Posted on 06/09/2002 6:36:20 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
CAIRO (Reuters) - A statement claiming to be from al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith has warned the United States it would face more attacks, which could involve non-conventional weapons.
The statement was carried Sunday on a Web site, www.alneda.com, which has in the past issued statements that claimed to be from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and news on Afghanistan, where the group was based.
"We are still at the beginning of the road," Bu Ghaith said in the statement. "The Americans have not yet suffered from us what we have suffered from them."
He said the United States had killed, directly or indirectly, thousands in Iraq, Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Sudan, Philippines, Bosnia and Kashmir.
"So we have the right to kill four million Americans, including one million children, displace double that figure and injure and cripple hundreds of thousands," he said.
"We have the right to fight them by chemical and biological weapons so that they catch the fatal and unusual diseases that Muslims have caught due to their (U.S.) chemical and biological weapons," he said.
It was not clear when the statement in Arabic was posted on the Web site, to which access is often difficult.
The comments were made in the third of a series of articles headlined "Under the Shadow of Spears."
Bu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti-born cleric, emerged as an al-Qaeda spokesman after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Kuwait has withdrawn his nationality.
The United Sates accuses bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network of masterminding the attacks that killed about 3,000 people.
In the second article earlier this month, Bu Ghaith warned the United States to get ready for another attack.
U.S.-led coalition forces are still hunting for the remnants of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, after launching an offensive in October that ousted Taliban from power.
I don't follow you here. How does the Anthrax provide back-end security for the state that sponsored the 9-11 attack?
Because it represents a credible threat that publicly identifying and therefore, of necessity, retaliating against the 9-11 sponsor state would result in a confrontation in which millions of American civilians would die. Vice President Cheney laid this out for Tony Blair during his recent visit to the UK: Iraq warnings prompt British rush to get smallpox vaccine .
Not when they have something real in the works. They'd strike first for maximum shock value. The threats and bluster mean that they don't have much left to work with. I'd guess that, the more extravagant the threats, the less of al-Qaeda is actually in functioning condition. When they get to "we will exterminate every American on the face of the earth 12 times over, beginning next Tuesday, so be very afraid," that means that they're down to two crazy Arabs and a fax machine.
I just finished reading "Saddam's Bombmaker", by Kidhor Hamza, who ran the Iraqi nuclear-bomb development program from the late 80's until the early 90's, when he defected to the US. The portrait he paints of Saddam is of a man who is utterly ruthless, totally evil, and willing to kill himself and his country if he's assured that enough of his enemies will go with him. He's also a man for whom "forgiveness" is a completely alien concept.
Hamza states that, if/when Saddam gets a missilized nuclear bomb, he may well launch it at Israel unprovoked, knowing full well that the Israeli nuclear retaliation will render Iraq a wasteland.
Frankly, if Hamza's portrait of Saddam is 80% accurate, Hitler was a much more lovable guy than Saddam. Hitler didn't go around shooting his subordinates for merely disagreeing with him in a meeting. Saddam does.
Bin Laden has to be dead aye? Maybe he got amart and quit his video taping cause we are three steps behind him he is on the run.
OK. Then what? Then we're all going to walk off into the sunset holding hands and living in peace? The same old refrain we've heard numerous times before from various groups throughout the world...."I've suffered an injustice (says me), therefore I have the right to do....(insert whatever takes your fancy).
Maybe these fools really do just want to go on killing people until there's nobody left to slaughter.
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