Is Rush psychic? Cover of the Limbaugh Letter August 2001
Posted on 09/11/2001 4:10:03 PM PDT by mrmax
We had been WARNED!
We have been at war with Osama bin Laden forces for several years. War requires vigilance!
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001212950,00.html
| MONDAY JUNE 25 2001 |
Bin Laden 'plans new attacks in two weeks' |
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| BY MICHAEL THEODOULOU IN NICOSIA AND MICHAEL EVANS |
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| OSAMA BIN LADEN, the world’s most-wanted terrorist, is planning a big attack on American and Israeli targets within the next two weeks, a London-based Arab satellite television station has claimed. American armed forces have been on full alert for three days after receiving intelligence reports about potential terrorist action linked to the exiled Saudi dissident, who has lived in Afghanistan since 1996. Warships in Bahrain, headquarters of the US 5th Fleet, were ordered to sea on Friday and three American amphibious vessels left the Red Sea port of Aqaba on Saturday, cutting short a military exercise in Jordan. The evidence of a terrorist campaign came from an Islamabad-based correspondent for the Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC). Bakri Attrani, the MBC correspondent, said that he had been taken by car across the Pakistan border into Afghanistan, where he met bin Laden. The terrorist leader, whom the Americans suspect of masterminding the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people, did not make any direct statement to Mr Attrani, but the correspondent reported that bin Laden’s supporters had said that in the next two weeks “a severe blow is expected against USA and Israeli interests worldwide”. A spokesman for MBC in London said the correspondent had reported that bin Laden seemed pleased when his supporters gave the warning. MBC, which is owned by Waleed al-Ibrahim, whose sister is married to King Fahd of Saudia Arabia, said that bin Laden did not speak himself because of the restrictions imposed on him by Afghanistan’s Taleban rulers. Mr Attrani said: “There is a major state of mobilisation among the Osama bin Laden forces. It seems that there is a race for who will strike first. Will it be the United States or Osama bin Laden?” However, the Taleban authorities rejected the reports of a terrorist attack. They said that bin Laden’s activities were under control. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that it was not possible for him to organise action against another country. Mr Attrani met bin Laden in the desert. He travelled for three hours in a car with blackened windows so that he could not see where he was going. Among bin Laden’s supporters present were Abu Hatas al-Masri and Ayman al-Zawahiri, leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Jihad group, who have joined forces with the Saudi dissident. Mr Attrani said that he and his crew were searched before being allowed to see bin Laden. During the meeting, bin Laden’s supporters did not give any details about the planned attacks. The reports received by American Intelligence also referred to a “non-specific but credible threat”. Last month an American jury convicted four followers of bin Laden of plotting to bomb the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Twelve Americans were among those who were killed in the attacks. Last week another US court indicted 14 suspects — 13 Saudis and a Lebanese — for the terrorist bombing in 1996 of a US barracks in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 US servicemen. A videotape emerged last week, which showed bin Laden telling his supporters: “It’s time to penetrate America and Israel and hit them where it hurts most.” The Taleban authorities claimed that it was a fake. |
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when finished, go to balkanpeace.org and type BIN LADEN into search engine.
Known in Europe but suppressed in U.S.
Bin Laden's brother is commander of KLA commando units in Kosovo in AMERICAN occupation sector.
Make copies because it may disappear.
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