Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

[Mossad1967]

SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.

The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thanks

[TexKat]

Kuwait Bus Accident Hurts 25 U.S. Soldiers

Tue Feb 17, 3:49 AM ET

KUWAIT CITY - A bus carry American troops rolled over near a Kuwaiti air base over the weekend, injuring 25 soldiers, four of them seriously, a military spokesman said Tuesday.

The Kuwaiti authorities are investigating the accident, which happened Sunday afternoon near the Ali Al Salem air base, Capt. Randall Baucom told The Associated Press.

The bus had been leased from a local company, Baucom said.

News of the accident emerged on Tuesday after the local newspaper Al-Anba reported it with Kuwaiti sources.

The four U.S. soldiers who were seriously wounded have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed Forces hospital. The other injured were treated at various U.S. camps in Kuwait, Baucom said.

Kuwait has been a major ally of Washington in the area, since a U.S.-led coalition fought the 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation.

The small oil-rich state was the launch pad for the war in Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in April.

[tmp02]

4 more days until Feb 21...

[TexKat]

Rocket Launchers Found Near Japan Agency

TOKYO - Police investigating a disturbance outside Japan's Defense Agency on Tuesday found a pair of homemade rocket launchers that may have used been in a symbolic attack by leftist radicals. No injuries or damage were reported.

The area around the agency in downtown Tokyo was cordoned off and police and firefighters were called in after authorities received reports of two loud bangs late Tuesday night.

Investigators found a pair of pipes fashioned into crude projectile launchers but were still looking for what they might have fired, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said on condition of anonymity.

Leftist radicals in Japan occasionally make symbolic attacks with such weapons on targets related to the military or Japan's royal family.

Police suspect the homemade weapons may have been set off in a protest of a controversial decision by the Japanese government to send troops to help rebuild Iraq (news - web sites), the spokesman said.

[mhking]

4 more days until Feb 21...

Uh..... and five days until Feb. 22?

What's supposed to happen on 2/21?

[TexKat]

Terrorists `in final stages' of Saudi hit

18feb04

LONDON: Terrorists may be "in the final stages" of preparing more attacks in Saudi Arabia, the British Government warned yesterday as it advised UK citizens not to travel to the country.

The unusually strong statement followed the cancellation of a British Airways flight from London to the Saudi capital of Riyadh, which was grounded because of unspecified security fears.

"Following terrorist attacks in Riyadh in May and November 2003, we believe that terrorists remain determined to carry out further attacks in Saudi Arabia and that these may be in the final stages of preparation," the Foreign Office said on its website.

"We advise British nationals against all but essential travel to Saudi Arabia," it said in updated travel advice.

"The threat includes, but is not limited to, residential compounds," it added. "British Airways cancelled its 16 February BA 263 flight to Riyadh for security reasons."

The Foreign Office has issued a string of warnings to its citizens about Saudi Arabia in the wake of a series of attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

On November 9, terrorists attacked the Muhayya residential compound in Riyadh, killing 18 people and injuring more than 80.

That attack followed co-ordinated bombings at residential compounds in Riyadh on May 12, which killed more than 30 people, including two British nationals.

On Friday, the Saudi interior ministry warned residents of the capital that a car carrying explosives and registered to a wanted suspect could be used in an attack.

The ministry urged residents to be on the alert, "especially since this misled group (of terror suspects) tends to hide these dangerous components in residential areas".

British Airways has been hit by a series of terrorism alerts this year, with flight 263 to Riyadh cancelled twice and one service from London to Washington grounded five times, with the latest scare at the weekend.

BA recently accepted in principal that it would allow armed air marshalls on its planes to guard against possible hijackings.

Earlier yesterday, representatives from the five leading European Union nations met in Germany to discuss the issue of the sky marshalls.

Interior ministers from Germany, France, Britain and Spain, along with Italian officials, gathered in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for the meeting.

[tmp02]

I believe that Feb 21, correct my forgetfulness, is the end of 1424(3) in which Islamic prophecy claims that great some large catastrophe will occur...but you will have to go back to thread 1 and 2 to get the full picture.

[TexKat]

Putin boards nuclear submarine

17feb04

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin set sail today in the Arctic seas on board a nuclear submarine to oversee massive military exercises staged less than one month before presidential elections.

He went off into the Barents Sea - where the Kursk nuclear submarine sank in August 2000 and killed 118 seamen just months into Mr Putin's first term as president - yesterday evening to oversee what has been advertised as some of the largest war games staged by Russia in recent years.

News reports said they include six submarines carrying nuclear weapons. Tu-95 strategic bombers where due to test fire a cruise missile today over the Kola Peninsula on the north-western edge of Russia near the Finnish border.

The exercises also were due to include the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles from submarines and ground troops across Russia and onto military target sites in the country's Far East.

ITAR-TASS reported that the games - which were expected to last several weeks - would feature some 5000 servicemen.

Mr Putin was shown wearing navy gear yesterday evening as he boarded the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine, Russia's largest.

He inspected the ship and dined with the crew in a move which only bolsters his tough-guy image among voters ahead of March 14 presidential elections.

The Kremlin press service said he spent the night on board the submarine with the seamen and was expected to stay there until this evening.

Russian military officials have repeatedly said on the eve of the war games that they were a regular test of the country's military readiness and not aimed as a show of force against the West.

[knak]

what?? of course I don't want one of our cities blown away. I can't believe you even suggested that. I was worried that all is SO quiet. Like the quiet before the storm.

[Iron Eagle]

What happen to Sean? Has he gone into silent mode? Perhaps he is gathering more info from his CIA friends. Or, maybe he has been working some doubles at the taco bell.
Or, perhaps he had his library computer privileges taken away.

Anyway -- one of the driving forces behind this thread has been a fellow named Sean Osborne Lomax. He has a website called http://www.homelandsecurityus.com.

So that you don't have to read all 30,000 posts from all three threads, I will give you the very quick and dirty.

Something unbelievably terrible is going to happen to a U.S. City sometime. Details are sketchy, but it WILL happen.

Currently, there are 30 suitcase nukes in the U.S just waiting to be activated. The good news is, it did not happen on the 9/11 anniversary, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, or at the expiration of a countdown clock leading to 2/3. However, this 2/21 is the new date at which something is expected to happen. (If you don't believe me, just read all the posts, particularly the ones from purported Jihadists who are nice enough to post these things on the Internet. See Daleel and EOM.)

There is some good news though, we captured Bin Laden on January 20, 2004, and we are currently holding him. Why, where, how, is bit sketchy.

Anyway, Mr. Sean went under deep cover or maybe even on double-secret probation on or about 2-12.

I fear he may have been captured by Russian agents who have infiltrated the U.S., up to the Supreme Court, and who long ago hatched a plan to fake the downfall of the Soviet empire so that they could fulfill world domination in accordance with the Communist manifesto. (Its all there, you just have to read it).

Sean exposed this obvious connection, and theorized that perhaps the Russians were using AQ to do their bidding. OH, and I forgot, if AQ does not get us, the Russians are planning war games aimed at the use that might actually be real.

Anyway, that is all I "know."

Like so many others, I am just waiting for more information. But make no mistake, something really, really, bad is going to happen, sometime. And when it does, you will have been warned.
As Denis Miller says, "who knows, I could be wrong." Cheers

[milkncookies]

Russia's missile launch 'fails'

Mr Putin had been due to watch the launch from this submarine

A test launch of two ballistic missiles, planned as part of a military exercise attended by the Russian president, has failed, reports said.

Interfax and Itar-Tass quoted a Northern Fleet official as saying the missiles were unable to take off from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea.

It comes weeks before the presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win a second term.

The reports of the missile failure could not immediately be confirmed.

Russian news agencies, quoting the unnamed navy officer, said a signal from a military satellite had blocked the launch. No further explanation was given.

The missiles had been due to take off from a nuclear submarine, the Novomosskovsk, with Mr Putin watching from another submarine, the Arkhangelsk.

The president's arrival at Severomorsk naval base, on Russia's Arctic coast, had received wide television coverage in Russia.

The planned manoeuvres had been described in the Russian media as the largest show of military might since Soviet times. Ten ships and six nuclear submarines had been due to take part. In August 2000, just months into Mr Putin's term as president, a nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, killing 118 sailors.

[OXENinFLA]

Know your enemy ping..........

This is the COMPLETE 17-page Terror-Memo

Please distribute.

CPA

17-page TERROR-MEMO

[Letitring]

This sounds as if they were actually testing the satellite, instead of the missles. If so, it worked.

[StriperSniper]

17-page TERROR-MEMO

Thanks! I knew there was something I had been looking for, but never found, then forgot. ;-)

Printed for a later read.

[milkncookies]

Thanks so much for your insightful analysis. However, I prefer to read the posts and make my own decisions, as I imagine most of the other intelligent people on this board do. Perhaps you would be more effective if you would send your "opinion" to the State of Texas and Homeland Security people, I am sure they will take you as seriously as I do.

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004

? ??Texas News

? ? ? ?Multiple disaster drill planned

? Associated Press

? AUSTIN - A multistate drill this week will help test Texas' response to multiple emergencies - including effects from a simulated nuclear explosion and a suspected radiation leak, officials say.

State leaders have been briefed that the disaster response exercise known as Unified Defense 04 Thursday and Friday will include the nuclear blast, a suspected radiation leak and a hurricane.

Other unplanned simulations may be added to the three mock events, said Kathy Walt, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, who will attend a Tuesday briefing on the drill with other officials.

"It's important to let the public know they won't be able to see anything" related to the drills, Walt told the San Antonio Express-News in Tuesday's online edition. "This is a tabletop exercise. They won't see any events occurring."

Walt said the simulated small nuclear detonation Friday in Cotulla will include 2,000 simulated deaths - the first time the federal government will be using such a scenario in an exercise.

A drill involving the scenario of a suspected radiation leak was also planned Friday at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant. Walt said that under the mock exercise, the leak will turn out to be unfounded.

Officials said the exercise involving the simulated Category 4 hurricane, with winds of 131-155 mph, would hit Corpus Christi and its naval air station Thursday.

The Homeland Security Department and more than 50 federal, state and local entities will participate in the drills, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Northern Command, conducting the drill.

The drills are to determine how federal, state and local officials would react under simultaneous emergencies.

"One of the issues in preparing for homeland defense is the notion that, would terrorists look for natural disasters that are likely to occur and then try to time an event to coincide with a community or state responding to a natural disaster?" Walt said.

Most participants will be in Texas, Alaska, Colorado, Virginia and the D.C. region, according to the two commands. A debriefing with "lessons learned" will follow the exercise.

[Letitring]

SNIPPED:


2. Jihad here unfortunately [takes the form of] mines planted, rockets launched, and mortars shelling from afar. The Iraqi brothers still prefer safety and returning to the arms of their wives, where nothing frightens them. Sometimes the groups have boasted among themselves that not one of them has been killed or captured. We have told them in our many sessions with them that safety and victory are incompatible, that the tree of triumph and empowerment cannot grow tall and lofty without blood and defiance of death, that the [Islamic] nation cannot live without the aroma of martyrdom and the perfume of fragrant blood spilled on behalf of God, and that people cannot awaken from their stupor unless talk of martyrdom and martyrs fills their days and nights. The matter needs more patience and conviction. [Our] hope in God is great.


This is one of the sickest things I've ever read.

[milkncookies]

It's sort of a mixed message. They refer to the missile firings as failures, yet imply a success of sorts regarding the satellite. Are we to assume it was their satellite?

[TexKat]

The courage to admit Muslim danger

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Posted: February 16, 2004

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

It happened again! What are we going to do about it?

Young, good-looking, college graduate, American citizen, Army National Guardsman, self-proclaimed shooter and gun collector, Muslim convert ... arrested for espionage, possible traitor.

Twenty-six-year-old Spc. Ryan G. Anderson is the man. He's a tank crew member of the 81st Armor Brigade, training at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash. Four-thousand strong, they're preparing to leave for Iraq this week.

Anderson won't be with them. He's under arrest. The Army says he was taken into custody and will stay behind bars "pending criminal charges of aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence" to the Islamic militant group, al-Qaida.

Apparently there's enough to hold and charge him.

Would that we'd have the courage to follow through if he's found guilty of espionage. The firing squad is the historic solution for those who sell out their country, but I fear in our politically correct world, that wouldn't happen. But there's another more powerful reason than political correctness. Religion.

We're in a real war that involves religion. It's arguably the first such war this country has faced and I'm afraid we haven't the guts or the heart to handle it properly for fear of offending someone.

Personally, I find treason more offensive.

I hear the usual arguments: Our country was founded on religious freedom. Everyone has the right to their own religion with no interference. It wouldn't be right to investigate the religion of military members.

But accepting that, it follows that even if we see a dangerous pattern involving individuals of a certain religion, we can't focus on it to protect ourselves or screen it out.

Talk about being sitting ducks!

Anderson is part of that pattern, which could become more evident, as the war against terrorism continues.

Air Force translator, Sr. Airman Ahmed Al Halabi, a native of Syria who moved to Detroit as a teenager, has been accused of relaying 180-plus classified messages from al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.

Capt. James Yee, now Youseff Yee, a former Fort Lewis chaplain, was accused of mishandling classified documents for terrorists at Guantanamo, where he was also a chaplain.

An American-born Chinese, raised Lutheran and a graduate of West Point, he left the military, studied in Syria, converted to Islam, married a Syrian woman, returned to the U.S. and rejoined the military.

Mark Fidel Kools, spent his youth in California and is a California graduate who enrolled in ROTC. He also studied at an Islamic mosque in Los Angeles and changed his name to Asan Akbar.

Part of the 101st Airborne in Kuwait last March, he rolled grenades into three tents of sleeping officers and shot at least two in the back as they ran from the explosions. One man was killed, 15 injured.

Officials reported Akbar had been "having what some might call an attitude problem." We're told the motive "most likely was resentment" – about the war against Islamic terrorists.

Apparently, no one paid any attention to the clues – there are others.

Estimates are there are 4,000 to15, 000 (or more) Muslims in the military. No one counts. Ft. Lewis spokesman Lt. Col. Stephen Barger says "religious preferences are individual right and responsibility."

Uh-oh. We have a big problem because we're ignoring the implications and avoiding reality.

How do we know Muslims in the military are loyal to the uniform and the country?

We don't.

What is there in Islam that leads people to choose it above their country? These issues don't present with other religions.

We know Islamic teachings say Muslims should not fight other Muslims – that, in the case of conflict, fealty to Muhammad is supreme.

If that's the case, do we want people of those beliefs in our military or in places of delicate security where explicit trust is required?

Inasmuch as other Islamic teachings say it's acceptable to lie to infidels (non-Muslims), whom do we believe?

Ryan Anderson hinted his ambivalence about the United States in one of his many letters to the editor. He said he had only "kindness, patience, courtesy and understanding" from Muslims, but "bigotry, hatred and mindless rage from ... 'educated thinkers' ... in the U.S."

In a 1998 letter, he said: "Today I am a young soldier, sworn to protect and defend this country. But if tomorrow I find that this nation is no longer the one based upon the freedom I was taught to love, I'll have little choice but to go where I can live in freedom."

We're warned of terrorist sleeper cells already in this country. We know many mosques preach hatred of the West. We know that few Muslims speak out against the radicals among them and we know Muslims are in every part of American life.

What we don't know is whom to trust.

We haven't protected ourselves from those with evil intent who hide among the innocent to perpetuate their intent to destroy us.

If we don't devise a way to re-evaluate Muslims to assure everyone's safety, we'll lose the war before we fight it – which is exactly the terrorist's goal.

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Barbara Simpson

[Letitring]

I just figured if it was anyone's satellite BUT theirs, all heck would be breaking loose. :) I dunno, just a thought.

[CJ Wolf]

"nuclear blast, a suspected radiation leak and a hurricane. "

That would be known as a real crappy day.