Posted on 11/16/2002 7:15:48 PM PST by Michael2001
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A statement attributed to al-Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless America stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam, an Arab TV reporter who received the unsigned document said Saturday.
Yosri Fouda, correspondent for the satellite station Al-Jazeera, told The Associated Press he received the six-page document on Wednesday. That was a day after the TV station broadcast an audiotape purportedly made by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).
Fouda, who is known for good contacts within al-Qaida, would only say that the statement came from his sources with the group. But he insisted he was certain it came from the terrorist movement's leadership.
Fouda, speaking by telephone from London, said the statement called on Americans to stop supporting Israel and other governments that "oppress" Muslims or face more attacks. The statement also called on Americans to convert to Islam, he said.
Fouda quoted the statement as saying: "Stop your support for Israel against the Palestinians, for Russians against the Chechens ... for corrupt leaders in our countries ... (and) leave us alone or expect us in Washington and New York."
He added the statement demanded U.S. troops leave the Arabian Peninsula, and justified the killings of American civilians because they pay taxes that finance military operations.
There was no immediate reaction from Washington. No officials were available for comment at the Pentagon (news - web sites) or the National Security Council Saturday afternoon. A report on the statement as described by Fouda was carried in The Sunday Times of London.
Fouda is a prominent Arab television journalist who has broken several important stories about al-Qaida. In September, Al-Jazeera broadcast Fouda's interviews with two top al-Qaida operatives hiding in Pakistan, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khaled Sheik Mohammed.
Binalshibh was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, shortly after the broadcast and was transferred to U.S. custody.
Fouda said the statement also referred to the crisis between the United States and Iraq as one more reason to attack Americans.
"You are placing Muslims under siege in Iraq, where children die every day. Oh, how weird that you don't care for 1.5 million Iraqi children who died under siege, but when 3,000 of your compatriots died, the whole world was shaken," Fouda quoted the statement as saying.
Meanwhile, a militant Islamic Web site that carries news about al-Qaida has dismissed as lies a report that a senior member of the terror group is in U.S. custody.
U.S. officials in Washington said Friday that one of the leaders of al-Qaida had been detained in a foreign country and handed over to U.S. authorities.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to identify the detainee, but said he was not al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, his chief depity, his son or the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The site scoffed at the U.S. officials' refusal to name the detainee. "Maybe they fear to announce a certain name, and al-Qaida would issue a denial so their (the U.S.) situation would become worse," it said.
Say when!
Hey, are you not pissed, if not you need to be. Whose toying with them, they are toying with us. There is no false sense of security here, but no one is running scared. We are pissed. We are here in the open, that sorry SOB is hid out sending threats. This is our homeland. Are you going to let someone threaten you away from your house and just give it to them, or are you going to stand up and fight for what is rightfully yours.
Who cares about them being pissed. They are not pissed, they are insane. They want to kill us for paying taxes. Well I could have stopped paying taxes long ago, but it won't be because they threatened me. They want us to convert to Islam, well literally not over my dead body.
Osorry Bi@th Louder can eat crap and die unhappily ever after with his 70 virgins that all look like Helen Thomas.
And when the water quits running, the toilets won't flush, and they will be flooding out of the Blue areas! [That's when you will need the ammo!]
All of the above. For if one were to conclude that a certain group and the underlying beliefs of same was the problem, then clearly one must deal with the problem in whatever venue one might find it. In one way or another.
It's rather worrisome, but does anyone have any doubt that if there is another Act of War against the civilians of the United States on our own soil by Islamist terrorists, that the US would have a hard time restraing a group of "Had Enough!" patriots who had the training in demolition and infiltration (former special forces) and the means (financial support by like minded patriot Americans) to field a team to go to Mecca and take out the black Sacred Qaba'llah and leave pig entrails behind with anti-Islamist leaflets saying that payback is a bitch?
How could the UN or the State Department or CAIR or anyone else for that matter stop anybody from this if Americans were pushed to the limit by the wholesale Arabic subversive element we have allowed to enter this country and fester into deadly cells?
I can't imagine anyone putting a 'cap on the bottle' of frustration and outrage, so Uncle Sam might be resigned to send in his own SOF paras team to do the job, especially if there were hundreds of thousands American men, women and children dead from sarin, or VX or anthrax or radiation in the States and/or the Statue of Liberty in ruins. One truly wonders what kind of year-end we will have and what is in store for Western Civilization as it moves to prosecute justice in Iraq and it's allies of al-Qa'ida.
NYC GOP Chick
You go girl!!!
Monty22
And besides where would you run to, what would you do, become a traitor. Convert.
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