Posted on 12/27/2003 12:27:02 PM PST by Mossad1967
A London-based Arab magazine said on Friday that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to launch a back-breaking attack on the US by February, confirming an earlier message by the militant network. The weekly al-Majalla said it received an e-mail from Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, a little known Al Qaeda member, saying bin Laden would release a video tape in which he affirms his groups determination to fight the US.
A messenger of bin Laden informed him (Ablaj) that the Al Qaeda leader will appear on a televised tape after the execution of an operation which bin Laden described as back-breaking and which would change the order of things, al-Majalla said in a report in its latest edition.
They (Americans) should prepare...their coffins, hospitals and graves. The coming days will be full of surprises and great events which will make them a historic example, the magazine quoted Ablaj as saying. The report came after US officials ordered their colour-coded alert system raised to orange, the second highest level, citing possible year-end attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at indianexpress.com ...
Heheh... initials start with B.C.?
Are you certain? For the past decade I have noticed that transatlantic flights typically have a moving-map display of real-time position and ETA that shows when there is no movie playing. I always pay attention to those maps when I fly from the Western US to Europe. If they are not great circle routes, they are pretty damn close.
Polar routes are often great circle routes; the two are not mutually exclusive. A great-circle route means that the shortest distance between any two spots on the Earth's surface lies along the line defined by an imaginary plane through those points that also intersects the terrestrial sphere in such a way as to divide it into two equal halves.
The Equator, the ecliptic, and each meridian line of longitude are examples of great circles, but there is an infinite number of great circles of varying angles of incidence and points of intersection. Any line that divides the globe into two equal halves is a great circle.
You can find great circle routes by yourself with a globe and a shoestring. Stretch the string over the surface of the globe between your origin and destination. If you do this between, say, San Francisco and London or between Paris and LA, you will be surprised at how far north the great circle will take you. That's why you can see Baffin Island and Greenland and Iceland out the plane window. It will also show you why aircraft landed at Goose Bay and Gander in the days when they did not have intercontinental range.
Perhaps you are mistaking a great-circle route for a rhumb-line route, which has been little used since the days of sextants and astrolabes, or a "small circle" defined by lines of latitude other than the Equator.
-ccm
The more we are exposed to those subtle differences, the better we can deal with the half-dozen or so hard-core Islamo-murdering-propagandists with their endless new names, who keep returning to amuse us.
The Mods and Jim might reconsider whether all their posts, up to the point that they trigger a ban, should not be left in the thread for those of us who miss the beginning of the process.
Remember, these brainiacs invented algebra, or so they claim.
A six-sided pentagon?
Shoot, even Ptolemy, four centuries before mohammed the pervert was born (sbuh), knew what a pentagon looks like. As do even the dullest fourth graders in any civilized country.
You guys really are deranged aren't you!
Get your coffins and graves on your own. As for hospitals? Don't waste your time, you won't need them.
I know my English skills aren't the greatest fellow FReepers, however, I couldn't resist.
Comparing those position to a great circle route on a globe made it clear that they were as close to a great circle route as conditions and instruments allow. I was specially amused at the occasional corrections by the autopilot (I assume) to maintain the predefined series of rhumb lines.
Au contraire. Finnair has been flying the polar route to Tokyo since 1983. Since 2001 there are four new FAA-approved polar routes over Russia that now see considerable use on flights between the Eastern US and East, Central and South Asia. The route called Polar 2 goes directly over the North Pole.
Read POLAR ROUTES OFFER NEW OPPORTUNITIES from Boeing for more information.
-ccm
If they are officially approved, do you know if they are actually in use by a scheduled commercial passenger flight?
The Pentagon was the target in their last attack, and Al Queda has a track record with regard to "2nd attempts" (WTC first attacked in 1993). They also thump their chest about removing capability of communicating with deployed forces in Iraq.
A stadium makes more sense given their stated desire is to kill 100,000 Americans.
Of course, if they could do both - they would.
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