Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

[Letitring]

My Mother was buried on Valentine's Day.

[knak]

That is nice. How long have you been married?

[Calpernia]

Yes and Yes.

[StillProud2BeFree]

Nearly 12 years

[knak]

Nice to know some people are happily married. I am, but you hear about SO many that aren't anymore.

[TexKat]

This is a really big story. This guy reminds me of McVeigh. Wonder how many more brainwashed muslim converts are out there.

Another sleeper down. How many more to go?

[TexKat]

Thanks LG2 for all your updates.

[TexKat]

Saudi Warns of Possible Car Bomb Attack in Riyadh

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had confirmed information that a car owned by a wanted militant has been packed with explosives to be used in what it called a criminal act in the capital Riyadh.

An Interior Ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, gave a description of the car and asked the public to be on alert and inform authorities if they had any information on the vehicle.

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10,000 ships stranded in Chinese canal

Date: Friday, February 13, 2004 6:09:30 AM EST

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- More than 10,000 cargo ships are backed up on a Chinese waterway, in the fourth day of a traffic jam between Beijing and the southern city of Hangzhou.

The backup began Monday, when a 500-ton cargo ship on the canal near Shanghai attempted to skirt an inspection station, and ended up grounded in shallow waters, the China News Service reported. Port officials say severe drought in the region has reduced the water depth to only 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in some places.


http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqcXz0eidy2HPBMeTDhjHzMzPy2PHBq

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Russian presidential hopeful Rybkin says he was drugged and kidnapped

Russia's presidential hopeful Ivan Rybkin, who mysteriously disappeared for five days, said Friday that he was drugged, kidnapped and kept unconscious by captors who had lured him to Ukraine.

Rybkin, who said the incident involved a murky attempt involving a video tape to "compromise" him, also announced he would not withdraw from the March 14 Russian elections and told a London press conference he would conduct his campaign from Western Europe.

[FairOpinion]

Some ex-prisoners (released from Guantanamo) rejoined terror cells


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1077583/posts

Terrorists freed from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have rejoined Taliban and al-Qaida cells in Afghanistan, sources said late Thursday.

Pentagon officials have refused to discuss one reported case of a Taliban commander, Mullah Shehzada, who rejoined comrades in Afghanistan after his October release from the Guantánamo, Cuba prison.

Shehzada convinced his interrogators he was an innocent civilian captured by Northern Alliance troops and turned over to the United States, Time magazine reported last year.

Rumsfeld also is expected to reveal that detainees have provided intelligence about human smuggling rings in Latin America aimed at sneaking al-Qaida members into the United States.

[TexKat]

Saudi Warns of Possible Car Bomb Attack in Riyadh

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had confirmed information that a car owned by a wanted militant has been packed with explosives to be used in what it called a criminal act in the capital Riyadh.

An Interior Ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, gave a description of the car and asked the public to be on alert and inform authorities if they had any information on the vehicle.

[TexKat]

I sure hope you are not surprised? I don't even know why we spend (waste money) to build encagements for these losers. House, clothe, and feed the mongrels only to provide them with another opportunity to kill us.

Wake up America's government, these are your enemies, they desire to kill you, and when given an opportunity they will.

We are releasing these blood thirsty cave dwellers, while putting our own military on trial and fineing them for any little thing.

Are we at war or are we just pc pussyfooting around.

[milkncookies]

More big blackouts likely, experts agree

February 13, 2004
BY BRAD FOSS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

(SNIP) Six months after the nation's worst blackout, experts say the electric grid is still vulnerable to widespread outages because many of the problems that contributed to the massive failure have not been resolved.....

[TexKat]

Qatari Gov't: Yandarbiyev Assassinated

By JABER AL-HARMI, Associated Press Writer

DOHA, Qatar - Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted in Russia for terrorist ties and linked to al-Qaida, was assassinated Friday in an explosion that ripped apart his car in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, the Qatari government said.

Yandarbiyev's teenage son was critically wounded in the blast, which occurred as he and his father were driving away from Friday prayers at a mosque, according to an Interior Ministry statement and a local hospital spokesman.

"We are collecting evidence in order to reach the perpetrators," Qatar's chief of security, Mubarak al-Nasr, said on the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, which is based in the country.

Yandarbiyev, who was acting president of Chechnya (news - web sites) in 1996-97, had been linked to the al-Qaida terror group. Russia had been seeking his extradition from Qatar — where he lived for at least three years — accusing him of ties to kidnappers and international terrorists.

Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of holding clandestine talks with Yandarbiyev. He offered no evidence to support the allegation.

However, al-Nasr said Yandarbiyev was living "a normal life" in Qatar and was not involved in any political activities.

Al-Jazeera and fellow Arabic satellite channel Al-Arabiya reported that two people were killed in the explosion. But the Interior Ministry did not confirm this.

An Interior Ministry official said the explosion at 12:45 p.m. killed Yandarbiyev and injured his 13-year-old son, the official Qatar News Agency reported.

A doctor at Hamad General Hospital told The Associated Press that Yandarbiyev died on his way to the hospital. The doctor said his son was in critical condition. No other casualties were brought to the hospital, the doctor said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. Such explosions are almost unheard of in Qatar, a quiet state with tight security.

Last year, the United Nations put Yandarbiyev on a list of people with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist group, which is blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The U.S. government also put Yandarbiyev on a list of international terrorists who are subject to financial sanctions.

Yandarbiyev was considered a key link in the Chechen rebels' finance network, channeling funds from abroad. He had denied that the Chechen rebels had ties to al-Qaida.

"Yandarbiyev was the main ideologue of the separatists, and therefore of the terrorist organizations bringing Chechnya to such severe consequences," said the president of the Moscow-backed Chechen government, Akhmad Kadyrov.

"He is guilty of everything that has happened," Kadyrov said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

The Russian Embassy in Doha had no immediate comment on the killing.

Boris Labusov, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, a successor to the KGB, said his agency had nothing to do with Yandarbiyev's death, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

A Russian member of parliament, Nikolai Kovalyov, a former director of the Federal Security Service, told Interfax that the killing was probably a vendetta.

"Knowing the (Chechen) national traditions, I would assume that it must have been the result of a blood feud, as they are never forgotten and passed from generation to generation," Kovalyov said.

Al-Jazeera reported the explosion occurred after Yandarbiyev had prayed at a mosque in the upscale residential area of al-Dafnah, a northern suburb of Doha. He had driven only 300 yards from the mosque when the blast happened.

The channel showed a badly mangled and burned SUV, with only its white fender still recognizable. A body, completely wrapped in white sheet, was loaded into a waiting ambulance.

Russian forces withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after a disastrous 20-month war with rebels, leaving the republic largely lawless and running its own affairs.

Moscow's troops swept in again in 1999 after Chechnya-based militants launched raids into a neighboring region and after some 300 people were killed in apartment building explosions that Russian officials blamed on Chechen separatists.

Yandarbiyev, who was born in 1952, became vice president of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev. He served as acting president during Chechnya's de facto independence in 1996-97. In 1996, he led the rebel delegation in peace negotiations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

A poet and author of children's book, Yandarbiyev became one of the most prominent proponents of radical Islam among the Chechen rebels. He came in third in Chechnya's 1997 presidential elections, behind moderate Aslan Maskhadov and the fiery rebel Shamil Basayev.

During the rule of the Islamic militant Taliban in Aghanistan in 1996-2001, Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen Embassy in the Aghan capital, Kabul, and a consulate in the southern city of Kandahar.

Chechen exiles living elswhere in the Middle East said Yandarbiyev had been living in Qatar since the summer of 2000. They said he had maintained contact with other Chechens since arriving in Qatar, but they claimed to have no knowledge of his involvement in any terrorism-related acts.

In recent years, Qatar has granted entry to a variety of Muslim politicians and militants seeking refuge, including Palestinian Hamas leaders, Algerian Muslim fundamentalists and Iraqi officials of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime.

The Qataris say that they accept such visitors because of the Arab traditions of providing hospitality to guests and of offering sanctuary to refugees.

However, the practice also serves to defuse anger at Qatar for allowing the United States to establish military bases in the small Gulf sheikdom. The U.S. command set up shop in Qatar before launching last year's war in Iraq (news - web sites) and continues to maintain a military presence there.

[Calpernia]

Maybe so we could track them.

[milkncookies]

TK, If you go back to Post #1753 where Sean stated he had info on 20-30 nukes already being in this country hidden in and around metropolitan areas, you'll see where he made the following statement:

"Why indeed is the question. One possibility that I am hearing repeatedly and consistently is that there are some major problems and infighting within and between the inteligence and federal law enforcement agencies. And I mean MAJOR problems!!! Perhaps these people feel they have nowhere else to go, the nation is in extreme peril and they find it hard sleeping at night knowing what they know. So they talk."

I think President Bush has been frantically trying to restore our intelligence capabilities since taking office. Clinton left us vulnerable and our government bereft with his leftist cronies. I have a gut feeling that a lot of the infighting going on has to do with President Bush and his people being roadblocked, parried and stonewalled by those within our government with a leftist or socialist bent (or worse). Our President is not only taking a lot of heat from the press and not-so-friendly countries, he's taking a lot of heat from within our very own government.

I hope and pray our intelligence capabilities are restored sufficiently and soon enough to deal with what Sean thinks is currently our greatest threat.

[TexKat]

Kay: Bush Should Admit Error on Iraq WMD

Fri Feb 13,11:12 AM ET

By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON - Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is advising President Bush to acknowledge he was wrong about hidden storehouses of weapons in Iraq and move ahead with overhauling the intelligence process.

In an Associated Press interview, Kay said the "serious burden of evidence" suggests Saddam Hussein did not have caches of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons at the beginning of the Iraqi war, but was seriously engaged in developing missiles.

"You are better off if you acknowledge error and say we have learned from it and move ahead," Kay said in a 90-minute session Thursday with AP editors and reporters.

"I'm afraid if you don't acknowledge error, and everybody knows why you are afraid to acknowledge error, your political opponents will seize on it, the press will seize on it, and no one will give you credit," Kay said.

Since resigning last month, Kay has said repeatedly that U.S. intelligence was wrong in claiming that Saddam had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and advanced nuclear weapons programs. Those programs were the main justification for the Iraq war.

U.N. and U.S. searches have failed to find the weapons, and Bush has appointed a bipartisan commission to conduct an investigation. Democrats in the meantime are accusing the administration of misleading the American public.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan, asked about the suggestion that Bush acknowledge error, said Kay "has said the regime was possibly more dangerous than we thought before the war. He has pointed out that, absolutely yes, he agrees that it was a gathering threat."

He pointed out that Bush has said he had expected to find weapons in Iraq.

Bush and other officials insist weapons still could be discovered. In an interview on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" program last weekend, Bush said, "They could be hidden, they could have been transported to another country." Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has also said he believes weapons could still be uncovered.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said this week he was surprised that the inspectors did not find the weapons in Iraq. "We presented what we believed the truth to be at the time," he told the House International Relations Committee.

Kay said satellites have shown a lot of traffic going from Iraq to Syria, but that U.S. investigators could not figure out what was being transported and "Syria wouldn't help."

"My only serious regret about the continued holding on to these hopes that eventually we will find it (weapons) is it allows us to avoid the hard steps necessary to reform the process," the former U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspector said.

Kay stepped down from his role as CIA adviser for the weapons search after the military diverted resources from the search to bolster security for troops and fight insurgents. He described a constant battle to keep his staff of 1,400, in which he initially prevailed but began to lose ground in the fall. He said he wasn't informed of the final changes until after the decision had been made.

Without flatly ruling out the weapons might turn up, Kay said his search was complicated by the fact that Iraqis quizzed about Saddam's weapons programs "will lie to you without embarrassment."

Despite the lack of weapons of mass destruction, Kay said, Iraq had an aggressive program to develop missiles assisted by foreign technology and scientists.

Some of the scientists eventually left the country but they still helped Saddam by transmitting information to Iraq electronically, he said.

"We have absolute evidence and proof," Kay said. But he declined to identify those who he said helped Iraq or their countries.

Kay also said "the dominance of analytical opinion" was that two trailers found in northern Iraq were meant to make hydrogen for balloons, not biological weapons. CIA Director George Tenet said last week that the issue was still under debate.

Part of the problem, Kay said, was that the trailers had never been used for anything and that their equipment was not well suited for either hydrogen or biological weapons production. Documents and testimony from Iraqis point strongly toward the hydrogen idea, he said.

Another issue was the discovery of thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes in Iraq. Before the war, Bush administration officials said those tubes were meant to be used in centrifuges to make nuclear bomb fuel out of uranium.

Although Tenet said the issue was still open, Kay said analysts have concluded Iraq had no active nuclear program.

"There's no substantial disagreement that there was no centrifuge program," Kay said.

The most likely explanation for the tubes, Kay said, is that they were to be used for artillery rockets.

Kay repeated statements that he did not believe analysts felt pressured to shape their reports to bolster the case for war, a claim made by some Democrats.

Asked whether analysts believed their findings had been distorted, Kay said: "Were some people uncomfortable about some of the rhetoric? I think the fair answer to that is `yes.'" He stressed that analysts are generally uncomfortable with any change to their wording, but understand that is the nature of politics.

"Politicians choose the best possible argument that will support the course of action they've decided on regardless of whether it's foreign policy or not," he said. "Is that cherry picking? That's the nature of the political process."

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10,000 cargo ships are backed up on a Chinese waterway

Guess the toy stores, GM's new Chinese auto parts, Radio Shack [barf], electronics stores, etc will all have to go without for awhile.