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.
Does anyone know?
Bar-B-Q.
Pork ribs. Pork sausage links. Sliced pork. They just don't want the masses to know!
Nevada? Horrywood? NYC?
Anywhere lots of liberals hang out is my guess. A liberal Mecca. Lol
But enough about the Democratic party.
That's exactly what I think.
I think the FBI has screwed up, AGAIN.
Every time they issue a warning, nothing happens. This one is hot.
The threat is overblown. The 9-11 attack was low low tech and indicates they have nothing more than ideas. Ideas are powerful to be sure, but night vision and logistics are powerful too. Ask ole Abu the A-hole in the Phillipines.
Actually, the guy failed a lie detector test, but yes, this warning IS hot. Rabid jihadi messages on Islamic extremist websites have been really hot and heavy since March 2002. It's believed they're regrouping.
LOL...and oh...besides my warning that Americans working in Arab countries are being targeted, watch out for McDonald's. One of their sites mentioned that McDonald's is a "symbol of Western zionism" and recommends an Islamic 'boycott'...which means something's gonna get blown up again.
My guess is that the Islamists are waiting to do a very big attack, something that would require engineering skills, like a dam north of Las Vegas.
I want to know where this Lebanese informant is going to be on July 4th.
They'll all flip their towels when they find out the truth.
How about getting someone (Registered?) to do up a picture of a homocide bomber, post-explosion. The picture could show authorities picking up the Mus-limbs (arms and legs) and depositing them into pig sloths. Off to the side, a picture of the soup nazi from Seinfeld saying "no vigins for you".....
Can you name any invention, medicine/vaccination, or other positive development created by Arabs? I drew a blank myself....
I would still very much like to know what those Maylaisian (IIRC) 'tourists' were doing climbing a fence and taking pictures of a reservoir. I never believed their story about scenery.
I don't know about the Hoover Dam. They need a lot more resources than they evidently have right now...but yes, they are DEFINITELY planning something big. We just don't know where, except for the mention of 'boycotting' McDonalds...oh, and targeting other 'symbols' of the 'American-Jewish-Israeli entity.'
The whole month of July I'm going to be waiting for it. July is the seventh month, and I have this theory that binny and buddies use numerologically significant dates in order to mystically increase their chance of success.
...The Arabs very proudly proclaim to be the inventors of the number '0'. I'm sure the concept of '0' actually originated in India, along with Algebra...so it's pretty bad when even their claim of the invention of zilch turns out to be made up...
What is really at mecca and medina?Mecca is the city where Mohammed was from. The Kabe, which is the black cube you refer to, is a shrine which contains a meteorite. It was kept holy by folks there since who knows when.
Soap, surgery & algebra come to mind.
Where do you think Drudge gets all of his info from? I'll give you a hint. It's not from his vast staff of reporters.
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