Explain this to me..."
General: Bin Laden Still Issuing Orders
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040911/ap_on_re_as/afghan_al_qaida
and
Osama Bin Laden May Be Dead, Says Pak Minister
http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=091004103312
Is he dead or is he alive?
It's funny that they both come out at the same time.
Bomb Explodes in Saudi, U.S. Shuts Jeddah Consulate
Source: Bloomberg.com
Bomb Explodes in Saudi, U.S. Shuts Jeddah Consulate (Update1)
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia closed its consulate in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah after a car bomb exploded in the town on the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
``We have closed the U.S. consulate in Jeddah for one day as a precautionary measure,'' said Bob Keith, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Saudi, in a telephone interview from Riyadh. The bomb ``wasn't close'' to the consulate, he said.
One of the assailants was injured in the blast, reported Al- Arabiya, citing security officials. His accomplice fled to a building near to the consulate, where he was caught by Saudi security men, said the Dubai, United Arab Emirates based television station. No one else was reported hurt.
A spokesman for Samba, formerly Saudi American bank, denied a report that the bomb had exploded near to its branch in an area close to the U.S. consulate. The spokesman asked not to be identified.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is fighting suspected al-Qaeda militants who have killed close to 30 non- Saudis since May 1 in a bid to undermine the economy and bring down the ruling al-Saud family.
In June, the militants beheaded U.S. citizen Paul Johnson Jr., a 49-year-old Lockheed Martin Corp. engineer in Riyadh, and posted pictures of his body on the Internet. His head was later found in a refrigerator in a Saudi raid of a militant hideout.
The suspected leader of the al-Qaeda cell involved in the murder of Johnson was killed along with three accomplices by security forces in Riyadh.
The U.S. State department last month placed new limits on staffing at its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia due to the continuing terrorist threat in the country. Non-essential employees and all family members of U.S. workers at the embassy in Riyadh and consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran were ordered to leave on April 15.
Related links:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/new...id=aMyXdk41Agx4
Basra blast kills two near US consulate
Source: Al-Jazeera
A roadside bomb has detonated near the US and British consulates in the southern Iraqi city of Basra killing two people and wounding three more.
An Iraqi guard outside the compound, also home to KBR, a subsidiary of the US oil services giant Halliburton, said a sports utility vehicle was destroyed when a bomb planted near a blast wall exploded 100 metres from the main gate.
One of the three people inside the car was killed and two others wounded by the bomb, the guard said, refusing to give his name.
A spokeswoman for the British-led force in southern Iraq could confirm only that there was an explosion at 1205 GMT in Basra.
According to the witness the two killed were travelling in a vehicle at the time of the blast.
Car bomb in Baghdad
Late on Friday a car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad church, shattering stained glass windows but harming no one, the church priest said.
"Nobody was injured, thank God," Uwaida Wahba told Reuters. "It was a cowardly act."
The twisted and charred wreckage of the car lay outside the Sabbatarian Adventist Church in central Baghdad. Services due to be held on Saturday morning had been cancelled, Wahba added.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Related links:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/54D402A6-711C-401D-B45F-AAA27999CB6F.htm
From www.trackingterrorism.com
Maybe these are the threats against the US that AQ is making.
Or,
See tag line...
Sounds like the same old song and dance to me about usama.