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Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles - Daily Terror Threat
Debka ^ | 11-3-2003 | Staff

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.

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To: freeperfromnj
Food for thought...

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html

U.S.: Al Qaida is 70 percent gone, their 'days are numbered'

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, January 23, 2004

"The Al Qaida of the 9/11 period is under catastrophic stress," State Department counter-terrorism coordinator Cofer Black said. "They are being hunted down, their days are numbered."

Black's assertion, made in an interview with the London-based British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday, is based on U.S. intelligence community estimates that about 70 percent of Al Qaida has been neutralized, officials said.

Saudi officials agreed with the U.S. assessment and said the kingdom has made significant gains against Al Qaida, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Al Qaida leaders have been arrested and training camps have been discovered.

U.S. officials said Al Qaida has been rapidly losing its attack capabilities and was relying increasingly on smaller Islamic groups based in Southeast Asia and North Africa. The officials said thousands of Al Qaida operatives have been captured, killed or neutralized, with cells eliminated even in such strongholds as Kuwait and Yemen.

The intelligence community assessed that Al Qaida was at the height of its strength in mid-2001 with thousands of recruits trained in Afghanistan and other sent abroad as agents and sleepers.

The intelligence assessment was presented to the Bush administration and reported by President George Bush during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. The assessment regards Al Qaida as becoming steadily weaker, with difficulties in raising funds and sustaining insurgency cells.

[In Hamburg, a German court was told that authorities have a witness who claims that Osama Bin Laden met Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian officials on May 4, 2001. The meeting took place in an air force base to plan the suicide attacks in the United States in September 2001. The witness was identified as an Iranian defector, known by his cover name Hamid Reza Zakeri, who had been an agent for Iranian intelligence until mid-2001.]

Officials said Al Qaida would continue as a much weaker organization and would focus largely on Saudi Arabia, the Horn of Africa while seeking to consolidate under the protection of Iran. They envision attacks being financed rather than carried out by Bin Laden.

The loss of veteran insurgency operatives has reduced the lethality of operations, officials said. Another factor has been the lack of success by Al Qaida to establish and sustain cells in many Western countries.

"The next group of concern would be a generation younger," Black said. "They're influenced by what they see on TV; they are influenced by misrepresentation of the facts. They seem to be long on radicalism and comparatively short on training."

"We have arrested over 600 terror suspects; many of the top Al Qaida leaders in the kingdom have been killed or captured," Adel Al Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said. "And scores of cells and training camps have been uncovered and destroyed before they could do any harm to the innocent."

On Thursday, the United States and Saudi Arabia requested that the United Nations freeze the assets of four branches of an official Saudi charity accused of financially supporting Al Qaida. The U.S.-Saudi demand concerned the freezing of assets of the Riyad-based Al Haramain Islamic Foundation in such countries as Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania.

"These branches have provided financial, material and logistical support to the Al Qaida network and other terrorist organization," the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Al Haramain is a charity sponsored by the Saudi government. Saudi Islamic Affairs Minister Salah Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Sheik oversees the charity.

"Al Haramain stated it closed branches in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan, but continued monitoring by the United States and Saudi Arabia indicates that these offices and or former officials associated with these branches are either continuing to operate or have other plans to avoid these measures," the Treasury Department said.

14,301 posted on 01/23/2004 12:48:50 PM PST by Rutles4Ever
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To: Malsua
It takes some effort and know how. Sounds interesting, when not used like that one was. Did you see that video? If so, what did you think?
14,302 posted on 01/23/2004 12:49:26 PM PST by Letitring
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To: Donna Lee Nardo
Donna, here's something that gets overlooked a lot. Do you remember Rabbi Meir Kahane? He was murdered in NYC in 1990 by an Arab terrorist, and this part I did not know till just now when googling a bit to add a link for him.

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"Two years later, Rabbi Kahane was murdered by an Arab terrorist El Sayyid Nosair. Nosair was acquitted of murder by a New York jury but was later found guilty in federal court of violating Rabbi Kahane's civil rights. Nosair also was given life imprisonment for his role in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City."

I never heard until now about the link between Kahane's murderer and the WTCI!

And invariably Kahane himself was called a right-wing extremist in his defense of Israel in those times, but I think today many would call him a sensible man, who recognized before many did just what the world is facing.

Another sad part of the Kahane tragedy is that his son and the son's wife were attacked and murdered by palestinians in Israel in 2000. They were in a car with their 5 children, and were killed right in front of the children.

14,303 posted on 01/23/2004 12:52:34 PM PST by texasbluebell
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To: Rutles4Ever
Positive news bump
14,304 posted on 01/23/2004 12:57:45 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: Rutles4Ever
Good news - thanks!
14,305 posted on 01/23/2004 12:58:26 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Rutles4Ever
This IS good news and I so hope it's true.
14,306 posted on 01/23/2004 12:59:03 PM PST by Letitring
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To: Letitring


>>It takes some effort and know how. Sounds interesting, when not used like that one was. Did you see that video? If so, what did you think?<<

I saw it a week or ago on my Home PC. I'll re-watch it when I get home and think about the effort required. Right now I'm heading into the NYC Metro Area evening Rush.

14,307 posted on 01/23/2004 1:03:47 PM PST by Malsua
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To: LayoutGuru2
Up yours, Daleel.

Our demands,

Our replies, if you donkeyjockeys try any WMD crap.

1. The complete and right away stop of your (masked) invasion of our Islamic lands in any part of the world east or west.

1. The complete and right away surrender of all your Islamic lands in any part of the world east or west.

2. Taking out the (illegal immigrants that came back to the land of Palestine) which you have records of all of them in your archives.

2. Taking out the (trash) and shooting them.

3. The return of all the Muslim money stolen in (Gold) not in any kind of money note. As we have mentioned to you before.

3. The immediate purchase of a Dodge Durango (with Hemi engine) for every American family with all Muslim money.

4. The returning of the old borders known to you and we press on the northern borders.

4. The institution of borders decided by the Texas State Legislature.

5. The release of all our prisoners in your jails whom you know and we know only.

5. The summary execution of all your prisoners in our jails.

6. The dismantle of the so called (United Nations and its council) in an international decision.

6. The construction of a new UN headquarters in Riyadh.

7. We share with you the importance of water and oil and we share the idea of it staying as it is but the pricing of oil is left to us and we promise you to make it available at a reasonable price for poor and for rich nations.

7. We reverse your nationalization of oil concerns.

8. we here by advise you to take fast decisions to stop order number (8), it's the thin line between us and you, and you have to answer us as soon as possible

8. Yeah yeah yeah, go hug a camel, fleabag.

14,308 posted on 01/23/2004 1:05:08 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Letitring
We need to be reminded how Bush and Cheney promised that this would be a war in the shadows. That people would begin to "disappear" suddenly... The line about having killed or apprehended "thousands" of AQ is particularly impressive.

With 70% gone, one would have to assume that either Osama is already dead, or we are going to be paying him a visit very VERY soon (someone will give him up for $$$ once AQ is irreparably shredded), I am confident!
14,309 posted on 01/23/2004 1:18:17 PM PST by Rutles4Ever
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To: Malsua
:) God bless. See ya later.
14,310 posted on 01/23/2004 1:32:00 PM PST by Letitring
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To: Dr.Deth
4. The institution of borders decided by the Texas State Legislature.

LOL- but you know, that's exactly what they ARE getting. Well, redistricting from Texans, if not the lege.

14,311 posted on 01/23/2004 1:32:38 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Rutles4Ever
Works for me and I pray it goes just that exact way. :)
14,312 posted on 01/23/2004 1:34:59 PM PST by Letitring
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To: eastforker
Where is Ijaz this week? He talks I listen -g-
14,313 posted on 01/23/2004 1:37:17 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Republican BUT Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: Rutles4Ever; All
I guess it was the other 30% that prompted the recent "Orange" alert, as well as all those radiation detection guys in our major cities.

Many cities remain on Orange alert.

POTUS and VP say the threat is still very real.

Potent enough (30%) to make our Gov't nervous.

70% is wishful thinking.

14,314 posted on 01/23/2004 1:42:00 PM PST by Mossad1967
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To: judicial meanz
Must be a master script in the Jihadi locker room they read as they drink kool aid and shower.

Shower?

14,315 posted on 01/23/2004 1:43:37 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: tmp02
re post no. 14137

GOOGLE Search Term: "Call24"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Call24%22&btnG=Google+Search

GOOGLE Search Term: "Call25"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Call25%22&btnG=Google+Search
14,316 posted on 01/23/2004 1:44:21 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Rutles4Ever
70%?

How do they know?

Ignore the madrassas and the Saudis.

Sounds like BS.
14,317 posted on 01/23/2004 1:44:46 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
Agreed!!!

World Tribune Daily???

C'mon.
14,318 posted on 01/23/2004 1:47:12 PM PST by Mossad1967
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To: All
Reliant Stadium officials keeping an eye out for security threats
http://www.news24houston.com/content/headlines/?ArID=22706&SecID=2
14,319 posted on 01/23/2004 1:48:22 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Domestic Church
re post no. 14143 -- Here is your link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1063633/posts

"Inside The Ring"
Washington Times ^ | 1/23/2003 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough


Posted on 01/23/2004 5:47:12 AM PST by FreeManWhoCan


"A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence on the United States with Saddam Hussein's regime. The reports stated that Cuban intelligence, which is known to have extensive "coverage" of U.S. military bases, supplied information to Saddam's intelligence service on the movement of troops and other military activities. The intelligence ties are believed to be an offshoot of Cuba's covert oil-purchasing arrangement with Iraq under Saddam. Those deals have been under way since the late 1990s and involve oil tankers that were sent to Mexico. The oil then was pumped from the tankers to smaller boats for delivery to Cuba. The intelligence sharing also comes amid reports from Cuban exiles that Cuba became a safe haven for fleeing Iraqi government officials following the U.S.-led invasion. Asked about the Cuba-Iraq intelligence-sharing, a second U.S. official said the CIA had no information about it."

14,320 posted on 01/23/2004 1:49:52 PM PST by Cindy
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