[d3nny h4st3rt]

I'd like to play pool with Omar's glass eye.

[San Jacinto]

Maybe these sleepers are going to sell us anthrax slushies down at the corner store.

[Clinton's a rapist]

Omar is an ignorant buffoon. The real threat is from Saddam's sleepers. Saddam isn't going to save Omar's bacon by loosing off those sleepers when his own ass is on the line. Wouldn't be prudent. Nevertheless, the threat is real, and Omar may have knowledge of the larger plan, even if he obviously doesn't stand to benefit from it. We know that Saddam's agents here have weaponized anthrax -- hardly surprising, inasmuch as clinton gave Saddam the thumbs up to mass produce the stuff three years ago. As Paul Wolfowitz observed in his recent BBC interview, the people who have the anthrax have the capability to inflict some very serious damage on the US civilian population. Fasten your safety belts, folks, stock up on Cipro and Doxycycline, and pay very careful attention to what's going on. It might save your life.

[Monti Cello]

This is good to see. These jokers are boxing themselves in and raising expecctations with this talk and recent claim of nuclear capability.

We can ratchet up security in the short run , and let their credibility with their own followers drop off a cliff.

If they had the capability they claim, they would be better served by a surprise attack without any forewarning smack talk.

[Dan Day]

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has threatened the destruction of the United States "within a short period of time."

Maybe Stratfor should have actually read the Omar interview before they tried to analyze it...

Here's the full exchange from the interview -- it's a lot less scary than the "summaries" that some news organizations have used to mischaracterize it:

BBC: What do you think of the current situation in Afghanistan?

Omar: You (the BBC) and American puppet radios have created concern. But the current situation in Afghanistan is related to a bigger cause - that is the destruction of America...

BBC: What do you mean by the destruction of America? Do you have a concrete plan to implement this?

Omar: The plan is going ahead and, God willing, it is being implemented. But it is a huge task, which is beyond the will and comprehension of human beings. If God's help is with us, this will happen within a short period of time; keep in mind this prediction.

BBC: Osama Bin Laden has reportedly threatened that he would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against America. Is your threat related to his?

Omar: This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it (America) will fall to the ground.

Sounds to me like their "big plan" is to pray like hell for Allah to come down and smite us for the Taliban.

[Redcloak]

Perhaps his plan is to cause us all to die laughing.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has threatened the destruction of the United States "within a short period of time."

Bunker Babble.

[kstewskis]

I think he's been dippin' into too many of those opiate poppies. But just in case, lets nuke him.

[Ditto]

From what I have read, this Omar guy is a semi-literate nut case who has a frequent flyer gold card from all trips to fantasy land. Supposedly he had some sort of brain injury that causes hallucination and seizures.

I seriously doubt that Bin Laden and his Egyptian right-hand man who are dead serious terrorists would clue a loony toon like Omar into any of their plans.

[Dog Gone]

Is this the same Mullah Omar who liked to sit behind the wheel of his parked SUV and pretend to drive making putt-putt sounds?

Who cares what he thinks? The guy has no grip on reality. Yesterday he said it was time for the United States to begin negotiations with the Taliban.

[blam]

A call for 'sleepers' to act?

[He Rides A White Horse]

His prediction of the imminent destruction of the United States is at its core a message to his allies and fighters

..........and a message to his enemies also (that would be us)..........it says, "I and all those like me must be utterly destroyed, as this is my supreme goal..."

[He Rides A White Horse]

On the other hand though Axion, I wouldn't be surprised to see a major US city or two go up in smoke. Complete destruction of the US is another matter, however.

[kaylar]

To judge from OBL's statement, he actually thought that destroying the WTC would in and of itself be enough to destroy the US as an economic superpower, and possibly bring down the economy of the entire nonislamic west. Keep that in mind when reading Omar's threats. Whatever they have, they will grossly overestimate its power and potential for damage, while grossly underestimating the resilience of the US and its ability to retaliate.

[He Rides A White Horse]

It is unclear whether al Qaeda and the Taliban expended all of their U.S.-based resources in the Sept. 11 attacks

Of course not...........there are plenty here. Expect more.

[David]

It is all very well to denigrate Omar and Ussama. I am uncomfortable doing so.

This may not be just a threat. It may be a recounting of an actual plan he has heard of--in a moment of lack of control because he is under terrible pressure, he spits this out.

I have always assumed that Ussama had some kind of end game in mind other than just sitting there and letting us shoot him up. I think he miscalculated the speed with which our efforts combined with the Northern Alliance could take over Afghanistan. However he clearly foresaw most of our general stratigy before he hit us on 9-11.

I assume that before he started the evening of 9-10, he had a scheme he thought would bring us down.

The actual number of Islams here in the US is somewhere between 3.5 and 7 million. They poll 70% thinking that although taking down the towers was not a directly reasonable remedy, the US is really responsible because of its bad conduct--its our own fault. So if you start with a number like 5 million Islams; 70% or 3.5 million thinking we have nobody but ourselves to blame--you take the polls from these islam schools of the kids through 19 being over 90% in support of ussama; it is not unreasonable to believe that 15% of these guys or around 750,000 would support attacks on US soil.

If ussama has an army of 750,000 in North America, they can do us a lot of damage with a sound plan and good tactical execution. I am concerned and think we should dig into the domestic group to find out what people know.