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Posted on 11/03/2003 9:17:27 AM PST by tubavil
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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.
Domestic Church Ghaddafi's reversal was due to him getting caught (in October) prior to his reversal. However a zebra does not change stripes.
U.S. Blocked Centrifuge Parts for Libya
WASHINGTON - Nearly three months after the successful operation, the Bush administration confirmed on Wednesday interception of an illegal shipment of thousands of parts of uranium-enrichment equipment bound for Libya.
A senior State Department official, John R. Bolton, plans to fly to London on New Year's Day to make plans with Britain for holding Moammar Gadhafi to his pledge to dismantle his nuclear weapons program.
There is an extensive black market that provided Libya with tens of millions of dollars in equipment, but there now is an aggressive program of interdicting delivery and the administration intends to pursue middlemen actively, U.S. official said.
The seizure in early October was just the tip of the iceberg in the spread of dangerous equipment to rogue-states, but it sealed Gadhafi's decision to announce on Dec. 19 he was dismantling the expensive program, said the official on condition of anonymity.
The intercepted parts were being delivered to Libya on a German-owned freighter that was diverted to an Italian port.
The United States and Britain plan to send experts to Libya in January to analyze the extent of Libya's nuclear program and its quest for biological and chemical weapons as well as modern missiles.
Top Bush administration officials are convinced the programs are far more extensive than outlined by the International Atomic Energy Agency and said this week that the United States and Britain would pursue their own joint program to uncover Libya's operation and hold Gadhafi to his promise to uproot development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as potent missiles.
The interception of centrifuge parts bound for Libya was first reported in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The White House and State Department then confirmed the report with few details and no explanation why confirmation took nearly three months.
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, told The Associated Press Tuesday he did not want American or British help on the ground in Libya.
"As far as I'm concerned, we have the mandate, and we intend to do it alone," ElBaradei said.
But senior American officials confirmed an active U.S. and British role and said Libya's programs were far more extensive than the U.N. agency had disclosed.
"The IAEA is in there because of what we uncovered," said one U.S. official on condition of anonymity. "The Libyans came to us and the British."
The shipment originated in a Persian Gulf port, but the officials declined to identify the country Wednesday. Nor would they say which country or countries may have supplied the centrifuge parts, citing ongoing investigations.
In September, British and American intelligence authorities learned a German freighter was to depart the Gulf port bearing centrifuge equipment, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The intelligence agencies alerted their German counterparts, who contacted the ship's owner.
The German shipper, BBC Chartering and Logistic GmbH, ordered the ship to divert to the Italian port. There, British and American authorities discovered the centrifuge parts, which can be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Per Peterson, a vice president at the company's Houston office said his office "is not involved in this and we had nothing to do with this."
He referred inquires to BBC Chartering and Logistic GmbH headquarters in Leer, Germany.
While uranium-enrichment is also a step in the process of producing nuclear energy, Libya has no such civilian program. Libya admitted the equipment was for its nuclear weapons program, a senior U.S. official said.
The seizure came as part of a U.S.-led international effort to halt commerce in weapons of mass destruction that was launched in May.
In mid-December, officials from 16 countries held talks at the state Department on developing skills to block the transfer of missiles and weapons technology.
Six exercises in early 2004 are planned, led by the United States, France, Germany, Poland, and two by Italy. The joint efforts involves interdiction at sea, in the air and on land.
The main goal is to prevent North Korea and other rogue states from spreading and acquiring weapons and technology. Russia and China did not attend the talks but agreed to support the program, a senior U.S. official said.
Because Iran is not threatening to vaporize New York, nor is it spouting about its intention to create a global empire by any means at its disposal and "as willed by Allah."
The Islamists are saying all of those things. An actual attack on the U.S. would prove the Islamists to be a global threat that must be exterminated.
Again I ask, do you think Osama bin Neitze has been secretly establishing detente with Russia and China? You think Russia and China believe the Islamists are really just A-OK, rational actors? Think they don't understand the economic and civil implications on their own turf of a nuclear-equipped Islamist regime, or even the economic consequences an Islamist attack on the U.S.?
Finally, Iran is a state with a big reciprocal target called Tehran. MAD at work.
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