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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[Umanbean]

In the Yuma Daily Sun this morning there was a small story about two young women who were caught at the immigration inspection station on I-8 near Winterhaven, CA, (just across the Colorado River from Yuma) with a sizable quanity of ricin or the main components for ricin. Apparently, they were headed east. I don't have the paper with me and the story is not online. The names and ages were given. The names were not arab sounding , but they weren't Britney Williams and Laurie Smith either. What would two nice girls need all that ricin for?

[oceanview]

OK, so they were able to find a homeless man in las vegas with a radium pellet, but there are "4 or 5 terror teams in NJ who may or may not have nuclear weapons", and they can't find out anything about them? no arrests, no roundups for questioning, no detection, nothing. just a conference call?

[knak]

do you or anyone else know if the terror alert is being lowered?

[TexKat]

Salafi Group for Call and Combat in Algeria Islamic cell 'had Disneyland and Las Vegas as targets'

(Filed: 30/08/2002)

The suspected cell - some of whom worked at Detroit airport - are accused of having surveillance videos of Disneyland in California and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas that law enforcement agents believe were to be the targets of their attacks.

The government said the suspects were members of the Salafi Group for Call and Combat, a Muslim militant group launched in Algeria and supported by Osama bin Laden. They are also accused of trying to recruit terrorists for attacks on a US air base in Turkey and a hospital in Jordan.

Al Ansar Al Islami in Iraq Islamic extremist group says it killed 3 Kurdish leaders

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004

Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia Muslim Unrest Flares in Thailand

06 January 2004

Jan 7 (CSM) - Just as residents of southern Thailand thought the New Year had come peacefully in spite of a holiday terrorism alert, a series of coordinated terror attacks has prompted the government to impose martial law and has renewed fears of resurgent Islamic separatism in the region.

On Monday, bombs killed two policemen in the city of Pattani, near the Malaysian border. The attacks followed violence over the weekend in neighboring Narathiwat Province, where arsonists attacked 20 schools and militants raided an armory, killing four soldiers and stealing more than 100 rifles.

Taliban in Afghanistan Taliban sorry for "mistake" that killed 16

Wed 7 January, 2004 13:08

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ousted Taliban has apologised for a bomb attack in the southern city of Kandahar that killed 16 people, including many children, and called it a botched attempt to target U.S. troops.

The ousted Islamic militia initially denied involvement in Tuesday's explosion near a military compound as children were passing on their way home from school.

The blast came just two days after a new constitution was adopted in Kabul, which Afghans hope will usher in a period of peace and stability after a quarter of a century of bloodshed.

"It was a mistake by our mujahideen (holy warriors)," senior Taliban commander Mullah Sabir Momin said by satellite telephone on Wednesday.

"We wanted to target the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) office in the city, but because of a small mistake, this plan failed," he told Reuters.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front AFP: Mindanao bombing politically motivated

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:48 PM

The Armed Forces said Wednesday that it was inclined to believe that the Sunday bombing incident in Parang, Maguindanao, which killed 16 people, was politically motivated, based on information it has extracted from some injured victims.

Military troops also said the suspects could be renegade antipeace faction group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front with connection to some politicians.

Lt. Col. Daniel Lucero, Armed Forces Public Information Office chief, said they had received reports from 6th Infantry Division based in Maguindanao that some victims of the bombing who could identify the perpetrators had been identified.

Lucero added that some of the victims had already provided information to the local police about the driver of the tricycle used in the bombing.

An Afghan soldier looks at the bombing scene showing a wrecked bicycle near a damaged truck in Kandahar, Afghanistan Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004. A bomb attached to the bicycle killed at least 10 people, most of them children Tuesday, underlining the violence still plaguing Afghanistan two years after the fall of the Taliban. (AP Photo/Noor Khan)

A French gendarme patrols in front of an Air France plane leaving for New York. Authorities across Europe are searching for a passenger who failed to show up for an Air France flight on Christmas Eve, the ABC network reported, adding the male passenger was believed to have connections with al-Qaeda and to have undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan (AFP/File/Thomas Coex)

Kandahar Bomb Was Hidden in Apple Cart

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I found the information.

Commodity Futures Price Quotes for COMEX Gold (February 2004)
Open $423.10
High $425.40
Low $420.50
Last $423.20

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/marketquotes/index.php3?market=GC

This is interesting. According to a Rueters report of yesterday:

"Some dealers said gold could touch a 16-year high of $450 because more investors had diversified out of the tumbling dollar. Fears of fresh attacks on the United States and violence in Iraq were also supporting gold, elevating its safe-haven status."

http://reuters.com/financeArticle.jhtml?storyID=4077447&newsType=usGoldRpt&menuType=markets

According to the COMEX page listed above the futures on Gold is not supposed to hit the neighborhood of $450.00 per ounce until June 2007.

Imagine that...

[Domestic Church]

" Pharmaceutical stockpiles for responding to biological attacks are on transportable trucks at key U.S. military bases."

Any simple way to protect motors from an EMP?

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I have heard nothing about lowering the threat level. I have heard it will stay in place at ORANGE through mid-February.

[StillProud2BeFree]

I was just looking at Foxnews.com and saw the following headlines:

Dirty Bomb Fears Shadowed Holidays
Undercover nuclear scientists with briefcase detectors fanned out across U.S. just before Christmas
Al Qaeda Plans to Bomb London Flights
France Confirms Search for Flight No-Show
U.S. May Be Ready to Lower Terror Alert Level

The final one - US may be ready to lower the terror alert level - just doesn't seem to make sense with the headlines above it.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

To my knowledge it is an active investigation.
'Nuff said.

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks for the links

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Thanks. Historical records are great!

[hummingbird]

I am alone and no longer drive, so only shop 2 or 3 times a year, so I will be able to survive.

nw_arizona_granny (Ruth!), I salute your self-reliance! Will also check out the website you mentioned regarding provisions and survival...thanks.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Short of completely (and I mean not even a pin hole of an opening) lining your garage with copper or some other metal and having a good earth ground, or having a deep cave like Cheyenne Mountain as your personal garage, there is probably no other way to protect a car from a massive EMP.

Just an educated guess.

[TexKat]

Sure freeperfromnj. You can see that they are busy at trying and/or succeeding in some cases of annihilating what they call the infidels. And threatning to come to a city near all of us in the not too distant future.

[cgk]

I know Scarborough is on at the same time, but did you catch Greta last night? She had the brother and sister of the missing pilot of that missing 727 on. It seems the brother heard from a mechanic in South Dakota, before Christmas, that he knew someone who had SEEN THE PLANE IN A HANGAR IN BEIRUT. Then that plane crashed on Christmas Day, out of Benin, west Africa. Then the brother received a call from a reporter out of London who told him the SURVIVING COPILOT OF THE BENIN CRASH CONFIRMED THE PLANE WAS THE ONE HIJACKED OUT OF ANGOLA.

Is this information credible? After all, the majority of the casualties on the Benin crash were Lebanese, and I believe the plane was headed to Beirut "for the holidays." And, from the articles on the crash story, there is a surviving flight attendant who claims there was an explosion before the crash.

[oceanview]

look, I'm not trying to poo-poo this stuff or you personally. but some things are a stretch. I can see why NJ would be a "hotspot", given the large numbers of muslims and proximity to NYC. I would like to know if any of the NJ people on this conference call have moved their families out, because if I heard something like that on a DHS conference call, I'd send my family and close friends to florida in about 10 minutes.

but to use this to slide onto a more pertinent question: why haven't their been more arrests inside the US of cells, cell members or sympathizers? We had the Lackawanna 6 and those people from Portland (?), and not much else. You would think that we would have gathered enough information by now to break down some of the domestic structure of this inside the US, but yet, there appears to be nothing, no arrests. why?

[WestCoastGal]

"In the Yuma Daily Sun this morning there was a small story about two young women who were caught at the immigration inspection station on I-8 near Winterhaven, CA, (just across the Colorado River from Yuma) with a sizable quanity of ricin or the main components for ricin. Apparently, they were headed east. I don't have the paper with me and the story is not online. The names and ages were given. The names were not arab sounding , but they weren't Britney Williams and Laurie Smith either. What would two nice girls need all that ricin for?"

I find this alarming. Why in the world would anyone be carrying this stuff other than with bad intentions?? Keep us informed if you hear anything else, I couldn't find anything online either. Also, is in line with the female bomber theory. They may have recruited women to do their dirty work.

[Domestic Church]

"Anyone already have contingency plans?"

Dressing up like amish?

[Domestic Church]

"an FBI whistleblower claims some Arab-Americans translating Arabic intercepts for the FBI spoke approvingly of the terrorist attacks on America more than two years ago."

Oh my, if this doesn't give you agita nothing will! And it surfaces 2 years later? Do we now have translators who aren't duplicitous? Can Homeland Security draft that Linda gal (who is arab proficient) on FOX?

[WestCoastGal]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916994/posts




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