[Cindy]

August 26, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167197,00.html
AP

"Most-Wanted Hamas Bombmaker Resurfaces"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A shadowy Hamas (search) bombmaker who tops Israel's most-wanted list on Saturday issued his first videotaped statement since going into hiding more than a decade ago.

Mohammed Deif (search) praised Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (search) as a victory for armed resistance, rejected calls for his group to disarm, and vowed to continue attacks on Israel until the Jewish state is erased from the map."

[Oorang]

Very interesting. The snake awakens and slithers out of his den.

[nwctwx]

I've been in and out recently... moving to school Sunday.

Watching this storm get wound up in the GOM... I'm thinking back to something I believe we came across last yr, jihadi posts/something, referencing Hurricanes.

The current projections would be possibly disastrous for a large portion of the drilling offshore LA... there is a major concentration of rigs there. There is already mass speculation that just shutting these down will drive gas prices up very quickly. If any are taken offline for months/forever, we could be into something even worse.

I don't know, but it seems to me they might have wanted to wait until something like that (high energy prices & natural disaster testing the gov't reponse) happens here before launching the next attack. Not to even mention the ramifications of a category 4 actually coming into the New Orleans area....

Hopefully the National Hurricane Center has their first major bust of the year with this one.

This might be out in left field... I just seemed to remember mention of Hurricanes in a jihadi post in the past. I wouldn't put it past an organization like AQ to put out an order and sit on it for a decade if needed...