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.

No Compromise on Terror
By Karina Rollins

After 19 terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes, crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and killed over 3,000 Americans, the U.S. government sprang into action: The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a friendly meeting with an American Muslim group with known ties to terrorists. The State Department printed up thousands of copies of a poster series, ?Mosques of America,? and sponsored an imam-exchange program. None of which attracted any criticism from the attorney general or the President; all of which would be amusing if it were a sketch on ?Saturday Night Live.?

The nation?s new and improved airport security is a joke; all the stories about little blue-haired ladies? shoes searched for explosives are true. Americans know the hassle and make-work and plastic forks don?t add to their safety. One of the biggest laugh lines of Washington, D.C.?s political comedy troupe, The Capitol Steps, comes at the beginning of a skit about airport security. A man in a giant turban walks on stage and hangs a big sign that reads simply,?O?Hare Security.? It brings down the house.

Former senators Warren Rudman and Gary Hart, cochairmen of the Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, concluded that ?A year after 9/11, America remains dangerously unprepared to prevent and respond to a catastrophic terrorist attack on U.S. soil.? Rudman and Hart lament that enormous amounts of money are spent on airports, while port and cargo security take a back seat; that police, firemen, and emergency medical workers still can?t communicate well with each other or their counterparts in nearby cities; that public health facilities are unprepared for a biological or chemical attack; that local police work in an intelligence vacuum and don?t have access to terrorist watch lists; and that there has been no national debate about how to protect factories and power plants. Cyberspace is still glaringly unprotected as well.

The Homeland Security bill has now, after many distractions, finally been passed. It will be the job of the new department to close the gaping security holes, and it will surely be successful in implementing some effective safety mechanisms. But it could take years for the department to become operational. Besides, addressing such practical matters is only half the solution; there is an entire worldview in Washington that must change drastically.

The administration publicly characterizes al-Qaeda and its sympathizers as a group of criminals, ignoring the religious nature of their plans to destroy the West. If the government? and the American people?are to win the war on terror, both must understand that our enemies have succeeded in launching a holy war?a war that will most certainly last beyond the lifetime of anyone reading these pages.

More than a year after 9/11, too many clear and present dangers continue to loom over Americans. Following are prescriptions to address some of the biggest problems:

Return to common sense and purge political correctness.

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta frets that being more suspicious of Arab males than 12-year-old girls will lead to World War II-style internment camps for Muslims.When asked several months ago on ?60 Minutes? if elderly white women and young Muslim men should be treated the same at the airport security gate, he answered ?Basically, I would hope so.? The President praises Mr.Mineta for outstanding performance.

As William Lind of the Free Congress Foundation realizes, The same government that wants to invade Iraq is too intimidated by political correctness to provide homeland security by profiling terrorists. The government?s feeble efforts to protect our own perimeter spread fear and erode loyalties by telling patriotic citizens that their own government does not or cannot differentiate between patriots and terrorists.? In a small bit of encouraging news, the government has announced plans to fingerprint and photograph men who are citizens of countries on an adjustable terror watch list. No, racial profiling isn?t the answer. But terrorist profiling is. And that means being wary of young Arab-looking men. It?s reality.

Eliminate terrorist training camps for real.

The United States ?should immediately tell all nations that have terrorist training camps on their territory that they should get rid of them,? declares Cliff May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. ?We should tell these countries we would like them to take care of the camps on their own. If they don?t, we should tell them: ?We are going to violate your sovereignty to eliminate them if you do not.?We should give them a limited amount of time. If they don?t comply, we should have contingency plans to eliminate the camps through bombing or commando raids.

?There is a lot of talk about the recruitment of terrorists, but you can?t become a terrorist unless you?re trained to be one. You need training to become a sniper or a suicide bomber. You have to go someplace where they teach you. It is vital that there be no such places in the world within the next six months.?

Give security clearances to local police and plan statewide responses.

?What?s important is trust and inclusion,? says Edward Davis, police superintendent of Lowell, Massachusetts. ?That only happens through face-to-face contact. It?s important that local police have security clearances. I have one and it makes me feel like I?m in the game. The joint task forces are working pretty well here in Massachusetts.

?And there has to be more discussion of regional responses to incidents. Jurisdictional issues have to be ironed out. There should be response scenarios that are clear, that can be trained, and that take care of the communications and coordination problems that can happen. If I had 1,000 police officers here tomorrow, I wouldn?t really know how to coordinate them. You need a plan in advance. Not a complicated one, but a plan nonetheless. We need to do a better job planning for responses on a statewide level.?

Issue national I.D. cards.

National I.D. cards are a scary thought for many Americans, conjuring up images of Big Brother and George Orwell?s dystopia. Enough with the hysteria already. ?Like it or not,? points out my colleague Eli Lehrer, who founded the Heritage Foundation?s Excellence in Policing Project and has written extensively about national identity cards, ?Americans already have national I.D. cards. When they travel overseas, open a bank account, start a new job, or buy a gun, U.S. citizens need to provide state-issued identification. A citizen who gets stopped by the police and can?t produce a drivers? license, passport, or Social Security card will often have to spend the night in jail.? It?s hard to argue that this constitutes government power run amok.

A national I.D. card, far from robbing Americans of freedom or privacy, would simply make it much easier for police to tell the majority of law-abiding people from the small proportion of criminals and terrorists in our midst who are capable of doing real harm. It would make us safer?and that makes us freer.

Stop pretending that Saudi Arabia is our friend.

As former assistant secretary of defense Frank Gaffney, Jr., now president of the Center for Security Policy, explains: ?Saudi Arabia?s alignment with America?s enemies extends far beyond the anti-U.S. and anti-Western propaganda that is also ceaselessly disseminated by the kingdom?s government-run media. For some fifty years, Saudi officials, royal family, and what passes for private sector institutions have been expending untold sums to promote the state religion?a virulently intolerant strain of Islam known as Wahabism. Washington has long ignored the individual and cumulative effects of such spending on Wahabi proselytizing, recruiting, indoctrination, training, and equipping of adherents who embrace the sect?s injunction to convert or kill infidels.

?In the wake of terrorism made possible?or at least abetted?at home and abroad by such Saudi-connected activities, the United States can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to this profoundly unfriendly behavior. That is particularly true insofar as there is reason to believe that Wahabi enterprises are giving rise to perhaps the most insidious enemy of all: an Islamist Fifth Column operating within this country.?

As of the printing of this issue, the White House continues to call the Saudis ?good partners? in the war on terror.

Pray that the State Department doesn?t destroy us.

The State Department is directly responsible for issuing visas to the 19 September 11 hijackers, almost all of which should have been flatly rejected. (See ?Welcoming the Enemy? on page 34.) The consular officers who issued the visas each received bonuses of $10,000 to $15,000. The State Department?s Visa Express program, which let Saudi citizens apply for visas at Saudi travel agencies and provided even fewer safeguards than the regular system, continued for almost a whole year after 9/11.

The Homeland Security Act includes stricter visa controls for Saudi citizens?but only by accident. If the State Department had had its way, those controls would have been wiped clear off the bill: State objected to the singling out of Saudi Arabia?the country from which came 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. Joel Mowbray, who first broke the visa scandal story in National Review, reports that the department was assured, incredibly, that the Saudi provision would be struck from the legislation. Only due to ?the last-minute confusion and the rush to get the mammoth bill passed during the lameduck session,? he says, did the provision stay put.

Unfazed by even the most egregious breaches of security, Secretary of State Colin Powell continues to wax poetic: ?From the mountains of Afghanistan to the valleys of Bosnia to the plains of Africa to the forests of Asia and around the world we are on the ground working with our Muslim partners to expand to the circle of peace, the circle of prosperity, the circle of freedom.?

Secretary Powell also wants more of these ?partners? on the ground right here in the U.S., pledging to expand programs to bring more Islamic political and religious leaders as well as journalists and teachers to America.

Get serious about border control and immigration .

The Immigration and Naturalization Service is guilty of the same reckless sloppiness in approving documents as the State Department. Of course, the INS is also understaffed and underfunded?something, which could start to be fixed immediately (and should have been started on September 12, 2001). The administration seems to lack any real sense of urgency about the country?s porous borders, and the lack of cooperation from our Mexican and, especially, Canadian neighbors.

?When it comes to immigration, the President?s approach is guided by compassion and fairness,? says Sharon Castillo, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. No word on how fair it is to Americans who died at the hands of terrorists who could have been kept out of the country.

Recognize the threat posed by Muslim organizations, Islamic centers, and mosques in our midst.

Terror expert Steven Emerson founded The Investigative Project to collect data on militant Muslim groups in the U.S. In his book American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, he points to nine ?terrorist support networks? based in America: Muslim Arab Youth Association, the American Islamic Group, Islamic Cultural Workshop, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council, Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the American Muslim Alliance, and the Islamic Society of North America.

These groups, Emerson says, use ?the laws, freedoms, and loopholes of the most liberal nation on earth to help finance and direct one of the most violent international terrorism groups in the world.? ?Operating in the freewheeling and tolerant environment of the United States, bin Laden was able to set up a whole array of ?cells? in a loosely organized network that included Tucson, Arizona; Brooklyn, New York; Orlando, Florida, Dallas, Texas; Santa Clara, California; Columbia,

Missouri; and Herndon, Virginia.?

Start pointing fingers.

No reform or security measure is going to mean very much if the people who egregiously violate the most basic rules, and those in charge of them, aren?t held accountable, which in most cases means being fired. After 9/11, the administration and members of Congress bent over backwards to insist that no one was ?finger pointing? or ?seeking to lay blame.? But accountability is precisely what?s needed.

Minneapolis FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and her team did everything in their power to get authorization from FBI headquarters merely to search the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker. They were stalled and denied at every turn, despite providing clear evidence for the necessity of the search. One supervisory special agent in particular was responsible for the travesty. FBI Director Robert Mueller?s response when Rowley?s memo made the front pages: Announcing plans to hire more agents and buy new computers. Oh, and he promoted that supervisory agent.

Calling for Mueller?s resignation back in May, the Wall Street Journal pointed out the obvious: ?If Mueller had wanted to send a message to change the FBI mindset he would have fired the supervisory special agent who ignored the Minneapolis warnings on Moussaoui.? To make matters worse, Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft did not inform the President of the debacle for seven months. As long as Robert Mueller is allowed to keep his job, the FBI?s credibility is non-existent. The White House?s response: praise all around.

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From: Zahra Al Faruq <zahra27january@y...
Date: Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:58 am
Subject: Mujaheed, WELCOME TO PARADISE !!

Assalamu'alaikum warohmatulllohi wabarokatuhu

Mukmin and mujahid, WELCOME TO PARADISE !!!

Paradise

According to Quran and Sunnah

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:51, Narrated Abu Huraira

The Prophet said, "A place in Paradise as small as the bow or lash of one of you is better than all the world and whatever is in it"

The Noble Qur'an - Al-Mu'minun 23:8-11

Those who are faithfully true to their trusts and to their covenants; And those who strictly guard their (five compulsory congregational) prayers (at their fixed stated hours). These are indeed the inheritors. Who shall inherit the Firdaus (Paradise). They shall dwell therein forever.

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:569, Narrated Abu Huraira

Then Allah [swt] will say (to him): 'I have forbidden Paradise for the disbelievers.'

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 6:373, Narrated Abu Huraira

The Prophet said, "Paradise and the Fire (Hell) argued, and the Fire (Hell) said, 'I have been given the privilege of receiving the arrogant and the tyrants.' Paradise said, 'What is the matter with me? Why do only the weak and the humble among the people enter me?' On that, Allah said to Paradise, 'You are My Mercy which I bestow on whoever I wish of my servants.' Then Allah said to the (Hell) Fire, 'You are my (means of) punishment by which I punish whoever I wish of my slaves. And each of you will have its fill.' As for the Fire (Hell), it will not be filled till Allah puts His Foot over it whereupon it will say, 'Qati! Qati!' At that time it will be filled, and its different parts will come closer to each other; and Allah will not wrong any of His created beings. As regards Paradise, Allah will create a new creation to fill it with."

Descriptions of Paradise

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:474, Narrated Anas bin Malik , see also Bukhari 6:403, Quran 56:30

The Prophet said, "There is a tree in Paradise (which is so big and huge that) if a rider travels in its shade for one hundred years, he would not be able to cross it."

Hadith - Mishkat, Narrator AbuHurayrah , transmitted by Tirmidhi and Darimi

Allah's Messenger said, "The inhabitants of Paradise are hairless, beardless and have black eyes, their youth does not pass away and their garments do not wear out."

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:479, Narrated Sahl bin Sad

The Prophet said, "Paradise has eight gates, and one of them is called Ar-Raiyan through which none will enter but those who observe fasting." The Prophet also said, "If a person spends two different kinds of something (for Allah's cause), he will be called from the gates of Paradise."

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:546, Narrated Anas , also in Bukhari 6:7

...the first meal of the people of Paradise will be Extra-lobe (caudate lobe) of fish-liver.

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:543, Narrated Abu Huraira , see also Bukhari 4:544

...Any person who will enter Paradise will resemble Adam (in appearance and figure). People have been decreasing in stature since Adam's creation.

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:464, Narrated 'Imran bin Husain , see also Bukhari 7:124, 7:125

The Prophet said, "I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women."

The Noble Qur'an - Al-Ghaashiyah 88:10-16

10. In a lofty Paradise.

11. Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood,

12. Therein will be a running spring,

13. Therein will be thrones raised high,

14. And cups set at hand.

15. And cushions set in rows,

16. And rich carpets (all) spread out.

The First Group to Enter Paradise

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:468, Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Apostle said, "The first group (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like the moon when it is full. They will not spit or blow their noses or relieve nature. Their utensils will be of gold and their combs of gold and silver; in their centers the aloe wood will be used, and their sweat will smell like musk. Everyone of them will have two wives; the marrow of the bones of the wives' legs will be seen through the flesh out of excessive beauty. They (i.e. the people of Paradise) will neither have differences nor hatred amongst themselves; their hearts will be as if one heart and they will be glorifying Allah in the morning and in the evening."

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 4:464, Narrated 'Imran bin Husain

The Prophet said, "Verily! 70,000 or 700,000 of my followers will enter Paradise altogether; so that the first and the last amongst them will enter at the same time, and their faces will be glittering like the bright full moon."

Many Paradises

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 5:318, Narrated Anas

Haritha was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Badr, and he was a young boy then. His mother came to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! You know how dear Haritha is to me. If he is in Paradise, I shall remain patient, and hope for reward from Allah, but if it is not so, then you shall see what I do?" He said, "May Allah be merciful to you! Have you lost your senses? Do you think there is only one Paradise? There are many Paradises and your son is in the (most superior) Paradise of Al-Firdaus."

A Ticket to Paradise

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 2:463, Narrated Anas bin Malik , see also Bukhari 2:340

Allah's apostle said, "Any Muslim in whose three children died before the age of puberty will be granted Paradise by Allah because of His mercy to them."

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 1:35, Narrated Abu Huraira

The Prophet said, "The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostles, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr). Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind any sariya going for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allah's cause and then made alive, and then martyred and then made alive, and then again martyred in His cause."

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 3:894, Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Apostle said, "Allah has ninety-nine names, i.e. one-hundred minus one, and whoever knows them will go to Paradise." (Please see Hadith No. 419 Vol. 8)

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 8:419, Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah has ninety-nine Names, i.e., one hundred minus one, and whoever believes in their meanings and acts accordingly, will enter Paradise; and Allah is Witr (one) and loves 'the Witr' (i.e., odd numbers).

Hadith - Transmitted by Tirmidhi, Narrated Umm Salamah

The Prophet said: If a woman dies while her husband was pleased with her, she will enter Paradise.

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 8.481, Narrated Sahl bin Sad

Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever can guarantee (the chastity of) what is between his two jaw-bones and what is between his two legs (i.e. his tongue and his private parts), I guarantee Paradise for him."

Related Link: Paradise Described in the Quran

Action Items
Turn your desires to Paradise and not the dunya.

Strive to be in the first group of believers to enter Paradise.
Memorize the Ninety-nine Names of Allah, subhana watala, making dhikr regularly. Notice, however, that the hadith does not state that the muslim who merely has the Names memorized will enter Paradise, but the muslim who knows the 99 Names. How do you define knows? ... Allahu Alam.
Strive to please your husband and do not be ungrateful.
Strictly adhere to the five daily prayers at the fixed times.
Only participate in Jihad with a pure heart, and not with the intentions to die, for that can become suicidal, and committing suicide robs you of paradise. Simply do not be afraid to die in the cause of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala

ALLOHU AKBARR !!

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