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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. [history]

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To: Pro-Bush
"Is Detroit being set up as the next 911? Dreamer or someone giving inside information? The North American Auto Show has already begun in Detroit. Its Public Days begin on 1/10-1/19."

Wasn't it EOM or the other guy that said "Muslims were taking over Detroit, that Muslim women were coming here to have babies that are American citizens? I definitely think Detroit is not a target if what he says is true.

6,681 posted on 01/05/2004 11:41:51 AM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: Nemo1USA
French Muslims lash out at planned headscarf ban

By Tom Heneghan

PARIS (Reuters) - French Muslim leaders lashed out on Monday at a planned law that would ban Islamic headscarves from public schools and said Muslims were becoming the target of a growing hate campaign which police did nothing to stop.

In a strongly worded statement, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) said Muslims in France felt deeply worried that the law meant to ban all "noticeable religious symbols" in the name of equality and secularism was actually aimed at them.

The CFCM spoke out after two days of talks with regional Muslim leaders alarmed by a government plan to rush through a ban on religious symbols in public schools and hospitals. One major Muslim group called for protests and petitions against it.

President Jacques Chirac said last month the law would also apply to Jewish scullcaps and large Christian crosses. But few of them are seen in French public schools, leaving the more numerous scarf-wearing schoolgirls as the law's main target.

"The CFCM expresses the Muslim community's profound concern that the only concrete act the government plans...is a draft law that makes them feel stigmatised," declared the statement signed by the CFCM's moderate chairman Dalal Boubakeur.

It noted with disappointment that Chirac announced this in a speech devoted mostly to "recognising Islam as France's second-largest religion and fighting against discrimination."

"The CFCM regrets that cases of Islamophobia are multiplying across France, despite (current) law and without any of these discriminatory acts being punished," it added.

"AMAZED AT EXCESSES"

Chirac announced the planned ban amid growing concern over Islamist influence among France's five million Muslims. It met widespread approval among non-Muslims -- an important boost for the government before difficult regional polls in March.

The CFCM cautiously expressed disappointment at first, but a growing chorus of angry criticism from grass-roots Muslim groups has clearly prompted it to take a stronger stand.

"We were amazed at excesses we heard about," Khalil Merroun, rector of the large Evry mosque outside Paris, told the daily Liberation after meeting regional Muslim leaders on Saturday.

"They told us about veiled women being yelled at on the streets, banks that turn them away because they wear a headscarf and a doctor who put up a sign in his waiting room saying 'I refuse to treat veiled women'," he said.

The CFCM called on parliamentarians, who are due to debate the law in the coming weeks, to make sure the text is balanced and urged Muslims to stay calm in "these difficult moments."

While chairman Boubakeur has tried to work closely with the government, one of the CFCM's main member groups -- the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) -- urged all Muslims on Monday to support protests and petitions against the law.

Several Muslim groups linked to the UOIF have already called for a march against the law in Paris on January 17.

6,682 posted on 01/05/2004 11:43:38 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: WestCoastGal
quite fitting
6,683 posted on 01/05/2004 11:43:46 AM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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To: Cindy
Thanks Cindy, we know the sensitivities about disputing Egypt stance on "non-terror" claims. I believe there is a high probability that it was indeed terrorism. No mayday call, it had to go down fast.
6,684 posted on 01/05/2004 11:43:54 AM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: WestCoastGal
Good point, This is just interesting
chatter picked up on the web. I agree that EOM said that Muslim women are taking over Detroit and having babies here so they become American citizens. This was after Bill O'reilly did a show talking of the same issue the previous night. ...I do find it interesting, the 1/19 date cited.
6,685 posted on 01/05/2004 11:51:48 AM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: Pro-Bush
re post no. 6684... Yes, it will be interesting to see what the rest of the story is here.
6,686 posted on 01/05/2004 11:51:57 AM PST by Cindy
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JIHAD WATCH.org: "HOW ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS IN THE U.S. FUND TERROR" (January 5, 2004) (Read More...)

6,687 posted on 01/05/2004 11:55:54 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051984/posts

"Taking al Qaeda at it Own Word: Al-Qaeda planning February attack"
The Toronto Free Press ^ | January 5, 2003 | John Thompson


Posted on 01/05/2004 11:58:54 AM PST by quidnunc
6,688 posted on 01/05/2004 12:02:36 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051985/posts

"Niger arrests Islamic radicals over Nigeria revolt"
Reuters ^


Posted on 01/05/2004 12:02:39 PM PST by Happy2BMe




05 Jan 2004 15:00:04 GMT
"Niger arrests Islamic radicals over Nigeria revolt"



ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Nigerian tank battalion of 500 troops has joined hundreds of police and state security officials combing the savannah region bordering Niger for members of the group, named by local media as Ahlul Sunnah Jamaa.

"The militants are breaking up in small numbers to make their arrest difficult, but the whole brigade has been mobilised to search for those militants still at large," said Brigadier General Harris Musa Zarma.

Yobe state government spokesman Ibrahim Jirgi said the group, also known as Hijrah, was composed mostly of students in their 20s."
6,689 posted on 01/05/2004 12:06:00 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All
http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899529/index.htm

MARTIN KRAMER.org: "SANDSTORM"
6,690 posted on 01/05/2004 12:09:21 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Sean Osborne Lomax
Between now and 01/02 Feb 2004

Same conclusion, different path.

One Year, One Day

Now, we need to review the occult meaning of the length of time, "one month, one day". In Old English Witchcraft, if a person wanted to join a coven, but had Christianity in their background, they had to immediately renounce Christianity and wait one year, one day before they joined the coven On the very day this waiting period ended, the neophyte could officially join the Satanic coven. Therefore, the knowledgeable witch or wizard places a great importance on this period -- one year, one day.

On September 11, 2001, the Illuminati staged the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the first blow to be struck for the appearance of Antichrist. Not only did this attack contain the strongest of all possible occult numeric signatures (NEWS1756), it was also carried out one year, one day (366 days) after the "baby" was born on September 10, 2000!

Maybe you'll see it, maybe you won't. Either way you won't leave smiling

Interesting times, indeed.

6,691 posted on 01/05/2004 12:14:40 PM PST by ohmage
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To: Cindy
Re:6658 link

The following excerpt sounds like the Mexican Mecha group.

" The goals and long-term plans of Al Qaeda are also easy to know. First, drive the "Crusaders" (Western nations) out of the Islamic World--which according to Bin Laden consists of every area that has ever once been under Muslim control, including Spain, swaths of the Balkans up to Hungary, much of European Russia and India. Then topple every government in the Middle East, create a new Caliphate and drive on for World conquest. Sounds ambitious? So was Mein Kampf."

6,692 posted on 01/05/2004 12:17:32 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: JustPiper
"Little more than a year after the Clinton administration let bin Laden's banker get away, President Clinton would personally turn down an offer for Osama bin Laden's arrest and extradition to the U.S. by Sudan"

Clinton was on to more important matters...selling us out to China.

The democratic party is socialist now and the leadership would do whatever to lay the groundwork to undermine our Republic and our Constitution as well as set a stage for a socialist oligarchy in the future.

It is of interest that Venezuela, North Korea and China all stirred the pot while our post 9/11 campaigns began and progressed. Even today the news of SARs erupting again and avian viruses being smuggled brings questions of biowarfare, planned or opportunistic. At this point we had better assume the worst and prepare for it as timing is everything on the battlefront.
6,693 posted on 01/05/2004 12:26:17 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG...Battle hymn of the Republic time)
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To: piasa
"the guy's pants look like they were styled circa 1780."

Or were they slave briefs circa 1780?
6,694 posted on 01/05/2004 12:28:44 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG...Battle hymn of the Republic time)
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To: Cindy
First BA flight to Riyadh took off since the cancellations last weekend.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8330937%255E1702,00.html
6,695 posted on 01/05/2004 12:39:08 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: Nemo1USA
France Plays Down Claim Attack Caused Plane Crash

By Opheera McDoom

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - France said on Monday it attached little credence to a previously unknown Islamic group's claim to have brought down a plane that crashed off Egypt, killing 133 French tourists and 15 other people.

Egypt again defended the safety record of Flash Airlines, operators of the Boeing 737 that plunged into the Red Sea on Saturday, but Switzerland issued a fresh statement that it had banned the Egyptian company from its airspace on safety grounds.

French civil aviation authority head Michel Wachenheim said France's own checks on the doomed plane had showed "nothing abnormal."

An anonymous caller claiming to represent a Yemen-based group called Ansar al-Haq (Followers of the Truth) told an international news agency the group had downed the plane and would also attack Air France planes unless the French government dropped plans to ban Islamic headscarves from state schools.

Although France says no conclusions can be made on why the plane crashed until all the facts are known, French Justice Minister Dominique Perben said: "On the basis of the information in my possession, (the claim) is not very credible."

The Egyptian government has ruled out an attack on the charter plane, which crashed shortly after take-off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for Cairo and Paris.

FLIGHT RECORDERS MAY HOLD THE KEY

French officials said the plane's two flight recorders, which could hold the key to explaining why it crashed, had not been located yet. The so-called "black boxes" record technical data about the flight and conversations between the pilots.

French experts had to delay plans to use a submersible robot to search for the flight recorders from the wreckage of the plane, now lying in deep water off Sharm el-Sheikh.

"The robot arrived yesterday...but it takes time to prepare the specialist equipment and coordinate and organize with the teams," said France's ambassador to Egypt, Jean-Claude Cousseran.

Rescue teams have found body parts and wreckage but no survivors.

Swiss authorities said on Monday they had found two Flash aircraft unsafe in 2002, raising the possibility that one was the plane that crashed on Saturday.

In Cairo, Flash officials were not immediately available for comment on the Swiss statement.

But they have said the doomed plane was one of only two that Flash has operated in recent years, including all of 2002, although Swiss officials were unable to confirm positively that it was one of those they had inspected.

Switzerland said it had inspected one of Flash's aircraft in April 2002 and found various problems, including missing navigation documents, fuel reserves not calculated to international standards and maintenance deficiencies.

The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation said an inspection of a second Flash aircraft in October 2002 had revealed "essentially the same defects."

After Flash failed to provide sufficient proof the defects had been remedied, it was barred from landing in Switzerland a few days later, the office said.

Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Ahmed Mohamed Shafiq Zaki said earlier on Monday the Swiss had let a Flash plane take off from Zurich with 148 Swiss tourists in October 2002 after giving the plane a safety check.

"That means it was 100 percent safe," he said.

(Reporting by Opheera Mcdoom, additional reporting by Amil Khan and Thierry Leveque in Paris)

6,696 posted on 01/05/2004 12:43:56 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Pro-Bush
its not only US based muslims, they put their 9 month pregnant women onto planes to deliver in the immigration offices at JFK. Then, their soldiers get the constitutional protections of US citizens. now you can understand why Tommy Franks said the US constitution would not survive a domestic WMD attack, its not to penalize us, it may well be the only way to save us.
6,697 posted on 01/05/2004 12:51:40 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Velveeta; FairOpinion; Pro-Bush
Excellent find!
6,698 posted on 01/05/2004 12:55:01 PM PST by JustPiper (Every government degenerates when trusted to our rulers alone)
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To: liz44040; JustPiper; Calpernia; Sabertooth; Labyrinthos; freeperfromnj; jonalvy44; GOPJ; ...
This is a fast moving thread. Thanks to all the posters on this thread for keeping us informed of the latest. Your hard work and research is very much appreciated.

Seems that we've stopped an attack or two, but our enemies continue to threaten us. Now they speak of attacks sometime in February. I'll bet that when Feb is over there will be threats during March. Point is, they will continue to try to attack whether they state it or not.

I continue to urge people to prepare. Once prepared, during times of heightened concern you have nothing extra to do except stay alert. Knowing you’re prepared can also reduce stress and worry. Getting extra food/water/supplies together does not take much time or money and may well be worth it if the worst-case scenario happens.

As far as weapons, I leave that to each individual. Weapons are tools and tools in the hands of the wrong people can be more of a liability than an asset.

I continue to pray that we will all remain safe. God Bless.

I'll also continue to monitor this thread for updates. I see reports here that I see no where else. FReeprs are the BEST!
6,699 posted on 01/05/2004 1:12:27 PM PST by appalachian_dweller (If we accept responsibility for our own actions, we are indeed worthy of our freedom. – Bill Whittle)
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To: oceanview
the US constitution would not survive a domestic WMD attack

I agree, and FEMA has been beefing up the past few years to handle such a task.

Homeland role boosts FEMA budget
6,700 posted on 01/05/2004 1:14:39 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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