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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Previous threads

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST...

KUSA.com (AP): "DIA TO INSTALL BOMB-RESISTANT GLASS AT TERMINALS" (Updated February 7, 2004) (Read More...)

WTOP.com (AP): "DC POLICE TRAVEL TO RUSSIA TO STUDY SUBWAY ATTACK" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: " FBI spokesman Joe Valiquette points out that both D.C. and New York have subway systems, and that both cities are considered prime targets for terrorists.") (February 7, 2004) (Read More...)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a GUARDIAN.co.uk article: "TERRORIST BID TO BUILD BOMBS IN MID-FLIGHT" (February 8, 2004) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "MAN EVADED L.A. AIRPORT SECURITY; FOUND WITHOUT TICKET OR ID IN PLANE BATHROOM" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "This is not a story about a jihad incident. But it is one about how much airport security has improved since 9/11. From AP: A man walked past two security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport last month and boarded a plane without a ticket or identification before he was caught hiding inside a bathroom before takeoff, authorities said. The FBI and Transportation Security Administration are investigating how Kareem Thomas, 19, of Decatur, Ga., was able to make it all the way onto the Atlanta-bound Delta Airlines flight at a time of heightened security at the airport.") (February 7, 2004)

[jerseygirl]

Guesses- Miami or Philly

[MamaDearest]

So much for the "freedom" of speech in the USSR. Let alone the spirit of competition.

[jerseygirl]

Yes. One looks like a blueprint.

[nwctwx]

bookmark

[jerseygirl]

From NEIN, I inferred that part of it was the two pictures posted by LayOutGuru2. Maybe I misunderstood. Paging Mr. Lomax .

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST...

JIHAD WATCH.org (WORLD TRIBUNE): "STILL BREATHING THREATS AND MURDER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," the statement said. In its statement, Al Qaida termed Sanaa as the second most cooperative partner in the U.S.-led war against the Islamic insurgency movement. The group said Pakistan was the chief ally of the United States.") (February 5, 2004)

CNN.com: "GERMAN COURT CLEARS 9/11 SUSPECT" (February 5, 2004)

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Dispatch Series - No. 655: "NEW MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER: RESISTANCE IN IRAQ AND PALESTINE IS LEGITIMATE; AMERICA IS SATAN; ISLAM WILL INVADE AMERICA AND EUROPE" (February 4, 2004)

TOWNHALL.com: "A QUESTION ABOUT HIZBALLAH AND MEXICO" by Terence Jeffrey (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Politicians serious about preventing another Sept. 11 should listen to the leader of Hizballah, and then read an indictment unsealed this month in Detroit.") (January 28, 2004)

FBI.com: "Statement of Donna A. Bucella Director Terrorist Screening Center before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" (January 26, 2004)

[LayoutGuru2]

Here are some disturbing stills from the IntelCenter pdf file.

[JustPiper]

MSNBC will be showing it at 1AM EST

[Nemo1USA]

maybe sometime in the future.......

[Nemo1USA]

No just always "knew" "sigh" that the wee PCs were being used for good wholesome astronomy "look sees". I often wonder way they have gotten to.

I also have 2 bridges, a swamp, and a canyon, need 1 ?

March 1997


U.S. Investigating Computer Exports To Russian Nuclear Weapons Labs

Howard Diamond

ANXIOUS TO test the safety and reliability of its nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing, Russia has acquired five American made supercomputers, according to Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM).

The acquisitions of the supercomputers for use in simulating nuclear explosions were deliberately publicized at a January 13 press conference by the head of MINATOM, Viktor Mikhailov. Russia claims to have four Silicon Graphics "Power Challenge L" deskside servers, together capable of more than 4,400 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPS), and one IBM Corporation RS 6000 SP system capable of 10,000 MTOPS.

Russian attempts to buy similar machines directly from IBM and the Convex Company, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, were turned down in October 1996 by the Commerce Department as inconsistent with U.S. export control policy. Official U.S. policy is not to provide either classified information or supercomputers to Russian stockpile security efforts.

The Gore Chernomyrdin Commission's Energy Policy Committee has held four meetings since December 1995 where U.S. and Russian experts have conferred on scientific cooperation related to maintaining the safety and reliability of nuclear arsenals under the terms of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). During the commission's eighth meeting in February 1997, collaboration on three joint projects was agreed to under the conditions that the scientists only work with unclassified information and on issues not directly tied to the development of nuclear weapons.

The four Silicon Graphics machines were sent in September 1996 to the All Russian Scientific Research Institute for Technical Physics, which is housed at Chelyabinsk 70, one of Russia's most prominent nuclear weapons laboratories. The computers, worth $650,000, were sold by Silicon Graphics without a license from the Commerce Department with the understanding they would be used for "modeling of earth water pollution caused by extension of radioactive substance." According to the company, in addition to getting this end use statement, the firm checked to make certain the Russian institute was not on the U.S. government's "Denied Parties List."

A Commerce Department spokesperson said that checking the Denied Parties List, while necessary, does not by itself fulfill an exporter's responsibility. "The law requires the exporter to know the customer. They should have called [the Commerce Department] if they weren't sure," the spokesperson said. Current export controls allow supercomputers capable of 2,000 to 7,000 MTOPS to be sold to Russia without a license from the Commerce Department, provided the seller makes certain that the end user is civilian and the computer's end use will not relate to weapons of mass destruction.

Little information is available about the $7 million IBM system, whose sale was reportedly arranged by a European middleman. According to Russian officials, the IBM machine, which was shipped to Arzamas 16, offers a 10 fold improvement in computing power over any previously used Russian system.

At the urging of U.S. computer manufacturers, the Clinton administration substantially loosened U.S. export controls on supercomputers in October 1995. The old limit for supercomputers had moved up slowly from 80 MTOPS in 1992 to 260 MTOPS in early 1994. The new regulations tie licensing requirements to concerns about proliferation, and shift much of the responsibility for assessing potential buyers to the exporters themselves. Friendly or allied countries face few or no restrictions, while "rogue" states are effectively excluded from all computer sales. In the middle are states like Russia, that either have weapons of mass destruction or are believed to be seeking them. For such countries, licensing and speed restrictions depend on the computer's proposed end use and end user.

The departments of Commerce and Justice are investigating the Silicon Graphics sale, and plan to send a team to Russia to conduct interviews and collect documents. The focus of the investigation will be on determining the intent and circumstances of the sale, specifically, to see if the California based company made a mistake or was duped. Silicon Graphics has said it is cooperating with the government's inquiry and maintains it "fully complied with the law in making this export."

Supercomputers can be used to test mathematical models of nuclear explosions, which, by comparing data from the models to data from actual tests and expected values, can be used to assess the safety and reliability of stockpiled weapons. Officials responsible for managing nuclear stockpiles depend on computer modeling to determine if weapons that have undergone changes due to aging or environmental factors will still perform reliably. Computer modeling is also critical to assessing new warhead designs without testing.

[LayoutGuru2]

Yes. One looks like a blueprint.

It certainly is. Have you taken a look at the Intel Center report yet?

[jerseygirl]

I tried to read it, program shut down.

[Nemo1USA]

btw "way=where"

and was this not during the Clinton Administration?

Yes why Yes I think it was.

[jerseygirl]

Here's another lovely comment from Daleel. The apologies toward the end are creepy.

02-08-2004 10:08 PM



daleelAlmojahid
la elaah elaa alaaah

Registered: Dec 2003
Location:
Posts: 115
nop i know what i am talking about
mojahideen who were cought latly were all between the ages of 20-30 the the top leaders are all young!!!

so take out 7 or 12 years and what do you get!!!

i am telling you all and i have told you before muslims have waken up from thier sleep and the armys of islam are moving towords your lands now just like you moved towords our lands and i will say this again for the last time,
what you saw in 9-11 was just a salp for everything you have done before it in the muslim world.

but what you will see will be the real punishment for the rest of your actions,
dont ever think that our muslim blood is cheeper then your blood.

a pigs blood and a humans blood are not the same.

and to thoes who have nothing to do with the war and they are in peace with us although the whole world right now is against us, i have this to say,

just like america killed more than 2 million inocent children and women in Iraq, palistine and afghanistan,dont blame us for the inocent deaths when the time comes.


alaaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid


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Daleel_Almojahid

[Donna Lee Nardo]

JustPiper referred to this wonderful wide-ranging thread elsewhere on Free Republic as the "Daily Terror Threat." I think that title is a great idea for the name of this thread because it so aptly and succinctly sums up all the many new, continuing and past threats emanating everywhere that are covered on this far-reaching thread. Any other thoughts on this?

[StillProud2BeFree]

That thing that looks like a floor plan is the diagram that they used for the Riyadh attack in November according to the video.

No doubt analysts and linguists are working on the tapes to try and decipher any messages that are hidden within them.

I would doubt very seriously that you'll see any confirmed details released publicly other than that the messages exist.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

By the way, that question in my prior post is for everybody here! The "ALL" did not show because there was no room in the TO: line.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"I would doubt very seriously that you'll see any confirmed details released publicly other than that the messages..."

Aha. But, will we see any new terror alerts forthcoming? Hmmmm, that is the question...

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