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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.
November 29, 2003
Germans seize terror suspect
German police on Friday arrested the suspected leader of a group allegedly linked to al-Qaeda, who security officials said might have been planning to send fighters from Europe to attack coalition forces in Iraq.
The team of suspected recruiters was unearthed in Italy, where four people were also arrested on Friday, Italian officials said.
Source: Financial Times
Prosecutors: Man Funded Terrorism
A convicted money smuggler being held in Brooklyn was a key fund-raiser for an Islamic charity he knew financed terrorism, and once used a bathroom at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to secretly deliver $10,000 to the group, prosecutors allege.
Alaa Al-Saadawi later "defied logic" by telling investigators he gave the $10,000 to a member of the Global Relief Foundation in a bathroom stall because he was "scared of gangsters" in Chicago, according to papers filed earlier this month in federal court in Brooklyn.
Source: Associated Press
Yemen Arrests Leading al-Qaida Member
SAN`A, Yemen - Yemeni security forces captured a man described as one of the country's top al-Qaida leaders and the suspected mastermind of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole, after surrounding his hide-out west of the capital.
Witnesses said security forces fired in the air to force Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal to surrender Tuesday near San'a.
Source: Associated Press
Gitmo chaplain petitions Bush to free him
WASHINGTON - The lawyer for an arrested Muslim Army chaplain at the Guantanamo Bay prison asked President Bush yesterday to release him for Thanksgiving.
The lawyer for Capt. James (Yousef) Yee also said the West Point graduate was subjected to unusually harsh treatment and suggested it was because of his Chinese ancestry.
Source: New York Daily News
FAKE DVDs TRADE 'FUNDING TERRORISM'
People who buy pirated DVDs of films such as Love Actually could be helping fund terror groups including al Qaida, the police warned today.
New cinema releases are increasingly available on market stalls and elsewhere, often arriving in the UK from the Far East and Pakistan.
Source: Press Association
Pacific tipped as potential terrorist haven; Lax security could open door to radical Islamists, regional police chiefs are told
The scattered island states of the South Pacific are in danger of being infiltrated by radical Islamists, Australia's most senior police officer warned yesterday.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Islamic extremists could exploit lax security and shaky law and order in Pacific nations to establish bases for terrorism, money laundering, drug running and the trade in false passports.
Source: South China Morning Post
Istanbul attacks mastermind identified, consul's widow makes appeal
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkish police believe an ally of Osama bin Laden masterminded the Istanbul suicide attacks, press reports said, as the widow of the British consul killed in one of the bombings appealed to the public for information.
Details about the probe have been restricted by a court-ordered media blackout, but the daily Hurriyet, quoting security sources, said Abu Mussab al-Zarkawi, a Jordanian, was behind the two waves of suicide bombings that left 55 dead and nearly 750 injured in Istanbul.
Two car bombs exploded outside two Istanbul synagogues on November 15 and similar attacks on November 20 targeted the London-based HSBC bank offices and the British consulate, where the consul general Roger Short was killed.
Source: Agence France Presse
Threat from chemical or biological attack
THE arrest of a man with suspected links to al Qaeda in the heart of rural England is a chilling reminder of the threat of a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack against Britain by Islamic extremists.
Security chiefs are sure that sleeper cells of the terrorist network are active in Britain, and the arrest in the unlikely setting of Gloucester, which does not have a substantial Muslim population and is not close to an obvious target, apart from the GCHQ communications centre, can only fuel their suspicion.
Source: The Herald
Terrorist suspect Almrei to stay in Canada while courts review his case
TORONTO (CP) - A suspected terrorist, who admits to attending training camps in Afghanistan and fears being tortured if returned to his native Syria, will be allowed to stay in Canada while the courts review his case, a judge ruled Thursday.
But Hassan Almrei, 29, will have to wait to see if the courts will authorize his release from prison while the federal government's deportation case against him is reviewed.
Source: Canadian Press
Kenya Drops Murder Charges Against 5 of 9 Terror Suspects
Authorities in Kenya have dropped murder charges against five terror suspects in connection with last year's suicide bombing of hotel near the coastal city of Mombasa.
Three of the five men's' charges were reduced to four counts of conspiracy - among them: their alleged involvement in a foiled plot to blow up the U.S. embassy in Nairobi in June.
Source: Voice of America
EU FRAUD OFFICE INVESTIGATES AID DIVERSION TO BOMBERS
European Union funds may have been channeled to Palestinian militant groups responsible for the deaths of scores of people in suicide bombings.
The EU's anti-fraud unit and Belgian police are investigating claims that money earmarked for aid was paid to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades through Belgian and German affiliate organisations.
Belgian judicial sources said yesterday that the inquiry began in Aachen in Germany but also involves an organisation based in Verviers, in eastern Belgium.
Source: The Independent
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But, behind the scenes, it has directed federal and state law enforcement, as well as security personnel to initiate protective measures under its highest threat level - red - a condition when there is an imminent risk of terrorist attacks.
I'm confused by your statement JP. If you have specific info provide us the SOURCE - url link and we'll all look at it together here on this thread. Thanks.
The source of many 'tips' and insider's info
Washington Bureau Chief - Paul Sperry
psperry@worldnet.com
When contacting him refer to the link I provided in that post for that particular story
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