Uncle Sam knows ...
Posted on 06/23/2002 1:06:03 AM PDT by Bobby777
Osama bin Laden is to give another televised address to the world.
The al-Qaeda leader is to deliver a hate-filled video on July 4, American Independence Day.
The announcement was made on the Arabic Sahab website which issues daily information on the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden was pictured on the site, kneeling between two al-Qaeda officials.
His spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith says: "America should get ready and fasten its safety belt.
"We will come to them from where they don't expect. Yes, we will wage attacks but at the right time, at the place we want, in the way we please."
On Friday the FBI were taking seriously a Lebanese-born man's claims to have overheard a mobile phone conversation in Arabic about an attack on Las Vegas.
But yesterday they said they had no evidence of any threat on July 4.
According to Michael Hamdan, the speakers said: ``"We are here in the city of corruption...the city of gambling and prostitution, the city of the unbelievers.
The warlord, who was behind the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has not been heard from since he was detected on December 11 at his eastern Afghan hideout in Tora Bora.
American intelligence sources believe he is surrounded by al-Qaeda's high command either in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The FBI has also been tracing another website, alneda. com, the mouthpiece for al-Qaeda.
The site has audio and video clips of bin Laden and photographs of al-Qaeda suspects in detention in Pakistan.
There also appear to be coded messages for followers to transmit instructions for attacks.
It has been closed down twice by US intelligence forces after appearing in Malaysia and Texas.
Earlier this month the site posted a message of condolence from terrorist and Taliban chief Mullar Mohammed Omar after the death of a Pakistan scholar.
It was revealed yesterday that the man believed to have recruited September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta to al-Qaeda was investigated in 1999.
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, 41, attracted the attention of German intelligence after making contact with bin Laden's suspected financial chief.
Zammar was arrested in Morocco this week along with other suspected al- Qaeda members, including Abu Zubair al-Haili.
Al-Haili is thought to have been pivotal in training hijackers for September 11.
That would be Jamaica and 150th street. Why don't we just go and get'm?
They don't have a lot of ordinance so they have to carefully pick the weak, juicy targets before hitting them.
Although midevil butchers, they are very cunning in their “craft”.
Refineries, powerplants, malls, hospitals, pipelines, they're all here... you name'em we got'em!
The main duty of our government, directed by our Constitution, is to provide for the common defence.
True, we have allocated monies to wage global warfare, but is the nation properly defended against inside threats? Sadly, the answer is no.
Are our borders properly defended? Again, no.
When the Israeli Olympic Team was targeted, it should have been the wake-up call.
When the Achille Lauro incident happened, it should have been the wake-up call.
When the WTC was hit the first time, it should have been the wake-up call.
When the USS Cole was hit, it should have been the wake-up call.
We are not dealing with an autonimous state.
We are dealing with a fanatical religious jihad that moves at will from nation to nation, state to state.
Close to 70% of all Palestinians condone the terrorist attacks in Israel. On 9/11, they cheered when the twin towers came down.
We have millions of muslims in the US and I bet that 50% of them feel the same way.
WHO do you think is giving it to the government? Sandy Clause? The toof faiwy? /sarcasm off/ ...you think news services overseas are keeping this quiet till our government is ready to release it ?
Cmon
Funny thing is, I don't think they even know for sure. Most analysts believe it is a peice of a meteor, or of molten sand formed into a rock where a meteor landed.
It is time we told them enough is enough and Islam is gone.
The keg.
Precisely my thought.
Granted, I still think he's dead, so it will be interesting to see IF this even happens.
Uncle Sam knows ...
Oh, how original. < /sarcasm> That's almost exactly what Bush said to them after September 11.
The "nuke Mecca" crowd isn't a very thoughtful one if they're being serious.
Doing so wouldn't solve a thing, but it certainly would unite the Islamic world against us in a way the "nuke Mecca" crowd obviously never visualizes.
As an analogy, let's pretend the Protestants of Northern Ireland have finally had their fill of attacks by the IRA. Angered by yet another terrorist act, they manage somehow to nuke the Vatican.
Does that end the IRA? Does Catholicism vanish? Did it do any good at all?
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