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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[milkncookies]

Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 Box 4-1: "Looking for a Needle in a Haystack of Needles"

Because of the large amounts of naturally occurring background radiation in urban areas — emitted by everything from granite and ceramic tiles to cancer therapy machines — locating a bomb's radioactive signature in such settings, "is like looking for a needle in a haystack of needles," according to one NEST searcher.

[Velveeta]

Did you try asking Daleel for the password?

[Mossad1967]

Interesting story:

Israel: Air Force Chief Warns of Aerial Terror Attack
03:33 Feb 09, '04 / 17 Shevat 5764

(IsraelNN.com) Air force commander Major-General Dan Halutz warned there is “credible” intelligence information pointing to al-Qaeda plans to enlist fighter pilots to carryout terror attacks against Israel using aircraft, Channel 2 TV News reported on Sunday night.

According to the report, Saudi Arabia foiled at least one al-Qaeda attempt at such an attack.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=57507

[Calpernia]

Poohbah seems to have knowledge of that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1072462/posts?page=1298#1298

[TexKat]

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (pictured) has long been under scrutiny for suspected links to Al-Qaeda. The US-led coalition believe Zarqawi wrote a memo that proposes that Al-Qaeda provoke a Sunni-Shiite conflict to disrupt the planned handover to a transitional government in Iraq

This is an undated file photo released in Amman, Jordan, on Dec. 14. 2002 of Ahmed al-Kalaylah, also known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of operations said Monday Feb. 9, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq that a 17-page letter that U.S. forces confiscated from Hassan Ghul, an Al Qaida suspect in Iraq was believed written by al-Zarqawi. The letter talks about ``a strategy of provoking violence, targeted at Shiites leaders that would result in reprisals against other ethnic groups within the country, ' according to a coalition spokesman. (AP Photo/Petra, HO, File)

[NothingMan]

During the Cold War, these things were reportedly prepositioned (Mitrokhin). The question is how long can they sit dormant. They were placed in secluded areas. Probably not only to escape detection but to facilitate periodic maintenance.

But the raw material was/is the "core" problem.

[milkncookies]

Dated article but still very relevant today. Who here has info on a plutonium implosion device? First I've read about this.

FBI Focus: Portable (Suitcase/Backpack) Nukes

FBI focusing on portable nuke threat
Nicholas Horrock
Senior White House Correspondent
Published 12/21/2001

"During the first week of October, Israel's Mossad was reported to have detained a Palestinian attempting to enter Jerusalem from Ramallah who was wearing such a system on his back. The item was contained in a CIA Daily Threat Report. UPI has several times re-interviewed its sources who insisted that the item was in a such a report the first week of October.

Initially, there were conflicting reports as to whether the pack contained a radiological weapon or a nuclear system. UPI re-interviewed the sources who saw the Daily Report item, and they insisted that the weapon was nuclear, not radiological.

Had the Palestinian been carrying a segment or the whole system? Israel has steadfastly refused to comment, but a former senior CIA official told UPI Sunday "the system is very small and could be easily carried and used by one person." There would be "no necessity to take it in segments."

Another former CIA official said that the Soviet backpack device "was a plutonium implosion" device and, said that UPI's description of it "is accurate. The physics work."

Probst said of the Mossad item, "I don't discount the report at all. If bin Laden were going nuclear, a backpack weapon is the way he would go."

The backpack system remains classified and is not to be confused with a nuclear suitcase bomb, even though the two are often talked of as though they were interchangeable.

...Shays said that the Soviets had even made small nuclear weapons "that look like rocks," a fact confirmed by Lunev." (Oh boy)

[TexKat]

U.S. Disables Rockets Aimed at Iraq City

Mon Feb 9, 9:41 AM ET

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces deactivated several rockets on a road, primed for launch toward a city north of Baghdad, as a United Nations team pressed ahead Monday with its mission to find out if Iraq is ready for early elections.

Meanwhile, two U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded Monday during an explosion while troops were trying to dispose of explosives, a U.S. officer said.

The blast occurred near Sinjar near Mosul in the north of Iraq, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters. Kimmitt said the explosion appeared to have been an accident and not a result hostile action.

The rockets that the forces disabled were found on a road near Diyala University outside Baqouba, and were ready to be fired toward the city, a U.S. Army captain said on condition of anonymity.

Baqouba is 35 miles north of Baghdad and part of the so-called Sunni Triangle, the stronghold of insurgents from the former regime of Saddam Hussein.

The near escape occurred as U.N. experts met with several Iraqi politicians in a second round of meetings to discuss the chances of holding early elections, a source of conflict between the United States and the influential Shiite clergy.

Team leader Lakhdar Brahimi met individually with several members of the U.S.-installed Governing Council to "gather facts," said Ahmad Fawzi, the team's spokesman.

Fawzi added that Brahimi will hold more talks with people across the political spectrum, both inside and outside the Governing Council.

On Sunday, Japan expanded its first military deployment to a combat zone since World War II, and Britain's Prince Charles paid a surprise visit to British troops in southern Iraq.

Iraqi police arrested four people Sunday about 35 miles west of Kirkuk who were traveling in a car with maps identifying military and other targets. They also had a manual for making explosives, said Hadi Mohammed Moustafa, a civil administration official.

U.S. soldiers also exchanged fire with a group of gunmen outside the house of a suspected insurgent in Qadisiyah, 30 miles south of Tikrit, killing one attacker. The dead assailant turned out to have been an active Iraqi police major, the U.S. military said.

Two other assailants were wounded and two were captured, the military said.

In the last 10 months, the U.S.-led occupation authorities have hurriedly recruited and trained about 150,000 Iraqis for police, army and other security forces in preparation for handing back power to a sovereign government by July 1.

But the swift buildup of security forces has led to holes in the process of weeding out Saddam loyalists and insurgency sympathizers.

The transfer of power is becoming a major headache for the U.S.-led coalition and the Governing Council.

The current U.S. plan is to choose legislators in regional caucuses, a move opposed by the country's most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani. It is hoped that Brahimi's team, which arrived Saturday on what is believed to be a 10-day mission, will help break the impasse.

Brahimi is expected to travel to the Shiite holy city of Najaf to meet al-Sistani, but no date has been disclosed.

During Sunday's talks, Sunni Muslim Arabs on the council echoed the U.S. view that early elections were not practical because of the need for extensive preparations to ensure a fair and credible ballot.

Most of the Shiite members favored an early vote, arguing that sufficient data was available to guarantee an acceptable election.

"The Sunni Arabs fear that an early election will be dominated by the Shiites," said Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish council member opposing an early vote.

The Sunni fears arise in part from the minority community's disarray since the overthrow of Saddam, whose downfall ended decades of Sunni privilege at the expense of the country's Shiite majority and sizable Kurdish community.

The New York Times reported Monday that American officials in Baghdad have obtained a detailed proposal that they believe was written by an operative in Iraq to senior leaders of al-Qaida, asking for help to wage a "sectarian war" between Shiites and Sunnis in the next months.

The Americans believe the undated 17-page document was written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has long been under scrutiny by the United States for suspected ties to al-Qaida, the Times said.

In Samawah, a heavily armored convoy of Japanese soldiers arrived Sunday as part of Tokyo's first military deployment in a hostile region since 1945.

The ground troops, mostly engineers, lead a deployment that will eventually reach about 800 soldiers in a humanitarian mission to improve water supplies and other infrastructure projects around Samawah. Another 200 soldiers will remain in Kuwait.

[freeperfromnj]

I thought the same thing when I first read it. LOL

[milkncookies]

See my post #1307. There seems to be general consensus that the weapons, if not properly cared for, will not be operative. However, there is an admission that in the end, no one really knows for sure. The linked article is a good and informative read. First time I've stumbled acroos plutonium implosion devices.

[LayoutGuru2]

Yes, I went over to ItsHappening.com and asked Daleel for the passoword.

[NothingMan]

It is important to note that many or most of the UBL and nuclear images referenced on these threads over the past few months have been juxtaposed with water . . . .

from the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission Report . . .



NIE 95-19 examined the worldwide proliferation of cruise missiles because
of the possibility of their being launched from forward-based ships off the
coast of the United States. It concluded that by 2005, hostile adversaries
of the United States will probably acquire land-attack cruise missiles for
regional missions. The NIE further judged that an attack by cruise missiles
launched from ships off the US coast was technically feasible, but
unlikely. 3

The Gates Panel believed that while the Intelligence Community had made a
strong case for why the United States is unlikely to face an ICBM threat
from a developing nation before 2010, it also concluded that not nearly
enough attention was being devoted to the possibility that land-attack
cruise missiles could be launched from ships within several hundred
kilometers of US territory. 4 . . . .



In addition to militarily significant accuracy in delivery, land-attack
cruise missiles offer other compelling operational advantages when compared
to existing and prospective ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles can be
placed in canisters, making them fairly easy to maintain and operate in
harsh environments. Their relatively compact size permits more flexible
launch options, more mobility for ground-launched versions, and a smaller
logistics burden, which could make them even less susceptible to
counterforce targeting than Iraqi Scuds were during Operation Desert Storm.
Moreover, cruise missiles need not be stabilized at their launch points and
can be launched from commercial ships and aircraft, as well as from ground
launchers. Perhaps most important of all, the cruise missile's aerodynamic
stability makes it an inherently easier and cheaper platform from which to
deliver and disperse chemical and biological agents. The lethal area for a
given quantity of biological agent delivered by a cruise missile can be at
least ten times greater than that delivered by a ballistic missile. . . .


The most direct route to transforming an ASCM into a much
longer-range land-attack missile (500 to 700 km) would be to use the
Chinese turbojet powered HY-4 Silkworm , which China currently offers for
export. Earlier Silkworm versions, the widely proliferated HY-1 and HY-2,
could also be converted, but their liquid-fueled engines would have to be
replaced with a suitable turbojet engine like the one in China's HY-4 ASCM.
There are other unrestricted turbojet engines available from Canadian,
European, Japanese, and US manufacturers of civilian and military aircraft.

A converted Silkworm , with a length of between 7.4 and just under 9 meters
(depending on the number of additional fuel plugs for range extension), can
readily fit inside a standard 12-meter shipping container. Thousands of
commercial container ships comprise the international fleet. US ports alone
handle over 13 million containers annually.



"loose lips sink ships"

[Donna Lee Nardo]

You know I was talking about JFK Jr. right? The son was handsome to me, the father was not.

[jerseygirl]

Same thought here- like the article in the Frederick Maryland paper about using their fairgrounds for decontaminating survivors of a dirty bomb attack on DC.

I share your impression that there is a reason all this information is coming to the forefront at this time- including to a small degree the mainstream press. The powers that be certainly know what is being threatened, don't want to panic people, but also want to disemminate information. I can imagine heated debates among the folks at DHS about how much to reveal.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Yes, I agree. Deep pocket scrounchers are a huge turn off but they do not smell bad at all to the liberals! In the democrats eyes, the plaintiff's bar is akin to "the little people" or the "unions."

[jerseygirl]

Yes, some of the original threats last November kept stating "the water....the water...." I wonder what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

No. I didn't get that. Was skimming hundreds of threads to catch up. Sorry.

JFKjr might have made a splash in politics. I remember him expressing outrage over the behavior of some of his cousins. Maybe he was at least an honest commie.

Anyway, he's a good Kennedy now.

[Rutles4Ever]

JFKjr might have made a splash

An unfortunate choice of words...

[milkncookies]

Ask Sean. Seems he may know of something.

[jerseygirl]

Daleel's latest on It's Happening: (Did I notice a certain Freeper there politely requesting the password?) :)

daleelAlmojahid
la elaah elaa alaaah

Registered: Dec 2003
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sure i will comment.
first if all thanks for putting the post out for us to read it.

2nd of all God always tells us if a fasiq (which means in english ''more than an unbeleaver'') when some one like that comes to us with news make sure this news is true and look in it well before taking what you have been told.

for that i wont tell you directly if this is true or not true i dont know 100% to be truthful with you.

but knowing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
this is not at all the way he writes espicily the begining of the letter where he speaks about Al-Qaida that they are great and that they are doing something the rest can never do, coz the mojahideen are all one hand in the same direction and no one is better than any one else, for that i suspected the letter from the first statment.

but incase lets just say incase this is a true statment i didnt find anything in it that speaks about any major problems in the jehad operations there, the proplr are helping as much as they can and its understud that they are afried if they help too much the americans will distroy there homes!! so thats understud.

and the asking of help (in the whole context ) id something the mojahideen always need, they always ask for help from eachother through out thier jehad history and thats extreamly normal!.

other than that i didnt really find anything intresting but thanks for the post.


may god bless you and protect you .


alaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid


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