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Posted on 11/03/2003 9:17:27 AM PST by tubavil
Edited on 01/26/2004 3:58:09 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Monday, November 3, 2003
A new message was posted in the last few hours by the Jeddah-based al-Qaeda-linked Al-Islah (Reform) society calling on Muslims to flee New York, Washington and Los Angeles in advance of major al Qaeda attacks in those cities. This is revealed by DEBKAfile.
The message accuses the United States of predetermining its end (doom) by its policies. ?The Jews rule the Pentagon by remote control and (are the cause) of Muslims being killed in every corner of the world. The United States should therefore expect more blows.?
The message is signed on behalf of the al Bayan (The Threat) movement by ?your warrior brother, Abul Hassan al Khadrami?.
Our Muslim expert identifies the name of the signatory as belonging to a Yemeni from Hadhrameuth, the Bin Ladens? place of origin where Osama enjoys substantial tribal support.
DEBKAfile?s counter-terror sources stress that warnings appearing on these forums are taken both very seriously and with caution by the intelligence services keeping track of the terrorist network?s electronic traffic.
Last November, Jeddah-based fundamentalist forums addressed a message to an Al Qaeda member, saying whoever understands ? understands; whoever knows, knows, but we are marching towards an operation that will take us to Paradise. Three days later, the Mombasa Paradise hotel was blown up killing 12 Kenyans and 3 Israelis and a failed shoulder-launched Strela anti-air missile missed an Israeli airliner at Mombasa airport.
Yes ... but also lots of nefarious angles for the bad guys to wind up getting cheated :->
I've heard stories about weapons buyers from al-Qaeda thinking they've bought nuclear weapons only to find out that they're some kind of mock-up with a little bit of radioactive material included so that it seems to be what it claims to be. I'd guess that they weren't pleased at being hoodwinked - but of course, from the point of view of some of the desperate Russians during that period, it makes perfect sense: You get some badly-needed cash and get to swindle al-Qaeda who had (along with the Taleban) made the Afganistan adventure a miserable failure for the Soviet Union. Poetic justice if you ask me.
Let's hope that all of the "nukes" that they've gotten their hands on fall in this category!
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They've certainly demonstrated that they're rabid enough. The question would be whether they could orchestrate something that wouldn't erode the support they have - it seems that violence in Mecca or as part of the hajj would be all too likely to backfire on them. By definition anything like that would have to be against Muslims, though they might get some support if it appeared to be directed squarely against the House of Saud rather than just random violence.
But who knows - they've demonstrated that they have few if any qualms about violence.
Interesting that the handle appears to be in Gaelic (rough translation - "The Big MacLeod". Can also mean "Older" - as you might use "Senior" in English).
Isn't it MIND-BOGGLING? It all seems so straightforward.
Bad guys can waltz into the country - UNDETECTED. Many of them can easily get their hands on all sorts of nasty stuff (WMD included). They want to kill us - by the millions, if possible.
We spend BILLIONS playing defense. Have implemented this totally funky "alert" system that confuses everyone except the terrorists. We pour money into trying to lock down every square inch of the country EXCEPT the borders, that let the bad guys in in the first place!
Gee..HERE's a thought. Go round up the bad guys, like we did with the German spies in WWII that were sent here by Hitler to blow up our factories. Hunt them down, one by one if neccessary. "Export" them - preferably permanently.
LOCK DOWN the damned borders. We can put a man on the moon, split the atom, and create cloned sheep for cryin' out loud. We HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY. We just lack the political will to implement it, and claim it is "impossible". I say BUNK. There are those in the 50s and 60s that claimed we couldn't put a man on the moon, either.
IMHO, the border issue is a POLITICAL one that the pols lack the POLITICAL WILL to implement a solution for. Pure and simple, and it will take "2, 3 or 4 big booms" as WestCoastGal says to create a BIGGER political problem that will create an impetus to fix it.
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