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In the News (Sat 14 Nov 09)

  
  washingtonpost.com: Bust and Boom
Aida Fariscal had gone to bed early on September 11, only to be awakened by a frantic colleague.
Fariscal had no idea she was looking at Ramzi Yousef, the man who had tried to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993.
All Fariscal knew for the moment was that she had just nabbed some sort of a terrorist -- and, in the Philippines, that could mean anything.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14725-2001Dec21?language=printer   (4344 words)

  
 Thestar.com/Operation Bojinka's bombshell
Aida Fariscal had gone to bed early on Sept. 11, only to be awakened by a frantic colleague.
All Fariscal knew for the moment was that she had just nabbed some sort of a terrorist — and, in the Philippines, that could mean anything.
The senior inspector had already surmised that the Pope was a target of assassination, a suspicion borne out when she returned with the bomb squad to Suite 603 at 2:30 a.m.
propagandamatrix.com /operation_bojinkas_bombshell.html   (3915 words)

  
 Aida Tickets
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The certificate reads, "Awarded to Senior Inspector Aida D. Fariscal, in recognition of your personal outstanding efforts and co-operation." After she foiled the plot, the Philippine police assigned her two bodyguards for five years.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/2/aida-tickets.html   (1088 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Fariscal says six years later she was shocked when she saw the television on September 11.
FARISCAL (through translator): They should have prevented it, because the plan then, and what was going to happen in the future is there in the disks.
Fariscal, now retired from the police force, says the growth of this network could have been prevented if authorities in the Philippines, the FBI and CIA followed through on the information she discovered in 1995.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/23/i_ia.00.html   (2969 words)

  
 Aida Fariscal
Fariscal spent seventeen years as a homemaker before enrolling in the police department in 1977.
The widow of a slain police officer, she rose through the ranks of the Manila Police Department, and in 1983 won an award for arresting three murder suspects on Mindoro Island.
She also won a laminated award from the CIA for her action.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Aida_Fariscal   (510 words)

  
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He said his name was Ahmed Saeed, that he was a commercial pilot, and that he was just on his way to the precinct house to explain the firecracker smoke.
There were street maps of Manila, plotting the papal motorcade's route; two remote-control pipe bombs; and a phone message from a tailor saying that the cassock Saeed had ordered was ready for a final fitting.
Fariscal found dozens of passports in different names hidden in a wall divider.
www.seekinglight.net /bojinka.htm   (2733 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka's bombshell
All Fariscal knew for the moment was that she had just nabbed some sort of a terrorist - and, in the Philippines, that could mean anything.
The senior inspector had already surmised that the Pope was a target of assassination, a suspicion borne out when she returned with the bomb squad to Suite 603 at 2: 30 a.m.
In addition to the material captured by Fariscal, which outlined an attack using airliners as flying bombs, the CIA had forewarning of the 9-11 attack by at least four allied intelligence agencies (France, Israel, Germany, Russia).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/600300/posts   (12111 words)

  
 Hero-crats: From faceless to famous (10/22/01)
Aida Fariscal, for example, was a precinct captain in the Philippines on January 6, 1995, when a report came in of a minor fire in a Manila apartment complex.
Fariscal's instincts foiled the grisly plot, kept the pope alive, and resulted in the arrest and 1997 conviction in New York City of Yousef.
Fariscal received a promotion and her country's Civil Service Award from then-President Fidel Ramos, plus a bonus of 20,000 pesos-or about $770.
www.govexec.com /dailyfed/1001/102201nj1.htm   (3926 words)

  
 Keys to 9/11
In January 1995, a patrolman told Manila Senior Inspector Aida Fariscal not to worry about the smoke plume rising from a sixth-floor apartment down the street from the station because some Pakistanis had accidentally started a blaze with firecrackers.
Fariscal decided to walk down the street and have a look anyway.
After refusing a $2000 bribe, Fariscal and a patrolman took a man of many aliases (later identified as Abdul Hakim Murad) into custody.
www.hermes-press.com /keys9_11.htm   (3251 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Search Results
In Suite 603, Fariscal found a cluttered one-bedroom bachelor pad.
He was young, in his mid-to-late 20s, Fariscal guessed.
That dark place turned out to be the cupboard under the apartment's kitchen sink, where technicians found a foot-long bomb with a Casio wristwatch timer.
archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com /cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=bojinka060&date=20020106&query=st   (2848 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
AIDA FARISCAL, FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR (through translator): They should have prevented it because the plan then and what was going to happen in the future is there in the discs.
Philippine investigators remember Hambali as the Director of Konsojaya, a Malaysian company which funded a terrorist cell broken up here in 1995, and those investigators say if the U.S. had followed up on what was learned from a seized computer then, September 11th might have been averted.
FARISCAL (through translator): They should have prevented it because the plan then and what was going to happen in the future is there in the discs.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/tpt.00.html   (3658 words)

  
 Borderless Network of Terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But Capt. Aida Fariscal, the night commander, went there to see for herself.
His shoe caught on the roots of a potted plant, and Fariscal commandeered a taxi and two bystanders to haul him back to the station.
When she and others returned to the apartment, they found a bomb factory, stocked with beakers, gallons of sulfuric acid and nitric acid, glycerin, large cooking kettles, filters, funnels and fuses.
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2001/wpost092301b.html   (4215 words)

  
 AIDA - OneLook Dictionary Search
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www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=AIDA   (141 words)

  
 Gross Clinton Negligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Quick," he instructed, "turn on your television." The footage of the hijacked airliner bursting into flame made Fariscal bolt upright.
Fingerprints lifted at the apartment helped give Yousef away; a life spent assembling bombs had left his fingers burnt and distinctively deformed from mishaps mixing tricky chemical concoctions.
Gen. Avelino "Sonny" Razon, one of the lead investigators in the Bojinka case, was so shocked at what he saw on Sept. 11 that he jumped on a plane in Cebu, where he was now police chief, and flew to Manila to convene a hasty press conference.
www.republicanandproud.com /clintoniceberg.htm   (2629 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka and 9-11 at flashbuck.com
They could all have very easily evaded arrest but for the single-mindedness and resolute police work of Aida D. Fariscal, whose suspicions were aroused by the fire.
She decided to investigate but had to ask eleven judges before she could find one who would grant her a search warrant.
Whatever the truth, Operation Bojinka certainly needs to be recognized for what it really is - a very serious warning concerning the threat we face today and how far that threat is willing to go.
flashbuck.com /2006/07/04/operation-bojinka-and-9-11   (1512 words)

  
 Thread FULL!!!__AMERICA AT WAR!__Use New Thread!: Re: Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines Connection
Philippine investigators said that if the United States had followed up on what was learned from a seized computer at that time, the attacks of September 11 might have been averted.
"They should have prevented it because the plan then, and what was going to happen in the future, is there in the disks," said former Philippine police inspector Aida Fariscal, who discovered the terrorists' safe-house apartment.
A senior U.S. official acknowledged that information was given to the U.S. government, but said the U.S. government gets dozens of tips of terror plots and conspiracies every week.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/68672/608941   (706 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Project Bojinka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fire was spotted at about 11 P.M., but it went out unassisted.
Police, including 55-year old watch commander Aida D. Fariscal, who decided to investigate the situation, first found four hot plates in their packing crates, what looked like cotton batting soaked in a beige solution, and loops of green, red, blue, and yellow electrical wiring.
The telephone rang, and the police ran downstairs thinking that it was a trap.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Operation_Bojinka   (4189 words)

  
 1995 - Gurupedia
January 6-7 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines.
Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for
Khalid Sheik Mohammed would not be arrested until 2003.
www.gurupedia.com /1/19/1995.htm   (1777 words)

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