Posted on 09/08/2005 5:46:27 AM PDT by since1868
Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive' By Sherrie Gossett CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 08, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - Al Qaeda's plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East and said to be coordinated by Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant in Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.
The attacks, planned to coincide with the Muslim observance of Ramadan and dubbed the "Great Ramadan Offensive," are designed to create a "fateful confrontation" with the U.S. and Israeli forces in the Middle East, according to a May 30 letter from Zarqawi to bin Laden. The contents of the letter are referenced in the report written by Yossef Bodansky, the former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
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wonder if we'll hold our response out of respect for the "holy" day - seems like we always do
I would hate to see a Ram a Dan offensive. Has anybody warned Dan Rather?
I wish we would stop telling the world all we know. I like the terrorists to be overconfident. It gets them killed or captured.
That's right. We don't plan battles during "Islamic holy days". If we did, the left might be offended at the military's cultural insensitivity.
They asked us to "stop" during Ramadan in Afghanistan. We told to grab some pork rinds and head for the caves. We're Coming!!
There is a "silver lining" in this cloud. The attacks are all threatened for overseas, not in North America. Hopefully, AQ still cannot mount signigicant attacks here.
Why are our boarders open again?
"again" not "still"?
One can only hope ...
LOL!
There is going to be an uprising in Gaza on Yom Kippur.
Just a feeling.
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And Saddam fought the Mother of All Battles!!
they said the same thing was going to happen last year, except it DIDN'T make the news then.
As per normal with AQ, they say big, look small. If they say small, look big.
I have been wondering if the terrorists were going to try and replicate the Tet Offensive from the Viet-Nam War and produce the same type of domestic reaction that occurred then. Perhaps this is it.
Bodansky's report states that "concrete preparations for the consolidation of Islamist-jihadist springboards against the heart and lair of the Great Satan are being completed -- for Western Europe in the Balkans, for Russian and Eastern Europe in Chechnya, and for the United States in the tri-border area in Latin America."
Copley agreed, telling Cybercast News Service that, "I think Europe is going to be a prime target, but I think there's no question the U.S. is very much on the schedule.
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