We will blow up the White House, al-Qaeda threatens
Habib Trabelsi Dubai
November 12, 2006 (excerpt)
AL-QAEDA’S chief in Iraq used an audio message posted on the internet yesterday to threaten that the terror network would “blow up the White House”.
“We announce today the end of a phase of the jihad [holy war] and the start of a new one … to usher in the project of an Islamic caliphate and restore Islam’s glory,” Abu Hamza al-Muhajer said in the message.
“We swear we will not rest from our jihad … before blowing up the filthiest house, dubbed the White House,” he said. . .
“preemptive strike”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687360.ece
April 22, 2007
Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’
Dipesh Gadher (excerpt)
AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.
Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West. . .
The report continues: “Recent reporting has described AQI’s Kurdish network in Iran planning what we believe may be a large-scale attack against a western target.
“A member of this network is reportedly involved in an operation which he believes requires AQ Core authorisation. He claims the operation will be on ‘a par with Hiroshima and Naga-saki’ and will ‘shake the Roman throne’. We assess that this operation is most likely to be a large-scale, mass casualty attack against the West.” . . .
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498849735&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Apr. 13, 2006 6:00 | Updated Apr. 13, 2006 10:49
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 praises al-Zarqawi
By ASSOCIATED PRESS (excerpt)
. . . Al-Zawahri - Osama bin Laden’s deputy in al-Qaida, who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan - said he was making the video to mark the fourth anniversary of the December 2001 battle of Tora Bora, in which US forces besieged bin Laden and al-Qaida fighters in mountainous caves of Afghanistan.
He denounced Bush as the “Caesar of Washington” and accused him of lying about progress in the war on terror. . . .
http://memritv.netstrategies.com/report/en/2188.htm
(excerpt)
On May 5, 2007, Islamist websites posted a video, produced by Al-Qaeda’s media company Al-Sahab, of a 67-minute interview with Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The following is a summary of the interview.
“The Empire of Evil is About to End, And a New Dawn is About to Break Over Mankind”
Al-Zawahiri begins the interview by announcing that “the empire of evil is about to end and a new dawn is about break over mankind, [which will be] liberated from the Caesars of the White House and Europe and from the Zionists.” He adds that the imminent defeat of the Americans in Iraq and the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq are important milestones on the way to reviving the Islamic Caliphate. . .
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/new_al_qaeda_ta.html
New al Qaeda Tapes Feature U.S. Capitol Under ‘Attack’
May 22, 2007 2:01 PM (excerpt)
“The Islamic State of Iraq...March Toward Washington” reads the headline in English superimposed over a digitally created scene of the U.S. Capitol under attack . . .
“This is a disturbing new trend,” says Laura Mansfield, an Arabic expert who monitors jihadi videos on the Internet. . .
“It may be that this new imagery is designed to motivate terrorist activity in the U.S., but it is certainly intended as a recruiting tool and perhaps intended to reassure al Qaeda’s jihadi followers they haven’t forgotten their goal of an al Qaeda attack on Washington, D.C.,” she said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735517/posts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1180031.htm
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP47303
http://www.dprkstudies.org/documents/nkpics/picgal.html