noted previously, Paracha’s arrest was attributed to information gleaned from the interrogation of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, in order to prevent disclosure of the true source: SWIFT monitoring.
So: not only were the Parachas financing terror, they were helping terrorist Majid Khan return illegally into the country to carry out the gas station bombing. Paracha Jr. even posed as Khan on the phone to INS and picked up Khan’s mail in Baltimore.
In other words, SWIFT monitoring not only led to the arrests of the five or six terrorists I’ve detailed in my last post, but if it brought Uzair Paracha to light…
…then SWIFT monitoring disrupted a terrorist attack on the United States.
But the terrorists won’t be so careless next time. Thanks, New York Times!
To be cross-posted at Patterico’s Pontifications.