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Letter left on Theo Van Gogh's body - A call to destroy America and all "unbelievers"
Militant Muslim Monitor.org ^ | November 6, 2004 | Beila Rabinowitz

Posted on 11/16/2004 7:52:07 AM EST by Gritty

Translations of ' martyrdom letter ' carried by killer - Death threat letter to cabinet minister Geert Wilders
November 5, 2004

MIM: Below is the english translation of the letter which was stuck into the body of Theo Van Gogh with knife . Beneath that letter is the one which was found on the terrorist who killed him and hoped to be shot and martyred. Today the NRC Handelsblad published an 'open letter' which the killer had written to Geert Wilders a member of the Dutch cabinet. The original text and translation are also to be found below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281051/posts

***Bin Laden urges Pakistanis to battle Americans***
16/11/2004 - 10:47:56

Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden called on Pakistani Muslims to fight in an internet message today – saying their country and neighbouring Afghanistan faced an American invasion....snip

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=124319540&p=yz43zxz46

" 3) to have suicide bombers take out our
vaccination manufacturing labs....ALL THIS AT THE SAME TIME. "

There was a funny thread the other day that was about new little antennae being placed on pharmaceuticals prior to shipping in order to trace for public safety the bottles from point of origin to the retailer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279994/posts

This is reportedly being done to stop the counterfeit medicine trade but I wondered if there was concern about bio contamination.

These are from 2001, the FBI is still hunting the nukes.

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FBI Focus: Portable (Suitcase/Backpack)
Nukes

http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20122001-044906-9007r.htm

FBI focusing on portable nuke threat
Nicholas Horrock
Senior White House Correspondent

Published 12/21/2001

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The leading congressional expert on
Russia's small portable nuclear weapons told United Press
International that the FBI has stepped up its investigation of whether
al Qaida or other terrorist groups have acquired these deadly devices
from Russian stockpiles.

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., chairman of the Research and Development
Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday
that he was briefed by the FBI late last week and that the investigation
of whether terrorist groups have weapons of mass destruction,
particularly nuclear devices, is now a top priority at the bureau after
years of indifference.

"Now they're looking at everything and following up on every lead,"
Weldon said. It was Weldon, through his R&D subcommittee, who
produced over past three years some of the most exhaustive and
startling information about the Russian stockpile of weapons that
could be an advantage to Osama bin Laden, his al Qaida network or
other terrorist groups.

"The question is whether or not bin Laden has had access to nuclear
material," Weldon said. "I think it is better than a 50-50 chance that
he does."

"Do I think he has a small atomic demolition munitions, which were
built by the Soviets in the Cold War? Probably doubtful," Weldon said.
But he added that after Sept. 11 the FBI could not avoid running every
lead to ground.

In 1997, Weldon brought former Russian security chief Gen. Alexander
Lebed before his committee. Lebed testified that perhaps 100 small
nuclear devices were missing from inventories under his control.
Lebed said the devices were a "perfect terrorist weapon," made to
look like suitcases, "and could be detonated by one person with less
than 30 minutes of preparation," according to committee documents.

The Russian government immediately tried to discredit Lebed's
testimony, but Weldon's committee brought a prominent Russian
weapons scientist, Aleksey Yablokov, before the committee in 1998
who reported that he knew the Russians produced small nuclear
weapons for combat use.

Yablokov was vilified when he returned to Moscow as a "traitor" for his
testimony. Yablokov sued one major Russian magazine over this
vilification, Weldon said, and won a 30,000-ruble judgment against
the publication.

Perhaps the most startling testimony came from a defector from the
Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, who testified in 1998
that the Russians secretly pre-positioned weapons, including small
nuclear devices, in the U.S. and other countries around the world to
be used for sabotage by its agents in time of war.

This witness said it was his job while working undercover in
Washington from 1988 to 1992 as a correspondent for the Russian
news agency Tass to locate places where these weapons could be
hidden both around Washington and in other parts of the country.

Weldon has described the weapons in this testimony as "small nuclear
weapons that can fit into a knapsack or a briefcase or suitcase and are
designed to be delivered and detonated by one or two people."

He created a mock-up of one in a suitcase form that he uses in
speeches and Congressional hearings based on descriptions from
Russian sources. He keeps the mock-up in his office.

A Federation of American Scientists compilation, titled Soviet
Weapons, notes that there is very little information in the public venue
about the size and destructive power of the small weapons. The U.S.
backpack nuke weighs 163 pounds and can be carried by one or two
men. One Russian naval arms compilation talks about small portable
nuclear weapons weighing from 59 pounds to 154 pounds.

The yield, too, is hard to pin down. One former American scientist who
worked at the Department of Energy labs said that the "Davy
Crocket," which was the small bomb later converted to special
operations, had a one-kiloton explosive power and would level the
Capitol Building and everything in a half mile radius. It also would
spread radioactive waste across a wide area of Washington. The bomb
the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. (Each kiloton has an
explosive power equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.)

The GRU witness, who testified using a pseudonym, Col. Stanislaw
Lunez, said that even after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the
Russians continued to frame war plans against a range of Western
nations including the U.S.

"According to Soviet military plans, very well advanced, maybe a few
months, maybe a few weeks, of course, a few hours before real war
would be placed against his country (the U.S.), Russian Special
Operations Forces need to come here and pick up weapons systems,
because they will fly here as tourists, businessmen.

"According to their tasking, in a few hours they need to physically
destroy, eliminate American military chains of command, President,
Supreme Commander in Chief, Vice President, Speaker of the House,
military commanders, especially to cut the head from the American
military chain of command," Lunev said.

He said that the Russians had a plan to sabotage industrial,
communications and power targets as well.

Weldon said later the FBI discredited Lunev, saying that he
exaggerated things, but another federal agency that Weldon declined
to identify protects Lunev in an undisclosed location in the U.S. He
said Lunev's credentials as a ranking GRU spy assigned to the U.S.
have never been questioned.

Later Vasily Mitrokhin, a KGB official, disclosed in his best-selling book
"The Sword and the Shield" that the Soviets had secreted weapons
and explosives near NATO facilities throughout Europe for use in a
war. Weldon said that Belgian officials located and dug up some
caches near NATO's headquarters.

The backpack nukes are part of some 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons
that the Russians possessed in 1991 when they agreed to a unilateral
arms reduction with the first Bush Administration. The Russians were
to destroy 2,000 warheads a year from 1991, which would suggest
there is only a handful left.

The U.S. destroyed the bulk of its weapons, but Weldon said that
there is no evidence that the Russians have conducted such a
program.

"That's part of the problem. I've continually called for a treaty with
Russian and really a worldwide effort to ban or to limit tactical nukes,"
Weldon said.

"There has been no effort and we have had no success in getting
Russia to decrease their tactical nukes. They feel they act as a buffer
for Europe; the proximity of European countries. We just don't know
whether they have total control of their atomic munitions."

-EOF-

Source: http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/160694.html

US Investigating Whether Nukes In Country
Posted Dec. 21, 2001
By Richard Sale

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating to determine whether
sleeper cells or freelance agents of Saudi terrorist mastermind Osama bin
Laden may have smuggled small, portable nuclear weapons or radiological
bombs into the United States.

The deepest concern centers on the chance that bin Laden has acquired and
will use a finished nuclear weapon. Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., chairman of
the House subcommittee on national security, told United Press
International: "It's possible, and it's very scary."

He added: "If you asked me if bin Laden really had these weapons, I would
say, probably not, but, on the other hand, I wouldn't be the least
surprised if there were a nuclear explosion in Israel or the United States."

One report currently being investigated by U.S. intelligence officials came
from Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence sources who had conducted an
interrogation of a "terrorist suspect" in early November. Under "coercion,"
the suspect said that agents of bin Laden had smuggled two portable nuclear
weapons into the United States, according to the report seen by a U.S.
government expert.

The government expert, who has had access to the Pakistani investigation,
said ISI provided "the highest levels of the U.S. government" with
materials from the ISI interrogation including a summary of the suspect's
confession, which this source had seen. The summary did not give the
specific dates of the smuggling, the method, or time of entry. The suspect
said only that the smuggling had been carried out, the U.S. government
expert said.

The sources of the report "were current ISI officers who had kept contact
with U.S. counterparts" they had known from the 1980s, this U.S. government
expert said. The summary was accompanied by "collateral" or supporting
documents, he said. The package was given to senior U.S. officials in
mid-November.

The ISI had not rated the report's credibility but felt it important enough
to alert the U.S. government, this source said.

"What was disconcerting about the (suspect's) information was that he knew
details of the activation of the weapons and their construction that are
not in the public domain," the U.S. expert analyst said.

It could be a nuclear backpack weapon "or some other Russian portable
nuclear weapon," he said.

National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack, asked Thursday about
the report, had no comment but echoed past statements that the
administration is working to ensure that bin Laden does not acquire or use
any weapons of mass destruction.

On Dec. 4, the FBI put 18,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies on "highest
alert" because intelligence culled from sources around the globe indicated
the United States could expect a new bin Laden attack between mid-December
and the holidays. The alert continues.

The FBI has dissolved its central command post, established after the Sept.
11 attacks, and set up separate counterterrorism teams. "They are all out
on the street, that's all I can tell you. They are out on the street
looking," an FBI official said.

Jim Ford, a former Department of Energy intelligence official who dealt
with nuclear smuggling, said: "The big, big fear is that nuclear weapons
have been sold" to terrorists or nation states that sponsor terror.

Peter Probst, formerly of the Pentagon's Office of Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, did not know of
the Pakistani report, but said that there is "a great fear" within the Bush
administration of a spectacular, follow-on strike by bin Laden aimed at
decapitating the U.S. government, using either a finished nuke or a
radiological device -- a core of conventional explosive wrapped inside
nuclear waste such as iodine 131.

Probst acknowledged that, in connection with the latest terror alert, he
had spoken with U.S. government officials who had expressed concern over
Russian-made "backpack weapons and nuclear suitcase bombs."

Shays said that official records had confirmed that Russia had produced 132
such weapons and that currently 48 remain unaccounted for. All disappeared
from Russian arsenals.

Shays added: "We know that bin Laden made strenuous efforts to buy these
weapons, we know that security at some Russian nuclear arsenals was
terrible, we know that some Russian officials were corrupt. We are told of
attempted thefts and of plots that were foiled, but we are never told of
the plots that succeeded."

Probst said: "It would seem probable that some (bin Laden) deals for
purchasing weapons did go through."

Because of this nagging fear, the FBI is monitoring the major port cities
of the United States mainland including New York, Los Angeles, and San
Francisco, among others, according to federal law enforcement sources.

Federal authorities are checking any "suspicious" cash rentals of trucks or
leases of private aircraft, including flight plans, since a small, portable
nuclear weapon could be dropped by terrorists via parachute into a remote
area and retrieved by other cell members, U.S. intelligence officials said.

Air freight, thought by U.S. intelligence sources to be particularly
vulnerable, is also being carefully monitored because, according to Probst,
"25 percent of air freight is carried by passenger aircraft and is never
inspected."

A nightmare scenario would be a hostile nuke exploded aboard a plane by
means of a carefully adjusted barometric detonator rigged to go off on
landing, said Probst, adding: "You could have a multiple take-down of
aircraft."

"We are not neglecting any possibility in this -- we can't afford to, no
matter how farfetched it seems," an FBI official told UPI.

According to U.S. intelligence officials, the weapons could easily have
been smuggled in by ship, if the Pakistan report proves to be accurate. "We
have zip port security," one such official said.

Stephen Flynn, senior fellow for national security studies at the Council
on Foreign Relations, said: "The United States has 16,000 ships entering
its ports every day. Adding in shipments entering by truck, train or air
freight, the total of import shipments to the United States is 21.4 million
per year."

He concluded: "You could put a nuclear or a chemical weapon in a container
aboard a ship leaving Karachi, and that ship will land at Vancouver or
Oakland, San Francisco, or the Gulf Coast, and we would never know the
difference."

Flynn added that only 3 percent of ship containers ever get inspected.

Stefan Leader, president of Eagle Research and consultant for the
Department of Energy, said that bin Laden is known to own 23 ships
registered to various companies in various countries. Once on the high
seas, "such ships are really difficult to find from a defense point of
view," he said.

Russian backpack weapons are also a worrisome priority in the current
alert. Said one former senior CIA official: "It's not a big reach at all to
say that it's probable that bin Laden has been able to obtain this system."

The Soviet nuclear backpack system was made in the 1960s for use against
NATO targets in time of war, U.S. intelligence sources said. It consists of
three "coffee can-sized" aluminum canisters, which must be connected before
detonation. In wartime, the system required a crew of five, including a
commander, radio officer and three Army non-coms.

The weapon was formerly in the custody of the Ninth Directorate of the KGB,
responsible for executive protection. Assigning a nuclear weapon to such a
group was like "assigning a nuclear system to the secret service," a second
senior CIA official said. Other CIA officials said that assigning the
weapon to that directorate probably meant that the teams "were close to the
Soviet leadership."

According to information derived from SVR defectors and given the CIA, the
three aluminum canisters are carried in green canvas cases with pockets on
the outside. All three must be connected to make a single unit in order to
explode. The detonator is about 6" long and carried in a "knife-like
sheaf." It has a 3-to-5 kiloton yield, depending on the efficiency of the
explosion, U.S. intelligence sources told UPI.

It is kept powered during storage by a battery line connected to the canisters.

During the first week of October, Israel's Mossad was reported to have
detained a Palestinian attempting to enter Jerusalem from Ramallah who was
wearing such a system on his back. The item was contained in a CIA Daily
Threat Report. UPI has several times re-interviewed its sources who
insisted that the item was in a such a report the first week of October.

Initially, there were conflicting reports as to whether the pack contained
a radiological weapon or a nuclear system. UPI re-interviewed the sources
who saw the Daily Report item, and they insisted that the weapon was
nuclear, not radiological.

Had the Palestinian been carrying a segment or the whole system? Israel has
steadfastly refused to comment, but a former senior CIA official told UPI
Sunday "the system is very small and could be easily carried and used by
one person." There would be "no necessity to take it in segments."

Another former CIA official said that the Soviet backpack device "was a
plutonium implosion" device and, said that UPI's description of it "is
accurate. The physics work."

Probst said of the Mossad item, "I don't discount the report at all. If bin
Laden were going nuclear, a backpack weapon is the way he would go."

The backpack system remains classified and is not to be confused with a
nuclear suitcase bomb, even though the two are often talked of as though
they were interchangeable.

A nuclear suitcase bomb is "as large as two footlockers," said former CIA
countererrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro. "Bin Laden hasn't got any
suitcase bombs. That's just total crap."

But Shays pointed out that "evidence isn't conclusive, and since it isn't,
we have to work with the worst case."

According to former Soviet military intelligence officer Stanislav Lunev,
suitcase bombs are actually Soviet-made RA-115s that can't be transported
by suitcase. According to Cary Sublette in an article for the Federation of

American Scientists, "Osama Suitcase Bombs and Ex-Soviet Loose Nukes," they
weigh about 60 pounds and have a yield of one kiloton. The dimensions of
the suitcase bomb are 24"x16"x 8."

They are difficult to set up, said Lunev, because a small current of power
is needed to store the weapon safely near its detonation site. This means
the operator of the weapon would need to run a fine wire up to a power
line. If someone discovered the wire powering the weapon and tried to walk
it back, the wire is so fine it would break, he said. If the battery in the
weapon runs low, then the backpack was programmed to send a signal to a
Soviet satellite or the nearest consulate.

If any one tampers with it, the nuclear materials are disabled, Lunev said.

Shays said that the Soviets had even made small nuclear weapons "that look
like rocks," a fact confirmed by Lunev.

The sources of UPI's information on the backpack weapons came from CIA
debriefings of SVR intelligence officers who had trained on the weapons.

Regarding the latest terror alert, "The pucker factor is very high," a
former senior CIA official said.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Continuity of Government procedures have been
in place that ensure, for example, that the president and vice president
never occupy the same spot at the same time. They also provide for the
orderly succession of power should a top U.S. leader be killed.

Some U.S. experts are skeptical of the use by terrorists of an "all-up" or
finished nuclear weapon. Leader, while conceding that reports of any
possible nuclear attacks must be treated seriously, said he still thinks
use of portable nukes by terrorists is "a low probability scenario."

Much more likely is the use of a radiological bomb or Radiological
Dispersal Device, chiefly "because it's simpler to make and easier to use,"
he said. Probst agreed with this.

But Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official,
downplayed the threat, saying that while there should be concern over any
nuclear threat, he believes that the present concerns are "exaggerated." He
said: "It's not like a nuclear weapon has an eternal shelf life. If you
don't use one by such and such a date, you're likely not to be able to use
it at all. Look at your lawn mower that you left in the garage all winter
-- it requires some work before you can use it again."

The truth remains hard to come by. One administration official said that
nuclear threats are handled by "a host of highly-secret, highly
compartmented programs, requiring a Special Compartmentalized Information
clearance.

He declined to comment on the Pakistan report or any other threat issues.

And even Johnson conceded that U.S. concerns over terrorist nuclear weapons
"can't be dismissed out of hand."

Ignorance is what tortures U.S. intelligence officials as the terror alert
continues, especially the question of how many loose nukes were floating
around after the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991. "What's
reallykilling us is all that we don't know," said a former senior U.S. CIA
official. "There is so much we simply don't know, and because of that, we
can't separate fact from conjecture."

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Thank you Joe.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph!

Nice finds, Ruth.

"Al Qaida warning: U.S. has infiltrated our 'holy warriors' (Turnabout Fair Play)

"ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON — Al Qaida has warned its agents that they have been infiltrated by the United States."

Turnabout is indeed fair play! Glad to read that link, thanks for that, Cindy.

The U.S. destroyed the bulk of its weapons, but Weldon said that
there is no evidence that the Russians have conducted such a
program.

IfYou missed it in the original post, this will give you an
idea what we have to think about.

Gold shooting up over $440.

Sitting ducks! Weldon has much respect.

"Perhaps the most startling testimony came from a defector from the
Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, who testified in 1998
that the Russians secretly pre-positioned weapons, including small
nuclear devices, in the U.S. and other countries around the world to
be used for sabotage by its agents in time of war.

This witness said it was his job while working undercover in
Washington from 1988 to 1992 as a correspondent for the Russian
news agency Tass to locate places where these weapons could be
hidden both around Washington and in other parts of the country."

In what decade did the Russians develope their nuke compression technology?

Looks a bit like Putin is getting his chessboard queen ready.

>> I am so very glad and so proud to be an American. <<

As am I RR. As am I.

Good morning folks. All's quiet in Reston this morning. No unusual activity of any kind that I've noticed.

Still catching up...

DOW down approx. 61+ points as of 10:40 EST. Could be the uncertainty regarding Bush's cabinet member changes.

"Active Denial" is going airborne:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281152/posts

8-23-96 part of OBL's call to war, this is only a small part, every word that we have researched comes from this letter.

http://www.humanunderground.com/archive/usamah-war.html

For more than a decade, they carried arms on their shoulders in
Afghanistan and they have made vows to Allah that as long as they
are alive, they will continue to carry arms against you until you are
-Allah willing- expelled, defeated and humiliated, they will carry on as
long as they live saying:

O William, tomorrow you will know which young man is confronting
your misguided brethren!

A youth fighting in smile, returning with the spear coloured red.

May Allah keep me close to knights, humans in peace, demons in war.

Lions in Jungle but their teeth are spears and Indian swords.

The horses witness that I push them hard forwarded in the fire of
battle.

The dust of the battle bears witnesses for me, so also the fighting
itself, the pens and the books!

So to abuse the grandsons of the companions, may Allah be pleased
with them, by calling them cowards and challenging them by refusing
to leave the land of the two Holy Places shows the insanity and the
imbalance you are suffering from. Its appropriate 'remedy ,however,
is in the hands of the youths of Islam, as the poet said:

I am willing to sacrifice self and wealth for knights who never
disappointed me

Knights who are never fed up or deterred by death, even if the mill of
war turns

In the heat of battle they do not care, and cure the insanity of the
enemy by their 'insane' courage.

Terrorising you, while you are carrying arms on our land, is a
legitimate and morally demanded duty. It is a legitimate right well
known to all humans and other creatures. Your example and our
example is like a snake which entered into a house of a man and got
killed by him. The coward is the one who lets you walk, while carrying
arms, freely on his land and provides you with peace and security.

Those youths are different from your soldiers. Your problem will be
how to convince your troops to fight, while our problem will be how to
restrain our youths to wait for their turn in fighting and in operations.
These youths are commendation and praiseworthy.

They stood up tall to defend the religion; at the time when the
government misled the prominent scholars and tricked them into
issuing Fatwas (that have no basis neither in the book of Allah, nor in
the Sunnah of His prophet (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be
on him)) of opening the land of the two Holy Places for the Christians
armies and handing the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Zionists. Twisting the
meanings of the holy text will not change this fact at all. They deserve
the praise of the poet:

I rejected all the critics, who chose the wrong way

I rejected those who enjoy fireplaces in clubs discussing eternally

I rejected those, who inspite being lost, think they are at the goal

I respect those who carried on not asking or bothering about the
difficulties

Never letting up from their goals, inspite all hardships of the road

Whose blood is the oil for the flame guiding in the darkness of
confusion

I feel still the pain of (the loss) Al-Quds in my internal organs.

That loss is like a burning fire in my intestines

I did not betray my covenant with God, when even states did betray it!

As their grand father Assim Bin Thabit said rejecting a surrender offer
of the pagans:

What for an excuse I had to surrender, while I am still able, having
arrows and my bow having a tough string?!

Death is truth and ultimate destiny, and life will end any way. If I do
not fight you, then my mother must be insane!

The youths hold you responsible for all of the killings and evictions of
the Muslims and the violation of the sanctities, carried out by your
Zionist brothers in Lebanon; you openly supplied them with arms and
finance. More than 600,000 Iraqi children have died due to lack of
food and medicine and as a result of the unjustifiable aggression
(sanction) imposed on Iraq and its nation. The children of Iraq are our
children. You, the USA, together with the Saudi regime are
responsible for the shedding of the blood of these innocent children.
Due to all of that, what ever treaty you have with our country is now
null and void.

The treaty of Hudaybiyyah was cancelled by the messenger of Allah
(Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on him) once Quraysh had
assisted Bani Bakr against Khusa'ah , the allies of the prophet (Allah's
Blessings and Salutations may be on him). The prophet (Allah's
Blessings and Salutations may be on him) fought Quraysh and
concurred Makka. He (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on
him) considered the treaty with Bani Qainuqa' void because one of
their Jews publicly hurt one Muslim woman, one single woman, at the
market. Let alone then, the killing you caused to hundred of thousands
Muslims and occupying their sanctities. It is now clear that those who
claim that the blood of the American solders (the enemy occupying the
land of the Muslims) should be protected are merely repeating what is
imposed on them by the regime; fearing the aggression and
interested in saving themselves. It is a duty now on every tribe in the
Arab Peninsula to fight, Jihad, in the cause of Allah and to cleanse the
land from those occupiers. Allah knows that there blood is permitted
(to be spilled) and their wealth is a booty; their wealth is a booty to
those who kill them. The most Exalted said in the verse of As-Sayef,
The Sword: {so when the sacred months have passed away, then slay
the idolaters where ever you find them, and take them captives and
besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush} (At-Tauba;
9:5). Our youths knew that the humiliation suffered by the Muslims as
a result of the occupation of their sanctities can not be kicked and
removed except by explosions and Jihad. As the poet said:

The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except
in a rain of bullets

The freeman does not surrender leadership to infidels and sinners

Without shedding blood no degradation and branding can be removed
from the forehead

I remind the youths of the Islamic world, who fought in Afghanistan
and Bosnia-Herzegovina with their wealth, pens, tongues and
themselves that the battle had not finished yet. I remind them about
the talk between Jibreel (Gabriel) and the messenger of Allah (Allah's
Blessings and Salutations may be on both of them) after the battle of
Ahzab when the messenger of Allah (Allah's Blessings and Salutations
may be on him) returned to Medina and before putting his sword
aside; when Jibreel (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on him)
descend saying: "are you putting your sword aside? By Allah the
angels haven't dropped their arms yet; march with your companions
to Bani Quraydah, I am (going) ahead of you to throw fears in their
hearts and to shake their fortresses on them". Jibreel marched with
the angels (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on them all),
followed by the messenger of Allah (Allah's Blessings and Salutations
may be on him) marching with the immigrants, Muhajeroon, and
supporters, Ansar. (narrated by Al-Bukhary).

These youths know that: if one is not to be killed one will die (any
way) and the most honourable death is to be killed in the way of Allah.
They are even more determined after the martyrdom of the four
heroes who bombed the Americans in Riyadh. Those youths who
raised high the head of the Ummah and humiliated the Americans-the
occupier- by their operation in Riyadh. They remember the poetry of
Ja'far, the second commander in the battle of Mu'tah, in which three
thousand Muslims faced over a hundred thousand Romans:

How good is the Paradise and its nearness, good with cool drink

But the Romans are promised punishment (in Hell), if I meet them I
will fight them.

And the poetry of Abdullah Bin Rawaha, the third commander in the
battle of Mu'tah, after the martyrdom of Ja'far, when he felt some
hesitation:

O my soul if you do not get killed, you are going to die, anyway. This
is death pool in front of you!

You are getting what you have wished for (martyrdom) before, and
you follow the example of the two previous commanders you are
rightly guided!

As for our daughters, wives, sisters and mothers they should take
prime example from the prophet (Allah's Blessings and Salutations
may be on him) pious female companions, may Allah be pleased with
them; they should adopt the life style (Seerah) of the female
companions of courage, sacrifice and generosity in the cause of the
supremacy of Allah's religion. They should remember the courage and
the personality of Fatima, daughter of Khatab, when she accepted
Islam and stood up in front of her brother, Omar Ibn Al-Khatab and
challenged him (before he became a Muslim) saying: "O Omar , what
will you do if the truth is not in your religion?!" And to remember the
stand of Asma', daughter of Abu Bakr, on the day of Hijra, when she
attended the Messenger and his companion in the cave and split her
belt in two pieces for them. And to remember the stand of Naseeba
Bent Ka'b striving to defend the messenger of Allah (Allah's Blessings
and Salutations may be on him) on the day of Uhud, in which she
suffered twelve injuries, one of which was so deep leaving a deep
lifelong scar! They should remember the generosity of the early
woman of Islam who raised finance for the Muslims army by selling
their jewellery. Our women had set a tremendous example of
generosity in the cause of Allah; they motivated and encouraged their
sons, brothers and husbands to fight- in the cause of Allah- in
Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechenia and in other countries.
We ask Allah to accept from them these deeds, and may He help their
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons. May Allah strengthen the belief
- Imaan - of our women in the way of generosity and sacrifice for the
supremacy of the word of Allah. Our women weep not, except over
men who fight in the cause of Allah; our women instigate their
brothers to fight in the cause of Allah.

Our women bemoan only fighters in the cause of Allah, as said:

Do not moan on any one except a lion in the woods, courageous in the
burning wars

Let me die dignified in wars, honourable death is better than my
current life

Our women encourage to Jihad saying:

Prepare yourself like a struggler, the matter is bigger than words!

Are you going to leave us else for the wolves of Kufr eating our
wings?!

The wolves of Kufr are mobilising all evil persons from every where!

Where are the freemen defending free women by the arms?!

Death is better than life in humiliation! Some scandals and shames will
never be otherwise eradicated.

My Muslim Brothers of The World:

Your brothers in Palestine and in the land of the two Holy Places are
calling upon your help and asking you to take part in fighting against
the enemy -your enemy and their enemy- the Americans and the
Israelis. They are asking you to do whatever you can, with one own
means and ability, to expel the enemy, humiliated and defeated, out
of the sanctities of Islam. Exalted be to Allah said in His book: { and if
they ask your support, because they are oppressed in their faith, then
support them!} (Anfaal; 8:72)

O you horses (soldiers) of Allah ride and march on. This is the time of
hardship so be tough. And know that your gathering and co-operation
in order to liberate the sanctities of Islam is the right step toward
unifying the word of the Ummah under the banner of "No God but
Allah" ).

From our place we raise our palms humbly to Allah asking Him to
bestow on us His guide in every aspects of this issue.

Our Lord, we ask you to secure the release of the truthful scholars,
Ulama, of Islam and pious youths of the Ummah from their
imprisonment. O Allah, strengthen them and help their families.

Our Lord, the people of the cross had come with their horses
(soldiers) and occupied the land of the two Holy places. And the
Zionist Jews fiddling as they wish with the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the route
of the ascendance of the messenger of Allah (ALLAH'S BLESSING AND
SALUTATIONS ON HIM). Our Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them
among themselves, shaken the earth under their feet and give us
control over them; Our Lord, we take refuge in you from their deeds
and take you as a shield between us and them

Our Lord, show us a black day in them!
Our Lord, show us the wonderment of your ability in them!
Our Lord, You are the Revealer of the book, Director of the clouds,
You defeated the allies (Ahzab); defeat them and make us victorious
over them.
Our Lord, You are the one who help us and You are the one who assist
us, with Your Power we move and by Your Power we fight. On You we
rely and You are our cause.
Our Lord, those youths got together to make Your religion victorious
and raise Your banner. Our Lord, send them Your help and strengthen
their hearts.
Our Lord, make the youths of Islam steadfast and descend patience on
them and guide their shots!
Our Lord, unify the Muslims and bestow love among their hearts!
Our Lord, pour down upon us patience, and make our steps firm and
assist us against the unbelieving people!
Our Lord, do not lay on us a burden as Thou didst lay on those before
us; Our Lord, do not impose upon us that which we have no strength
to bear; and pardon us and grant us protection and have mercy on us,
Thou art our patron, so help us against the unbelieving people.
Our Lord, guide this Ummah, and make the right conditions (by which)
the people of your obedience will be in dignity and the people of
disobedience in humiliation, and by which the good deeds are
enjoined and the bad deeds are forebode.
Our Lord, bless Muhammad, Your slave and messenger, his family and
descendants, and companions and salute him with a (becoming)
salutation.
And our last supplication is: All praise is due to Allah .

Usamah bin Muhammad bin Laden
Friday, 9/4/1417 A.H (23/8/1996 AD)
Hindukush Mountains, Khurasan, Afghanistan.

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Remember Sars?..."if at first you don't suceed..."

Usually current news has nothing to do with the stock prices. Stock prices are usually a prediction of US money supply/inflation/deflation/company news in the future/etc. Even after 911 the market came pack to were it was within 2 week and continued its travels at the same point when 911 occurred. I think this drop may have something to do with the declining dollar/larger then expected inflation/serious debt issues. I guess we will have to watch to find out.

Can't get the link to come up. google image is too small to read words.

That should read succeed (chilly fingers today.)

Gold going up and the market going down....not good.

Any ideas on what's causing it?