ITALY: ALGERIAN SUSPECTS ALLEGEDLY PLANNED TO KILL 10,000
Brescia and Naples, 18 Nov. (AKI) - The three Algerians detained on Tuesday in the Italian cities of Brescia and Naples were planning a massive terror attack - "on a ship as big as the Titanic, packed with explosives" - that aimed to kill "at least 10,000 people", as well as an attack on "Italian citizens and interests" in Tunisia, according phone conversations between the three men, which Italian anti-terror police say they intercepted after al-Qaeda's deadly 7 July attacks on London and on the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
In their tapped phone conversations, Yamine Bouhrama, Mohamed Larbi and Khaled Serai described the 7 July London subway and bus bombings that killed over 50 and injured 700, and the 23 July Sharm El-Sheikh terror attacks that killed 90 people and injured over 150 as "highdays and holidays", according to police. The three also spoke of having "documents ready", "war on the infidel", and "a bigger party" than the London attacks.
They are suspected of being members of the al-Qaeda-linked Algerian militant formation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Investigators allege they were not just in Italy to provide logistical support such as false passports and residency permits, but were actually "potential operatives" who were "ready to attack".
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.230427816&par=0
Iran signs up 50,000 “volunteers” for suicide attacks
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Fifty thousand Iranians have signed up for “martyrdom-seeking operations” and 1,000 of them have already been organised into operational units, Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for a government-orchestrated campaign to recruit suicide bombers told an Iranian news agency.
Samadi was speaking a day after a rally on Tuesday in the city of Shahroud, north-east Iran, where 1,000 volunteers signed up for suicide attacks against the West and Israel. A video film of the full speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 26, in which he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and threatened the leaders of other Muslim countries, was shown to the audience.
The rally, dubbed “Palestinian Intifada and Martyrdom-seeking”, was organised by the Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement on campus at the Industrial University of Shahroud.
“Up till now, 50,000 people have signed up for martyrdom-seeking operations throughout the country. Of these people, 1,000 have been organised into garrisons”, Samadi told the Mehr news agency, which is run by the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Samadi is a senior officer of the Revolutionary Guards and his organisation is run by the IRGC in an effort to recruit potential suicide bombers. The representative of the militant Palestinian group, Hamas, in Iran, Abu Othmama, addressed the rally in Shahroud.
Similar rallies have been held in the Iranian capital Tehran, as well as Tabriz and Bushehr.
“A film on the latest suicide operation in the Occupied Territories, carried out by Hassan Abu-Zaid, was shown at the rally and was greeted with great enthusiasm”, the news agency reported.
Earlier this month, radical fanatics signed up for suicide operations in Tehran to mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Samadi had previously announced that 40,000 volunteers for suicide bombing operations had enlisted to attack targets on the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The group’s organisers previously said that their targets were three-fold; U.S.-led forces in Iraq, Jews in Israel, and Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against his head issue by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4456
I just saw this on the main board and was going to post it here. Thank God they thwarted that. These cowardly jihadists clearly have mass murder in mind. When are people on the left going to wake up? What didn't they understand about 9/11?
Sheesh.
Going back up thread to check for the QE2 posts.
If they have those plans there it's quite possible the same goes for our country.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the black flags and the NY skyline on the pic posted today.
Thank you for the report, it does not surprise me, I am listening to Mike Reagan on the radio, as I read it.
Congressman Culvertson (not sure of the name from Texas I think), is on with Mike, he went with the Sheriff at Laredo, Texas to the border at midnight.
The sheriff made him wear a full body armor and gave him a loaded M-16 for protection, they went in with lights off, after sending in another police car with out lights to draw the fire and to case the area for border crossers.
The Sheriff told him a few days ago, that there is a new training camp 40 miles SE of Del Rio, Texas, for the islamist terrorists.
The last year the border crossers and islamist have increased greatly.
They are taking mexican names.
They are talking about massive truck bombs to be set off in the USA.
"Operation Linebacker" is the new bill in the House, to assign money to the local Sheriff's on the border for border enforcement, could be voted on in december.
culbertson.gov.house may be his website, he says the Border bill is there.
He said that the reason we are still waiting for the attack is that the terrorists are not quite ready.
Some of you will get the Mike Reagan program by delay or if you go to reagan.com, I heard him say the other day that you could listen on the computer for free. It is in the second half of the first hour of todays program.
I will say this for Culbertson, his voice was filled with excitement and his trip to the border has convinced him of the terrorist threat.
Tancredo had said that others were joining him in the fight to close the border, I had heard that some of the Congressmen were making trips to the border and checking it out.
Odd, that I would be reading your post on attacks, as this interview came on the radio, the above may be choppy, but I
was attempting to listen and type........LOL
It sounds as if they think 10,000 is a nice round number.