Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles - Daily Terror Threat

Debka ^ | 11-3-2003 | Staff

[tubavil]

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.

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[brucecw]

No, not all java scripts prompt before running.

JavaScript normally doesn't prompt before running - it's not a binary executable, and it's limited to playing with things only within the JavaScript "sandbox." So it's normally never a threat (In the early days of the Internet there were some early browsers which had bugs in the JavaScript implementation that could have been troublesome from a security standpoint, but nobody uses such old technology any more).

A clock using an embedded binary of some kind could indeed be a threat - and you should be prompted before such a thing would be allowed to run.

[angkor]

Do you think 95% of these internet jihadi's don't have the guts to sacrifice themselves for their beliefs?

More like 100 percent.

The Koran instructs them and Al Qaeda has been telling them for months to get to Iraq to fight the Crusaders. Yet here they are, posting on Internet newsgroups and blogs, creating scary OBL pictures, running childish EOM/daleel con games.

This is not jihad, nor is it sacrifice.

To practice jihad they have to take up arms and join in battle. And I'm anxious for them to start doing that, so that they can be properly labeled as Muslim terrorists, rounded-up, imprisoned, and executed as quickly as possible.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Here ya go...

Sources: Terrorists Planning Iraq Attack

Thursday, January 15, 2004

This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, Jan. 13, that has been edited for clarity.



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BRIT HUME, HOST: The administration is not saying anything about this, and it is not even clear officials know anything about it. But some sources in Iraq are talking about a development that could prove an important turn in the search for weapons of mass destruction. For more on this we turn to the man who so often seems to know things before everybody else.

Fox News foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz, who joins us now from Berlin.

Mansoor, what's up?

MANSOOR IJAZ, FOX NEWS FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST: Well, Brit, what I have learned in the last 24 hours is that about three days ago in the northern part of Iraq, a convoy of trucks and jeeps and cars was brought across from Iran where some of the Kurdish Peshmergah -- these are these Kurdish rebels that are sort of like Mujahideen, if I may put it that way, from the old Afghan War.

They intercepted one of those trucks that were carrying a large warhead that had extremely sophisticated plastic -- C- 4 plastic explosives in it. And when the driver of that truck was put under interrogation, he then admitted that as many -- there were a total of 30 warheads that apparently were scheduled to come across.

One of them got caught, and 29 made it across somehow or the other. Of those 29, we are told now that somewhere between six and 12 of them may have, in fact, been laden with chemical explosives that would be then attached to a rocket of some sort inside Iraq that's already there in a separate convoy. And that those warheads would then be exploded over, for example, an encampment near the Coalition Provisional Authority (search) or something like that.

Now, what alarmed me about this and the reason that I felt it was necessary to get this out as soon as possible, is because I have now heard three times in the last week, from separate sources that I have been talking to that something big is being planned for Baghdad. In which the idea that is being put forward is to kill as many as 3,000 to 5,000 people at one shot; something that would be similar to a World Trade Center (search) type of attack. In that part of the world, the only way you could get that done is if you launched a massive chemical or biological attack.

HUME: Now, talk to me a little bit about the Kurdish forces who were involved in this event. Are these -- are they friendly to the United States and the coalition? Are they not? And what -- you know, and how credible are they?

IJAZ: Yes. It's a good question. The strange thing here is that what I have been told is that the sources that got this information out, what they saw on the ground physically going on is that the Kurdish leaders that had -- the Kurdish rebels that had caught this guy had taken the warhead and were actually trying to sell it back to the Iranians along with their silence. Because there's something else going on here that's of a larger political nature.

We now know that during the past week, the reformists in Iran have been pummeled and stopped from allowing their candidates to be fielded for the upcoming elections. We also know that there is, as we have said here before about a month and a half, two months ago, that there is a wintertime offensive being prepared with the help of the Iranian and Revolutionary Guard in Afghanistan, maybe with the help of Al Qaeda, maybe even bin Laden, al Zawahiri, and people like that who, as we've said here before, are in Iran right now.

And at the same time, they're trying to launch something in Iraq. The idea of which would be the wag the dog scenario, where if your domestic politics, you can't fix it, and it's getting too much pressure under honor the mullahs in Iran right now. Better to start the fire and ratchet it up a notch on both sides outside, both in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time.

HUME: Now, how great a likelihood do you believe that you are finding this out or others finding this out, and it getting out, will have on it actually happening?

IJAZ: Well, I think the first thing we've got to do is go and talk to those Kurdish rebels and find out where the heck those other convoy trucks went. The second thing that we need to do, and I talked with General McInerney earlier this evening to determine what the range is, what type of warheads would be used and how these things could be put together. He made a very strong recommendation, and I agree with that, that we need to get Global Hawk One back in theater. Because if these things...

HUME: That thing out of there now?

IJAZ: ... these chemical warheads were attached -- they are out of there right now, and they're not in theater. And the trouble is that they're in desolate areas in which these rockets could be launched from.

And remember, a chemical weapon, to have massive -- the most massive impact that it can have to have a midair burst. Which means that it needs to be launched from, let's say, 100 kilometers away or 50 kilometers away or 200 kilometers away.

These are areas that our people are just not, you know, focused on right now because we've got so much work to do in and around the urban areas in Iraq. So I think we need to get down to finding out where that convoy of 29 warheads are and do that immediately. And get our Kurdish friends to help us rather than trying to sell them back to the Iranians. That doesn't make any sense.

HUME: Oh, we've got just a few seconds left. The credible of your sources, your assessment?

IJAZ: They're unimpeachable. Again, I think they've been right all along. We'll find out in the coming days in a print report about the bin Laden story in great detail. Everything has been verified. We will see that.

HUME: Thank you Mansoor.

[Calpernia]

bump! Great post.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I don't know, but I do not think so. Osama is Osama, Saad is Saad.

I think US SOF and Intel people followed the HUMINT gleaned from this captured truck driver... that led them to Pakistani arrests currently in the news and probably to the very AQ site in Iran where all the weapons and personnel are emanating from.

I think this is being sat on until all AQ weapons still on the loose are corraled and impending AQ ops are thoroughly disrupted and killed.

This is all I will say for the time being.

Sean Out.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I don't know, but I do not think so. Osama is Osama, Saad is Saad.

I think US SOF and Intel people followed the HUMINT gleaned from this captured truck driver... that led them to Pakistani arrests currently in the news and probably to the very AQ site in Iran where all the weapons and personnel are emanating from.

I think this is being sat on until all AQ weapons still on the loose are corraled and impending AQ ops are thoroughly disrupted and killed.

This is all I will say for the time being.

Sean Out.

[angkor]

A few million extra terrorists in makkah at haj, would be a bad time to break the news; there might be 'outrage' in the 'arab street.'

Actually that would be a great time to do it. Any resulting rioting and/or carnage would only further illustrate the perversion of AQ and its supporters.

[Letitring]

PIPER, did you get an answer to your question about the travel time ON HORSEBACK from medina to tiram? I noticed that post too, and felt it slipped through the cracks. It's a definate time thing.

[Domestic Church]

Thanks Sean. I remember watching Hume that night but there was so much info it was hard to catch it all. This quote floated under the surface for me until I just reread it now.

"IJAZ: They're unimpeachable. Again, I think they've been right all along. We'll find out in the coming days in a print report about the bin Laden story in great detail. Everything has been verified. We will see that."

[Letitring]

Cindy, did anybody ever look at these links? WOnder what the hand writing on the wall with bloody fingers means? I'd like to know what that says, I think.

[Letitring]

WOW. Some powerful, grim images on those links. WOnder what they mean?

[Letitring]

Am I in here by myself? Hummmm.

[StillProud2BeFree]

That's the cover of a book.

The book title is: "Advise to Heroes"
Authors: The Martyrs Brigade, Mohamed Al Shihy

[txhurl]

No, you got lurkers.

[WestCoastGal]

I tried looking for that also last night, nothing yet. Please ping me if you find out. I have to go to work, will be back later. Everyone have a great day!!!

[Letitring]

LOL. Good. I was feeling a bit lonely. :)

[Letitring]

I'm looking, just not connecting with anything yet. I'm so ignorant I've had to find out where Tiram is. :)

[Letitring]

Aw thanks 2B. I really appreciate that. I think that's one book I'll let slide. :)

[brucecw]

PIPER, did you get an answer to your question about the travel time ON HORSEBACK from medina to tiram?

If Tiram is the modern city of Tarim in Yeman, that would be about 800 miles. Figure 8-10 days depending on terrain.

[txhurl]

You watching the new OBL rumor thread?