Terrorist threats to destroy US city posted on internet

UK Herald ^ | Jan. 15, 2004 | IAN BRUCE

[FairOpinion]

US and British intelligence services are investigating a series of alleged al Qaeda internet warnings predicting a terror attack which would "destroy an entire American city".

The messages, posted on a number of Islamic websites over the last week, say the countdown to attack has already begun.

They claimed it would be "an even stronger strike than nuclear weapons".

They also warn that unless the US and its allies withdraw immediately from Iraq, Afghanistan, and all other Muslim countries, the terror network has ordered the elimination of American leaders and their supporters. The post of most concern to Western intelligence has appeared three times in three days on a radical Islamic internet forum called the Mujahideen Network.

It claimed to be "from the Islamic nation to the American people" and boasted that its forces now had the ability to wipe out an entire city.

A security source said last night: "There is no way of determining whether these warnings are genuine or wishful thinking on the part of extremists. "But there are disturbing parallels with the background threat-level chatter which preceded the September 11 attacks in 2001."

The investigation came as the UN said almost 100 countries should be "named and shamed" for failing to enforce international sanctions against known members of al Qaeda and its Taliban allies and to block the flow of money and arms to the groups.

[Mini-14]

Someone please give them a map pinpointing the location of Mayor Richard Daley's office in Chicago.

[Toespi]

I have always thought that if they had access to or possessed WMDs they would have used them with their first attack rather than the airplanes on 9/11. They had to have known that after this attack, things would change and they might not have another shot at us so they used their best. The idea that they have developed WMDs after 9/11 is remote because they have become so fractured.

[Tunehead54]

RE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013726/posts

Please compose an executive summary and FReepmail it to me at your earliest convenience.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

10,000+ posts! Sheesh! ;-)

[FairOpinion]

You can start reading at the end.

This gives you a bit of summary -- BBC is just reporting the info that people have been noticing and discussin on the 10,000+ post thread for weeks.

Here is the BBC thread -- I just posted it:


BBC News: Q&A: Online terror chatter (about impending attacks)(interesting info)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058987/posts

[Joe Hadenuf]

If I were in Hacksaw Arkansas I'd be worried. Anything larger and they can't destroy it.

Cities like LA are so big, even if we allowed them eight weeks free reign, they couldn't put a dent in it. LOL!

[Bobby777]

yes they would have used them then ... the question is whether they were able to purchase technology or actual devices ... like artillery shells for example ... small yield, but effective ...