Thanks for nothing. (Insider Report)."Southern Nevada law enforcement leaders are upset that federal officials did not share with them allegations that a terrorist sleeper cell Noun 1. sleeper cell - a cell of sleepers; "an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may have used Arizona as its base" cadre, cell - a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement in Detroit wanted to destroy Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ," reported the April 11th Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas Review-Journal is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas (the Greenspun Media Group-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it). . During testimony given on April 9th in the trial of three Moroccans and an Algerian accused of plotting terrorist acts, government witness Youssef Hmimssa Youssef Hmimssa is a citizen of Morocco, who was convicted in a Detroit court of fraud and who was a key witness in the case against the Detroit Sleeper Cell.[1] Hmimssa left Morocco in 1990, when he was 18. "said one of the defendants spoke to him in June 2001 and August 2001 about Islamic extremist 'brothers' organizing for massive attacks in the United States," recounted the paper. "Hmimssa said [defendant Ahmed] Hannan referred to Las Vegas as 'the City of Satan.' Hannan also talked about the brothers destroying the city, Hmimssa testified, because they were angry that Arabs spent money on sinful behavior in Las Vegas." When the suspected Detroit terrorist cell was rolled up shortly after 9-li, the Feds found a videotape suggesting that Las Vegas' MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Grand Hotel and Disneyland were among potential targets. Members of the local sheriff's department were not aware of the potential threat until the April 10th Review-Journal story. After reading about the threat, Sheriff Bill Young contacted Ellen Knowlton, FBI special agent in charge for Las Vegas, and U.S. Attorney for Nevada Daniel Bogden, to ask them about any further information about potential threats, but no further information was provided. |
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