Al-Qaeda issues fresh threat

The Age (Austrialia) ^

[BurbankKarl]

(not posting to breaking)

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will issue the next of his video messages after a massive attack on US territory, Saudi weekly Al-Majallah quotes an official of the terror network as saying, in its next edition.

Quoting an e-mail received from a man who goes by the name of Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, the weekly reports that "an emissary of bin Laden has informed me that the al-Qaeda chief's (next) appearance (on video cassette) will come after a deadly, far-reaching operation on American territory.

"In the video, bin Laden will evoke the success of his backers in once again striking the United States to the core and America's failure (in its anti-terrorist campaign) both outside and inside the country," the al-Qaeda official was reported as saying in the e-mail.

"Bin Laden will also reaffirm al-Qaeda's determination to continue its war against America, until its defeat," said the message from Ablaj, who last February announced to the Saudi weekly that bin Laden would release a video statement after the US-led war in Iraq.

The most recent message alleged to be from bin Laden was an audiotape broadcast last week by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite channel, but its Qatar-based rival Al-Jazeera said the tape was the same one it had aired more extensively on October 18.

Both Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, the leading Arab news channels, have been accused by US officials of inciting violence by airing such tapes of al-Qaeda leaders as well as those of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein before he was captured by US forces on December 13. They have denied the charge.

A day before the alleged bin Laden tape was aired, Al-Jazeera broadcast a tape purported to be from bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which he said the Americans were beginning to stagger under the blows of al-Qaeda.

A US intelligence official said in Washington that CIA analysts had concluded that the Zawahiri tape was "most likely" authentic.

The report in the Saudi weekly came as Americans celebrated a nervous Christmas under heightened terrorist alerts and tight security nationwide.

[BurbankKarl]

500kg of explosives seized

From correspondents in Istanbul

December 26, 2003

TURKISH police investigating last month's four suicide bombings in Istanbul have seized more than 500kg of explosives in the city.


The explosives, the type of which was not specified, were to be used in new attacks by a Turkish cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, the semi-official agency reported.

Al-Qaeda, along with a Turkish extremist group, the Islamist Great Eastern Raiders Front, has claimed responsibility for the four bombings that left 62 dead and hundreds injured.


Anatolia reported yesterday that Turkish police had seized bomb-making devices and Kalashnikov rifles in central Turkey as part of the probe into the Istanbul blasts, which hit Jewish and British targets.


Eight people suspected of involvement in the massive bombings on November 15 and 20 had been reported detained in Konya earlier this month.

[HighWheeler]

Lemme guess. On the tape, Osama will again fail to prove he is alive by mentioning anything of unique historical significance since he was killed in October, 2001.

[duckbutt]

"detained" by the Turks -- man, I wouldn't want to be "detained" by them- - I bet they are singing like Canaries!

[MoralSense]

Al Qaida has, in the past, managed to do something serious every 2-3 years. Of course, they have never before been specifically targeted by the U.S. military and intelligence.

If something like suicide bombings starts on U.S. soil, I expect a bloody revenge -- Americans will demand it.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I am really thinking that we have foiled them this time. I think they planned to hijack and crash the French airliners and assassinate Musharraf on the same day. Probably a few other potential attacks were foiled in other areas of the country by the increased security. We're on to these guys now.

[Always Right]

If something like suicide bombings starts on U.S. soil, I expect a bloody revenge -- Americans will demand it.

Well most Americans. Dean supporters would suggest appeasement or perhaps getting some international consensus on what to do. Perhaps pass a resolution or something condemning the attacks.

[Dallas59]

Gossip Bizarre...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"detained" by the Turks -- man, I wouldn't want to be "detained" by them- - I bet they are singing like Canaries!

You can't trust anything they confess until their voices go up at least two octaves.

[TheCrusader]

bin Laden has lots and lots of family in Saudi Arabia; some may have publicly renounced him for political expediency and international public relations, but the fact remains that his family lives in Saudi Arabia. When bin Laden threatens my country he threatens my family. Why does his family feel safe when many of my fellow countrymen do not?

[Monty22]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/daleel_almojahid/message/35

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After the blessed attacks of 9-11 Osama bin laden was Quoted saying to a Pakistani news paper (Al-fager) "Al-Qaida has nuclear and chemical weapons and these weapons are there for defense purposes" and added "we would use them against the United States if they use against us any sort of weapons like these". American intelligence also knows that Al-Qaida has Nuclear Capabilities, after Bin Sheba was detained and through interrogations he confessed that Al-Qaida does in fact have a small arsenal of nuclear weapons ready to be deployed and used. When Taliban started its fast evacuation from parts of Afghanistan it left behind it traces of paper that indicated to the American intelligence that Al-Qaida has knowledge about nuclear and chemical weapons. One of these papers that were found had the titled (the big bombs) and it describes exactly how to produce a nuclear explosions in an easy method. It was then certain to the American intelligence team that Al-Qaida has probably been able of producing what's called ( a nuclear radiation explosion bomb)which if deployed would make a huge area a ghost town. Why are we publishing all this to you? We want the American people to start opining their eyes before it's too late to how their government is lying to them every day, although they know who Al-Qaida is! They know its Capabilities. America thought that it can be one day the strongest power in the world and that no one would be able to stand against her, but God has his ways also and knows how to break a huge nation with a few small and weak followers. Wake up Americans, your country was trying to be the police man of the world, taking everything for granted as if every one on this planet is its slave! But no, that will never be or happen, not now and not in a million years to come. America was made up with a huge army that would face and destroy huge army's like her, but it could never win a war with ghosts that stand everywhere and nowhere standing up for this so called great nation!! Always keep in you're your mind that what goes around comes around. Always remember how your great nation dropped nuclear weapons without any kind of sympathy what so ever on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing millions of children, men, and women, what a great nation!! So don't be surprised if God decides to send you the same revenge!! God is fair don't you think! Praise to God almighty as we move closer to a new Islamic era whether you like it or not. Alaah akbaar Daleel_almojahid Al-Qaida

[Ronin]

Is anyone but me getting a bit tired of Al-Jazeera? Freedom of the press is one thing, but these a$$wipes are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

I was more that a litte upset when I learned last night that Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi had given them a full interview.

Methinks it is time to load up another FA-18 with a laser-guided bomb and hand it over to the gal that put paid to their Kabul operation.

[ladyinred]

Always remember how your great nation dropped nuclear weapons without any kind of sympathy what so ever on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing millions of children, men, and women, what a great nation!! So don't be surprised if God decides to send you the same revenge!!

Sounds just like the democrat talking points to me.

Also sounds like a WMD threat.

[Pete'sWife]

These suitcase nukes are how old????

I'm told these devices have a fairly short shelf life, and must be maintained on a regular basis.

They might be in posession of what amounts to a dirty party popper.

[FreedomCalls]

Current U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces

(As of January 31, 2003)

"Pay Back is Hell"1	Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles	Strategic Nuclear Warheads
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)	550	1,700
Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs)	432	3,168
Bombers	251	1,106
Total	1,233	5,974

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Just a friendly reminder of some of the stuff we have available. Don't piss us off. For further information consult your local Japanese ambassador.

[verity]

I bet they are singing like "soprano" Canaries!
lol

[FreedomCalls]

"And God saw the light over Mecca, and the light was good." ~ Bush 1-04

[risk]

Just a friendly reminder of some of the stuff we have available.

OK, nice charts. So we have a few hundred nukes. Let's say we use half of them chasing al Qaeda around Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we drop a few others here and there to make a point. Doesn't that leave us open to a first strike by another superpower with nukes?

Also, what about the application of nuclear warheads in ABM systems. At some point, we may decide we need to deploy them in systems similar to the Nike Zeus. It could take thousands to ward off a massive incoming ICBM strike in outer space.

Think about this the next time someone wants to cut back our nuclear weapons development programs, usually a Democrat.

[eno_]

Nukes do not, in general, have a "short" shelf life. A really really small nuke, that does not contain a critical mass of uranium or plutonium, requires some fancy stuff that might reduce teh shelf life, but nukes are not especially high maintenence items.

The U.S. takes a LOT of care with our nukes. But that is to make sure that every one of them works 100.00%. In a strategic nuclear shootout, an unreliable nuke means a failure in what would most likely be a counterforce strike, which means something here gets nuked.

[eno_]

We have LOTS of nukes. The chart only covers ICBMs and SLBMs. IRBMs on ships, on land, etc. and bomber-based nukes are the (big!) middle layer, and tactical nukes are the rest.

Unless we want to make some Islamic cities disappear before anyone can get their coats on to flee, there is no point in using SLBMs. Anything we want to nuke can spend the 12 hours it would take a bomber to get there kissing their sorry asses goodbye.