Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

[Mossad1967]

SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.

The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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[StillProud2BeFree]

Interesting. I've had a similar concern. On Wednesday my kids brought home a brochure (for the second time this year) that has the evacuation plans, and the various emergency shelters in case of a disaster during school hours. I thought it strange that they send them out TWICE in one school year.

[milkncookies]

"i will leave the speaking of words to traveller he more than up to it, may god bless him in every letter he writes to you. and i will lead the speaking with you by the sword always on your head and all who ever puts him self in your corner. and by all that i promise my dear mojahideen and all the lovers of the mojahideen and the army of God and islam that there will be a new tape (AMERICAN HELL IN IRAQ2) very soon, which will be another slap to the armys of saten, and i promise you that you will see things in this tape you never heard of. you will see what the mojahideen in Iraq are doing to your pigs there.

alaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid
Al-Qaida"

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alaaah akbaar
Daleel_Almojahid

[Indie]

AP: THREAT REMAINS

Nothing new here...just a reitteration of what we already know.

[milkncookies]

Fairgrounds anti-terror site

FREDERICK -- The Frederick Fairgrounds has been picked as the site for radiation decontamination and for locating mass casualties in the event hundreds, or thousands, flee to Frederick in the wake of a "dirty bomb" attack in Washington, according to a plan that officials tried to keep secret.

[jerseygirl]

Also, in the wee hours- it seems like there are more frequent emergency broadcasts, statements by Ridge, etc. Just a small matter, but I wonder if the powers that be are trying to gradually expose the populace to the realities that we face.
The article from Frederick apparently said "imminent threat", but at the same time, someone else commented in the article that a db attack is unlikely. Will try to find the article and post it.

[jerseygirl]

Thanks!!!!:) You found it first. What is your take on it?

[TexKat]

GI Dies As Iraq Insurgents Attack Convoys

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked U.S. Army convoys in three areas, killing one soldier and wounding three others Sunday, witnesses and the U.S. command said.

Iraqi policemen survey the damaged police station in the town of Suwayra, some 60 km (36 miles) south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, February 8, 2004. Police said on Sunday that a bomb ripped through the police station, killing three officers and wounding 11. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

[jerseygirl]

re:

"there will be a new tape (AMERICAN HELL IN IRAQ2) very soon, which will be another slap to the armys of saten, and i promise you that you will see things in this tape you never heard of. you will see what the mojahideen in Iraq are doing to your pigs there."

Was there any followup on that Fox report of bio/chem capable missiles smuggled into Iraq?

[StillProud2BeFree]

There are numerous other postings on this, in Arabic, including one from the Jihad Falcon and one from another poster who has announced other tapes on behalf of Otaibi. Since these postings predate Daleel's I assume that's probably where he got his information. I have yet to see anything posted by Daleel that was posted previously on one of the Arabic language forums. So for me the jury's still out on Daleel. He may be getting his information from the same place as the posters on the other forums - or he may be parrotting their posts. I'm not sure yet.

[milkncookies]

My take on it is that our government either knows for a fact AQ has the ability to detonate a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb inside the U.S. or that they have no evidence or proof to the contrary and so are erring on the side of extreme caution.

Paper says al Qaeda has nukes

Sun 8 February, 2004 17:26

CAIRO (Reuters) - A pan-Arab newspaper says that the al Qaeda organisation led by Osama bin Laden bought tactical nuclear weapons from Ukraine in 1998 and is storing them in safe places for possible use.

There was no independent corroboration of the report, which appeared in the newspaper al-Hayat under an Islamabad dateline on Sunday and cited sources close to al Qaeda, which the United States blames for the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The newspaper said al Qaeda bought the weapons in suitcases in a deal arranged when Ukrainian scientists visited the Afghan city of Kandahar in 1998. The city was then a stronghold of the Taliban movement, which was allied with al Qaeda.

[milkncookies]

Thanks SP2BF. Whether he is parrotting or not, has he been wrong or shown to have overtly mislead with any of his postings?

[jerseygirl]

Also, today a reputed US "terror expert" is warning of radiological attacks- and this is being broadcast and written about openly- rather than the usual hidden-on-the-last-page placement.

[jerseygirl]

Recall this information, which apparently came to light in the Fall? (Pravda alert.)

11:14 2002-09-13

200 Soviet nukes lost in Ukraine

A nuke scandal is gathering steam

Pyotr Simonenko, the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party released a sensational statement on Wednesday. In his words, there were 2400 nuclear warheads in Ukraine, although the export of only 2200 of them was officially documented. Simonenko claimed that nobody knows where 200 Soviet-era nukes in Ukraine are.

The official reaction followed the next day, but it was a rather weak one. Deputy chief of the Ukrainian Army Headquarters, Nikolay Goncharenko, declared that Simonenko-s statement regarding the disappearance of the nuclear weapons from the territory of Ukraine was absolutely groundless. The high-ranking military official stated that all weapons of the trilateral agreement concerning the execution of the contract for strategic offensive arms had been handed over to Russia. Ok, but how come the leader of Ukrainian communists counted 200 nukes? It seems that the nuke scandal will continue.

Andrey Lubensky
PRAVDA.Ru
Kiev

[milkncookies]

Police hunt for missing Putin rival

Sun 8 February, 2004 16:50
By Richard Ayton

(Snip) "MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have launched a hunt for a political rival of President Vladimir Putin set to challenge him in forthcoming elections after his wife reported him missing since Thursday night. Ivan Rybkin, a strong critic of Putin, is one of a finalised list of candidates for a March 14 election which Putin is widely expected to win easily, securing a second term in the Kremlin." (End Snip)

There are no "elections" in Russia.

[TexKat]

Liz, found this article while doing research on this topic.

"The Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship"

PRESS-RELEASE #423

FROM MAY 16, 2003

The Tomb-like Silence of the Russian Authorities Confirms the Involvement of the Special Services of Russia into the terrorist act at Dubrovka

The Appeal of the inter-regional public organization "The Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship"

On April 28, 2003 in issue #30 of "The Novaya Gazeta" there appeared the article "Who Remains Alive" written by an observer of the newspaper Anna Politkovskaya. It states that the hijacking of the Theater Center at Dubrovka was, at least, controlled by the Russian special services. Anna Politkovskaya managed to meet Khanpash Terkibaev who claimed to have been a member of the terrorist group. He also claimed to have followed orders of some special service. In April 2003 Terkibaev was a member of the Russian delegation at the European Council as a "representative of the Chechen public". At present Terkibaev is a special correspondent of "The Russian newspaper". Terkibaev's name was in the list of the members of Baraev's group that had been published by "The Izvestia" not long before the the Theater Center assault held by the special forces. According to Anna Politkovskaya, "The Novaya Gazeta" has got some other evidence that Terkibaev was among terrorists.

Taking into account that all the terrorists who could have given the evidence of the exclusive importance to investigate the terrorist act and to find out the people behind the group, were shot dead by the police special forces during the Theater Center assault, that was committed in spite of the fact that the majority of the terrorists were under the influence of some poisoning gas and thus were absolutely defenseless at the time of the assault, we consider Anna Politkovskaya's version of the terrorist act more than probable.

It goes without doubt, that the information reported by Politkovskaya is both of the great public importance and of the exclusive importance for the national safety of the Russian Federation. "The Novaya Gazeta" has appealed to the General Procurator Office of the Russian Federation to investigate the information tackled in the article. The chairman of the All-Russia social movement "For the Human Rights" Lev Ponomaryov, the manager of the museum and The Social Center named after A.D.Sakhsrov Yury Samodurov and the writer Alexander Tkachenko have demanded the same.

There has been no respond from the Russian authorities yet to the social appeals of the leaders of the Russian human rights movement. The General Procurator Office has done nothing they should have done to check the information tackled in the article. They have interrogated neither Anna Politkovskaya nor Khanpash Terkibaev; they have not demanded "The Novaya Gazeta" to put at their disposal all the additional information concerning the case that was received in the course of the journalist investigation whereas as it goes from a number of publications the editors of the newspaper have it at their disposal. The silence is kept by all the branches of power from the president and his administration that seem to pay no attention to the severe accusations against them and to the so-called "groups of opposition" in the State Duma that have not even tried to start the process of the parliamentary investigation. The silence is kept by the majority of mass media. And what is worse the silence is kept be the Russian society.

The passiveness of the law-enforcement structures and the silence of the official power in connection with both the present situation and the "Ryazan training" accident of 1999 when some members of the FSB were first detained on a charge of a terrorist act and then released, confirms the gravest suspicion that the Russian special forces must have been involved into planning and carrying out the terrorist act at Dubrovka and the explosion of dwelling houses in some cities of Russia in autumn of 1999.

We think that the President of the Russian Federation has no longer any moral right to head the Russian state as we have to establish a fact that he was either involved into preparing that "controlled terrorist act" or isn't able to control neither Russian special forces nor his own nearest circle of advises and consequently the situation in the country.

We also think that the Russian political spectrum lacks the really democratic opposition and that all the parliamentary groups claiming themselves the opposition are free to move as little as the Kremlin allows them.

To sum it up, all what is going on confirms the old idea that there is no public society in Russia able to influence the situation in the country. And it makes it possible for the Russian authorities to use terrorism as their political method to reach their own political aims contradictory to the interests of the Russian society, to the safety of the citizens and the state.

We appeal to all the people who are not indifferent to the fate of the country, to the future it is going to have, to everybody who has not lost the feeling of self-protection and worries about their children's and their own safety. The time has come not only to express the attitude to the so-called ruling elite and their policy that is getting more and more alike an endless special operation. It is necessary to do our best to deprive those who come from the secret service with the present president as their head of the possibility to make their political capital on their co-citizens' blood. It is necessary to do our outmost to make them leave for ever. Being realists and understanding that our voice is hardly to be heard and that the country is going to face the dictatorship, we consider it our moral obligation to make our position known.

Co-chairmen of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship

Stanislav Dmitrievsky,

Imran Ezhiev.

[oceanview]

who?

[knak]

Arab Newspaper Says Al Qaeda Has Ukrainian Nukes

U.S. Terror Expert Warns of Dirty Bomb

[jerseygirl]

Thanks for the links- just finished reading them- then was briefly distracted by Daleel's daily rants. I think there is a reason so many articles and experts are referring to nukes recently.

[milkncookies]

Think we are being prepared to expect the unthinkable?

[milkncookies]

Have you also read the link in #1014?