Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles - Daily Terror Threat

Debka ^ | 11-3-2003 | Staff

[tubavil]

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.

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[relee]

Another interesting news story

A dead man was found inside the wheel well of a passenger airplane at Kennedy Airport, officials said.

Maintenance crews discovered the body at about 11 p.m. Wednesday, several hours after American Airlines flight 1190 landed at the airport, said Dan Maynard, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The flight originated in Montego Bay, Jamaica...

[LayoutGuru2]

Merry Christmas everyone. Yes, Daleel has done a complete 180 and is back to criticizing the freedom efforts and the troops in Iraq. He (they) must be a closet Dean supporter. Oh well, here is the message and pic (filename is "dead and more to send.jpg") for archival purposes.

Merry Christmas Daleel.

An Important Message To The American People And Their Supporters - ire.doc

Keep saluting your dead: start deigning we have more to send you

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From: daleel_almojahid1 <daleel_almojahid1@y...> Date: Thu Dec 25, 2003 5:03am Subject: An Important Message To The American People And Their Supporters

we have attached a new file in the file section that will show you how most of the american troops in Iraq dont have real familys to ask about them when they get killed and thats why the americans decide to burry them in the Iraqi lands and hide them out from the american public!!this is what happens for fools that want to live in america so the americans tell them go fight for us and we will give you a home!!! a home in hell. alaah akbaar daleel_almojahid

[bonesmccoy]

take off the tin foil... the Aluminum is weighing down your head.

[bonesmccoy]

Ah yes... another holiday and another set of wolf cries from Daleel. It appears that his prediction has not materialized because it was stopped or it never existed.

[bonesmccoy]

You guys keep writing about radiological contamination from an explosive. I'm not very concerned about our ability to contain and handle such problems. While the area would be radioactive for a while, my understanding is that very few isotopes have such extended half-lifes that it represents a long-term problem.

If it were plutonium that would be one thing, but other elements do not have such lengthy half-lives.

[bonesmccoy]

not that I recall. No targets in DC other than the pentagon were involved.

[bonesmccoy]

Daleel is al foq'd.

[FairOpinion]

"take off the tin foil... "

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I bet that's what you would have said on 9-10-01, if someone had suggested that terrorists will hijack not one, but 4 airplanes and that the WTC will not be standing in 24 hrs.

[little jeremiah]

So WE KNEW some of the passengers were questionable and France allowed them to book flights? Why didn't France pick them up?

I realize I'm late on this thread (I read it every day but don't post much because I have nothing to add!) but here is my take on your statement above:

Muslims are so numerous in France, and Chiraq was so buddy-buddy with Sadam, I speculate that since apparently AQ has people legitimately employed with Air France (read that in an article on FR today) it is entirely plausible that AQ has people in the French government and/or media. That might be why cancelling the flights because public before the US wanted it to, thus foiling any attempt to capture whichever dubious people were to be on the flights.

[JustPiper]

OK well, we have much more to send you DaDa ;)

[JustPiper]

Lookie here Shellie, where will you be NYE? I want to see your high visibility on the strip at midnight then!

[JustPiper]

If we reach my Feb birthday 2 months from now without more destructiveness on a big scale, I'll be surprised but greatly rejoicing.

Yes ma'am -g- Enjoy the holidays Quix!

[JustPiper]

What gets me about the Daleel letter to Bush in MND is how would Yahoo Daleel 'know' the contents of what went to the President if he wasn't real?

[JustPiper]

Bump and Merry Happy to you and yours!

[JustPiper]

Don't we have plenty of radiation detectors that are not visible?

[JustPiper]

LayoutGuru has strongly suspected that 'Daleel' character is a FR lurker, if not a freeper.

No doubt

[JustPiper]

Terror Concerns Trigger Security Talks
2 hours, 32 minutes ago

By BRAD FOSS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Intelligence warnings of possible terrorist plots to use aircraft against American targets have prompted the cancellation of six Air France flights between Los Angeles and Paris and triggered intense security talks between U.S. officials and their foreign counterparts.

The flight cancellations added to Christmas holiday tensions that have been high since President Bush (news - web sites) raised the national terror alert level to orange, the second highest level, on Sunday. U.S. security officials have been closely monitoring activity at airports, train stations and public buildings. Police randomly stopped cars near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

The Air France flights, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, were canceled after U.S. officials passed on information they deemed credible about security threats from passengers flying from Paris to Los Angeles, U.S. and European officials said Wednesday.

Three of the canceled flights were headed to Los Angeles and three more were returning to Paris.

A spokesman for French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said the decision to cancel the flights came early Wednesday after American authorities notified France that "two or three" suspicious people, possibly Tunisian nationals, were planning to board the flights.

The French Interior ministry said the United States handed French authorities the names of suspicious people who may have intended to board the flights but no people by those names went through airport security checks, and no arrests were made. French television station LCI reported that U.S. authorities believed members of al-Qaida may have been planning to board the planes.

It was unclear who ordered the cancellations. The Interior Ministry said the flights were canceled at the request of the U.S. Embassy in Paris. A spokesman for Raffarin said the United States had threatened to refuse the planes permission to land if they took off. But U.S. officials refused to confirm that they had requested the cancellations.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department had been meeting with French officials in recent days over concerns about a possible terrorist attack.

On Thursday, however, French justice and law enforcement officials said they found little evidence that terrorists were planning to use U.S.-bound aircraft to launch attacks against American targets.

No arrests were made, and French authorities released seven men — one French, one American and several Algerians — after briefly questioning them late Wednesday, said an Interior Ministry spokesman. He said the investigation was all but on hold.

A French judicial official who spoke on condition of anonymity said none of the passengers on the canceled flights, including those who were questioned at the airport, was known to intelligence authorities or had known links with Islamic extremist groups.

The people held for interrogation were chosen because their names appeared on a list provided by American authorities, the ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity.

U.S. officials were in intense security talks with officials from several other countries too. One industry official, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said a Mexican airline, Aeromexico, was another focus of U.S. security officials' concern.

A Homeland Security official in Washington, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. government has been working with a number of governments overseas to help them improve airport security in the wake of the credible threats against airliners originating overseas and headed to the United States.

The official said American officials had passed on to other governments a "very credible threat" of possible attacks originating overseas.

American officials said the U.S. government was comparing data it had compiled on passengers preparing to board flights entering the United States, as well as data on the flight crews on those flights, with terrorist watch lists it has compiled.

U.S. officials have been working to get foreign airlines to provide American officials with more passenger information on people aboard the flights that originate overseas and travel to the United States, said an official who spoke this week on condition of anonymity. France and Mexico were of particular concern in this regard, the official said.

Three of the canceled flights had been scheduled to depart Wednesday — two from Paris and one from Los Angeles. Air France gave the flight numbers as 68, 69 and 70.

The three other flights were scheduled to leave on Christmas Day — two from Los Angeles and one from Paris. Air France listed those flight numbers as 68, 69 and 71.

Despite the threats, U.S. officials were encouraging all U.S. travelers to keep their scheduled holiday plans, noting the "significantly enhanced security here and overseas" since Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

On Wednesday evening, the Delta Air Lines terminal at New York's La Guardia Airport was temporarily evacuated after a female passenger set off a metal detector and went into the concourse before she could be rescreened, Transportation Safety Administration spokeswoman Amy von Walter said.

[JustPiper]

This makes the fourth attempt in the past 1-2 weeks on leaders...Italy,Egypt included

[JustPiper]

Excellent!

[JustPiper]

I'll post more on this later today if anyone is interested.

Yes we are