[FightThePower!]

It is time to end this thread. Isn't it clear that their threats didn't mean anything?

[Rushmore Rocks]

To quote another FReeper on a post a few days ago.....
"I want to know what may happen, before it happens, even if it never happens."

This is how most of us feel.

We all pray that "It" never happens, but foreknowledge, even if flawed, can help with any defence.

[WestCoastGal]

Have you read any of the posts in this thread? Did you read the following post, and are you willing to jeopardize your families life by not watching what is going on and trying to research whether or not it could possibly be true? I believe our government is not yet ready to write any of these threats off and neither are we.

Terrorist threats to destroy US city posted on internet
UK Herald ^ | Jan. 15, 2004 | IAN BRUCE


Posted on 01/14/2004 10:30:45 PM PST by FairOpinion


US and British intelligence services are investigating a series of alleged al Qaeda internet warnings predicting a terror attack which would "destroy an entire American city".

The messages, posted on a number of Islamic websites over the last week, say the countdown to attack has already begun.

They claimed it would be "an even stronger strike than nuclear weapons".

They also warn that unless the US and its allies withdraw immediately from Iraq, Afghanistan, and all other Muslim countries, the terror network has ordered the elimination of American leaders and their supporters. The post of most concern to Western intelligence has appeared three times in three days on a radical Islamic internet forum called the Mujahideen Network.

It claimed to be "from the Islamic nation to the American people" and boasted that its forces now had the ability to wipe out an entire city.

A security source said last night: "There is no way of determining whether these warnings are genuine or wishful thinking on the part of extremists. "But there are disturbing parallels with the background threat-level chatter which preceded the September 11 attacks in 2001."

The investigation came as the UN said almost 100 countries should be "named and shamed" for failing to enforce international sanctions against known members of al Qaeda and its Taliban allies and to block the flow of money and arms to the groups.

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I was just wondering???

[JustPiper]

Isn't it clear that their threats didn't mean anything?

Remind us of that after the first week of next month, otherwise we'll see you sometime in um...Septober!

[LayoutGuru2]

It is time to end this thread. Isn't it clear that their threats didn't mean anything?

OK tubavil, send a FReepmail to the AM and have this thread pulled. Just kidding!

You know, I feel this thread has just become the de facto gathering spot for those FReepers that want to discuss, share, speculate and even poke fun at some of the more bizarre news related to very real possibility that this land of ours is likely going to get whacked again by the jihadists. <--- Man, is that a run-on sentence or what?

Lately it has been suggested that the title be changed to something more descriptive. I've grown accustomed to the current title, I'd say no to that. Threads never end at FR unless some troll publishes some DU article, so I guess this one will just keep growing to the current upper limit of 65,535 post and then we'll start thread #2.

It is possible that their threats meant nothing, and it is even possible that many of them were actually floated by wanna-bees, but it is still terror I guess.

< tinfoil > Also, who's to say some of what was speculated here wasn't in fact prevented and we just don't know (or may never know) about it yet? < /tinfoil >