Posted on 09/12/2005 2:42:49 PM PDT by TBP
Sept. 12, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the U.S. and Australia.
"Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing. And 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."
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 in Pakistan on Saturday, Gadahn's message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne. U.S. intelligence officials are closely studying the tape, looking for clues that might lead them to the man who made it. One clue ABC heard on the tape was the sound of many children in a hallway.
This morning, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton acknowledged his city is a target for terrorists
"We're the entertainment capital of America," Bratton said. "All the negative images of America that these people hate are represented here in Los Angeles."
On Sunday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city's police department released a statement also acknowledging that Los Angeles is a target for terrorists, but adding there are no known, credible threats against the city. They labeled the tape an instrument of al Qaeda propaganda.
"The statement broadcast this [Sunday] 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 United States 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, Gadahn was a Southern California teenager with interests in the environment, the Los Angeles Dodgers and heavy metal music.
Another "Walker-Lindh"..
Someone needs to hunt this little bastard down, and cut his freaking heart out....
These masked wannabe warriors - need to understand the price for attacking or threating to attack America...and our children's lives...
The price must be their own life...
Semper Fi
A) Zarqawi
B) Osama
C) Taliban Johnny
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) Ted Kennedy
Did you sleep through yesterday?
This isn't breaking anymore...
The water and gas Company?
The have always been terrorists in my book...
NeverGore :^)
Maybe it is La Raza, just posing as Al Qaeda....
I do not think they know the meaning of those words, anyway.
Even fox is participating in this extraordinary picking apart America's weaknesses 24-7 for the world to see until the terrorists don't have to even work at it.
Have you seen this guy without his costume? Another fat, pimple faced, greasy-haired loner, who probably hides in a basement somewhere pretending to be somebody.
Fat people make very poor terrorists.
Why do they call this jerk an American....he lost the rights to use that title when he took up arms against us. He is a TRAITOR, not and American!
Extreme doubt obtains, that absent a spell-checker, they would even be able to write them, let alone are possessed of the merest iota of the quality...
A) Zarqawi
B) Osama
C) Taliban Johnny
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) Ted Kennedy
F) All of the above
I wonder if he told al Qaeda his birth name was Pearlman. I wonder what will happen if somebody does.
[evil grin]
great addition, i overlooked that option.!
Thank you.
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