Taking al Qaeda at it Own Word: Al-Qaeda planning February attack

The Toronto Free Press ^ | January 5, 2003 | John Thompson

[Hugin]

Similar messages were posted or intercepted before almost every major al Qaeda attack.

And after, and in between. In fact they are constantly posting messages like this. So naturally if they do manage to pull off an attack, there will have been one posted shortly before hand.

Bring it on.

[mikegi]

Ambitious? Yes, but so is the site www.muhajiroun.com, the present Internet home of a British organization, which openly declares its intention to work to reestablish the Caliphate--the single political, religious, and military leader who will rule the Islamic world as the successor of the Prophet Muhammad--"in order that Islam dominates the World (Izhaar ud-Deen) and becomes the World order." Al-Muhajiroun is run by the flamboyant Sheikh Omar Bakri; who gained international attention for advertising a conference to celebrate "the Magnificent 19" (the hijackers of 9/11). The conference was spoiled by all the advance publicity it ended up receiving, but Bakri has never retracted his stated goal: "I want to see the black flag of Islam flying over Downing Street."

How old is this "flamboyant Sheikh Omar Bakri"? I bet he hasn't been taking good care of himself. It would just awful if this guy were to have a sudden heart attack...

[diamondjoe]

There's a furniture place near my house in Portland (OR) that has been having a "final liquidation sale!" for the past four years.

[international american]

""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."

We will kill most of them, and the rest will be relegated to the ash heap of history.

[Veritas_est]

"Wake me up when they remember how to wire a bomb"
"Yawn."
"This reminds me of those perpetual "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" signs"
". . . they're still trying to crash planes into cities, for God's sake!"
"All they do is threat...."
"Bring it on."
". . . that has been having a "final liquidation sale!" for the past four years."

Folks, I am not an alarmist. However, this sounds like it is right out of the Al Qaeda handbook. This is one of the tools of terrorism.
(1) Terrorize
(2) Make complacent with endless threats.
(3) Terrorize
(4) Complacent . . .
Etc. ad nauseam.

Don't bet your New York condo that they will try to fly an airplane into a building.

I hope it won't take a nuclear explosion to convince America that we are vulnerable to small yield WMDs. One small dirty nuclear devise set off southwest of NYC and we will have 9-11 X 100 + months of distress beyond anything most of you can imagine.

If your enemy tells you he is planning an attack . . . only a fool would do nothing.

I say bring on the PROFILING . . . . YESTERDAY!

[jerseygirl]

I say we go to lockdown.