OUR PATIENCE IS NOT INFINITE OR A RENEWABLE RECOURSE
Posted on 09/11/2005 7:20:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
"Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion," the tape warns. "We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators."
In response to the threats against their city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city's police department released a statement this morning. They admitted to Los Angeles being a target of terrorism, but said there are no known, credible threats against the city and labeled the tape an instrument of al Qaeda propaganda.
"The statement broadcast this morning on Good Morning America should come as no surprise to anyone. The statement was meant to instill fear, and fear is the most important weapon the terrorists possess."
The taped diatribe lasts 11 minutes. Like past tapes, it appears to include the same graphics and production techniques recognized by U.S. officials as part of al Qaeda's standard propaganda production. In this tape, the speaker levels threats against the U.S. and Great Britain.
"Don't believe the lies of the liars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 10 Downing Street," Gadahn insists. "They have dispatched your sons and daughters to die lonely deaths in the burning deserts of Iraq and the unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan."
Only a few years ago, Adam Gadahn was a southern California teenager with interests in the environment and heavy metal music
His family says he converted to Islam at an Orange County mosque. There, officials say Gadahn came under the influence of militants who took him to Pakistan.
He has since emerged as an al Qaeda propaganda tool. His latest message warns Americans an attack is imminent unless the United States stops its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American intelligence officials believe the man who appears on the tape to be Adam Gadahn of Orange County, Calif. Last year, Gadahn delivered a similar taped communiqué for al Qaeda. That tape was later deemed authentic.
On the new tape, delivered to ABC News, Gadahn's message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne.
"We love peace, but when the enemy violates that peace or prevents us from achieving it, then we love nothing better than the heat of battle, the echo of explosion, and the slitting of the throats of the infidels," the tape says.
As for the rest of the tape, the young man attempts to dispel any rumors or reports of bin Laden being deceased. He closes his tape by invoking the names of the September 11th hijackers.
"Everyone of us is Mohammed Atta," he says.
ABC News' Chris Isham, David Scott, Gretchen Peters, Krista Kjellman, and Avni Patel contributed to this report.
Sounds exactly like Cindy doesnt it?
I wonder how the liberals feel having this guy on their side.
You are welcome!I get all kinds of things like this through a friends emails..
Bin Laden is dead as a doornail in the rubble of Tora Bora.
I believe that with everything in me. If he were alive they would be parading the evil on every chance they could. He was in the mountains, cave to cave and had kidney failure and I thought (maybe I am wrong) that he was on dialysis. Oh yeah, sanitary conditions, dialysis machine all of that in dirty, dusty caves and moving every day to avoid the enemy. NOt only are they evil but they think WE are STUPID!
Nope, in my opinion which I have had since Tora Bora is that he met his maker right there among the filth, dust, dank, dirty, dark caves which was appropriately befitting of the devil himself. Couldn't have planned it any better.
Come on, we aren't savages. We don't attack peoples families. If he was found, he'd be dealt with. But no one advocates a "mob mentality" against others who may be innocent.
see also this post #43.
thank you for posting this, Beth.
yeah, sure; where would we target if binnie and friends nuke L.A., or maybe Seattle, and didn't inform us of the origin of the bomb and its makers?!
OK, but how do you explain the October 2004 video tape, with references to the election?
I suspect OBL is very much alive and hiding out in Pakistan.
Exactly.
I think everyone should read all they can on what these awful animals are doing in our country..
"Adam Gadahn
Anyone know where this guy lives? Find him, burn his house down and hang his family by their own entrails in the public square."
It's not his family's fault that he's become a nutcase!! I am sure they are just as ashamed of him as anyone else!
If we did that, we would be just like them.
I agree; it appears they are implementing all of these things already....across the country. Makes me sick to think what's going to happen......their plans are being carried out under our noses.
Muslim martyrs say; "you will die for what I believe"....
I will never trust Muslims because you never know when one will go off.
"yeah, sure; where would we target if binnie and friends nuke L.A., or maybe Seattle, and didn't inform us of the origin of the bomb and its makers?!"
Yeah I sorta felt the same way when I heard about the idea of a preemptive nuclear strike to prevent a WMD attack. Unless it's on the nose of a missile, the first thing we are likely to know about a WMD attack by a non-state actor is after the event.
Sure, if we have intelligence good enough to identify that terrorist group X has been supplied with a WMD by state Y then maybe we can forestall an attack by threatening state Y. But otherwise, who or what are we supposed to attack?
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