He then immediately faxed the note to the number from the technical support email and tossed the note into the shred bin.
John’s real name was Kaliel. Nedim had met him at university and talked with him at the mosque. John now worked for a technical support company in India, another offshore operation that required its people to use an American name when dealing with U.S. Customers. John had been sent to America on an H1-B Visa for a few years. John worked with the very same team that assembled the information on the Sears Tower. The email was to let Nedim know that John was back home. He was to fax once he had pulled down the file and forwarded it on. One of the other team members, also working in the U.S. On H1-B Visa, had been tasked with assembling the file and posting it in a blind FTP location on the Web. To keep cells isolated, each operative knew only where to put a message, not where it actually ended up.
John had been the first to see the brilliance of Nedim’s email relay system. He had also been the one to convince Nedim to embed the messages inside of images for security. The leaders of al-Qaeda had simply smiled and nodded when he informed them of this plan. They were used to hiding in caves, making videos, and communicating by satellite phone. It was only after September 11, 2001, when every phone was monitored, that suddenly his relay system was pressed into service. The leaders learned about the compromised phones when several of the training camps they had been talking with were bombed. Their location could have been discovered only by triangulating the signals.
Nedim knew the relay network John handled was even larger than his own. Today’s most important recruits weren’t from the impoverished parts of the Muslim world. They were the technology students, training for jobs that would put them in the belly of the beast, able to walk freely, and assemble files like the one Nedim had downloaded today.
The infidels were only too happy to bring them over by the planeload paying their employers U.S. Thirty dollars per hour. The workers got only ten dollars of that. Some got only ten dollars per day. It was more than most of them had ever made and well below the prevailing U.S. Wage. The new recruits were good Muslims, one and all. They were only too happy to send the bulk of that money home to help the cause. While the big donations still came from within Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, both cash and intelligence were coming via these new recruits. Some of them would even be martyrs eventually.
Both John and Nedim had tried to convince the al-Qaeda leaders to start their own offshore companies in India and Pakistan. Keep them looking legitimate to the outside world and they would generate tens of millions of dollars for the cause annually. Each man knew the margins being made by offshore companies. Those companies were able to obtain visas in quantity, usually with the help of their clients. Instead of getting half of some wages, they would get most of all wages even if the employee didn’t support the cause.
Some of the people John had been working with got themselves into projects for the financial districts. These members developed a system of moving large amounts of money around in untraceable manners. The infidels might find a few accounts here and there, but they could not possibly find them all. Al-Qaeda now had accounts in all countries and all currencies. There was nowhere they could not finance an operation. The only problem was getting suicide bombers into America, but thankfully, corporate greed solved that problem. The martyrs had to learn only enough English to work a help desk. Not only were the martyrs being paid to come into the country and kill Americans, they were putting Americans out of jobs from day one. God is Great.
The infidel leaders were so stupid. Rallying in the press about terrorists using the drug cartels to import them. Planting stories about terrorists walking across the Mexican border or the Canadian border. Terrorists didn’t walk into the belly of the beast, they flew business class. The only connection al-Qaeda had to the drug cartels was now they both used the same methods to launder money. To keep the infidels confused, some of the money still went through the charity organizations they had been using for years, but the large transactions all flowed through the drug cartel’s money laundering systems in the financial district. God is Great.
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