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Posted on 06/23/2002 1:06:03 AM PDT by Bobby777
Osama bin Laden is to give another televised address to the world.
The al-Qaeda leader is to deliver a hate-filled video on July 4, American Independence Day.
The announcement was made on the Arabic Sahab website which issues daily information on the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden was pictured on the site, kneeling between two al-Qaeda officials.
His spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith says: "America should get ready and fasten its safety belt.
"We will come to them from where they don't expect. Yes, we will wage attacks but at the right time, at the place we want, in the way we please."
On Friday the FBI were taking seriously a Lebanese-born man's claims to have overheard a mobile phone conversation in Arabic about an attack on Las Vegas.
But yesterday they said they had no evidence of any threat on July 4.
According to Michael Hamdan, the speakers said: ``"We are here in the city of corruption...the city of gambling and prostitution, the city of the unbelievers.
The warlord, who was behind the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has not been heard from since he was detected on December 11 at his eastern Afghan hideout in Tora Bora.
American intelligence sources believe he is surrounded by al-Qaeda's high command either in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The FBI has also been tracing another website, alneda. com, the mouthpiece for al-Qaeda.
The site has audio and video clips of bin Laden and photographs of al-Qaeda suspects in detention in Pakistan.
There also appear to be coded messages for followers to transmit instructions for attacks.
It has been closed down twice by US intelligence forces after appearing in Malaysia and Texas.
Earlier this month the site posted a message of condolence from terrorist and Taliban chief Mullar Mohammed Omar after the death of a Pakistan scholar.
It was revealed yesterday that the man believed to have recruited September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta to al-Qaeda was investigated in 1999.
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, 41, attracted the attention of German intelligence after making contact with bin Laden's suspected financial chief.
Zammar was arrested in Morocco this week along with other suspected al- Qaeda members, including Abu Zubair al-Haili.
Al-Haili is thought to have been pivotal in training hijackers for September 11.
Secure our borders. Priority 1.
I don't think they know the difference between what goes on every day in the Big Town and gambling.
All they know is that they hate it.
A couple of empty Mogen David 20/20 bottles, used condoms, and back issues of Hustler from the "Chester the Molester" era.
Astronomy. The names of the stars in the Big Dipper - Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Megrez, Alioth, Mizar, Alcor, and Alkaid (to name but a few) pay mute testimony to that.
That was during the Middle Ages, when science was all but dead on the European continent. As to anything recent, I'm drawing a blank.
Having said that, Americans/White Euros are being discrimated against in the grand scheme of things. Our world of safety is getting smaller. I have neighbors from Egypt who are spending the summer at their vacation villa in Egypt. When the summer ends they get to come back the USA and enjoy our many gifts (mainly first class schooling).
I couldn't step foot in Egypt and I wouldn't step foot in Jerusalem. The terrorists have won in many ways. We ought to be ripping the shyatt out of the Mubareks of the world to clamp down ruthlessly on the bad guys. The problem is illiteracy tho and I don't know how you fix that. Illiteracy combined with readily available media (CD's, Videos etc.) is a very terrible development for the "good guys" because the bad guys have never been able to get the message to the masses so easily as they do now. All of this was prophesized.
A bunch of America-hating, terrorist a$$holes bent on our destruction?
What is inside the big black cube in the center of their shrine?
The world's biggest and fanciest Porta-Potty? If it isn't now, just wait a while...
That's exactly right, and that's why this war is so much more difficult than people want. It's not a war with definable borders. It's a battle for minds.
We have to use the military to attack physical targets, but we also have to target those who are teaching people to hate and to use terror.
It's very difficult.
Its a lot like radiation therapy conducted by slight of hand.
Gee, why wasn't I anticipating something along the lines of a 'Brady Reunion Special' with these guys................
Now a double in the best stocks in the stock market - probable. Today was the day. Fear is wrung from the market.
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