Al-Qaeda planning US 'death blow'

Australia News ^ | Oct. 31, 2003 | Dubai correspondent -Agence France-Presse

[Valin]

From your lips to Gods ears.

[FairOpinion]

Just saw another interesting article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011867/posts

Cases of piracy at sea leap, Indonesia worst (some by Al Qaeda)

In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker.

Western intelligence agencies and maritime security experts have gone further. Some have linked al Qaeda, or militant groups associated with it, to piracy in Indonesia's waters.

Some experts say al Qaeda showed its nautical strategy and sophisticated seaborne attack capability by bombing the Limburg oil tanker off Yemen in 2002 and U.S. warship USS Cole in 2000.

Jemaah Islamiyah, a group whose goal is to create an Islamic state enveloping Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the southern Philippines, has also been identified by experts as capable of hijacking a supertanker and exploding it in the strait.

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This last possibility can have major impact on world commerce and economy. Mansoor Ijaz talked about it a few times on FoxNews.

[The Grammarian]

As a people, no. Individually, I have no problem with it. Luckily for the Middle East, I'm not the one holding the launch button.

[RightOnline]

Yeah yeah yeah................death blow this.

[DreamWeaver]

Damn sissies would have done it already if they could. They're spent.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the 9//11 plan take a couple of yrs to implement? It concerns me to see how we Americans can so easily can fall into a false sense of security and become complacent. I have no doubt that another plan by them is in the making. Let's pray it is intercepted in some way.

[flying Elvis]

And if the 'death blow' doesn't work they'll try the 'sleeper hold' and if we still do not surrender, then is the dreaded 'claw.'

[FairOpinion]

"It concerns me to see how we Americans can so easily can fall into a false sense of security and become complacent. I have no doubt that another plan by them is in the making. Let's pray it is intercepted in some way. "

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I agree with you. I said something similar earlier.

While we don't want to cower in fear, but we need to stay vigilant, because yes, it can still happen here to us.

[Valin]

Bump for the morning. It's time for this buck-a-roo to head for the old bunkhouse.

[Angelus Errare]

Here's a translation of one of his previous rants:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MewNews/message/12993?expand=1

Al-Qa'ida's training official Abu-Muhammad al-Ablaj hinted at the existence of cooperation between al-Qa'ida and deposed Iraqi President Saddam Husayn in the ongoing operations in Iraq. He said: "Allah has turned to him (with forgiveness). He declared jihad and did not recognize Israel. There is nothing to bar cooperation with a Muslim who has made jihad his course and way for liberating the holy lands." He pointed out, "Al-Qa'ida elements are fighting side by side with the Iraqis" but claimed that the "Western media is blacking out coverage of the operations carried out by the Iraqi resistance." He did not however explain if the operations were joint ones between them and the remnants of Saddam Husayn's followers.

Al-Ablaj did not rule out the possibility of "al-Qa'ida using Sarin gas and poisoning drinking water in US and Western cities." He said that they, al-Qa'ida, "are going to present the Americans with their capabilities" and threatened "to strike devastating blows to Israel abroad."

[TLI]

To: TLI "good enough for you sand rat, good enough for me too.." LOL...methinks it's high time for another Crusade. Except under American leadership, it would actually be successful! 277 posted on 10/30/2003 5:01 PM CST by TonyRo76

Think carpet bombing....

TLI

[Angelus Errare]

I was actually referring to this one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12187-2003Mar22&notFound=true

But that works just as well.

[Wolfhound777]

I remember reading about that interview between us and the Iraqi rep just before the first Gulf War that involved our rep sliding an envelope (from Bush 1) across the table to the other. It read something to the effect that if one toe of the Iraqi army crossed the border to Saudi they would be nuked. It brought fear to the eyes of the rep. Sorry that I can't remember the individuals involved

This was true. I believe it was Tariq Aziz who the message was delivered to. Although, I think the message was that if Iraq used any WMD against coalition troops, Iraq would cease to exsist as we would use nuclear weapons.

[JustPiper]

Yahoo allows these groups?!

[tubavil]

They are a primary method of terrorist communications.

[Al Simmons]

Is that the late Freddy Mercury? Sure looks like him! *LOL*

[lainde]

Late night bump!

[boxerblues]

We dont have to nuke the middle east to get rid of it. I truly believe we have the resolve and leadership to do something should we get hit again.

[petercooper]

it's a Seinfeld quote from the Death Blow episode