Al Qaeda Threatens To Nuke New York By February 2nd (jihadi site, via Milan paper, via Debka)

Debka.com ^ | 01-01-04

[PaulaB]

The banner headline spread across the front page of Il Giornale, the respected Milan daily reads:

“Al Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days. Threat on the Internet. Countdown begins.”

The threat was contained in a video clip featured on a web site associated with the fundamentalist terror group. It announced al Qaeda plans to destroy New York in a nuclear blast on February 2. Il Giornale claims the FBI blocked and removed the web site.

The video clip showed three possible scenarios: 1. A bomb or giant fireball from the skies that will cover the metropolis with a radioactive cloud. 2. A storm of radioactive clouds that will topple skyscrapers one by one, along with the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. 3. An explosion on board a charter aircraft that will cause a radioactive cloud to spread over the city.

The video clip was accompanied by large, red-lettered Arabic captions saying: “If God wills it, the end of America is near.”

DEBKAfile’s counter-terrorism sources say they cannot verify the authorship or gauge the seriousness of the threat because the Internet site is no longer accessible. But the report appeared in a newspaper widely viewed as the flagship of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Such reports - even if not authenticated - tend to contribute to the mounting sense of alarm generated by “Orange Alert” in America and other Western countries.

It comes against the backdrop of appeals to New Year revelers to stay away from the traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square, Rome’s St. Peter’s Square, Moscow’s Red Square and London’s Trafalgar Square – or even Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip. All these sites are surrounded by heavy security.

[ChadGore]

Please do not post anything from Debka.

[VOA]

Thanks for posting the picture of the New Year's revelers.
I heard a radio news reporter say that a lot of the Times Square revelers were
wearing orange hats...to show they were making the best of our "Orange" security
situation...and to stick an finger in OBL's eye.

[Gringo1]

Feb 3rd....U.S. Nukes most middle-Eastern Capital cities in response.


Film at 11

[VOA]

Please do not post anything from Debka.

Good suggestion for saving bandwidth.
On the other hand, a Debka post is just about as good as something from The Onion.

[dighton]

I heard a radio news reporter say that a lot of the Times Square revelers were wearing orange hats...to show they were making the best of our "Orange" security situation...and to stick an finger in OBL's eye.

Nice detail. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Dallas59]

DEBKA LATEST HEADLINES:

"THE EARTH MAYBE FLAT"

[freedumb2003]

Debka? I'll wait for confirmation from the World Tribune, Newsmax, or WorldNetDaily.

Or the Onion or World News Weekly.

[nonliberal]

Debka is notoriously unreliable.

[Consort]

I think this was covered in one of the quatrains.

[redhead]

"The video clip showed three possible scenarios: 1. A bomb or giant fireball from the skies that will cover the metropolis with a radioactive cloud. 2. A storm of radioactive clouds that will topple skyscrapers one by one, along with the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. 3. An explosion on board a charter aircraft that will cause a radioactive cloud to spread over the city."

These boys better be able to produce on threats like this, or people are going to start losing faith in them...

[redhead]

"Feb 3rd....U.S. Nukes most middle-Eastern Capital cities in response. Film at 11"

COOL! That's my birthday!!

[Cicero]

Debka cites Il Giornale of Milan. I went there, but couldn't find the article in question. But I don't know what key words to use. Al Qaeda turned up nothing, but they may use another phrase in Italian; New York turned up too much.

Their cited source is here:

http://ilgiorno.quotidiano.net/

[Dallas59]

One Fine Day

Mecca Disappears.....Mystery Deepens.....

[Jhensy]

Somewhere in Damascus, two teenagers are giggling and high-fiving.

[Jeff Gordon]

Once again, the Arabs will humilate themselves by making threats that they can not and will not follow through with.

---

--- The Saudi Amabassador is giving a speech. After his speech he steps down from the podium and meets President Bush. He says to the President...

"Mr. President, there is something about the US that I don't understand."

The President says...

"Well, Mr. Amabassador, I'll be happy top answer your questions."

The Saudi Ambassador then says...

"My nephew goes to college in the US and he says everyone likes this TV show, "Star Trek". But he says that "Star Trek" has blacks, whites, asians, russions, japanese and other nationalities on the show, but they never have any arabs. Can you explain why there are no arabs on Star Trek?"

The President chuckles and say...

"You need to remember, Mr. Amabassador, Star Trek takes place in the future..."

[Dallas59]

http://images.google.com/images?q=arab+star+trek&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off

[b4its2late]

Here's a link to a FR post that shows a countdown clock and video from them....

Though as you'll see the film is a bit outdated....

[Dallas59]

I spoke too soon...
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stblender/videos/type11dubai.avi

[b4its2late]

And they had to steal clips from our movies made here in the good 'ole USA.

[inquest]

They're bluffing. The UN building is in New York.