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Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles - Daily Terror Threat
Debka ^
| 11-3-2003
| Staff
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.
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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.
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To: Calpernia
Montreal -tunnels.
To: FairOpinion
>>Double clicking on the picture gives you a larger version, with a line underneath,<<
Right. Which means you can associate anything with anything and communicate.
If you know the search string, you can create and communicate a message.
For example, I just associated "LOSER" with the same image as Daleel. Scary stuff.
To: Letitring
If you could push the tetonic plate being subducted with the same force that occurs naturally by the pushing of another tetonic plate then yes you could cause a volcanic eruption. But that is not something humans can do so for now it is impossible.
To: Yaelle
re post no. 5630...
Thank you Yaelle.
That is very generous of you.
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01/02/2004 8:30:11 PM PST
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Cindy
To: mindspy
Works for me. :) Glad there are some things we can't mess with, for now. Still looking into tunnels, passageways. Have mercy. Wasn't there a stopped attempt in Italy, last year, to use chemicals in the ventilation system of our embassy in Rome, via underground tunnels. They thought those tunnels had been sealed, but found them reopened and stopped the attack.
To: All
5,646
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01/02/2004 8:33:07 PM PST
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Cindy
To: Letitring
>>>Wasn't there a stopped attempt in Italy, last year, to use chemicals in the ventilation system of our embassy in Rome, via underground tunnels.
yes.
5,647
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01/02/2004 8:33:54 PM PST
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Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: Calpernia
Area between Louisville and Nashville known as cave country. shessh. There's alot of stuff going on underground, evidently. Dude out in Ca. built an entire garden underground. He was Italian, died in 1946, I think the site said. Oh well. I'll look some more tomorrow. Good night all and thanks for all your hard work.
To: Letitring
I should say however, I am not a volcanologist and my conclusion is based only on what I learned in Geology 101. However, as I understood it that is how volcanoes work so I am confident it is impossible for now.
To: Letitring
Night Letitring. Thanks for the research.
5,650
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01/02/2004 8:46:21 PM PST
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Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050706/posts "Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day?"
AP ^ | 1/2/04 | Nafi Diouf
Posted on 01/02/2004 8:22:13 PM PST by fiftymegaton
ARTICLE SNIPPET:"Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day?"
ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writ By Nafi Diouf and Published: Jan 2, 2004
5,651
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01/02/2004 8:47:28 PM PST
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Cindy
To: Calpernia
Missouri has 5,500 caves for exploration Also has a bunch of societies for exploration. I just had to read one more. :) Now, I am gone. (seems St. Louis has a bunch of caves.)
To: mindspy
LOL, gotcha. :)
To: All
I found an unconfirmed site on a google search that says Fort Huachuca, Arizona is THE communications command central for the entire US Army (and rumored to be for the entire US forces). Is this true?
If the Yellowstone Volcano goes, would this knock communications out? One of the AQ threats was communications would be cut off.
5,654
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01/02/2004 8:59:28 PM PST
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Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: Malsua
Put in "Daleel" now. :)
To: Calpernia
I am sure they have other redundant comm centers.
To: Letitring; All
Eagle Cave -- the deepest cave in the Adirondack Mountains..... http://www.steuben.org/hobbies/ChimneyMountain/
To: FairOpinion; All
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/03/national/03TERR.html?ei=5062&en=9f681213929ea54d&ex=1073710800&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=
January 3, 2004
British Cancel Another Flight as Allies Query U.S.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 British Airways canceled another flight to the United States on Friday as the Bush administration faced questions from American allies about the reliability of the intelligence information that has led to the recent rash of flight cancellations.
The British airline grounded a flight from London to Washington the third cancellation over all in 24 hours and canceled a flight scheduled for Saturday from London to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Seven international flights have now been canceled since last Saturday after the Bush administration began an aggressive approach to defending American airspace when the nation was put on orange or "high" alert on Dec. 21. Administration officials said no arrests had been made in connection with any of the more than a dozen international flights subjected to rigorous scrutiny. And officials have acknowledged that even now, they are uncertain whether they have succeeded in foiling a terrorist plot.
"I don't think we know yet, and we may never know," a senior administration official said.
The latest concern over the tighter security perhaps unparalleled in commercial aviation history was raised by Mexico on Friday. A spokesman for President Vicente Fox questioned decisions by the United States on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day to cancel Aeromexico's Flight 490 from Mexico City to Los Angeles. The spokesman, Agustin Gutiérrez Canet, said that armed Mexican agents had been scheduled to fly aboard the flights and that the authorities made special efforts to interrogate passengers closely and inspect luggage.
"Those revisions have found nothing suspicious," Mr. Gutiérrez said. "Where was the risk?"
In another indication of the turmoil resulting from the increased security measures, an American official said that the cancellation of the British Airways flights was not in response to United States safety concerns, but rather was prompted by the refusal of British pilots to fly with armed marshals on board. The United States put other nations on notice earlier this week that it would not allow certain suspicious flights into its airspace without armed marshals on board.
In addition to the flight cancellations, foreign airliners have been escorted into American airspace by F-16 military fighters, and a Mexican flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles was turned around in mid-air.
The events have left both domestic security officials and international travelers on edge over the prospect of another attack by Al Qaeda. American officials said they were determined to avoid the kind of missed warning signs that preceded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, even if it meant inconveniencing travelers.
Government officials refuse to talk about key details of their decisions to ground the flights because they are classified, but they say that the anxieties are driven by a confluence of factors indicating that another attack on the scale of the Sept. 11 hijackings might be in the works. And the White House's approach, the result of both cold analytical intelligence and gut-level emotion, helped set in motion the extraordinary security measures seen over the last 10 days.
Two days before an Air France flight to Los Angeles was to depart from Paris on Christmas Eve, President Bush's top national security advisers briefed him at the White House on their growing worries about the route, administration officials said.
American officials were picking up intelligence indicating terrorists might be on board that flight or others from Paris to Los Angeles. They had persuaded the French, despite initial resistance, to post armed marshals on board. But the Americans remained nervous and were considering urging the French to cancel the flight.
President Bush had one threshold question for Tom Ridge, his secretary for homeland security, as they met at the White House situation room on Dec. 22. "Would you let your son or daughter fly on that plane?" he asked Mr. Ridge, according to a senior administration official privy to the conversation.
"Absolutely not," the secretary responded. "Well," Mr. Bush said, "neither would I."
The two men and Mr. Bush's other advisers then agreed that if the threat remained, the French should be urged to cancel the Paris-to-Los Angeles flights over the Christmas holiday. Two days later, the French did just that.
To: All
5,659
posted on
01/02/2004 9:12:45 PM PST
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Cindy
To: Sean Osborne Lomax; StillProud2BeFree; JustPiper; FairOpinion; bonesmccoy; tubavil; Reactionary; ...
I have some catching up to do on this thread. I was just over at littlegreenfootballs and spotted this.
Questions About Benin 727 Crash
Was the Boeing 727 that crashed off West Africa on Christmas Day the same aircraft that mysteriously disappeared from Angola last May? Questions Surface About Benin Jet Crash.
Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day?
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Posted by fiftymegaton On News/Activism 01/02/2004 8:22:13 PM PST with 3 comments
AP ^ | 1/2/04 | Nafi Diouf Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day? ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writ By Nafi Diouf and Published: Jan 2, 2004 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - American authorities are investigating whether a Boeing 727 shattered in a deadly Christmas Day crash off West Africa was the same jet that vanished in Angola last year, setting off a worldwide search, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday. Also, a Canadian humanitarian-flight pilot told The Associated Press he saw a 727 with the missing Angola jet's tail number at Guinea's airport in June - a...
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Questions Surface about Benin Jet Crash
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Posted by Solson On News/Activism 01/02/2004 2:35:14 PM PST with 16 comments
AP ^ | 1/2/04 | NAFI DIOUF and ELLEN KNICKMEYER By NAFI DIOUF and ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writers DAKAR, Senegal - American authorities are investigating whether a Boeing 727 shattered in a deadly Christmas Day crash off West Africa was the same jet that vanished in Angola last year, setting off a worldwide search, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday. AP Photo Also, a Canadian humanitarian-flight pilot told The Associated Press he saw a 727 with the missing Angola jet's tail number at Guinea's airport in June a month after the jet's disappearance. The plane's old tail number was not fully covered, and the plane was...
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Benin plane crash toll rises to 128: 15 UN peacekeepers among dead
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Posted by cgk On News/Activism 12/27/2003 10:25:46 AM PST with 1 comment
CNEWS/Canoe ^ | 12-27-03 15 UN peacekeepers among dead By DULUE MBACHU Benin plane crash toll rises to 128 Lebanese passenger Nabil Hashim laughs with his brother Ali, Saturday in a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. Hashim is one of the more than 20 people who survived Thursday's plane crash into the sea near Benin; 161 people were on board. (AP/Mahmoud Tawil) COTONOU, Benin (AP) - Fifteen army officers from Bangladesh returning from UN peacekeeping duty in West Africa were among at least 138 people killed when a jet clipped a building and crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff on Christmas Day, officials said...
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More than 90 killed in Benin plane crash
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Posted by I got the rope On News/Activism 12/25/2003 6:56:11 PM PST with 2 comments
Agence France-Presse ^ | 26 Dec 03 | AFP At least 90 people were killed when a Boeing 727 crowded with Lebanese families heading for holiday visits in Beirut crashed into the sea after take off from the tiny west African state of Benin, officials said. The aircraft, operated by Lebanese-owned Union Transport Africaines (UTA), carried 156 passengers and seven crew as it tried to take off from Cotonou airport shortly after its scheduled 2:55 pm (1355 GMT) departure time, a government official said.
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Passenger Jet Crashes in Benin
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Posted by Dragthor On News/Activism 12/25/2003 7:56:05 AM PST with 122 comments
FoxNews ^ Passenger Jet Crashes in Benin. FoxNews reporting.
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01/02/2004 9:13:09 PM PST
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LayoutGuru2
(Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
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