Posted on 04/23/2007 5:16:12 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first "large-scale" terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in an attempt to "shake the Roman throne", a reference to the West, according to The Times newspaper in the UK. Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a "change in the head of the company". The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq. There is no evidence of a formal relationship between Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, and the Shi’ite regime of President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, but experts suggest that Iran’s leaders may be turning a blind eye to the terrorist organisation’s activities," reports The Times.
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Interesting. So they're afraid of Tony, but not his successor-to-be?
‘Londonistan’: Monster Mega Mosque Planned For London
Why is a monster mega mosque being built in London where a simple and small mosque currently stands? Importantly, where is the money to build it coming from?
Some say it will be the biggest Islamic in-road into Christendom in 400 years: a gigantic mosque complex, the likes of which the West has never seen....
http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2007/02/londonistan_monster_mega_mosqu.php
It’s obvious that the jihadis want to do this and are planning to do it. But will Britain expel the jihadis now so that is won’t happen?
As long as we stay on the offensive throughout the ME (Stan,Iraq,Horn of Africa, etc)....AQ will not be able to pull off such an Op....
But once we come home.....such an attack is going to happen....No "ifs" about it.....GWB understands this reality.
Are its walls made of lead?
“And when it does, we better do something about it to bring it to a permanent end instead of doing what we’re doing now.”
Wouldn’t it be nice to do it now instead of after hundreds of thousands - dare I say millions - are dead?
*sigh* Where are the strong?
Look, we need to send Nancy Pelosi to set up a dialogue with Al-Qaeda and we will be safer. /s
What’s instructive to me is that this DIDN’T mention the US. To me this shows that Al Queda knows it would be near impossible to do here, but they consider Britain an easier target. What they don’t seem to understand is that if they use a nuke, they’re committing political suicide, and even their ardent supporters among the Democrats would have an impossible time justifying that behavior.
I don’t think it means the Vatican, but instead, Western Civilization.
Of course it’s the Vatican!
They blame the Vatican for the Crusades and their expulsion from Europe. This would just be the muzzie version of Pay Back.
Possibly, but the reference to the “Roman throne” makes it sound more specific than that. And they do perceive the Catholic Church as their one real long-term enemy, which has, in fact, defeated them several times before.
Three things God has taught us throughout history:
1). Don’t mess with the Jews, it ticks God off
2). Kurds can fight
3). Nobody has ever gained anything by bombing the Brits.
Yes but until recently (last couple of decades) they were irrelevant. What's changed? Well, organization and money I think. Organization in that they have the technology and backing of a handful of governments, giving them the opportunity to train, plan, and arm in impunity. And of course money has flowed from oil. Our strategy on the war has been to try to check the first item by cutting off access to sympathetic governments (Afghanistan and Iraq) so far but that just moves the threat to Iran and if we go there, they'll move to Sudan or Saudi or elsewhere. Eventually we'll lose political will to follow (I think we have already). So if that side of the conflict is turning out to be hard, what about oil money?
I'm not a global warming nut, but I think this country needs a major initiative to eliminate our dependance on fossil fuels. A manhattan project for our generation. If we succeed, the oil money will be cut off and the arab nations will, within a generation, go back to being irrelevant. If we fail, all we've done is waste money but the government would anyway so no real loss there.
Any nuclear attack against the west should immediately and unconditionally be met with the nuking of every muslim holy shrine, temple, mosque or artificat not located in Isreal.
The only way to play this game is to define the rules. If they Hiroshima an American city, then we Hiroshima Mecca, Medina, Tehran, and Damascus......for starts.
Yeah, I missed the ‘throne’ part before. Could possibly be the Catholic Church, though, truth be told, the Church is much more tolerant toward Muslims than most, and willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, even when that drives US nuts!
Why do I keep getting the feeling that one of these days these whackjobs are gonna pull something, then the next day, when they wake up (if they wake up), there won’t be a single city left in the mideast that has more than a thousand people in it?
Interesting theory and it probably has a lot of merit. But, you are missing one point. It will take 35-40 years to develop an alternative to fossil fuels, if ever. We are at a political standstill in this country about doing ANYTHING!
When was the last nuclear energy plant approved (the cheapest, cleanest alternative)? What! You say we are scrapping and selling off nuclear plants to foreign powers? Who decided that?
Well, what about drilling for the oil we already know that we have to reduce our dependence on foreign imports. It would take about 15 years to bring new fields — which have already been identified — online. There is no will in Congress to do that which would staisfy our oil needs for at least the next 100 years — and those are just the fields we already know about. I had a little public spat with my own Republican Congressman about blocking the vote on drilling in ANWR last year!
Well, then how about putting our vast coal reserves to good use? Even though the technology exists to burn coal cleanly (a cheap alternative for energy) my local PSC forced our local Energy company to scrap their state of the art coal plant (used to generateelectricity) and turn to natural gas — thus tripling the cost of energy to the consumer around here.
In the mean time we opened our borders and our colleges to Middle Easterners to try to get them to love us. (They don’t.) We dance around efficient energy use for ourselves with nobody wanting to do anything serious — blocking every new refinery, nuclear plant, coal fired plant, and exploration scheme. All the while we ship tons of money overseas to keep the Saudis and their cohorts pacified.
Don’t forget. They tried to assassinate the Pope in the 1970s.
Nah, that was the Russkies. They just used a Bulgarian Muslim, Ali Acga, because the Russkies were tight with the Bulgarian Secret Police. They wanted some deniability, but as soon as it happened, EVERYONE pointed at the Soviets!
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