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Posted on 11/03/2003 9:17:27 AM PST by tubavil
Edited on 01/26/2004 3:58:09 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Monday, November 3, 2003
A new message was posted in the last few hours by the Jeddah-based al-Qaeda-linked Al-Islah (Reform) society calling on Muslims to flee New York, Washington and Los Angeles in advance of major al Qaeda attacks in those cities. This is revealed by DEBKAfile.
The message accuses the United States of predetermining its end (doom) by its policies. ?The Jews rule the Pentagon by remote control and (are the cause) of Muslims being killed in every corner of the world. The United States should therefore expect more blows.?
The message is signed on behalf of the al Bayan (The Threat) movement by ?your warrior brother, Abul Hassan al Khadrami?.
Our Muslim expert identifies the name of the signatory as belonging to a Yemeni from Hadhrameuth, the Bin Ladens? place of origin where Osama enjoys substantial tribal support.
DEBKAfile?s counter-terror sources stress that warnings appearing on these forums are taken both very seriously and with caution by the intelligence services keeping track of the terrorist network?s electronic traffic.
Last November, Jeddah-based fundamentalist forums addressed a message to an Al Qaeda member, saying whoever understands ? understands; whoever knows, knows, but we are marching towards an operation that will take us to Paradise. Three days later, the Mombasa Paradise hotel was blown up killing 12 Kenyans and 3 Israelis and a failed shoulder-launched Strela anti-air missile missed an Israeli airliner at Mombasa airport.
Why is that curious? He said he would be gone four days and he was. Maybe he went on a school trip or his mommy took away the computer for four days because he didn't do his chores.
BTW, the first part of EOM's message is written in that fake "accent" style similar to prior posts. The second part of the message has a completely different style. Not sure what difference it makes however.
I have a slightly different take. A terrorists purpose is in fact to create terror. AQ, however, is not a terrorist group, but rather an Islamic army, whose goal is not to terrorize, but to kill every infidel and establish a worldwide Islamic state. Making threats and trash talking is not AQ's style, which is one of the reasons we should stop wasting time with EOM, the imposter. When AQ is ready to strike it will, and the advance warnings, if any, will only become apparent after the fact.
I wouldn't have thought that a woman would blow herself up to kill a couple of Israelis and leave her young children motherless, but it happened. Don't trust anyone. One of those nice sweet grandmothers could have been raised in the Middle East on a steady diet of Jihad. And don't forget that many of the "I hate America" radicals of the '60s are now grandmothers.
I don't think a terrorist is going to blow up an empty mall at 8 in the morning.
True, but a terrorist might plant a bomb that goes off at 11:00 a.m.
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