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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
Picture Credit:Calpernia
I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
From DoctorZIn's thread:
Iranian official
threatens U.S.
Suicide, missile attacks are ready
'to strike at Anglo-Saxon culture'
Posted: May 28, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
An official of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has threatened the United States and other Western nations with suicide and missile attacks aimed at 29 sensitive sites.
"Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations," the Revolutionary Guard adviser said in a speech reported by the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, according to Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
He also threatened to "take over" Britian.
The paper reported "an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called The Brigades of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening to replace the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Department of Liberation and Revolutionary Movements, which had been in charge of helping and training revolutionary forces across the world."
A source close to the Revolutionary Guards intelligence confirmed confirmed the establishment of a new office that has begun registering the names of suicide volunteers to be sent to Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, the London paper said.
In a tape of the speech obtained by the paper, the official spoke of Tehran's "secret strategy" aimed at taking over the Arab and Muslim countries by means of helping revolutionary forces and organizations."
The official, identified only with the initials H.A., has published a number of works on exporting the Islamic revolution and struggling against the U.S.
"In his speech at a secret conference attended by students who are members of the Ansar Hizbullah movement at Al-Hussein University, the official harshly criticized reformist President Muhammad Khatami and his "dubious idea" of dialogue between civilizations.
"We do not want to take over the British Embassy, since [the British] have already cleared the embassy of documents; we must take over Britain [itself]," he said.
"The West sees us as terrorists, and depicts our strategy as terrorism and repression," the officials continued. "Had our youth agreed to Khatami's teachings and interpretations, it would never have fought the arrogance [U.S.], and would never have defended the holy places -- because Khatami speaks always of being conciliatory, of patience, and of rejecting terrorism, while we defend [the line of] toughness and war against the enemies of revolutionary Islam. I take pride in my actions that cause anxiety and fear to the Americans."
He continued:
"'Haven't the Jews and the Christians achieved their progress by means of toughness and repression? We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization and for the uprooting of the Americans and the English.
"Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations.
"Our motto during the war [in Iraq] was: Karbala, we are coming, Jerusalem, we are coming. And because of Khatami's policies and dialogue between the civilizations, we have been compelled to freeze our plan to liberate the Islamic cities. And now we are [again] about to carry out the program.
Later in his speech, the official declared "the global infidel front is a front against Allah and the Muslims, and we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front, by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them."
He emphasized, "If Israel dares attack the [nuclear] installations at Bushehr, our losses will be very low, because [only] one structure will be destroyed -- while we have means of attacking Israel's nuclear facilities and arsenals such that no trace of Israel will remain."
The previous day, according to MEMRI, Iranian sources had statements on the same issue.
At a ceremony marking the four-year anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Ali Akbar Makhatashemi-Pour, reformist MP and secretary-general of the International Committee for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, called on Muslim countries to open their borders with Iraq to troops of Muslim martyrdom bombers.
"We, the Muslim countries, must create a storm front against the U.S. and Israel," he said. "The half-million member organization that was created in Beirut [Hezbollah] is not sufficient. Many young Muslims are willing to carry out martyrdom operations against the American Crusaders."
According to the Iranian reformist paper Sharq, the Persian-language Ruydad website cited Hezbollah-Iran activist Forouz Rajaii-Far saying "martyrdom operations are the only option to expel the Americans and British from Iraq."
Rajaii-Far said a Basij activist from Elm Vasonaat University in Iran acknowledged a group calling itself the "To Karbala Battalion" was sent Thursday to Karbala to fight the coalition forces.
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EXCELLENT!! I'm late on this thread but read your story and you and your sister did exactly the right thing. Vigilance, especially when it comes to our children.
Way off topic, but for the last little while I was watching a movie called Spitfire Grill. Was pretty good. If any of you get a chance, watch it.
Wag the Dog worked better than any of us thought, hmm? (sigh)
It makes me wonder if all of these war games around the world are actually leading up to a giant conflict.
A Coast Guard ship attempts to put out a fire on a burning ferry off Corregidor island in Manila Bay February 27, 2004. One person was killed when fire raged through the Super Ferry 14 which had 861 passengers on board. The coast guard said 638 people had been confirmed as rescued but that 233 were not yet accounted for. [Reuters]
placemark. back later. probably tomorrow. Night!
Do you think that part of the reason for the timing and location of these naval exercises could have something to do with G-8 security? The participants in the naval exercises are the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and the Dutch. The G-8 members include the the first five plus Italy, Japan, Russian Federation, and European Commission. http://www.g8usa.gov/home.html Because they are beginning exercises off the coast of North Carolina on June 1 and the G-8 starts June 8 off the coast of Georgia, I hope that their presence dissuades the bad guys from trying anything evil.
Sounds like another terror strike to me. It had be caused by an explosion. A fire starting from a small source would have given them plenty of time to evacuate everyone since this is sitting in a bay. Does that sound right to you?
Placemark for me too. Hopefully there won't be 500 posts to catch up on tomorrow!! Night!
It could be you are right. I wonder why China is getting agreessive at the same time...And Iran has suddenly become so bold.
Hi Selene. A company I used to work for flew me down to the Redding area a few years back. It was sure pretty there. I noticed in the NW some of the arab workers are no longer working at the gas stations where I formerly saw them. It's as if they all the memo or phone call to leave for parts unknown. You have to wonder if they are among the "cells" or whether they are in government custody. I recall no matter how cheerful I was when paying for the gas, they showed no emotion and rarely, if ever, said thank you.
I don't know what it is....but this EOM that is posting now.....
Doesn't seem to be the same EOM that posted up through December.
Sounds like someone trying to copy EOM.
Thanks for posting that update.
According to this post on FR after the crash of AA587:
The computer messing up can and has caused FLUTTER. Flutter will literally vibrate a control surface from an airplane. The Airbus has had its share of Flutter problems. And yes Flutter can go from non existent to disasterous in a couple of seconds and the pilot will not know it until it is too late. The Missing Vertical Stabilizer could easliy result in loss of control if flutter had caused it to break off. Since the rudder was not attached to the Vertical Stabilizer when they were found, Flutter goes to the head of the line as suspect for the accident.
37 posted on 12/19/2001 2:19:33 PM CST by Retired AF Pilot
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Just an FYI as more info. I had forgotten what happened until I re-read the account.
I remember the vertical stabilizer tore off of the plane in midair. Note the rudder was not attached when found.
The news reports of wake turbulence I think are pure BS as a reason.
Either 1/ CRAPPY AIRPLANE or
2/ CRAPPY MAINTENANCE
Eunice Stone is a bona fide hero in my book.
I'm looking back at the archives of EOM.
I don't believe this is the same EOM for a minute. This is a copy cat.
This non-emotional [somewhat curt] state is the best way to describe the change in the islamos that work with me. And yes they are still exhibiting the weird behavior, which is weird only in that it is uncharacteristic for how they used to be.
These are certainly fascinating phenomena.
Some of us could reasonably wonder . . . of all the possible sources of such phenomena . . . what might their goals be? And how do these possible sources benefit from such phenomena.
God as a possibility is but one of several.
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