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Al-Qaeda Threatens US and UK
BBC News ^ | Saturday, October 13, 2001 | BBC News Staff

Posted on 10/13/2001 4:17:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler

Saturday, 13 October, 2001, 22:45 GMT 23:45 UK
Al-Qaeda threatens US and UK

 

Bin Laden: Prime suspect for the 11 September attacks The al-Qaeda organisation of Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden has threatened fresh terror attacks against both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said there would be strikes in retaliation for the military action being taken against Afghanistan by US and British forces.

He advised Muslims in the US and UK not to travel by plane and not to live in skyscrapers - a clear reference to the 11 September suicide attacks on New York's World Trade Center using hijacked aircraft.

White House spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise described the al-Qaeda statement as "just more propaganda".

Ghaith warned the US and UK to leave the Arabian peninsula or else "the land will be set on fire under their feet".

Ghaith added: "The storm will not calm as long as you [the United States and Britain] do not end your support for the Jews in Palestine, lift your embargo from around the Iraqi people, and have left the Arabian peninsula."

He threatened US President George W Bush and his father, former President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for their "terrible crimes and the worst crimes".

"Millions of Muslims, men, women and children, have died without doing anything," he said.

The message came as the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan continued and fears grew over the anthrax outbreak in the US.

The al-Qaeda statement was made in a recorded message broadcast on the Qatari satellite TV network al-Jazeera.

The US networks did not broadcast the message following requests by the government, amid fears that Bin Ladin was using them to send coded messages to supporters.

Al-Jazeera was also asked not to broadcast anything which incited Muslims to violence.


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1 posted on 10/13/2001 4:17:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler
They are going to set fire to their land? Are we talking glass factory here?
2 posted on 10/13/2001 4:20:46 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Star Traveler
"the land will be set on fire under their feet". What's weird about this phrase is that the Arabic term for anthrax is "malignant firebrand". Maybe no connection...just a little weird.
3 posted on 10/13/2001 4:22:43 PM PDT by Red Dawn
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To: Red Dawn

What's weird about this phrase is that the Arabic term for anthrax is "malignant firebrand".

Hmmmm.... these Islamics get worse by the day. When you think they can't be any worse, you find out you didn't know the half of it.

4 posted on 10/13/2001 4:24:52 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler
Ghaith warned the US and UK to leave the Arabian peninsula or else "the land will be set on fire under their feet".

"This being said by Ghaith, as the last thing to go through his mind was his a$$hole............."

5 posted on 10/13/2001 4:29:17 PM PDT by b4its2late
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To: Star Traveler
I saw clips of it on CNN....
Sulaiman looked didn't look as calm and assured as he did during his last broadcast.
He was waving his finger at the camera and had this frustrated angry look on his face as he spouted his threats.

Maybe five days of bombing raids have irritated him.
I think we need the Children of America fund to send him a dollar.

6 posted on 10/13/2001 4:35:14 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Star Traveler

While the first videos were taken outdoors, this one was evidently filmed while in an underground bunker. I hope the Al-Qaeda enjoy living like Mole People. Mr. Bunker Buster will be burrowing down to say high soon.

7 posted on 10/13/2001 4:38:24 PM PDT by jpthomas
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Spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said there would be strikes in retaliation for the military action being taken against Afghanistan by US and British forces.

We are going to kill you, Scumbag Sulaiman.

One .223 to the head. Guaranteed by the U.S.A..

You are a dead man, and your mother, father, sisters, and brothers too.

8 posted on 10/13/2001 4:47:19 PM PDT by angkor
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Somebody throw this monkey a peanut and shut him up. Thank God I wasn't in power. I'd call this goober's bluff and nuke the Arabian Peninsula. Howya like me now, sunshine?
9 posted on 10/13/2001 4:48:30 PM PDT by L`enn
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To: L`enn
Howya like me now, sunshine?

Finally! Something makes me laugh today!

10 posted on 10/13/2001 4:56:58 PM PDT by TheFilter
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These people are sick. That's exactly what they want. They don't want peace and prosperity and democracy. They expected the US to do more and bomb everyone and kill everyone so they could send the world back to the middle ages. And this would destroy our great country and most likely the world as we know it. I have faith we will prevail. They keep provoking us; they will not destroy our country from within. God bless America.
11 posted on 10/13/2001 5:00:46 PM PDT by Find_Truth
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To: Star Traveler
The al-Qaeda organisation of Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden has threatened fresh terror attacks against both the United States and the United Kingdom.

One more and it's time to carpet bomb...if the true Muslims can't get rid of this "Taliban" on there own, we'll have to do for them...and US....NO MORE!!!

Honest and true Muslims, it's time to take a hike...Erase this radical movement now, or live/die with it tommorrow...

FMCDH

12 posted on 10/13/2001 5:50:23 PM PDT by nothingnew
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