Posted on 08/09/2007 8:43:03 PM PDT by bnelson44
The threat was picked up by DEBKAfile’s monitors from a rush of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug. 8.
The al Qaeda communications accuse the Americans of the grave error of failing to take seriously the videotape released by the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week. “They will soon realize their mistake when American cities are hit by quality operations,” said one message.
Another said the attacks would be carried out “by means of trucks loaded with radio-active material against America’s biggest city and financial nerve center.”
A third message mentioned New York, Los Angeles and Miami as targets. It drew the answer: “The attack, with Allah’s help, will cause an economic meltdown, many dead, and a financial crisis on a scale that compels the United States to pull its military forces out of many parts of the world, including Iraq, for lack of any other way of cutting down costs.”
There is also a message which speaks obliquely of the approaching attacks easing the heavy pressure America exerts on countries like Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources and monitors say there is no way of gauging for sure how serious these threats are, how real, or whether they are part of a war of nerves to give the Gaddahn tape extra mileage. But it is important to note that the exchange of messages took place over al Qaeda’s internal Internet sites and that they contained the threat of radioactive terror and specific American cities for the first time after a long silence on these subjects.
In addition, a growing number of clips has been disseminated of late over al Qaeda sites instructing the faithful how to design remote-controlled gliders, pack them with explosives and launch them against predetermined targets.
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
Al-Qaeda seems pretty impotent at projecting power since the U.S. took the war to them.
Hey, it’s Debka.
I hope they kill themselves before they get to anyone else.
DEBKA is always good for a laugh or two . . .
DEBKA just makes this stuff up.
I think it’s a sign that the surge is working.
As does the liberal media.
Of course, with modern “journalism”, Al Q could load a Fiestaware plate and a Coleman mantle onto a truck and the MSM would go ballistic (as long as their “journalism” was safe).
You’ve been monitoring terrorist web sites...have you heard this chatter?
One of these countries is not like the others - can you guess which one?
One day Debka is going to be right about something, that will be the final sign of the end of times.
For what it’s worth I have heard second hand chatter from Mexico, I have relatives down there. It seems the state of Tamaulipas is host to a rather large Al Qaeda camp where some mountain valleys have been purchased in their entirety and closed to the locals, and with the access to the ocean and Texas, they are moving people in by boat and crossing the border. Only a few news reports, mostly translated from Spanish, talk about Al Qaeda in Mexico but the word among the natives is that the size of the thing is grossly underestimated.
If this is on the up and up, you might want to give your local FBI office a call tomorrow. They will take it from there.
Sounds like we need to shutdown access to balsa wood and Exacto knives :)
See if I can find a decent map of the place.
Dear Lord, let the enemy stumble and thwart it’s plans.
“easing the heavy pressure America exerts on countries like Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.”
Japan?
The size of what thing?
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