I read this originally via OSINT (highly recommended email list), and later I noted via catching up with my RSS feeds that John Robb posted a pointer on the web via Cryptome.

This is a FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) translation – learn more about FBIS via Goggle.

It is an amazing interview that provides some deep and new information on how Al-Qa’ida has operated in the past and how it “potentially” plans to operate in the future.

It probably also had a slightly bigger impact on me because I am about half-way through Tom Clancy’s “The Teeth of the Tiger” which has been a very good fiction read so far.