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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[LikeLight]

Great answer, except if the info we have is that specific, then we could just bust the person in question . . . something still doesn't add up . . . plus, unless the person in question is an absolute clueless moron, it would be obvious to them from the pattern of the cancellations that they have been compromised . . . no, it's something else that we haven't quite figured out yet . . . let's keep at it . . .

[rickylc]

I'm going to look into the survivability of viruses. I think you are right, that incineration will kill them dead too, but something stick's in my mind about the prions of madcow disease being able to withstand almost anything. I don't know if that extends to incineration or if the same can be said for some viruses. I'll update as soon as I find out for certain.

[milkncookies]

Yep, I was thinking the same thing. they would have the perp(s) in custody by now if that were the case. What is the route of this flight? Is it direct or does it connect? If it connects, do we have intelligence that parties are to link up during the stop to assemble components while in flight?

[rickylc]

It's the same story with a LOT of these powder scares. They say it's not x,y and z, but they don't know what it is.

It's making me uneasy, has been for a week now.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

The good news is that [CX] -- and his previous IH user name MiDxc -- has not been right once about what he thought was to happen. So he indeed may be wrong... It is good for us to remember this. We should be careful, but keep the track record of these posters in mind. For the last half a year or so, [CX] has posted more than a few likely attack scenarios and some were pretty creative; none have taken place.

[Letitring]

A mosque would get my vote. No telling what is underneath those things.

[TexKat]

what I do not understand is why they haven't changed all the flight numbers. Change them all, and see what numbers then show up on the intercepts which are causing the same alerts over and over again.

Is it the flight #s or is it the particular time of departure and arrival that is at play?

[PrivateIdaho]

. . . let's keep at it

Maybe it's as simple as they do not have enough sky marshalls available for a particular "high risk" flight.

[rickylc]

So, you're thinking these postal scares are diversion from the real attack?

[Letitring]

Their phrasing of 'no KNOWN toxin,' certainly raised my hackles.

[TexKat]

Handbook for Joint Urban Operations

[WestCoastGal]

bump placemark

[LikeLight]

Flight 223 (London to Washington) is a direct flight, coming in on a Great Circle Route over the North Atlantic, the Canadian Maritimes and New England (from watching the tracker during all these scares, I've observed that it can enter U.S. airspace as far east as Coastal Maine and as far west as Vermont), eventually heading over eastern and central Pennsylvania, Maryland and into landing at Dulles Airport. I think the answer suggested by another poster that it might be something as simple as lack of sufficient marshals, boring as it may seem, is probably more likely to be correct (kind of along the lines of your tagline).

[rickylc]

Same here. Somethings not right with these reports.

[Labyrinthos]

Let's try this. Do commercial passenger flights sometimes carry packages/cargo that are not registered to a particular passenger on board? If so, maybe packages are shipped on this flight from a particular location and/or only on certain days.

[milkncookies]

Actually, our government has stated they have fairly good intelligence of direct threats against this flight (223) and one or two others.

LINK

(Snip) "London's Daily Mail newspaper conjectured -- without offering proof -- that the flight was targeted because 223 is the number of a U.N. General Assembly resolution passed in 1997 that condemns Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.

[TexKat]

Putin Laments Death of the Soviet Union

43 minutes ago By ANNELI NERMAN, Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin used a campaign speech Thursday to declare the demise of the Soviet Union a "national tragedy on an enormous scale," in what appeared to be his strongest-ever lament of the collapse of the Soviet empire.

Putin, a former agent of the Soviet KGB spy agency, has praised aspects of the Soviet Union in the past but never so robustly nor in such an important political setting.

"The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale," from which "only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained," Putin said in a nationally televised speech to about 300 campaign workers gathered at Moscow State University.

The president's language was sure to send a chill through the 14 other former Soviet republics that have been independent from Moscow rule for more than a decade.

In the past and to audiences from the former republics, Putin has sought to ease fears about Russia having designs on rebuilding the old empire.

In September remarks after a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States — the grouping of former Soviet republics — Putin said:

"The Soviet Union (was) a very complicated page in the history of our people," adding "that train has left."

But on Thursday, he spoke in a much stronger tone, appearing to play to Russian nationalism.

"I think that ordinary citizens of the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet space gained nothing from this. On the contrary, people have faced a huge number of problems," he said.

"Today we must look at the reality we live in. We cannot only look back and curse about this issue. We must look forward," he said.

Across town, meanwhile, Putin challengers in the election next month refused to debate among themselves in a television program called for that purpose. The candidates said a debate was meaningless without Putin, who says he doesn't need the free television advertising.

At the taping of what was to be the first debate ahead of the March 14 vote, four of Putin's six challengers answered questions from the studio audience, but then rejected the host's appeal that they debate each other.

"Bring Vladimir Putin here and we will have a debate," independent liberal candidate Irina Khakamada said, winning applause from the audience.

Calling it pointless to debate with anyone but Putin, "my main competitor", Communist candidate Nikolai Kharitonov said that by ignoring the debates, "Putin is depriving the population of the right to choose."

Also at the taping were candidates Sergei Glazyev of the populist-nationalist Homeland Party and Oleg Malyshkin of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party.

Regardless of Putin's public declarations about campaign advertising, state-controlled television channels already lavish him with extensive coverage — as on Thursday when state-run Rossiya showed his remarks live.

Addressing a packed auditorium at Moscow State University, Putin said: "The head of state should not engage in self-advertising."

"Nevertheless," he continued, "I am simply obliged before my voters and the entire country to account for what has been done during the past four years, and to tell people what I intend to do during the next four years."

Responding to a question after his state-of-the-nation-style speech, Putin said that the 1991 Soviet collapse — which most Russians regret — led to few gains and many problems for ordinary citizens.

Turning to global politics, Putin said that Russia must become a "full-fledged member of the world community" and assailed those in the West who still have a Cold War-era distrust of Russia. They "can't get out of the freezer," he said.

Putin reiterated his stated opposition to prolonging his time in office, limited to two terms. But he indicated he would choose a preferred successor, saying that the task of any top leader "is to propose to society a person he considers worthy to work further in this position."

Some Putin opponents had considered boycotting the presidential election, saying a fair vote was impossible in Russia today, and the refusal to debate in Thursday's program reflected the candidates' anger at the president's dominance of the campaign.

Some political analysts said, however, the public does not expect Putin to debate.

"They see the head of state as a monarch who shouldn't participate in discussions with those below him in the hierarchy," said Andrei Ryabov of the Carnegie Institute in Moscow said.

The Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe said the state-controlled media's parliamentary campaign coverage was slanted toward pro-Putin forces and accused the government of pressuring news media, to limit opposition views.

[Labyrinthos]

Not sure if they are diversions, test runs, or unconnected crack pots. Just seems to me that unless you have unlimited quantities of a WMD, your going to use what you have for maximum effect, and that means large, densily populated cities.

[labowski]

Thanks Donna, wasn't sure what his(CX) track record was. Agree Letitring, I've always been concerned about the going ons in the Mosques, and under the Mosques. This is not Highlander, there is no sacred place to these goons, although they probably consider it a safe place to practice their nefarious deeds.