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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[Sean Osborne Lomax]

It seems this plan is a follow-on to the one that was attributed to the former-regime in Iraq. Debka had reported in the months prior Operation Iraqi Freedom that the Iraqi's had aircraft fitted with biological/chemical sprayers hidden in its southern desert. The reported plan was to fly these aircraft with the deadly cargo on low-level high-speed runs at Israel from the southeast, coming in low and fast from the Gulf of Aqaba area. It sounds as if alQaeda was privvy to some of the operational details and have decided to try and pick up the ball and run with it using recruited Saudi pilots as surrogates.

[Velveeta]

There's always a FReeper with knowledge on every subject. Amazing bunch. I eagerly await Poohbah's reply.

[Velveeta]

LOL. He's there right now, so let's see if he replies.

[TexKat]

Daleel if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not write the 17 page letter than one of your other islamic fundamentalist idiot losers did. Your X-Gatekeeper had it on his person.

[TexKat]

Daleel your operative complains that there are no mountains in order to seek refuge in Iraq. He said that they are suffocating.

[milkncookies]

Japan Passes N.Korea Sanctions; Pyongyang Angry
Mon February 9, 2004 08:56 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing Tokyo to slap economic sanctions on North Korea, a move likely to further strain bilateral ties ahead of six-way talks aimed at defusing the Korean nuclear crisis.

The legislation, which cleared parliament's Upper House following Lower House approval late last month, will enable Japanese authorities to limit remittances to North Korea, one of its few sources of badly needed cash.

North Korean official media lashed out at the move, which comes ahead of six-country talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program opening in Beijing on February 25.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) carried a statement by the DPRK-Japan Friendship Association in which it urged the North Korean government to ban Japan from taking part in the six-way talks. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name. "The DPRK-Japan Friendship Association requests the government of the DPRK not to have any bilateral contact with Japan nor allow Japan to participate in the six-way talks," the statement said.

The parties to the multilateral talks -- China, South and North Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States -- agreed last week after much wrangling to hold the second round of the negotiations later this month.

A first round of talks held in Beijing in August ended inconclusively.

The legislation, jointly sponsored by the ruling coalition and main opposition Democratic Party, would allow Japan to impose sanctions on any country to maintain "peace and stability."

But lawmakers who presented the bill have said it was aimed mainly at putting pressure on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs and its failure to explain what happened to Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said the move to enact the legislation did not mean punitive steps were imminent, but has said it would broaden Tokyo's options against Pyongyang. Under existing laws, Japan cannot impose sanctions on a country unless they are part of an international effort, such as a United Nations resolution. But the new legislation would allow it to act on its own to suspend remittances and trade, and take other steps to restrict the flow of money and goods.

Some analysts believe cash-strapped North Korea could lose its main source of hard currency if Japan imposes sanctions.

[SCR1]

http://www.debka.com/
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=319

"Ukraine Monday night denied selling al Qaeda tactical nuclear weapons saying Soviet arsenal in its territory passed straight into Russian hands"

Let the denials begin. Well the balls is back in Russia's court now, see what they say.

Steve

[Velveeta]

Hayward Police Investigate Suspected Car Bomb

POSTED: 10:57 AM PST February 9, 2004

HAYWARD, Calif. -- Bomb experts are on a street in Hayward this morning examining a suspicious device found in a car at Highland Boulevard near Mission Street.

Police and sheriff's deputies are looking for a man and a woman who may have left a bomb in a stolen car.

Investigators say the pair crashed the car into a fire hydrant and then fled after pulling a gun on someone who witnessed the crash.

People with any information about this case are urged to contact the Hayward police.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/2833603/detail.html

[Velveeta]

People Sickened in Downtown Building
UPDATED - Monday February 09, 2004 2:26pm


Washington (AP) - Six mailroom workers at an environmental law firm became ill Monday shortly after the mail arrived.

One person was hospitalized and six others were treated at the scene for eye and nose irritation, said Larry Schultz, a battalion commander for the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Their symptoms lessened after they were removed from the mailroom, Schultz said.

There were no reports of any suspicious substances or packages, but hazardous materials crews were searching.

All six worked for a mail handling contractor at the law firm of Beveridge and Diamond, said John Hanson, a spokesman for the firm. He said he knew of no threats against the law group.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0204/124885.html

[milkncookies]

Nevermind re: info on plutonium implosion device.

"Fat Man" was the second plutonium, implosion-type bomb.  The first was the "gadget" detonated at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945.(Doh!)

[Poohbah]

Nuclear weapons are complex beasts. They are made up of radioactive materials, some with relatively short half-lives; electrical and electronic components of varying sensitivity to radiation; and reactive chemical compounds, some with rather high neutron capture cross-sections.

The holy grail of every nuclear weapons program is the so-called "wooden bomb," that could be thrown on the shelf and left there indefinitely--or, at least, for a very long time.

That goal was never achieved.

Some issues with nuclear weapons: initiators are critical. They supply a burst of neutrons at detonation to make sure that the chain reaction starts. These require materials that emit--or can be made to emit--copious quantities of neutrons. These materials have a rather short half-life. The most reliable neutron source--a deuterium-tritium accelerator--has a problem. Tritium decays into helium-3, which not only doesn't emit neutrons, but actually absorbs a great deal. Relatively small amounts of helium-3 will cause a "fizzle" yield, where the weapon does not generate a nuclear yield.

Tritium, BTW, is much harder to divert than plutonium--because it costs $50,000 a gram. (For you gold bugs out there, that's $1,400,000 an ounce.) Price acts as its own rationing and security mechanism.

High explosives tend to degrade under neutron bombardment. The beryllium tamper will stop MOST, but not all. Some of the compounds that get created by neutron capture have a significantly different pH from the explosives, and will start generating a thermal reaction. This isn't an issue over a year, or two years. But after six years or so, plus however long the weapons were left lying around before that...well, if your stolen nuke starts smoking, start walking away from it in a casual yet rapid manner.

Finally, the plutonium core needs to be remanufactured after about ten years or so--some of the plutonium (Pu-240, the "bad" plutonium that causes predetonation) decays into americium, and that interferes with the overall chain reaction.

[knak]

so they're going to try to hit Israel with planes since they have not been able to hit us with them?

[knak]

The bottom pic of him makes him look cold-blooded & nuts!

[JustPiper]

Russia political mystery deepens
From Jill Dougherty
CNN Moscow Bureau Chief
Monday, February 9, 2004 Posted: 12:35 PM EST (1735 GMT)

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Russian presidential candidate has deepened with the launch -- and then cancellation -- of a murder probe.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/09/russia.rybkin/index.html

[Cindy]

FEBRUARY 9, 2004

http://internet-haganah.us/harchives/001508.html

"Saudi warlord leads Russian bombers"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(London Times - Mark Franchetti, Moscow) A SAUDI Islamic militant based in the breakaway republic of Chechnya is suspected of being behind last Friday’s bomb attack on the Moscow metro, which killed 39 people and wounded more than 130.


Abu-al-Walid al-Ghamidi, 36, has been identified by the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, as one of the most powerful figures in the Chechen rebel leadership. As the commander of several hundred Arabs fighting alongside the rebels, he is thought to have been responsible for a wave of suicide bomb attacks that have killed more than 200 people in just over a year.


He is also believed to have been one of the masterminds of the Moscow theatre siege of October 2002, which ended with the deaths of 40 Chechen terrorists and 129 of their hostages."

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[Cindy]

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