Bin Laden Threat Points to Imminent Attack, Analyst Says

CNSNews ^ | 1-20-06 | Sherrie Gossett

[warpcorebreach]

An audio statement by Osama bin Laden broadcast on al-Jazeera television Thursday appears to be related to recent threats made by an al Qaeda front in Europe and points to an imminent attack, according to a Washington-based analyst.

Christopher L. Brown of the Hudson Institute earlier this month analyzed the Jan. 6 videotaped message of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's chief deputy. The tape, Brown said, and other al Qaeda communications indicated a high probability that al Qaeda would launch a major terrorist attack in the next 30 days and that the United States was the likeliest target.

Cybercast News Service reported on Brown's analysis in an exclusive report published on Jan. 11. Brown, a researcher

[warpcorebreach]

The whole truce thing is just more than a little suspicious.

[brownsfan]

If AQ attacks in the next 30 days, the dems will scream for negotiation and accepting the truce offered by bin laden. And bin laden knows this. He's pretty well tuned in to the dems. Heck, the dems could have written his latest statement. (All except for the Iraq keeping AQ busy part).

[TexasCajun]

There certainly hasn't been a slowdown in narcotic trafficking and human smuggling along our southern border, so why are we not to expect some type of islamoterrorist device will eventually get in?

[Williams]

If you read the details, the analysis is: "You can't believe a thing the bastards say, and they will attack you if they can."

[IronJack]

When has one of these threats EVER meant an imminent attack? Since 9/11, bin Laden and his cronies have threatened us with everything but plagues of locusts. Yet not ONCE has the threat ever materialized.

When the Madrid and London bombing occurred, no such threat had been made.

So these communiques mean absolutely nothing. Frankly, I'm not even convinced they mean bin Laden is still alive.

[HHKrepublican_2]

If AQ attacks in the next 30 days, the dems will scream for negotiation and accepting the truce offered bin laden

Which is exactly why they wont attack us.

If they do attack, I expect it to be Either the UK, Poland or Italy maybe Israel or Russia

Oh god... I just thought of this....TURINO OLYMPICS.

[TheForceOfOne]

I hope we take this loser out soon, real soon.

[Williams]

The dems have, of course, done the country a great disservice because they have presented an opening to Al Queda by causing them to believe a democrat victory will mean withdrawal at least from Iraq, and safety for Syria and Iran. This is too tempting a political/ military target for an organization as desperate as Al Queda. Leftists get people killed, and not in small numbers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jack (booze) Cafferty claims this is just a trick by the White House. He must have inside info...

[Paradox]

In my opinion, they HAVE to attack, or lose what little credibility they have left. Think of how the Arab mind works, to go from "Promising to Utterly Destroy You", to "Hey, lets negotiate", is a huge humiliation. It is a sign of desperation, and they know it. This is about as low as they can get, bravado wise, so they have to do something. I'm keepin my eyes, ears, and nose open....

[x5452]

Yeah but the American people will reject it and the dems will see a crushing defeat.

[Nachoman]

So is the attack really imminent, seriously imminent or imminently imminent?

[r9etb]

If AQ attacks in the next 30 days, the dems will scream for negotiation and accepting the truce offered by bin laden.

I seriously doubt this. The dems are stupid, but not that stupid.

[Bosco]

It's more than a little suspicious - it's the same methodology Muhammed used against his enemies. Call for a truce to re-align and re-supply your troops and then attack at a time of your choosing. BTW - remember that it's always O.K. to lie to an infidel, especially during Jihad.

[JIM O]

I knew that after Murtha broadcast to the world the democrats week knee attitude that we would begin to hear new threats with a carrot attempting to appeal to what the terrorist's sense is American discontent over the war.

[conserv13]

If it turns out that Arab terrorists got in here across the Mexican border, I wonder how many people here would still defend Bush?

I was a Bush suppoprter, but he either cannot or will not defend our southern border and is therefore NOT protecting us from our enemies.

[Little Pig]

Something that seems to have been missed (or ignored) by most of the media, including the trustworthy web media, is that Bin Laden didn't actually offer a truce. He stated that he would accept a truce if the US offered one.

[Capt. Tom]

The whole truce thing is just more than a little suspicious.

It gives the Muslims a chnce to regroup and get on track in the future with killing Infidels. It' called Hudna.

Remember your obligately to God (Allah) is to convert or kill Infidels. You are under notmoral obligation to bargain in god faith. This isn't about you and your reputation. It is about doing Allah's work.

from honestreporting.com

Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well-versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century. Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.

When Yassir Arafat infamously invoked Mohammad's hudna in 1994 to describe his own Oslo commitments "on the road to Jerusalem," the implication was clear. As Mideast expert Daniel Pipes explained, Arafat was asserting to his Islamic brethren that he will, "when his circumstances change for the better, take advantage of some technicality to tear up existing accords and launch a military assault on Israel." Indeed, this is precisely what occurred in Sept. 2000 when Arafat & Co. launched a terror assault upon Israeli citizens.

[TADSLOS]

In my opinion, they HAVE to attack, or lose what little credibility they have left. Think of how the Arab mind works, to go from "Promising to Utterly Destroy You", to "Hey, lets negotiate", is a huge humiliation. It is a sign of desperation, and they know it. This is about as low as they can get, bravado wise, so they have to do something.

Yep, and soon. That tape also served as an execution order.

[Honcho]

Bin Laden Threat Points to Imminent Attack, Analyst Says

Superbowl maybe?