Posted on 02/10/2004 10:25:24 PM PST by Bobibutu
Terrorists ready for holy war in 40 American states
IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent February 11 2004
ISLAMIC terror commandos are being infiltrated into the US in preparation for "an American jihad" from within, according to intelligence sources. Dozens of radicals trained in camps in western Pakistan and Kashmir are already believed to have slipped into the country and been absorbed in sleeper cells in unsuspecting Muslim communities as the vanguard of a holy army estimated to be several hundred strong. An FBI spokesman said al Qaeda and allied organisations were thought to be operating in 40 American states, awaiting orders for terror attacks. An official said up to 400 known radicals had passed through the camps. Many of the camps are run by Harakat-ul-Ansar and Lashkar-e-Taiba, militant groups with links to al Qaeda and a history of grooming guerrillas to attack security forces. India and Pakistan last month announced a peace initiative on disputed Kashmir. General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, said his country would not allow terrorist training on its soil. However, Indian and US intelligence agencies claim to have surveillance photographs and intercepted signals which show that between 60 and 70 camps are still in use. Some which were closed after the September 11 attacks on the US have also been reactivated. Pakistani authorities have arrested hundreds of al Qaeda suspects, including Abu Zubaydah, its top recruiting officer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, chief of operations, and Ramzi Binalshibh, paymaster of the September 11 hijackers. US officials suspect that Pakistan's inter-services intelligence agency, which created and fostered the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, has not broken all its Islamic links with terrorist organisations. FBI agents last year arrested 11 men, including nine US citizens, for involvement in what became known as "the Virginia jihad". All were accused of engaging in terrorist training at camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba. Six have since pleaded guilty. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, yesterday denied the existence of any terrorist camps in his country or in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In Ukraine yesterday, the foreign ministry denied reports that scientists had sold nuclear weapons to al Qaeda. Markian Lubkiyvskyi, a spokesman, said Ukraine had transferred all its nuclear weapons to Russia by June 1, 1996.
If it ever happens again, it will be quick, and these fanatics will probably kill themselves in the process. They don't seem to have a problem with that. I mean, without going into details, I can think of a hundreds scenarios where they could kill thousands in one day, quickly. The problem is that they are entering this country, apparently unabated, routinely. Once here, we have very little defense against someone igniting taxi in a crowd of hundreds......or.........
With the average moslem population estimates coming in at about 5 million, if only 1% are Fundamentalists that means there are at least 5,000 forward troops.
When the next attack on U.S. soil comes, I feel sorry for anyone who publicly says "we deserve it.
Keep an eye open to your surroundings.
I wouldn't consider those that harbor, aid and abet to be innocent!
From the title, I thought it was about John Kerry's plans to run a national campaign.
Sounds familiar. I was walking the dog a few nights ago and caught the unmistakable scent of Hoppes No. 9 on the breeze.
This is supposed to impress?
At some point, the gloves will come off.
Unlike Israel, we don't have to put up with a community of terrorists in our backyard - ALQ is counting on our PC welcome mat; if it's pulled out from underneath them there will be no safe haven.
Arab Americans will police their own.
Joe, read #81.
This isn't going to be riot like, or war against foreign troops on our soil, shooting from street to street, etc. All these nice images of firearms look real nice, but wont do any good, IMOH.
Again, the only real way to stop this brutal mass murder of our people, is to end the open border madness, and immigration "free for all". Once in, they can wreck unbelievable havoc.
I understand your reasoning but I think you are wrong. You probably didn't know a freeper who was just booted recently for cheering the deaths of the Russians who died in the subway.
Some of us knew him here for many years as an avowed supporter of islamic fascists. Back in the times of Bosnia, he was able to correctly predict a great deal of what came to pass, and because of this we felt that his connections were solid. Mostly those of us who frequent the slavic threads knew him well.
I had a few conversations with him in which he shared what I felt were genuine concerns for this country. He loved to see Russians and Serbs massacred but was not that fond of the idea of it happening here. He told me that what the islamic fascists do is study our military history and that the one event they really love was that street-fighting takeover in Vietnam. The one where they were airlifting people out? Saigon, maybe? You'll have to excuse me for being weak on this history....pinging Grampa for help here.
Anyway what he always said was that if the islamic fascists do something here, they will pattern it after that, because in their opinion it was a huge weakness for us. Even in our own country. He said they were prepared to martyr themselves by going out into the streets in mass numbers, all over the country, and just shooting randomly. At the same time they would have bombs go off in several places. The idea was not to kill a lot of people in one huge blast, though. It was to have thousands of multiple incidents taking place everywhere around the country at once or nearly at once, in order to create chaos and hopefully breakdown of civil order. It wouldn't be that they would kill a lot of people in each instance, but that they would create such a mess for law inforcement, etc, to respond, that our civil order would break down.
Anyway he did keep saying they were planning this primarily for London and it never happened....but I thought it was worth sharing here.
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