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Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat
World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

Posted on 02/05/2004 8:31:17 PM PST by Mossad1967

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To: jerseygirl
Free Video: MSNBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

• U.S.: Video shows terrorist attacks Feb. 20: A video circulating on the Internet shows startling pictures of what U.S. sources say are terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists on U.S. forces in Iraq.

4,861 posted on 02/23/2004 3:42:23 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: All
Something is definitely up on the OBL front. We have the article out of Britain, the reports of stepped-up action in Pakistan/Afghanistan, the Rummy visit and now this interesting article out of Australia

BIN LADEN 'HANDED TO US IF CAUGHT'

From correspondents in Islamabad, Pakistan

February 24, 2004

PAKISTAN today indicated it would hand over Osama bin Laden to the United States if he was caught on its soil.

The comment from Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri followed a British newspaper report that bin Laden, the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was cornered in a remote part of northern Pakistan.

Kasuri said an amnesty offered by President Pervez Musharraf, where foreigners surrendering in Pakistan will not be handed over to any power, would not apply to bin Laden.

If "somebody had committed a crime against the United States that is separate issue", he said.

Bin Laden is wanted in the United States for a series of terrorist acts including the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Musharraf last week asked foreign militants fleeing from Afghanistan into Pakistan's autonomous tribal belt to "disarm and surrender", and offered assurances that they would not be handed over to any other country.

Pakistan, a key US ally in war against terrorism, has arrested more than 500 al-Qaeda suspects who fled Afghanistan in the wake of US led attacks which ousted the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001.

Kasuri said Pakistan in the past handed over some key al-Qaeda operatives to the United States after it provided evidence against them.

Britain's Sunday Express newspaper quoted a US intelligence source as saying bin Laden was "boxed in" in an area 16 kms square "north of the town of Khanozai and the city of Quetta".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8775211%5E1702,00.html

4,862 posted on 02/23/2004 3:46:45 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: jerseygirl
Sorry I boo-bood, I did not provide the link.

Free Video: MSNBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

Taking responsibility for Iraq bombings

• U.S.: Video shows terrorist attacks Feb. 20: A video circulating on the Internet shows startling pictures of what U.S. sources say are terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists on U.S. forces in Iraq.

4,863 posted on 02/23/2004 3:47:57 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: FairOpinion
Hmmm....weird, went to 4 more German sites and another military related site, used 2 search engies and searched a general news site and nothing regarding these bases.

Either is's a very under-reported article or else, hmmmmm.....
4,864 posted on 02/23/2004 3:54:10 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All
Canada received warnings about threats to airliners, official says
4,865 posted on 02/23/2004 3:55:18 PM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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To: Iron Eagle; jerseygirl
I email Sean this exact scenario about blackmail yesterday. Just looking at the countdown pic, with the Sun, moon and OBL with the suitcase nuke pic:

"I was just thinking about the end of 1424 the Mahdi prophecy and such. If OBL has been captured, could that picture that depicts OBL the sun,moon and the nuke be a communique? Was it a nuclear blackmail? Return OBL before the end of 1424 or a city will disappear(nuked)? Just sitting hear reading some of the old posts. Been awfully quiet lately.

Steve"
4,866 posted on 02/23/2004 4:02:03 PM PST by SCR1
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To: Happy2BMe
A Sure is Bump ;)
4,867 posted on 02/23/2004 4:04:58 PM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: SCR1
Honestly, I think that we are being threatened with nuclear attack and we are aware AQ can pull it off. I sure interpreted that picture as indicating OBL would be looking down from the sky (martyred) when the nukes went off in NYC. Equally weird was how that one image of NYC showed the face of Libya's Kaddafi. It almost seemed that, once Libya spilled the beans, AQ KNEW that we would be aware of the nukes- hence the blackmail.
Maybe I just need a valium.....
4,868 posted on 02/23/2004 4:07:42 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: Domestic Church; Alamo-Girl
Good find DC!

Every investigation is about connecting the dots

Yes it is!

4,869 posted on 02/23/2004 4:09:47 PM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: SCR1
Oh- I reread your post and think I misunderstood. Was your thought that, once we caught OBL, that image was presented? I was looking at it the other way- once Libya spilled the beans, AQ knew we knew about their nuclear bombs being planted in cities.
4,870 posted on 02/23/2004 4:10:31 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: jerseygirl
News from a couple of weeks ago. But posting so that we do not forget the threat. When these non religious murderers hit it will not be when we expect it.

Terrorist bid to build bombs in mid-flight

Intelligence reveals dry runs of new threat to blow up airliners

Jason Burke, chief reporter

Sunday February 8, 2004

The Observer

Islamic militants have conducteddry runs of a devastating new style of bombing on aircraft flying to Europe, intelligence sources believe. The tactics, which aim to evade aviation security systems by placing only components of explosive devices on passenger jets, allowing militants to assemble them in the air, have been tried out on planes flying between the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe, security sources say.

Concerns that militants might assemble a bomb or another weapon on board were a key factor in the series of recent cancellations of transatlantic flights. Last weekend British Airways stopped flights from London to Washington and Miami for fear of an attack and Air France also cancelled scheduled flights.

Security agencies are now hunting scores of militants who have been trained in the new tactics. The warning, passed to Western agencies by Middle Eastern intelligence services, is based on interrogations of Islamic militants captured in the Arabian Gulf and is corroborated by intercepted communications between terrorist cells and interviews with prisoners held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay.

Officials in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere are believed to have warned that at least 12dry runs may have been completed and to have said that the terrorists are aiming to try out their plans on flights around the Mediterranean and the Middle East before attempting to bomb a transatlantic route, where security precautions are now very tight. Militants know that individual components are far easier to smuggle through airport security than an assembled bomb.

In May 2002 nearly 100 grammes of pentrite, a plastic explosive used by the alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, was found hidden in the armrest of a Moroccan jet when it landed in Metz, France. At the time, investigators said they thought it had been put there as a warning. Now French officials suspect the explosives were placed on the jet as a trial of the new tactics. Though some investigators fear they may be the victim of deliberate 'disinformation', officials say that they cannot riskignoring the warnings.

Ali Abd Rahman al-Ghamdi, alleged to be one of the masterminds of a suicide attack that killed 35 in Riyadh last May, is thought to have revealed the new tactics after giving himself up to Saudi authorities weeks after the blast. Shortly after the cap ture of al-Ghamdi, who is believed to be close to senior al-Qaeda figures, the US government's Transportation Security Administration issued an urgent memo detailing new threats to aviation and warning that terrorists in teams of five might be planning suicide missions to hijack commercial airliners, possibly using common items carried by travellers, such as cameras, modified as weapons. The CIA said that a high level of threat was based on information from several incarcerated high-ranking militants.

An FBI bulletin last November was more specific. It warned that 'terrorists are considering the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) assembled on board to hijack an aircraft or, alternatively, destroy it over heavily populated areas in the event of passenger or crew resistance.

'Components of IEDs can be smuggled on to an aircraft, concealed in either clothing or personal carry-on items such as shampoo and medicine bottles, and assembled on board.

'In many cases of suspicious passenger activity, incidents have taken place in the aircraft's forward lavatory.'

Analysts say that although the threat of a 'spectacular' attack on the West still exists, most strikes by Islamic militants will be onsoft targets in areas where security is lax. Last weekend suicide bombers killed 109 people and wounded hundreds more in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. A radical Islamic group has published claims of responsibility for a string of attacks in Iraq on a website run from the UK.

The Islamic Observation Centre, run from London by the Egyptian dissident Yasser al-Sirri, posted a statement, from 'the Ansar al-Sunnah Army' on its site last week, saying that the group was behind the Mosul attack.

The Ansar al-Sunnah Army is linked to the Ansar ul-Islam organisation which is believed to have launched a series of bomb attacks in Iraq in recent months, killing scores of Iraqis, aid workers and coalition personnel. Yesterday senior American officers said they were tracking the group.

'We are certainly going to follow up on the claims of responsibility,' said Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the US command in Iraq's deputy chief of operations. Many of the strikes have targeted local Iraqis who have co-operated with the US-led coalition authorities.

Two versions of the claim have been posted by the IOC. One threatens further attacks on 'collaborators'.

'While claiming responsibility for this heroic operation, we tell every agent who has put himself at the service of the occupier that the fate waiting for you will be much worse if you do not repent,' the statement said. The group say that the claims of hundreds of civilian casualties in the strikes are 'lies'.

A second statement, signed by the 'emir' of the group, Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Mahmud, calls the attacks a 'heroic deed against ... the people of Kurdistan who opened their arms for the Americans and their army'.

4,871 posted on 02/23/2004 4:11:08 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat
U.S., Pakistan Deny They're Closing in on Osama

U.S., Pakistan Deny They're Closing in on Osama

Feb23 ,8 : 08AM (ET)

By Mike Collett-White and David Brunnstrom
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's whereabouts remain a mystery to U.S. and Pakistani forces as they crank up efforts to flush out al Qaeda and Taliban rebels hiding near Afghanistan's eastern frontier, officials said on Monday.

U.S. military officials in Kabul have boldly predicted his capture in 2004, and Britain's Sunday Express weekly reported that the world's most wanted man was "boxed in" by U.S. and British special forces in the rugged Pakistani mountains along the Afghan border.

The newspaper said bin Laden was within a 10 mile by 10 mile area, being monitored by a U.S. spy satellite.

"As far as the reports of Osama bin Laden's location, I don't take much credence in them because if we knew where he was in Afghanistan, we would go get him and if the Pakistanis knew where he was in Pakistan they would go get him," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said.

"We continue to have rumors over the past two years," he told a news briefing in Kabul, when asked about speculation that bin Laden had been spotted.

Pakistani officials dismissed the report that located bin Laden in mountains north of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

"That area is in Pakistan but there is nothing there, life is absolutely normal -- you can go and see," said Pakistani military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan. "There is no operation being conducted there and there are no foreign troops there."

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/45776|top|02-23-2004::08:11|reuters.html


to catwomen... i might be heading to the eye of the eagle..!!

alaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid

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Daleel_Almojahid

Of course the link he provided does not work. But poor Daleel is insistant that our forces are nowhere near where reports say they are.
4,872 posted on 02/23/2004 4:12:16 PM PST by Revel
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To: TexKat
Bump.

I'm wondering if anyone is following up on:
1. the threats of poisoning water- to an entire US city and to our troops in Iraq
2. The 69 + people who became ill at Loew's hotel the end of January and beginning of February- coinciding with a Bush visit there.
3.threats of biological attack already underway

Just some that come to mind.
4,873 posted on 02/23/2004 4:14:29 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: Happy2BMe; B4Ranch; HiJinx; All
More info today:

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4,874 posted on 02/23/2004 4:19:05 PM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: knak
Canada received warnings about threats to airliners, official says

Oh yipee, that is sooooooooo verrrry comforting after veiwing Linda Vesta's special last night on Fox.

4,875 posted on 02/23/2004 4:20:05 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: JustPiper
Thanks for posting info about that. I missed the show. It is of grave concern to me both for the safety of this country and economically.
4,876 posted on 02/23/2004 4:22:27 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel
Go figure.

"As far as the reports of Osama bin Laden's location, I don't take much credence in them because if we knew where he was in Afghanistan, we would go get him and if the Pakistanis knew where he was in Pakistan they would go get him," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said.

"We continue to have rumors over the past two years," he told a news briefing in Kabul, when asked about speculation that bin Laden had been spotted.

Pakistani officials dismissed the report that located bin Laden in mountains north of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

"That area is in Pakistan but there is nothing there, life is absolutely normal -- you can go and see," said Pakistani military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan. "There is no operation being conducted there and there are no foreign troops there."

NOT ABOUT INDIVIDUALS

Hilferty distanced himself from recent remarks he made that he was "sure" bin Laden and Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would be caught this year, reverting to past U.S. statements that the "war on terror" was not only about catching individuals.

"Obviously the global war on terrorism is about much more than a person or two people, it is about terrorism against people in general," he said.

4,877 posted on 02/23/2004 4:34:06 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: jerseygirl
Have you saw the Geraldo's news clip on Fox News today regarding the shooting and killing of who is believed to be Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's lieutenant in the body bag. They also show his suitcase that contains bomb making items which also includes a remote toy car.
4,878 posted on 02/23/2004 4:40:16 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat
I missed that. I do remember reading, though, that AQ was experimenting with hiding bombs in everyday belongings like cellphones,radios, etc.
4,879 posted on 02/23/2004 4:42:13 PM PST by jerseygirl
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Breaking Point: 'The Terrorists Next Door'
Fox News/FNC ^ | 2-23-04 | Linda Vester
Posted on 02/23/2004 6:29:22 PM CST by JustPiper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1084000/posts?page=10

Alot more on Fox today about this show, thus the thread, please lookie see ;)

4,880 posted on 02/23/2004 4:53:48 PM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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