Posted on 07/26/2005 5:04:00 PM PDT by yankeedame
DEBKAfile: Al Qaeda now threatens Rome. Berlusconi personally addressed
July 26, 2005, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Abu Hafs al Masri Brigades who claimed the two London bombing attacks published a fresh warning Monday, July 25: “After London, it is Rome’s turn.” The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is warned that by failing to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq, he would by his own hand “turn Rome into a graveyard.”
The statement run on the Internet threatens the Italian capital with harsher and more painful strikes than the London attacks. “As long as a single Italian soldier remains in Iraq, you the prime minister can look forward to nothing but “more and more blood.”
DEBKAfile adds: All the European capitals have placed their security and emergency services of maximum terror alert. London too is bracing for more terrorist attacks. One of al Qaeda’s prime targets is expected to be the Vatican, which the terrorist organization sees as a world center of heresy.
An earlier warning by the same group gave Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and Italy until August 15 to pull their soldiers out of Iraq.
Not everybody. It has to be put on the table as an option which we reserve.
The problem is that the Koran's position is that terror and spreading the religion by the sword are perfectly legitimate. These people are basing their actions on the words of Mohammed in their scriptures. Sadly, the violent ones are the orthodox ones.
It's common sense that any country with fighters in Iraq has cities that are fair game for these cowardous savages.
Where does Ayatollah Sistani fit into your worldview? Gen. Aziz? They may not exactly be helping us now, but they're not openly against us, either.
I want to see the bastards dead, and I'd enjoy seeing it done it in a spectactular way. War is messy by its nature, and we will undoubtedly kill more innocents in error (just as I feel for the family of the Brazilian electrician, but I'm glad the police did what they did--better one dead innocent than 50).
But Mecca? There are enough bastards--plenty of targets.
Finally, destruction of Mecca/Medina is not inconsistent with radical Muslim apocalyptic prophecy (google "dajjal america"). You want to pacify, but you may just radicalize the Muslim silent majority.
also reported by sources other than Debka:
http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=77466
"In any case, I think they wouldn't dare strike the Vatican, because they know it would then be an open war."
Not sure I agree. Open war may be exactly what they want, drawing in all the muslims of the world to their fight.
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