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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.
They haven't done anything in Indonesia since August, the JW Marriott, with 90 percent Indonesian Muslim casualities.
That has apparently caused JI to rethink its approach (just as AQ now is in Iraq).
In any case the hotels and malls in Jakarta are pretty much buttoned-up with security. You cannot get a car to the front of any major hotel or mall without running a gauntlet of Jersey barriers, guards equipped with batons, knives, and full-auto weapons, being wanded, and having your trunk searched some distance from the front entrance. It's an amazingly efficient and thorough process.
The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta is secured like Ft. Knox, there's zero chance for them to get close enough to do any damage.
As a side not, when they nabbed the JI's Hambali in Thailand last September, it was revealed he wanted to bomb Khao San Road in Bangkok, a backpacker spot very much like Bali. But again, they would have injured a lot of Thais (making yet another enemy), in addition to Brits, French, Swedes, etc. with very few Americans (Americans tend not to be big international travelers, I would guess 10 percent on KSR at best). In any event the Thai military police put up barriers on each end of Khao San Road as soon as JI's plans become known, so no vehicular traffic there anymore (scratch another marginal target).
With every single place that these psycho Muslims target, they have the certain potential of bringing even more disgust and wrath upon themselves than anything they could possibly gain.
And should they choose an American domestic target, they'll have to calculate the inevitable repercussions against all Muslims everywhere, particularly here in the States but also in all Western countries (e.g., France, Spain, Belgium, Germany), not to mention parts of SE Asia, India, and elsewhere.
America has been hated by alternating factions since its inception. So what's new.
And by the way, hate isn't directed only at the U.S., look at Rwanda's Hutus and Tutsis, the Indians and Pakistanis, the Chinese and Vietnamese, the Shiites and Sunnis, etc.
There will always be hate in the world, and if the Muslims weren't currently directing their venom against the West, they'd go back to their historic practice of hating and killing each other.
The only difference today is the domestic threat, and for that the U.S. must adopt new measures, especially against non-state actors. It looks as if we're moving in that direction.
We don't care if they hate us, so long as they fear us. If you took 95 percent of these Internet jihadis and put them in an American penal institution or Gitmo, they'd be crying to Mommy within 30 minutes.
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