Sounds like Osama is planning to open a slick PR agency on Madison Avenue. And/or buy the NY Times.
Seriously, I've always thought that when obl nears death with his kidney disease, he'll take part in a suicide attack somewhere using the worst weapons he can buy. Might come in through Canada where the customs jerks couldn't care less. Blowing up Detroit would "divide" the USA and it's only an unguarded bridge away from Canada. (But so many muzzlims live in that area, he may not.) Private boat onto Great Lakes? Chicago? Divide into three parts suggests two attacks.
If somehow he kills himself on US soil, the muzzles will claim him as a big martyr and also claim the US as their own. Nasty.
From: "daleel_almojahid"
Date:: Thu Nov 31, 2003 13:42 am
Subject:: GREAT AMERICAN LEAGUE EVIL TO OCCUR
XXX and a XXX declared that they received messages from Al Qaeda Network in Yemen that points to the messages of the fighting Sheikh Osama bin Ladin who transmitted last week were coded messages with directions for the execution of the greatest operations during the holy month of playoffs ...
Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest (( I swear by the great Allah who raised the sky without an intention that America and the west world will not dream of its capture with the security what did not enjoy it a falling in Palestine and the Islamic world ) )
My father and my mother redeemed you O our sheikh the hero
Four greatest offenses
Brothers and sisters I greet you, as you have noticed the splitting of the moon in two marks the start of the biggest operation of all, it is expected that the American League will be shocked by 4 hits, I swear to Allah on this, I swear to Allah that the Red Sox of Boston will suffer 4 terrible hits and thus be divided from the Series of World by that eater of swine Grady Little...
Bill, Hillary. . . and the rest of us
Come to think of it, they hardly do accomplish anything, save for taking a few others whilst blowing themselves up.
Ummm... wow. They work fast.
AQ's strategy here is sound: Since they cannot hope to beat us in the field, they must fight us on another terrain, one where our military superiority counts for nothing the information battlefield. Just as the terrorists of 11 September scored a major victory by using our own commercial passenger aircraft as cruise missiles, the AQs intend to use our omnipresent and instantaneous electronic news media as a psychological warfare weapon, again turning our own strengths against us. By using rumors, threats, and propaganda to destroy morale and weaken the economy, the AQ seeks to undermine our willingness to wage war while at the same time causing economic damage and all without any risk to themselves.
(Ironically, an actual, physical attack on a U.S. city resulting in significant loss of life would almost certainly doom AQ; if a U.S. city were to be destroyed or seriously contaminated, the political pressure on the President for a retaliatory action of the most severe kind against a broad set of Islamic targets would be almost irresistable.)
OBL and company have learned the lesson taught by Ho Chi Minh well: destroy American support for the war on the home front, destroy the public's sense of security, and destroy Americans' trust in their government, and you have won the war. Cynicism is the terrorists cyanide; panic is their atomic bomb. Don't give in to either! Make your support of the war effort known, and do your utmost to fight against the cynics who say the war is pointless or unwinnable. When terrorist threats are rumored, don't spread the rumors; instead, gather all the information you can from reliable sources and consider the seriousness of these threats in a calm, sober, and rational manner.
Obviously, we should make every effort to protect ourselves from physical attack, but before we evacuate the cities, quit our jobs, dump our investments, or convert our savings to gold, lets each make sure we have the facts.
No Bite
The splitting of the moon is mentioned in the Holy Quran, Surah Al-Qamar:
The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain. And if they behold a portent they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion.They denied (the Truth) and followed their own lusts. Yet everything will come to a decision. Quran (54:1-3)
According to Maududi, the traditionists and commentators have agreed that this incident took place at Mina in Makkah about five years before the Holy Prophets Hijra (migration) to Madinah.
The Moon had split into two distinct parts in front of their very eyes. The two parts had separated and receded so much apart from each other that to the on-lookers (in Makkah) one part had appeared on one side of the mountain and the other on the other side of it.
Then, in an instant the two had rejoined. This was a manifest proof of the truth that the system of the universe was neither eternal nor immortal, it could be disrupted. SOURCE