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Posted on 11/03/2004 12:20:59 AM PST by nwctwx
Chuckle. Methinks you doth protest...
Yet, in this age after clinton, we are now compelled to ask: But were you ever with any group or organization?
You know I am just kidding with you. :)
You are very welcome, Vel.
A bit of good news for a change.
***Humor break***
Michael Moore Accepts Distinguished Infidel Award From al-Qaeda
http://www.brokennewz.com/displaystory.asp_Q_storyid_E_1154infidelmm
LOL, I do the same thing. It's going better today than yesterday. So far. thanks for asking.
I should also add that we cannot or should not believe everything we read in a newspaper. Sometimes anyway. ;)
Afterall, I can ask a reporter to protect me as a source by reporting that my name is Debra even though it is Donna. I can also arrange to move into an old spare office at my sister-in-law's flat for a day. Cell phones not linked to any particular address except for a billing address help such an arrangement.
I am not saying this is true in this case, all I am saying is that reporters protect their sources and a terrorist hunter must protect his/her personage. In rare cases, covers must be blown and are revealed -- supposedly we saw this happen earlier this year in Montana.
Yet Aaron at Internet Haganah and many others appear to use real IDs. They are all brave.
This juhadi hunting is still relatively new for the amateur (read: all but spy agencies' counterterrorism wings and law enforcement) anyway.
All I can say is WOW. I hope this story and more details make it into the lamestream media.
Thank you for posting this. I wonder what zarqawi has to say now.
I hope he pleads for a truce in Fallujah, that we agree to such a truce, and then we bomb him and the rest in a sneak attack!
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BIN LADEN HAS RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS
FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS SECURED RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS
Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. No one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than Scheuer, who has tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to write the books provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to reveal himself for the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally leaves the Agency today (12).
Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used it for a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now. "[Bin Laden] secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says Scheuer. "[The treatise] found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer tells Kroft.
Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by some Muslims for the 9/11 attack because he killed so many people without enough warning and before offering to help convert them to Islam. But now bin Laden has addressed the American people and given fair warning. "They're intention is to end the war as soon as they can and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of their region....If they acquire the weapon, they will use it, whether it's chemical, biological or some sort of nuclear weapon," says Scheuer.
As the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He blames former CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that should have been asked of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough people for the public relations office, for the academic outreach office, for the diversity and multi-cultural office? All those things are admirable and necessary but none of them are protecting the American people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer.
And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated, says Scheuer. "I think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people a disservice...continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a gangster," he says. "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very, very talented man and a very worthy opponent," he tells Kroft.
Until today (12), Scheuer was a senior official in the CIA's counter terrorism unit and a special advisor to the head of the agency's bin Laden unit.
Developing...
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UAE: WEBSITE NUCLEAR BOMB CLAIM, ATTRIBUTED TO AL-QAEDA
Dubai, 12 Nov. (AKI) - The ability to produce and enrich uranium to make nuclear bombs is no longer the prerogative of the world's "tyrannical crusaders", a statement signed by the the al-Qaeda terror network and published on a new Islamic 'Jihad Lion's Den Forum' website claimed this week. "Our attempts to make small nuclear bombs with great potential for destruction have succeeded", said the statement, which its authors said was targeted at the American people. "Al-Qaeda will respond harshly to your refusal to heed sheikh Osama bin Laden's warning not to re-elect the foolish Bush in the presidential elections. We tell you that this refusal will bring Allah's divine wrath upon you. He will make you the the prime target of an attack that will strike at the heart of America", the statement continued.
The message begins with the 60th verse from the 'Al-Anfal' ['The Spoils of War] chapter of the Koran: "And prepare for them you Muslims all you can recruit of strength: armed forces and mounted troops to strike terror into the hearts and minds of Allah's enemy who is your enemy, and into the hearts and minds of others whom you do not know but Allah knows them. And remember that whatever you spend in divine service you shall be reimbursed and never shall you be wronged".
(Ham/Aki)
Nov-12-04 10:56
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Passengers Experience Significant Screening Delays UPDATED: 6:56 pm EST November 11, 2004 CHANTILLY, Va. -- Passengers flying out of Dulles International Airport faced delays Thursday night after a security screener noticed a suspicious item on a screening monitor around 4:40 p.m.
Howard Co. Bans Hearings on Islamic and Jewish Holidays (Maryland)
Thursday November 11, 2004 1:01pm Elicott City, Md. (AP) - The Howard County Council will no longer hold public hearings on two Islamic holidays and two Jewish holidays.
The legislation was introduced by councilman Ken Ulman and passed unanimously on November 1st. It bars the council from scheduling public hearings on Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha. Those days mark the end of Ramadan and the end of Muslims' pilgrimage to Mecca.
Taliban Leader Omar Vows to Retake Afghanistan (11/12/04)
Friday, November 12, 2004 8:14 a.m. ET KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has accused the United States of trying to impose a puppet administration in Afghanistan and vowed to regain control of the country, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported on Friday.
A message from the leader of the Taliban movement overthrown by U.S.-led forces in late 2001 was sent to newspaper offices in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the Afghan Islamic Press said.
The message, to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr starting this weekend, came the day before the third anniversary of the day when U.S.-backed Afghan forces captured Kabul from the Taliban on November 13, 2001.
Iraqi Group Threatens to Attack the American Interests in Bahrain
Bahrain-USA, Local, 11/12/2004 A statement carrying the signature of one Iraqi group and issued on one Islamic website threatened on Wednesday of targeting the American interests in Bahrain.
The statement which bears the signature of "Ansar al-Islam, Bahrain branch" said that the group decided to launch "suicide attacks" targeting the " American non believers ( Kuffar) and their hirelings in the Kingdom of Bahrain."
Sounds like this weekend might be important.
Also, this week-end is the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.....they seem to enjoy encouraging death and destruction on their holidays...what a surprise. Plus the added risks to Israel after AraRats death.
Too funny! LOL.
Thanks for sharing that here. I added the broken newz site to my bookmarks.
Thanks for posting that, tmp02. Scheuer is reporting this mainly for the mainstream news watchers. For us TMers it is older news. The fatwa for WMDs was reported online months back. I am assuming that this is what they are talking about anyway.
I think the only reason cbs is airing this is because the election is over, GWB won and it can't hurt their agenda to talk up these dangerous times concerning terrorism now. They want to try to trash GWB as much as possible, of course. So they will allow Scheuer to trash the CIA and by extension, GWB.
IIRC, It's Happening and Jill St. Claire and a few other sites posted the WMD fatwa awhile back.
NBC SanDiego.com ^ | 11/12/04 | AP
Posted on 11/12/2004 1:03:31 PM EST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
SAN DIEGO -- Inspectors checking the car of a smuggler at the U.S.-Mexican border found a girl hiding inside a piñata.
They said they've seen all kinds of attempts to smuggle people into the country, but this was an odd case.
Vince Bond of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers at the Tecate Port of Entry found the girl on Nov. 2 when they removed several piñatas from the car and one seemed much heavier than the others.
The girl, who is about 4 or 5 years old, was carefully sealed inside, but she was able to breathe. The girl's mother was curled up inside the car's trunk, and her brother, who is about 9, was underneath the collapsible back seat.
The three family members were voluntarily deported to Mexico. The driver and another passenger in the car, both American citizens, were not arrested.
Bond said the sheer volume of immigrant-smuggling cases far exceeds the government's ability to prosecute all smugglers.
Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, South Dakota
(George) McGovern met Arafat several times
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Yasser Arafat was a passionate, intelligent man who worked hard for a Palestinian state, former Sen. George McGovern says.
"One man's version of a terrorist is another man's version of a freedom fighter," said McGovern, who chaired a Senate committee on the Middle East and met Arafat several times in Lebanon and North Africa.
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/12/front/top/news01.txt
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