Russian jet fighter turns back US spy plane
16/11/2004 - 08:05:02
A US surveillance plane making a flight near Russia’s Black Sea coast turned back after Russia sent a fighter jet to investigate, an Air Force spokesman said today.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=102113060&p=yxzyy364x
Dire Al Qaeda Threat Amid CIA Turmoil
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4264
Coalition squadron deters attacks: general
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11389460%255E31477,00.html
I'm not sure what to make of this. My instinct says that if there was another Bin Laden tape out there, it would have found it's way onto the internet by now but here's an update from tracking terrorism...
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=898
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Long Awaited Bin Laden Statement, Finally Released?
Source: AP | 10:13:18 AM
We do believe this could be the statement that Al-Jazeera was told to NOT air, and agreed to the embargo. We knew that the tape made references to Pakistan in addition to the United States. It is quite possible that since the video was embargoed, they have released a statement instead.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A web statement purportedly from al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistani Muslims to fight, saying their country and neighbouring Afghanistan faced an American invasion.
The authenticity of the statement, which appeared Tuesday on a website linked to Muslim radicals, could not be verified. "We urge our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to use all their capabilities and whatever they possess to prevent the American crusader's troops from invading Pakistan and Afghanistan," said the statement, signed: "your brother in Islam, Osama bin Laden."
The statement also referred to deaths during an anti-U.S. protest in the Pakistani city of Karachi. While violent protests have occurred elsewhere in Pakistan, there have been no reports of a demonstration in Karachi that resulted in fatal clashes.
The statement included a pledge to Pakistani Muslims that "we are steadfast on the path of holy war . . . with the true believers of the heroic Afghan people, under the leadership of Mullah Mohammed Omar."
"Dire Al Qaeda Threat Amid CIA Turmoil"
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4264
Sounds like these bastards want to set one off right in the middle of Ohio.
Set one off there and threaten to explode three more Nukes elsewhere if certain demands aren't met.
I can see this scenario becoming reality.
I got a little more info on this story by reading this version in La Repubblica :
Al Qaeda, announces on the web "We have nuclear bombs"
Rome -"We're informing the Islamic Nation that the production and enrichment of uranium, in reference to making nuclear bombs, are no longer the monopoly of the Crusaders and tyrants of the world. Our attempts to create small bombs with great destructive power have been successful." The alarming announcement is contained in a communication signed by Al Qaeda on the Internet on a new Islamic forum. The document, that carries the date of two days ago, is directed in particular to the American people.
The site containing the new threat attributed to Al Qaeda was found by the agency Adnkronos International. The announcement on the atomic bomb is confirmed by other information of Al Qaeda that should serve to corroborate its credibility.
"Know that we at Al Qaeda," as you read in the document, "we will respond with painful action to your refusal to accept the advice that was offered by Sheikh Osama bin Laden in his last speech in which he asked you not to elect the foolish Bush at the last election. Now, we say that this refusal will cost you the divine wrath. And Allah will choose you as the first target that will be hit in the heart of America."
The message is published on a new Islamic forum titled "Jihad Forum From The Lions Den", and it opens with verse 60 on The Spoils of War from the Koran. The official notice concludes with a note in which it advises that the chosen methods to disseminate this document are out of the ordinary and completely exceptional.
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Also an excerpt from another La Repubblica story:
"Bush Will Pay For Iraq"
The terrorist remembers, in the end, that "for each action there is a reaction" and says that Al Qaeda will fight the United States "until their forces go bankrupt."