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Crowe targeted in al-Qaeda kidnap plot Date: 07/03/05 Actor Russell Crowe was the target of an al-Qaeda kidnapping plot in 2001 and has had FBI protection since. The Oscar winning actor was first contacted by the FBI in 2001 and warned of the threat, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a story in the March edition of GQ Magazine. The FBI approach was made in the months before Crowe's Oscar win for Gladiator. "That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase al-Qaeda," Crowe said. "It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilisation plot." Crowe was protected by the FBI on subsequent film shoots and industry engagements such as the Golden Globe awards. Crowe told the magazine he never really understood the situation. "I never fully understood what the f*** was going on," he said. "Suddenly it looks like I think I'm f****** Elvis Presley, because everywhere I go there are all these FBI guys." Crowe had also hired his own private security. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
