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.

[RightWhale]

DEBKA is the Art Bell of news sources.

[cyncooper]

I hope you read my post. I did not endorse them.

I merely said I wouldn't put them on the list of "do not post from this source".

I do not go to them and I do not rely on them. I just notice from time to time they actually get a scoop. That's it. I do not care for Art Bell and I am NOT a kook by any stretch of the imagination.

[Nov3]

The divers are for lakes in the Adirondacks

[demsux]

Hey cyncooper, I'm with you on this one...disregard the really "out there" stuff, but sometimes they nail it.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

[RightWhale]

I am NOT a kook

Of course you aren't. Neither am I. Neither is Art Bell. Alqaida is, though, all of them.

[cyncooper]

Thank you.

Same to you.

[cyncooper]

Alqaida is, though, all of them.

The ultimate in kookery! For sure.

[mindspy]

For someone who despises the West and progress, OBL apparently sees the dentist regularly. Most of those poor people of the ME have barely a tooth in their mouths, yet this guy has full set of straight pearly whites.

[FairOpinion]

Don't pay any attention to the Debka haters.

People with open minds do as you do, read all sources and decide.

As I pointed out in an earlier post, Debka first broke the latest AQ threat back on Nov. 3rd. It took a month and a half for HSD and main media to react and acknowledge the threat.

And there were a number of other times Debka was correct and it took months before other sources caught up with it.

Debka doesn't just report events which already happened, they also do intel analysis, which by its nature is not fully reliable and sometimes the fact that it's reported changes things.

[blam]

"Destroyed by Allah, as a lesson to the faithful to beware the hubris of false teachings."

Yup, it will come from the sky like that stupid meteorite rock that they worship. The meteorite fell in Iraq about 2200BC (The angel Gabriel was the meteorite. Abraham gave a fragment of it to Mohammad.) See below:

Disaster That Struck The Ancients

[knak]

I'd say welcome to FR, but........

[judicial meanz]

Oh for goodness sakes.

And you actually believe that screed?

[carl in alaska]

"The Muslims are humiliated by the invasion of Iraq..."

Not true. They know Iraq will be much better off without Saddam. They know that some kind of democractic government will be far better than Saddam's murderous regime that killed 10,000 Iraqis every month. You don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

[knak]

shaddduuuppp

[HitmanLV]

First of all, this is more AQ bluster than anything else. They have been tough talking for over 2 years now and have barely managed to pull of a mission to vandalize Van Cortland Park, let alone destroy NYC.

Second, don't get me wrong, but destroying NYC does not mean the end of the USA. How they could draw that conclusion is immature to me.

Bust guess is NYC still stands on Feb 3rd, and some pent up, giggly, and posturing guys in dirty nightshirts crawl back in their hole to plot more evil things to do to us.

[Destructor]

"They're actually going to drop the biggest, most hideous, most horrorific bomb on New York yet: Michael Jackson's latest CD."

That's right. "Jacko" joined Nation of Islam. He's one of them!

[HitmanLV]

Grow up.

Even a nuclear attack by a terrorist organization that completely destroyes nyc will not result in us nuking Mecca.

It won't happen, sorry. Nor should it.

A severe and violent response would happen, of course. But this would be no reason to nuke Mecca - the folks in Mecca would likely have had nothing to do with it.

[judicial meanz]

The mojhadin claim to represent Allah and the highest struggle, but in fact they murder and kill muslims as well as others to advance a political agenda that would eventually place the so-called muhjadeen in the ruling class. Whats the difference between Usama and Hitler or Stalin? None.

They scapegoat Israelis and Americans to collate their support, which is a primary tactic of totalitarian rise to power-forming a common enemy. They attack the legitimacy of Israel because they cannot stand the fact Israel violated their sacred attempt at forming an UMMA. The tactics are classically totalitarian, anti-semitic, and anti-American.

They claim to advance justice, but instead they advance injustice, inequality, slavery, and dhimmitude. Jihadis enslave, murder, humiliate, and plunder. They adhere to no rules of a civilized society, and no rules of warfare. They are barbarians, of the truest kind. They are also cowards who hide under a cloak of supposed holiness to commit atrocities.

They deserve to be put down with no mercy, and have the heart burned out of your murderous movement so thoroughly that it will never rise again. God willing, I hope I see it.

The Mojhadin claim they will win this war, but their illustrious leader is crying out to get people to join him, and fellow Muslims in Iraq who are considered apostate because they dont subscribe to this murderous cult of death are dying from radical islamic hands.

You fool no one.

Spare me the rudimentary remarks about soft Americans, lack of morals, and all that, too. I have my faith, my beliefs, and I would fight and die for them.Other peoples have underestimated Americans out of arrogance and lost. They are no different.