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.

Link to Thread 2

[hummingbird]

Actually, at this household it's homemade Oatmeal Craisin cookies tonight.

I LOVE homemade oatmeal cookies! I usually leave the raisins out but put extra vanilla...you and LG2 may force me to make a cookie ingredient run yet!

Hmmmmmmmm.....homemade cookies....(Homer Simpson voice off)

[Pro-Bush]

Some real hotties posted over there.

[Cindy]

re post no. 14456...

No I haven't seen that one. That's interesting.

Only saw this...

DEA.gov - News Release: CHICAGO, IL - "ROUTINE DRUG INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS THREE GRENADES AND LAUNCHER" (January 22, 2004) (Read More...)

[Rushmore Rocks]

Off topic....but did anyone in Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana just feel a slight tremor about 9:10 MST? Our house shook. My son, half a mile away called...they felt it. Friends about three miles away called to ask if we felt it. Daughter in NE Wyoming called to see what was going on. No, we did not all share bean burritos tonight.
Dogs and cats certainly reacted, and they did not have burritos either. Nothing on the quake sheet yet. Earthquakes are rather rare here. Just curious.

[Cindy]

Well actually craisins aren't raisins at all, but naturally sweetened and dried cranberries. Cut the margarine/butter in 1/2 by using a container of vanilla yogurt, instead of water used cran-grape juice and for the white sugar I substituted Splenda.

Hmmmm....guilt-free (almost) cookies.

[hummingbird]

"She's got Betty Davis eyes..."

[Cindy]

re post no. 14462...I am laughing, no disrespect intended. I said to my husband, here I am looking at the guys and what do I get --- a starer in a burqa. Then I realized I had to change the search from women to men.

My guess, is that burqa lady is the web master for this site. PURE SPECULATION.

[hummingbird]

"The launcher and three suspected live grenades were found in a trash receptacle..."

!!!

[Cindy]

re post no. 14464...

THE WEATHER CHANNEL

THE WORLD-WIDE EARTHQUAKE LOCATOR

USGS-NEIC: Near Real Time Earthquake List

[hummingbird]

Hmmmm....guilt-free (almost) cookies.

Definitely going to store tomorrow (and will check out "craisins"...the things you can learn about on a terrorism thread, my oh my!).

[Cindy]

Here's the last earthquake report (online at this moment) regarding Wyoming (exact quote from the 3rd link I sent you)

Magnitude 3.0 WYOMING
2004 January 22 03:17:39 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver







Magnitude
3.0

Date-Time
Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 03:17:39 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 08:17:39 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
43.62N 110.63W

Depth
5.0 kilometers

Region
WYOMING

Reference
20 km (10 miles) NE of Jackson, Wyoming
80 km (50 miles) W of Dubois, Wyoming
95 km (60 miles) S of Old Faithful, Wyoming
555 km (345 miles) WNW of CHEYENNE, Wyoming


Location Quality
Error estimate: horizontal +/- 14.6 km; depth fixed by location program

Location Quality
Parameters
Nst=21, Nph=21, Dmin=33.3 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Erho=14.6 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=123.7 degrees

Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

[Rightone]

C'mon. Every time I reload this topic is going. Time to retire it, please.

[TBall]

I wonder if any avalanches got set off.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks, Cindy

Nothing there....but I had checked those sites earlier.
Dunno what it was....but it certainly has the critters and neighbors a bit rattled. Being this close to Yellowstone, we worry a bit when we have a shake.. Thanks for sending the links.

You have done a tremendous job on this site. Thanks again.

[thecabal]

Ooooooh baby, break me off a piece of that! LOL!!

[Rushmore Rocks]

Free will is a wonderful thing.....I suggest you stick to the topics YOU enjoy and leave us alone.

[knak]

posted by sean on the yahoo board:

I will categorically state that I do not care what the BBC reported here, or any rumors to the contrary, according to unimpeachable US sources: we got Osama. Period.

I repeat, we got Osama bin Laden bagged and tagged, and we got him in the Islamic Republic of Iran. To the best of my knowledge it was the capture of a specific truck driver ferrying a WMB device from Iran to Iraq which led US SOF and Intel analysts/planners directly to him and the area of interest.

No question about it. Period.

[Revel]

Maybe your screen name should be Wrongtone. Why don't you find something more constructive to do instead of being a trouble maker.

[WestCoastGal]

ASK your friends and your Senators and Congress Persons...WHY do we NOT HEAR about these al Qaeda Ships..? Are the Feds going to WAIT to tell u.s. about it, just like 9/11/01 ? We'll know about it, after the fact...after they've taken another devastating toll on American Lives and Property?




WASHINGTON - A once-secret, 181-page al-Qaida training manual obtained by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin shows Osama bin Laden's terrorist network has been focused on seaports as top-level targets for more than two years. Once again, the manual is further confirmation of the growing maritime threat, especially since al-Qaida is known to have purchased at least 15 ships whose whereabouts are unknown. In addition, in response to a warning from Washington that members of al-Qaida could be aboard a ship due in South Korea, Seoul reportedly is boosting security at one of its main ports.

Al-Qaida encourages the recruitment of agents who work as "employees at borders, airports and seaports," the training manual obtained by G2 Bulletin states:

Targets listed for "blasting and destroying" include:

"Places of amusement;"Embassies; "Vital economic centers"; "Bridges leading into and out of the cities"; "Strategic buildings"; "Important establishments"; "Military bases"; "Important ministries such as those of defense and internal security"; "Airports"; "Seaports"; "Land border points"; Radio and TV stations

Terror experts are beginning to examine worst-case scenarios should al-Qaida use its 15-ship armada to conduct terror attacks on western targets.G2B sources say there are reports al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations have been practicing high-seas terror attacks by hijacking ships, kidnapping crews and studying diving - much as the Sept. 11 skyjackers learned to fly airliners. Al-Qaida's freighters are believed to be somewhere in the Indian or Pacific oceans. When the ships left their home ports in the Horn of Africa weeks ago, some were destined for ports in Asia.G2B sources say other potential targets of the al-Qaida armada, besides civilian ports, include oil rigs. Another threat is the ramming of a cruise liner.

If a maritime terror attack comes, it won't be the first. In October 2000, the USS Cole, a heavily armed ship protected with the latest radar defenses, was hit by an al-Qaida suicide crew. Seventeen American sailors died.

Two years later, following the attacks on the Twin Towers, a similar attack was carried out against a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen.

A Rand Corp. study released last month in London warns terrorists might use container ships in terror attacks meant to cause massive casualties.The report warns cargo ships or shipping containers could be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction for terror groups such as al-Qaida.

The report, produced in cooperation with the European Commission, said: "The potential threat of terrorists using containers poses a large risk to our economies and to our societies.

Ultimately, this means that the marine sector - and specifically the container transport sector - remains wide open to the terrorist threat." Rand says the international community has not become sufficiently aware of al-Qaida's threat at sea, with most counter-insurgency efforts being focused on stopping an attack from the air.

[knak]

good night freepers!