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Yemen Qaeda to avenge US killing of leader-Web site (by attacking the U.S.--Yada Yada Yada)
Reuters ^
| 1/24/04
Posted on 01/24/2004 12:48:22 PM PST by areafiftyone
SANAA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Yemeni Web site published on Saturday a statement purporting to come from the Yemeni wing of al Qaeda, in which it vowed to attack the United States to avenge the 2002 killing of its leader by a CIA drone aircraft.
The statement, which could not be authenticated, said Osama bin Laden's network had over the past year prepared a "devastating and crushing blow in the United States that will happen soon".
It would be in retaliation for the death of Ali al-Harthi, who was killed by a missile fired by the pilotless CIA drone at his car in eastern Yemen.
The statement, published on the al-Sahwa and other Islamist Web sites, gave no details about the proposed attack.
Harthi, and his aide Mohammad Hamdi al-Ahdal who was arrested last year, were suspected of responsibility for the 2000 bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in Yemen's Aden harbour, which killed 17 American sailors.
Yemen, seen in the West as a haven for al Qaeda, is bin Laden's ancestral homeland and has cooperated closely with the United States to crush his network.
Diplomats say that Yemen has largely succeeded in breaking the back of the group, but some militants remain at large.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alahdal; alialharthi; alqaeda; alqaedayemen; harthi; threat; usscole; website; yemen
To: areafiftyone
They're complaining about this little incident?
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posted on
01/24/2004 12:55:46 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: areafiftyone
Hey!!! Whoa!!!! Take it easy, fella'!!!
Don't blame us, blame the drone!!!!
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posted on
01/24/2004 12:58:07 PM PST
by
baltodog
(So, can we assume that a job that an illegal alien won't do must be REALLY bad?....)
To: Dog Gone
That pic looks like a convention of Spinal Tap drummers...
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posted on
01/24/2004 12:59:01 PM PST
by
baltodog
(So, can we assume that a job that an illegal alien won't do must be REALLY bad?....)
To: areafiftyone
We'll keep the light on for you...
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posted on
01/24/2004 12:59:27 PM PST
by
marron
To: areafiftyone
Maybe they should blame allah.
To: baltodog
That's right! It's the bombs fault!
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posted on
01/24/2004 1:05:51 PM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.)
To: areafiftyone
C'mon with the c'mon!!!
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posted on
01/24/2004 2:09:23 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(-He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps-)
To: areafiftyone
One of the Lackawanna 6 (Buffalo al-Queda cell) was killed there, if I'm not mistaken.
To: areafiftyone
Looks like they got turned up to eleven
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posted on
01/25/2004 10:44:10 AM PST
by
The Louiswu
(I am a - 40-something White, Republican and proud of it!)
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