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Here's another article. Do you think OBL is still traveling with him?
Osama's Deputy Threatens More London Attacks
Tape Was Broadcast On Al-Jazeera
(AP) CAIRO, Egypt In a videotape broadcast Thursday, al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri threatened more destruction in London after last month’s attacks on the city’s transit system.
In the tape shown on the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, al-Zawahri also said British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to blame for the capital being targeted.
“Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing,” al-Zawahri said in the tape, referring to the July 7 and July 21 attacks on London’s subways and buses.
In the July 7 attacks, four suicide bombers killed 52 people.
Referring to the Western nations contributing troops to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, he said: “As to the nations of the crusader alliance, we have offered you a truce if you leave the land of Islam.
“Hasn’t Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of Muhammed?” al-Zawahri added.
The tape showed al-Zawahri positioned in front of a woven cloth, with an automatic rifle behind his right shoulder. He was wearing a white robe and a black headdress.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstories_story_216083835.html
Has anyone else's personal alert level just shot through the roof? We know the correlation between al-Zawahiri's tapes and major attacks. There was one a couple of weeks before the London bombings. (audio I think).
Whoa, what the heck???
"Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing
Wouldn't that be something. No one was screaming terrorism this time. It was all about the weather.
Well, MamaD I always have diagrams with me of the planes I fly in. You don't?? And LOTS of cash too.
The mirror is a tabloid with the reputation of getting it wrong some of the time but breaking amazing scoops at other times. Hard to say which category this one is.
LOL Ruth, thanks for a good laugh this morning. We certainly all need one today!
NYPD reveals details of London attack
8/4/2005, 9:07 a.m. ET
By TOM HAYS
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The London suicide bombers cooked up their explosives using mundane items like hydrogen peroxide, suggesting that "these terrorists went to a hardware store or some beauty supply store" for ingredients, according to New York City police.
Details from the July 7 London bombings emerged Wednesday at an unusually wide-ranging briefing given by the New York Police Department to city business leaders.
The briefing — based partly on information obtained by NYPD detectives who were dispatched to London to monitor the investigation — was part of a program designed to encourage more vigilance by private security at large hotels, Wall Street firms, storage facilities and other companies.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned the materials and methods used in the London attack were easily adaptable to New York.
"Initially it was thought that perhaps the materials were high-end military explosives that were smuggled, but it turns out not to be the case," Kelly said. "It's more like these terrorists went to a hardware store or some beauty supply store."
The NYPD officials said investigators believe the bombers used a peroxide-based explosive called HMDT, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. HMDT can be made using ordinary ingredients like hydrogen peroxide (hair bleach), citric acid (a common food preservative) and heat tablets (sometimes used by the military for cooking).
HMDT degrades at room temperature, so the bombers preserved it in way that offered an early warning sign, said Michael Sheehan, deputy commissioner of counterterrorism at the nation's largest police department.
"In the flophouse where this was built in Leeds, they had commercial grade refrigerators to keep the materials cool," Sheehan said, describing the setup as "an indicator of a problem."
Among the other details cited by NYPD officials:
• The bombers transported the explosives in beverage coolers tucked in the back of two cars to the outskirts of London.
• Investigators believe the three bombs that exploded in the subway were detonated by cell phones that had alarms set to 8:50 a.m.
• Similar "explosive compounds" were used in the attempted attack in London on July 21. However, the detonators were hand-activated, not timed.
Sheehan said the NYPD was troubled by information it had received about the bombers' links to "organizations," but he did not name any groups.
"We know those same types of organizations that they're affiliated with are very much present in New York City," he said. "That's something we're studying very, very carefully. ... This could happen here."
After the briefing, police spokesman Paul Browne said the department had clearance from British authorities to present the information about the July 7 attack, which killed 52 people.
The session at police headquarters in lower Manhattan was attended by officials from police departments and law enforcement agencies in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and other jurisdictions. The officials were in the city discussing plans to beef up security along Amtrak's New York-Washington route.
Debka have an interesting take on this...
New al Qaeda threat of imminent large scale strikes against American and British targets. US is warned of “horrors worse than Vietnam” and Blair is held responsible for London attacks.
August 4, 2005, 3:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
In new video just released, Bin Laden’s lieutenant Ayman Zuwahiri accuses US and Britain of violating a ceasefire in Iraq and failing to withdraw their troops.
Thursday, August 4, Jordan announced the arrest of 17 terrorists linked to Abu Musab al Zarqawi‘s al Qaeda network in Iraq and an affiliated Saudi group for plotting an attack on US personnel.
On July 16, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 214 revealed the plot's huge scale:
An ambitious attack in Jordan was foiled this week. It was to have been Zarqawi’s crowning venture. The scheme had four parts: One, to blow up the Iraqi-Jordanian oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Zarqa; two, to torch the hundreds of American and Jordan tanker trucks waiting outside Jordanian pumping stations including H4. The Jordanian-Iraqi border terminals were to have been attacked at the same time and the villages around the terminals and oil pipeline set on fire.
Four would have emanated from the first three: the cutoff of the main energy lifeline from Jordan to the US army in Iraq and Baghdad.
Jordanian intelligence got wind of the danger in time and aborted the multiple attacks.
http://www.debka.com/
You two may have to put the hibbies in quarantine when they get home.
Seriously though, I wish them a safe trip and I'm sure they will be careful. First rule, don't shake hands with anyone & carry Purell and other hand washing items at all times.
Hell, it's up in the trees somewhere! I talked to a friend last night who has some interesting connections in the security world, and with our wives just out of earshot (they've already heard it enough from us) he quietly confirmed that he had been hearing a lot too. He's normally a pretty jovial guy, but this got him serious all of a sudden, and he seemed a little surprised that I would know anything.
Thank you, TM
My gut guess is that OBL and Zawahiri are together.
Seems to me that his gun is usually on his right side.
http://images.google.com/images?q=zawahiri&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
(I must say, I envy how white they get their whites. Clorox?)
>>>>Has anyone else's personal alert level just shot through the roof?
Yes!
>>>>Whoa, what the heck???
That was pretty much my reaction as well.
Chilling...
If this report is accurate, this would be the second major attack foiled by the Jordanians. About a year or so ago they had planned a chemical attack in Jordan.
And that little tidbit remains unreported.
I sometimes wonder whether these tapes are as much a warning to muslims in the west that an attack if coming. There's enough documented evidence that 9/11 was common knowledge before the event amongst muslim communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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