Posted on 07/09/2002 7:18:28 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday.
"Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El Youm.
The United States blames Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda for the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people.
"Our suicide militants are ready and impatient to carry out attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets inside (America) and abroad," the spokesman added.
El Youm director told Reuters the newspaper received on Monday by e-mail taped answers to questions that had been sent Sunday to al Qaeda's Internet Web site. Bu Ghaith warned America to "fasten its seat belts" because his organization "will hit, with God's willing, from where they will not expect."
"America knows we are men of action and not men of words," he went on, saying that attacks were also being planned against the "puppet government" of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Bu Ghaith, in a tape aired last month by Qatar-based al Jazeera television, said al Qaeda was behind a suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue in April that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists.
He told El Youm that Washington's war on terrorism since Sept. 11 had not affected al Qaeda's military, intelligence, economic and information infrastructures and reiterated that bin Laden was going about his work.
A spokesman for international forces hunting al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan has dismissed as "wishful thinking" such claims that the network is still virtually intact.
Good idea! While we're at it, blow up the Dome of the Rock mosque and give the temple mount to Israel.
I think/believe the true Al Q method will be to try to replicate 9-11
The reports said they were fairly sophisticated weapons. I also believe he could have had an accomplice who fled during the evacuation after the attack was foiled. Also, shouldn't they have traced the serial number of the guns by now? Why haven't we heard anything as to the origin of those weapons?
I think/believe the true Al Q method will be to try to replicate 9-11
They would probably like to replicate 9/11 but I doubt they could pull off something like that again with security being what it is now - unless they go biological. I think when the time is right they will use suicide bombers. We successfully broke up their training camps in Afghanistan but where are the thousands who already passed through over the last 8 years?
Just my own thoughts, but I would suspect them of trying for a knockout punch on this coming 9/11.
If they try doing suicide bombings on schools, etc, the government had better inter all the Muslims that they can find still alive. And, they had better put lots and lots of guards around those camps. I don't think the American people would be as forgiving as the Israelis. I really can't see them doing suicide bombings in the States, but that is just my two cents.
His hatred of Jews trumpted out over mass casualties.
If he went to, say Delta, he would have been able to empty his magazines only being confronted by a John Candy look-alike mall cop.
I for one do not think it wise to underestimate the resolve of terrorists.
I think there are militants here as well. However, I will not be afraid because they tell me to be. I will be afraid when I feel like it, and not a minute before. Where is that newest video they were going on about? Their job is to make us afraid to go about our lives. Our job as average citizens is to ignore their empty threats. I refuse to jump when they say "boo". I do not believe their publicly talking about attacks has a direct correlation on whether the attacks happen. I will begin to worry after something happens, because worrying before the fact is useless for an average citizen such as myself. My feeling is that they should defecate, or remove themselves from the lavatory...
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