Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles (thread 2) Daily Terror Threat

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[Mossad1967]

Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles

Link to Thread #1

[Revel]

Here is another Thread where they are having the same question we are having. Chat site linked from homelandsecurityus.net

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?s=f6414cb379029e71303cc502c4487d3d&threadid=89800

[crabbie]

Thanks and goodnight.

[Revel]

Goodnight...And pray!

[Revel]

I wonder where Justpiper is ?

[Oorang]

I remember that portion of the first thread. Jihad Falcon, the area codes, etc. But now I'm lost. Are you relating this to the possible connection of the asian bird flu with falcons? These two are connected. So I personally think it is a REAL concern

[Oorang]

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe her family said "enough all ready, we're watching a movie!" Let's just hope the movie isn't "FreeRepublic, the sequel".

Night all.

[adaven]

Timebomb2000 - Good Doomer forum!

[Cindy]

http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04010084.htm

Monday, January 26, 2004

"FOUR CHRISTIAN WOMEN KILLED IN IRAQ, OTHERS INJURED
As violence against Christians and Americans spreads"

By: Stefan J. Bos
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD, IRAQ  (ANS) -- Four Christian women were killed and five others injured when militants in a passing car raked their minibus with gunfire 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad, an informed human rights watchdog confirmed Monday, January 26.

Barnabas Fund, which has close contacts with Christians in Iraq, said the attack happened last Wednesday, January 21, when nine Christian Iraqi women were on their way to work in the laundry at the Habaniyah American military base.

"Suddenly four masked men in a white Opel machine-gunned our minibus and four women died" Barnabas Fund quoted survivor Maggi Aziz, 49, as saying.

None of the passengers escaped without injuries, explained Barnabas Fund, adding that Aziz herself was speaking from her hospital bed with wounds to the leg, shoulder and head.

Among those killed was Ashkik Varojan, who boarded the bus on Wednesday morning having decided to hand in her resignation, rather than live in fear of reprisals for cooperating with the United States-led coalition, Barnabas Fund said.

PARALYZED HUSBAND

"Necessity had driven her to work to support her paralyzed husband and four children. On hearing the news of her death, Anjel, her 20 year old daughter fainted with grief.

Vera Ibrahim, who survived, told Barnabas Fund that she "won't continue" her work. "I am afraid. They wanted to kill us all," she reportedly said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although church leaders, individual Christians and human rights workers have told ASSIST News Service (ANS) in Iraq they are concerned about rising violence against Christians."

[brucecw]

I got brave and did a quick check over there at itshappening. I did open any posts. But there was nothing new...Nadaa. This supports what Sean said in my post above.

IMHO it's extremely implausible that jihadi chatter in open forums would cease because of an impending attack. There are just too many wannabes who would keep posting even if the real actors drop out for a bit. And the absence of any one (or even several) posters can be due to lots of other causes - machine problems, personal problems, etc - that have nothing to do with attacks.

The other thing that occurs to me is that there are reasons why EOM and others might "disappear" for a while even if there isn't an attack. Remember that it is the hajj, and the Eid. He/they may be preoccupied with very mundane things associated with these events and want us to think that they're off on some big mission - it makes them feel important and strikes fear in their opponents.

If there are some viruses or other cyber attacks ongoing, that could easily explain several sites going quiet; these things can affect many server systems just as much as end-user PC's.

We shall see shortly. I wouldn't pre-judge but it does seem "interesting." FWIW in some of the things connected with my "day job" we've been having lots of perfectly mundane issues with domain registrars etc for almost a month and a half now (!!!). So there are some areas on the Internet that have been rather, shall we say, discombobulated lately in ways that have nothing to do with the jihadis.

[Pro-Bush]

..Just a thought, I don't believe area-codes can start with a "1".

[JustPiper]

Can you guys refresh my memory about who was discussing rap/muslims? My husband came across a CD by a group called Lifesavas and in between two cuts there is a diatribe with a guy sounding Arab and my son will get those words and I will post them when I get them.

FYI

Islam has had a tremendous influence on American rap and hip-hop for decades, primarily through the Nation of Islam, a faith based on the belief that the white man (also referred to as the devil) aims to oppress the black man.

Rap groups like Public Enemy -- whose members were Nation of Islam followers -- have often made inflammatory statements and have been accused of being racist and anti-Jewish, often railing against what they called the "white world order."

In the post-Sept. 11 world, where paranoia toward Muslims can seem practically institutionalized by the government, traditional Muslim rappers (as opposed to Nation of Islam-influenced MCs, who focus more on civil rights) are gaining attention.

Locally, Des Moines' Sons of Hagar (pronounced "HA-jar") has already released two albums and plans to drop a third later this year -- all self-recorded and self-produced. The group is named for Abraham's wife and Ishmael's mother -- a woman revered for her faith and strength.

What makes Sons of Hagar stand out from other Muslim MCs, such as Washington, D.C.'s, Native Deen, is not the Arabic words they use: Allah, bismellahe rahmane rahim (in the name of the mighty and forgiving God) and other words out of the Quran have appeared in rap songs for years. The group's politics sets them apart.

Take, for example, the protest single "INSurrection" off their upcoming release, "A Change":

"It's the Arab hunting season, and I ain't leavin'

I'm pushing the conscience button on you people

Where is reason?"

Ahmad (stage name: Allahz Sword), 20, and his brother, Abdul (Ramadan Conchus), 18, are the core duo of Sons of Hagar, but Kareem (Keen Intellect), 17, and Musa (Musa), 17, also appear regularly, along with other guest MCs and DJs. Both Musa and Kareem have solo CDs coming out in the next year or so.

A war of words

Despite the angry lyrics, the young men themselves don't come across as hot-headed extremists.


"The revolution's gonna shine

Shine its light on Palestine

Armageddon round the corner kid I'm cockin' my nine

Israelis fightin' coz they think its theirs I'm fightin' coz I know it's mine

I'ma kill Sharon that devil's mine."

Although he makes no bones about loathing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government ("I disagree with every aspect of Sharon"), Ahmad maintains that neither he nor anyone in the group is anti-Semitic.

"Hip-hop and Islam have a long, fruitful history together and I do not see them splitting any time soon, in'sha Allah (God willing)."

Note:
Adisa Banjoko, an author currently working on several projects, including a book called "The Light From the East: The Story of Islamic Influence in Hip-Hop Culture."

* Lengthy, inormative article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/108750_muslimrap.shtml

[JustPiper]

Bum ‘Rights’ Rap
May 1, 2002

By Heather Mac Donald

Human-rights groups began criticizing America's war on terrorism immediately after 9/11 and haven't stopped complaining since. Their criticisms can seem unfathomably ignorant until you grasp one crucial fact: Left-wing rights organizations don't appear to acknowledge that 9/11 even happened.

Take the most recent diatribe against U.S. self-defense: Amnesty International's recent report on the detention of illegal immigrants picked up after 9/11. Throughout the report, Amnesty puts "terrorist" in quotes, to signal the group's ironic detachment from the term.

If you can't bring yourself to use the word "terrorist" non-ironically, there is indeed much about recent government actions that will look arbitrary or discriminatory.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nypost-bum_rights.htm

[Revel]

WOW what terrible lyrics.

[JustPiper]

Another informative article that gives some insight into their mathematical meanings:

The Five-Percent rap
Is a mysterious black Muslim group a bona fide religion or a dangerous gang?
By David F. Smydra Jr., 12/21/2003

LAUDED BY HIP-HOP ARTISTS from Busta Rhymes to the Wu-Tang Clan, linked to drug dealers and prison gangs, The Nation of Gods and Earths -- or, as they are popularly known, the Five Percenters -- have inspired controversy for almost 40 years. But this past summer, the group received a powerful endorsement from an unexpected corner. On July 31, the Federal District Court in New York ruled that Intelligent Tarref Allah, a 27-year-old convicted murderer currently serving 19 years to life, had been denied his First Amendment right of religious freedom, and is entitled to practice his Five Percent beliefs in prison.

Immediately deemed the "5% Fraud" by The New York Post, Allah's case is the latest installment in the ongoing tug-of-war between the predominantly black Five Percenters, prison officials, and the court system. In the 1980s the group was said to be associated with a drug ring in Queens, N.Y., and in the mid-'90s South Carolina prison officials reprimanded more than 300 inmates for refusing to renounce their Five Percent status. Last year, a New Jersey state court upheld the legitimacy of disciplinary actions taken by prison officials who had broken up an orderly meeting of inmate members.

The Nation of Islam's black supremacist attitude, while off-putting to many, imbued the organization with an almost militant commitment to black self-sufficiency. It successfully rehabilitated hundreds of prisoners and street hustlers from a life of crime and drugs, most famously Malcolm X, who in 1954 became Minister of Harlem's Temple Seven.

To spread his message, Clarence devised peculiar systems reminiscent of the Kabbalah and other mystical traditions, which he called the Supreme Mathematics and the Supreme Alphabet. (See sidebar.) For Five Percenters, Islam is less a religion than a science that can "break down" ordinary words through linguistic gymnastics. For instance, in the Supreme Alphabet A stands for Allah, which, broken down, stands for Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head, thereby proving that the divinity of Allah is physically present in humankind.

The group's connection with hip-hop culture goes back to its early days, when Allah "rapped" the Supreme Mathematics on New York street corners. Gone was the Black Muslim approach of gradually initiating proselytes into the mysteries of the Nation of Islam; rather, Five Percenters aimed to "show and prove," or to immediately mesmerize listeners with their rap. "The nature of the teaching and the learning process lends itself to making really good rap poetry," says Ted Swedenburg, a professor of anthropology and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, who testified on behalf of Intelligent Allah this past summer.

And then there's the mystery of just how many Five Percenters there are, and who really is one. (DC sniper suspect John Muhammad was briefly, mistakenly identified with the movement on the basis of his written claims to be "God.") The official Nation of Gods and Earth's website, www.ibiblio.org/nge, lists regular parliaments in almost three dozen cities in 17 states and Canada, and hundreds of Gods and Earths have linked their personal webpages to the site.

Whatever its size, the movement, like the Nation of Islam, emphasizes learning and self-improvement; since 1967, its de facto headquarters has been an educational institution, the Allah School in Mecca, or Manhattan. (Five Percenters refer to many geographical locales by a Middle Eastern name: Brooklyn is "Medina," for example, while Seattle, Wash., home of a regular parliament, is "Morocco.")

Entire Article:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/21/
the_five_percent_rap/

This shows what Ruth posted about the large muslim convert population of African American's in our prison system

[JustPiper]

Further, rap must be insulated from White supremacist criticism from outside the community. Euro-Americans cannot stand as the moral authority in this country—their hands are too bloody. The moral vanguard of this country has always been the Black, Brown, and Red communities. However, too many in the Black community, their White supremacy intact, simply parrot the Euro-American condemnation of hip-hop. This is baseless, and is reminiscent of the facile criticism of be-bop. This group of White supremacists in Black face simply wait for White sanction of culture before giving their seal of approval. They admonish, inter alia, that rap music causes violence. That makes about as much sense as arguing that "Love Child" by the Supremes caused teen pregnancy. These senseless assertions are not pursued in this article.

The Germinating Context for a More Focused Nationalism
If we move beyond hip-hop's spatial locus (urban centers beginning in New York) and turn to its temporal locus, we begin to understand better it's wedding to Black nationalism. The national emergence of hip-hop is contemporaneous with the rise of reactionary republicanism in the Reagan-Bush years that would persist for no less than 12 years. The multiple recessions of the late 1970s and early 1980s were depressionary for Black people and especially Black youth. From 1979 to 1981, the Black community of the United States was transfixed on the Atlanta Child Murders, and few were convinced or assuaged by the conviction of Wayne Williams. In the late 1970s, Louis Farrakahn split with Warith Deen Muhammad's American Muslim Mission and reformed the Nation of Islam (NOI) under the former Black supremacist concepts abandoned by the son of Elijah Muhammad with the death of the self-proclaimed "messenger of Allah" in 1975. Coupled with the rise of the Farrakhan led NOI was the political rise of Jesse Jackson and his presidential runs in 1984 and 1988. Although Jackson has never espoused nationalism beyond its expediency for realizing his integrationist aims, the attacks on Jackson by the White media and his White coaspirants served to galvanize Black nationalist support around him and to result in positive sentiment for his campaign even among those who did not support his populist platform.

(This paper appeared in the Journal of Black Studies/January 1996.)

______________________________

Errol A. Henderson received his doctorate (1993) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is an assistant professor of political science at the university of Florida.

http://www.nbufront.org/html/fvwin98/errol1.html

[Revel]

I hope you are right. I really do.

[JustPiper]

You think those are bad..the group Lifesavas has 3 cuts on their CD:
State Of The World/Apocalypse/War
Resist
5th Horseman
And the Arab message in between those two cuts makes me wonder how many rap songs not only contain hidden messages, but are passing messages to jihadists?!

Shoot I even found one advertisement for the group but need a translation and language:

“Hayat kurtarýcýlarý” anlamýna gelen Lifesavas rap’te efsane olmaya aday Blacklicious’ýn ön grubu olarak tanýndý. Enerjisi neredeyse hiç sýfýrlanmayan bu süper ikili gospel’vari bir tarzý benimsediyse de hip-hop geleneðine sadýk kaldý. DJ Shadow ve Blacklicious’a ait plak þirketi “Quannum”favorisi müzik endüstrisinin empoze ettiði þiddet yüklü hip-hop’u kenara itip, tarzýn özüne indi.

[WestCoastGal]

Need information on parasites in computer. I just found and removed with spybot the following:

SearchEx.... AcrolEHelper.A (two of these in Registry)
SeekSeek 57ACE747-386 Registry
iwon iwon Registry


Anyone know what they are??

[Revel]

I always hated Rap. Now I have reason to hate it even more.

Awful quiet here tonight.

[JustPiper]

UhOh what did I miss?