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Chuckle-Those machine translations are difficult to try to figure out. Sometimes I can guess; other times I have no idea what they are saying.

At this point, I tend to scan them for names of particular countries and also cities. I also scan them for anything sounding like bio/chem/nuclear. I think they give alot away with their "Jakel" images.

What worries me is often- they threaten/mention a country- and there is a subsequent attack.

First I thought that was a missile; looked closer and now I'm wondering if it's a bullet.

Aside: Has it been posted further up on the thread that scuba divers attempted an attack on an Israeli settlement?

I didn't see this posted yet.
Friday, 26 March, 2004, 00:06 GMT

Jordanian prince in WWIII warning

By Lucy Williamson
BBC Middle East reporter

Prince Hassan urged the world community to "sort out the cards again"
Prince Hassan of Jordan has said he fears a third world war is erupting in the Middle East.
Speaking to BBC's Radio Four, he said it was an "extremely depressing" time.

Extremist voices in the region were rising, and not only individuals but states were taking the law into their own hands, the prince said.

He was speaking after a week in which Israel assassinated the spritual leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

'Spillover fears'

The prince said he feared the violence currently marking Israeli-Palestinian relations would spread to other countries in the region.

It is such a hotch-potch at the present time that I'm afraid the making of a third world war are actually taking place in front of our very eyes

Prince Hassan
"I'm afraid we'll see spillover into hostilities with Lebanon; already Hezbollah is bombing in the north," Prince Hassan said.

"A spillover into hostilities with Syria... and of course Iran is still very much on the axis of evil."

What the situation needed, he said, was an Arab intermediary, and for the international community to focus not just on security, but also a longer-term dialogue.

'Versailles for the Middle East'

On a wider scale, he said recent events in Madrid showed that centrist forces worldwide were under threat.

He added that to stand any chance of progress in the Middle East, the international community needed to be clear about the different reasons for their involvement in the region.

Sheikh Yassin's assassination triggered calls to revenge against Israel

"We have to sort out the cards again - the war on terror, the question of Palestine, the question of Iraq, the question of Afghanistan, WMD (weapons of mass destruction), Iran.

"It is such a hotch-potch at the present time that I'm afraid the making of a third world war is actually taking place in front of our very eyes."

The prince made his comments on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, and just days before a planned Arab summit in Tunis.

He called on all those involved in that part of the world to form a conference, saying what the region needed was "a Versailles for the Middle East".

BBC News

Not sure whether I saw it on this thread or another one, but I did note the scuba attack in Israel. The pattern I have seen is that the threats & clues we've gleaned from these various posts seem to all refer to things overseas, not the CONUS as we've all speculated. I don't doubt that they'd love to hit us again & are planning to do so, but to date it seems that all the jihadi talk is about other places. I think the next point of concern is Rome over Easter.