First, the Detroit area has the highest concentration of Muslims in America thanks to jewhating Henry Ford. After 911 crackdown, many arrests happened in Dearborn MI (adjancent Detroit). So, in terms of opportunity and willing participants, this is the best spot in the country for Bin Laden.
Second, as referred to in the article, according to former CIA agent Mike Scheuer, Bin Laden is close to 100% success on his threats. I wasnt aware of this myself, but I suspect he is right when it is Bin Laden himself who makes the threats. Before Scheuer said this, I thought that Laden's 'boy cried wolf' rate was laughable, but maybe those were not from Bin Laden himself (someone have info to verify Sheur's claim?)
SYNTHESIS: The message makes a threat and offers a truce. This language is perfectly consistent with Islamic mythology about war. Muslims commonly believe that their great warriors, such as sillyman (suileman), made some offer of truce before his great kill. Ofcourse the enemy refuses and the murder is all the more just. Schuer refers to this as well in a complete transcript of his interview.
What this means is that Bin Laden may be offering the 'truce' to make a future terror attack appear more just in the eyes of muslims. He can say he offered a truce as he did with europeans and appear more like their true leader (Caliph).
If this is the case, and there indeed is an imminent attack being planned, I think the SUPER BOWL IS A PRIME CANDIDATE due to the accesiblity by many muslims located near Ford Field and the tremendous theater of such an attack.
Who are you?
Not an original thought ---
With all due respect to Mr. Osama, why isn't he dead yet?
He did say that he would "perish in the belly of the eagle" last year.
Google the movie "Black Friday" to see a very old take on this idea...
Accessibility isn't a problem anywhere in the US. A concentration of muslims in Michigan means nothing.
Hell, they can even fly planes.
You honestly think Bin Laden is going to attack an area with the largest Arab population in the U.S.? Your screws are loose.
Off topic a bit, but does anyone else find it strange that most of the translations of OBL's screed leave out some very important details..like the bald face lies that OBL told concerning 'torture' at Abu Graib? CBS leaves it out of their translation, as well as quite a few other LSM outlets. CSPAN has the complete translation on their site:
http://www.c-span.org/pdf/bidladen011906.doc
OBL accuses our troops of drilling screwdrivers into his 'holy warriors' heads and of mass suicides among our troops. It is complete and utter bs of course, but isn't strange that the LSM seems to be hiding bin Laden's lies.
From the transcript:
"As for torturing men, they have used burning chemical acids and drills on their joints. And when they give up on [interrogating] them, they sometimes use the drills on their heads until they die. Read, if you will, the reports of the horrors in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons."
I think the media is hiding this part of the transcript because it makes THEM look bad for promoting and manufacturing the whole AbuGraib 'scandal'! OBL in 1998 wrote a Jihad Training Manual in which he instructs his 'warriors' to make claims of torture and abuse if they are caught and the media fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Get Jack Bauer on the case.
You have any idea how protected the super bowls are these days? They may try...they'll fail....we'll see to that.
Osama hates Seattle. I'm sure he has bad points too.
Here's another thread that elaborates on this question:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1565487/posts
Al Jazeera is now saying Zawahiri extended President Bush an offer to submit to Islam.
Also interesting is that the offer came on the eve of the SOTU address, where the president would certainly re-state his committment to war, thus rejecting both offers in no uncertain terms.
I too believe an attack is imminent, and that the Super Bowl is the target. God help us all if they're able to strike such a hard target.