Al Qaeda Says It Will Hit U.S., Jewish Targets Soon

Reuters ^ | July 9, 2002 | Staff Reports

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

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 ( news - web sites)'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 ( news - web sites) has dismissed as "wishful thinking" such claims that the network is still virtually intact.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

They already have hit a Jewish target in America. What do they think the attack at El-Al counter was? I guess the people killed at LAX on our nations birthday did nothing to wake the gov't up.

We're not all as clueless as the suits at the FBI, gov't et all would like to believe...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Al-Qaida spokesman quoted in newspaper saying terror organization is thriving, planning attacks -AP Breaking News
(07-09) 09:58 PDT ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- In an interview published Tuesday, the spokesman for al-Qaida said the terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden was thriving and planning new attacks on Americans. He called the U.S. ca...

[jwalsh07]

"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.

Hope Sulaiman has his 72 virgin life insurance paid up to date.

[Sam's Army]

I'm sure this just music to the Democrats' ears...NOT!!!

Maybe even Allan Colmes will switch sides and join us eventually in fighting terror.

[Snowy]

Already posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/713135/posts

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Whoops, that's what I get for sleeping in!

Thanks for the info.

:^)

[Snowy]

That's ok. :) It's a good article...

[Rhetorical pi2]

I'm of two minds on this story.

1. It makes my stomach muscles tighten, and I re-read his lines to figure out where they might hit. There are so many targets of opportunity they can attack, that we could not stop them on a suicide mission.

2. Then again, I get a vague feeling that this may be bluster. I think they are crippled, and hurting badly. This may be cheerleading for the troops that are demoralized from the US response.

Nevertheless, we have to consider it a serious threat for the time being.