Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles

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.

Food for thought...

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html

U.S.: Al Qaida is 70 percent gone, their 'days are numbered'

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, January 23, 2004

"The Al Qaida of the 9/11 period is under catastrophic stress," State Department counter-terrorism coordinator Cofer Black said. "They are being hunted down, their days are numbered."

Black's assertion, made in an interview with the London-based British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday, is based on U.S. intelligence community estimates that about 70 percent of Al Qaida has been neutralized, officials said.

Saudi officials agreed with the U.S. assessment and said the kingdom has made significant gains against Al Qaida, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Al Qaida leaders have been arrested and training camps have been discovered.

U.S. officials said Al Qaida has been rapidly losing its attack capabilities and was relying increasingly on smaller Islamic groups based in Southeast Asia and North Africa. The officials said thousands of Al Qaida operatives have been captured, killed or neutralized, with cells eliminated even in such strongholds as Kuwait and Yemen.

The intelligence community assessed that Al Qaida was at the height of its strength in mid-2001 with thousands of recruits trained in Afghanistan and other sent abroad as agents and sleepers.

The intelligence assessment was presented to the Bush administration and reported by President George Bush during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. The assessment regards Al Qaida as becoming steadily weaker, with difficulties in raising funds and sustaining insurgency cells.

[In Hamburg, a German court was told that authorities have a witness who claims that Osama Bin Laden met Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian officials on May 4, 2001. The meeting took place in an air force base to plan the suicide attacks in the United States in September 2001. The witness was identified as an Iranian defector, known by his cover name Hamid Reza Zakeri, who had been an agent for Iranian intelligence until mid-2001.]

Officials said Al Qaida would continue as a much weaker organization and would focus largely on Saudi Arabia, the Horn of Africa while seeking to consolidate under the protection of Iran. They envision attacks being financed rather than carried out by Bin Laden.

The loss of veteran insurgency operatives has reduced the lethality of operations, officials said. Another factor has been the lack of success by Al Qaida to establish and sustain cells in many Western countries.

"The next group of concern would be a generation younger," Black said. "They're influenced by what they see on TV; they are influenced by misrepresentation of the facts. They seem to be long on radicalism and comparatively short on training."

"We have arrested over 600 terror suspects; many of the top Al Qaida leaders in the kingdom have been killed or captured," Adel Al Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said. "And scores of cells and training camps have been uncovered and destroyed before they could do any harm to the innocent."

On Thursday, the United States and Saudi Arabia requested that the United Nations freeze the assets of four branches of an official Saudi charity accused of financially supporting Al Qaida. The U.S.-Saudi demand concerned the freezing of assets of the Riyad-based Al Haramain Islamic Foundation in such countries as Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania.

"These branches have provided financial, material and logistical support to the Al Qaida network and other terrorist organization," the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Al Haramain is a charity sponsored by the Saudi government. Saudi Islamic Affairs Minister Salah Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Sheik oversees the charity.

"Al Haramain stated it closed branches in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan, but continued monitoring by the United States and Saudi Arabia indicates that these offices and or former officials associated with these branches are either continuing to operate or have other plans to avoid these measures," the Treasury Department said.

Donna, here's something that gets overlooked a lot. Do you remember Rabbi Meir Kahane? He was murdered in NYC in 1990 by an Arab terrorist, and this part I did not know till just now when googling a bit to add a link for him.

link

"Two years later, Rabbi Kahane was murdered by an Arab terrorist El Sayyid Nosair. Nosair was acquitted of murder by a New York jury but was later found guilty in federal court of violating Rabbi Kahane's civil rights. Nosair also was given life imprisonment for his role in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City."

I never heard until now about the link between Kahane's murderer and the WTCI!

And invariably Kahane himself was called a right-wing extremist in his defense of Israel in those times, but I think today many would call him a sensible man, who recognized before many did just what the world is facing.

Another sad part of the Kahane tragedy is that his son and the son's wife were attacked and murdered by palestinians in Israel in 2000. They were in a car with their 5 children, and were killed right in front of the children.

Up yours, Daleel.

Our demands,

Our replies, if you donkeyjockeys try any WMD crap.

1. The complete and right away stop of your (masked) invasion of our Islamic lands in any part of the world east or west.

1. The complete and right away surrender of all your Islamic lands in any part of the world east or west.

2. Taking out the (illegal immigrants that came back to the land of Palestine) which you have records of all of them in your archives.

2. Taking out the (trash) and shooting them.

3. The return of all the Muslim money stolen in (Gold) not in any kind of money note. As we have mentioned to you before.

3. The immediate purchase of a Dodge Durango (with Hemi engine) for every American family with all Muslim money.

4. The returning of the old borders known to you and we press on the northern borders.

4. The institution of borders decided by the Texas State Legislature.

5. The release of all our prisoners in your jails whom you know and we know only.

5. The summary execution of all your prisoners in our jails.

6. The dismantle of the so called (United Nations and its council) in an international decision.

6. The construction of a new UN headquarters in Riyadh.

7. We share with you the importance of water and oil and we share the idea of it staying as it is but the pricing of oil is left to us and we promise you to make it available at a reasonable price for poor and for rich nations.

7. We reverse your nationalization of oil concerns.

8. we here by advise you to take fast decisions to stop order number (8), it's the thin line between us and you, and you have to answer us as soon as possible

8. Yeah yeah yeah, go hug a camel, fleabag.

re post no. 14143 -- Here is your link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1063633/posts

"Inside The Ring"
Washington Times ^ | 1/23/2003 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 01/23/2004 5:47:12 AM PST by FreeManWhoCan

"A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence on the United States with Saddam Hussein's regime. The reports stated that Cuban intelligence, which is known to have extensive "coverage" of U.S. military bases, supplied information to Saddam's intelligence service on the movement of troops and other military activities. The intelligence ties are believed to be an offshoot of Cuba's covert oil-purchasing arrangement with Iraq under Saddam. Those deals have been under way since the late 1990s and involve oil tankers that were sent to Mexico. The oil then was pumped from the tankers to smaller boats for delivery to Cuba. The intelligence sharing also comes amid reports from Cuban exiles that Cuba became a safe haven for fleeing Iraqi government officials following the U.S.-led invasion. Asked about the Cuba-Iraq intelligence-sharing, a second U.S. official said the CIA had no information about it."

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