Warning issued by this guy:
Posted on 12/17/2005 3:06:15 PM PST by FairOpinion
The United States has warned of possible terrorist attacks against its interests in the Middle East and North Africa, and has cautioned American citizens to be vigilant about their security in those areas.
In a statement posted Saturday on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait's website, the State Department says potential attacks could include bombings, hijackings, hostage taking, kidnappings and assassinations. It also warned that chemical and biological agents must be considered a possible threat.
The State Department singled out Westerners, oil workers and U.S. contractors working with the military as potential targets. The statement pointed to last month's bombings of three Jordanian hotels as underscoring the desire of terrorists to target places perceived to cater to Westerners.
Warning issued by this guy:
I hear he's getting a promotion to Major Obvious soon.
LOL.
And on the northern front, bears do cr*p in the woods.
And related article, which I won't post on it's own thread, because it's from Debka, nevertheless, I think it does have credibility:
Al Qaeda’s Passage to China
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1118
In mid-September, Al Qaeda diverted a small but potent force from Iraq to a new mission: the opening of a new front in China. The unit was smuggled into the Chinese border town of Kushi in the Xinjiang Uygur province in November, after a meandering journey traced by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s counter-terror sources. There, the terrorists were quickly absorbed by the al Qaeda infrastructure of local Uygur Muslim extremist cells.
Their plan of campaign in the first stage was to reach Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai for strikes against US embassies and consulates, American firms operating in China and American tourists.
(This al Qaeda group was previously revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 229 on Nov. 11 [A Jihadist Airlift] as having set out from Baghdad between mid-September and early October, stopping over in Qatar and proceeding to Konduz in northern Afghanistan for special training.)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s sources report the terrorists slipped north from Konduz into Tajikistan and onto the Kyrgyz section of the strategic Fergana Valley which straddles Central Asia. There, they rendezvoused at two places, Osh and Jalal-Abad close to the Kyrgyz-Uzbekistan border, establishing jumping-off points for both China and Central Asia.
The Islamist terrorists were guided from Konduz into Kyrgyzstan by armed men of al Qaeda’s operational arm in Uzbekistan, the MUI, which also has tentacles in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as training camps in the Fergana Valley. The commander of these cells is Tahir Yuldashev, an old comrade of Osama bin Laden who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. In 2004, Yuldashev returned to Tashkent from the badlands of Pakistan’s South Waziristan and was ordered to prepare facilities in Osh and Jalal-Abad for the incoming terrorist unit. His payment was a section of the force to boost his campaign against Uzbek president Karimov.
The unit from Konduz accordingly divided into two heads – the largest proceeding from Osh into China and fetching up in Kushi, while the second group assembled in Jalal-Abad, turned west and crossed into Uzbekistan to set up base in the Fergana town of Andijon.
Terrorists have no rights. They operate outside the Geneva Conventions. No fluff words from the traitors in the Congress and from the supporting liberal gangs are going to apply the pertinent Geneva Conventions codes to terrorists.
ping
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