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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[rickylc]

"Genetically engineered?"

Very good point.

Could be.

[Revel]

"No she called him a racist. And I made no such suggestion that anyone leave FR."

OK...I can see where you are getting the racist part from. But you also told her to go back to DU where she belongs. I would call that an invitation to leave.

I am just going to drop it. It just sounds like we all said some stupid things. The end.

[Oorang]

Thanks for posting that. It is mighty suspicious.

[LivFREEordie]

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[rickylc]

Any idea if it was addressed to Switzerland or Belgium?

Two different news stories, two different addresses given.

It could be two separate incidents.

3 post offices were shut down.

The description of the delivery of the package to the office seems different in both stories also, which is what makes me wonder if it was two separate incidents

Though the simplest explanation is a news reporter that thought Geneva was in Belgium :)

That would lead to the conclusion it was addressed to Switzerland

[Cindy]

Maybe this is the new normal.

[rickylc]

Not yet. Anything specifically I should be looking for?

Or will it be obvious?

Heading there now

[Domestic Church]

Brit key in nuke ring:

http://www.freeRepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076416/posts

[Revel]

China Grabs Man Who
Leaked N Korea Chem
Weapons Tests
2-11-4


(AFP) -- China has arrested the man who leaked top secret government documents from a North Korean prison camp detailing routine testing of chemical weapons on political prisoners, a report said.

The man, who was not named, was seized by Chinese authorities after escaping across the border with his family, Radio Free Asia said, citing a South Korean human rights activist who recently appeared in a BBC documentary on the subject.

"I made contact with this person in a chemical factory in North Korea a long time ago," said the activist, Kim Sang-hun, who smuggled the documents out of the Stalinist nation.

"He has been waiting, and waiting to obtain this document. Then he got the chance, and it was smuggled out of North Korea. His words were not enough. He wanted to show the evidence to the world, but he was captured in China."

According to the BBC documentary aired last week, entire families, including children, were regularly tortured and executed, while others had poisonous gases and other weapons used on them.

The broadcast cited Kwon Hyok, who defected to South Korea in 1999 while stationed as a North Korean intelligence officer in Beijing, as saying he witnessed chemical experiments being carried out on political prisoners in gas chambers.

Kim, 71, said the document he smuggled, and used in the documentary, was a transfer list ordering certain prisoners to be taken to the chemical facilities near the Russian border, known as Camp 22.

"This is genuine. This is not a government-to-government document. This is a secret document, published for the eyes of a select few," Kim said, adding that it would be extremely hard to counterfeit an official North Korean government seal as they were manufactured under police supervision.

He said the plan had been for the captured man to testify to the world in person about the truth of the reports and the authenticity of the document.

"Our plan was to be ready when North Korea denied it, then we would provide the document and further evidence ... but the plan failed because they were captured," Kim said.

"It is urgent. We must save them."

Authorities in Pyongyang have called the allegations a "sheer lie", claiming they were part of a smear campaign led by the United States.

Such stories are notoriously difficult to verify given that the vast bulk of North Korea, ruled for the past half-century by father-and-son dictators Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, is completely sealed off to foreigners.

China, North Korea's closest ally and aid provider, had no immediate response to the report Wednesday.

Kim, who traveled to London last week as part of an effort to pressure China to release the man and his relatives, said they were in imminent danger of being deported back to North Korea.

"These people will be dragged to North Korea, (where) they will face death. This person will be executed, or punished," he said.

Last year a report compiled by a former UN human rights investigator estimated that up to 200,000 people are detained at brutal "slave" camps.

[jerseygirl]

Pretty obvious. Its on the first page, right under her expressed concern that AQ are getting information about our forces from a military strategy site.

[knak]

Man I hope not!

[LayoutGuru2]

Visit FreedomWatchers with this link and register for an account.

Then visit this link to read the Daleel post.

[TexKat]

NATO allies showing increasing acceptance of NATO role in Iraq - Powell

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are showing increasing acceptance of a NATO commitment in Iraq, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Although several allies, including France, Germany and Belgium, opposed the US-led war, "there has been increasing acceptance that NATO does have a role to play," Powell told a congressional hearing.

The Germans, although they refused to send troops to fight in the war, do not intend to stand in the way of any allied decisions in Iraq, Powell said.

"Most NATO countries are there now," he said, "so it is not as if there is a huge reservoir of troops that suddenly becomes available when it shifts to a NATO mission."

A logical first step, he said, would be for NATO to take command of zones in Iraq where NATO members like Britain, Spain and Poland are already present in force.

"I think the easiest way to start this would be for NATO to assume responsibility for the zone...where the Poles, and the Spaniards and the UK and others are working, and that would plug right into our troops," said Powell.

"It should all take place at the time that sovereignty is transferred, and then you would have NATO working with a sovereign government," he said. "We are encouraging our NATO allies to look at this."

The current plan calls for sovereignty to be transferred to a provisional Iraqi government on June 30.

Powell said he hoped NATO would make a decision on a commitment in Iraq at its Istanbul summit earlier that same month.

NATO's current commitment in Iraq is limited to logistical support for the Polish-led multinational contingent.

[rickylc]

The dog disease bit?

[Oorang]

I'm trying to catch up on this thread so if this has already been posted, I apologize.

Interesting interview with Robert Baer, former CIA operative, regarding the CIA and the WOT. Baer's books are also quite a good read. His main territory, during his CIA days, was the middle east. Robert Baer

[jerseygirl]

This is on her first page, then if you read further you read about the dog disease.


Please read the posts on the following links....something major is in the works, and it is sounding like a biological weapon that is capable of killing a massive number of people in a short period of time.

[LayoutGuru2]

Someone appearing to be Daleel is not posting over at FreedomWatchers, I'll let you know if he/she/they has anything NEW to say.

[LayoutGuru2]

...is not now posting...

[nw_arizona_granny]

did you see #2552?

You have freep mail.

[TexKat]

Fox News Alert: FBI warning that terrorist may try to smuggle bomb or bomb components on airplanes and assemble them while on board and explode them over highly populated cities or to take over the planes.