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"You've got a scuba diver in the Honolulu harbor that they can't find."

I know we've talked about that "island" thing from one of the jihad posters on thread 2, I think. We decided the island meant the Saudi Arabian Peninsula. At first glance I had thought Hawaii since we have associated the WTC as another Pearl Harbor. These nutcases would love to do another one of those perhaps!! (symbolic things they love so much) I wonder how many ships we have there at any one time?

Russia Demands Release of Agents in Qatar

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Thursday that three Russian intelligence agents had been arrested in Qatar on suspicion of involvement in the killing of former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. Ivanov said they were innocent and demanded their release. Three Russians were arrested in Doha, the capital of Qatar, a week ago, Ivanov said. He accused Qatari officials of failing to report the arrest to the Russian Embassy and refusing it the opportunity to meet with those arrested. ``Attempts by the Qatari authorities to hold the arrested Russian citizens responsible for the attempt on Yandarbiyev's life are totally unsubstantiated,'' Ivanov said in a statement released by the Foreign Ministry. ``They have no relation whatsoever to the incident.'' Yandarbiyev, 51, was killed Feb. 13 when a bomb destroyed his car after he left a Doha mosque where he attended Friday Muslim prayers. His teenage son was wounded. The Qatari Interior Ministry said Wednesday that two suspects detained for questioning since Feb. 19 had been charged with murder, but so far it has refused to identify them. Ivanov said that he had sent a special envoy to Qatar, and that the representative had won the release of one of the Russians, who is now staying in the Russian Embassy in Doha. Ivanov demanded that the Qatari authorities ``immediately release the Russian citizens being held unlawfully and allow them to return to Russia unimpeded.'' He said that the three Russian agents, one of whom had a diplomatic passport, were conducting legal ``information and analytical activities to counter international terrorism.'' The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the Qatari ambassador to Moscow for a second time over the past week to make a formal protest. Yandarbiyev, Chechnya's acting president in 1996-1997, had lived in Qatar since 2000 and was wanted by Russian authorities for suspected terrorism and links to al-Qaida. Moscow had been seeking his extradition. His assassination occurred one week after a bombing in the Moscow subway that killed 41 people and wounded more than 100. President Vladimir Putin blamed Chechen rebels for the blast.

In most of the postings on the jihad board "Arabian Island" is pretty clearly Saudi.

With that said, I think that you may be right that they may target Hawaii. There was a posting on Monday that implied that on one of the Arabic forums.

There was also another posting which said one thing in the text (referring to an attack AFTER the end of February) and also mentioned that it would come from the North. There was an image attached and the text in the image mentioned a different location and time. They are clearly aware many people are using automated translators and that translators do not read graphics. The text in the image stated that the date was BEFORE the end of February.

Again, it takes a lot of information coming together for me to become as concerned as I am right now. Hopefully the feds will handle the situation and nothing will happen. But as I said, I am concerned.