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.
Oh goody. That means since Saudis financed Al Queda, we can nuke them :)
Can you even believe in the mid 90's there was a movement to disband the CIA? We're all lucky it never went anywhere.
I cannot even express the hatred I have for this man. I hope that somehow two things will happen: 1. George W Bush will be able to lead us through this to victory, and 2. Bill Clinton's real legacy will be paraded before every American without the possible consequences of his actions killing a massive number of us.
Long rant self-deleted due to concerns re lame duck Democrat ruled Senate and the possible lingering repercussions of stating the truth in said environment.
Soon, freedom will reign again in the USA.
I would be more than proud to be in the trenches with you NYC GOP Chick, we can kick some islamo arse.
I am very happy to hear you are a survivor of that horrible animal made catastrophe, but sorry you had to endure it. Some of my co-workers from Verizon that was there for a meeting were killed.
Let us suppose that tomorrow he came out and announced that we were at war with all Islam (one billion people). What could we expect from such a statement?
1. Vigilante actions in the US, in which many innocent people would be killed.
2. Diversion of police and firefighters to quell riots on both sides.
3. The loss of allies such as Turkey and Pakistan, making intelligence harder to gather.
4. Immediate stoppage of oil shipmens from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other mid-eastern countries.
5. Forced removal of ou troops from any Muslim country.
6. The prospect that we are at war with our own citizens, from recent citizens to native born...from Black Muslims to Iranians living here in exile.
I think the President is doing what is best for the country. We are all, of course, free to hold our own opinions. However, I think a religious war within our borders and the collapse of the war on terror is something to be avoided.
Does your solution involve the public execution of Islaminazi bast#$ds by cutting off hands and feet, chopping off ears and nuts, removal of the tounge, and plucking out eyeballs before rolling their body in pig fat, wrapping it in bacon, and putting them in a pit facing 15 degrees away from Mecca standing up, and burying them alive in the middle of a monkey farm's sewer pit?
One odd thing about Islaminazi's - they believe that if they lose a leg during their life, that they will not have a leg in the afterlife. That's why they cut off the hands of theives. And that's why we need to give them a future that will have an impact on their behavior.
When you're in an alley fight with a thug who just shot 5 cops - you go for a headshot and then say, "he was going for his gun and I shot him in self-defense".
As a Christian, I fear no one, not even terrorist Islam. If I die tomorrow, I'll go to paradise, not for murdering innocent women and children in the name of G-d, but for accepting JC as savior. But regardless of my "reservation," neither I, nor anyone else, should cringe at these terrorist threats. The response with almost any American should be, "only if H--- freezes over." Muslims must not know about the ledendary defiance of Americans, but maybe what they've seen on MTV instead. Are they in for a surprise!!!
These terrorists are on borrowed time. Preposterous, boostful threats never have impressed the vast majority of Americans, and in fact, are counter-productive. Talk is cheap; bring it on, cowards. Not with innocent civilians, but against our military in the field. But you won't do that, will you? If Allah did not deliver you in the field, that would prove that Allah does not exist, right? RIGHT!!!
I do believe that. They are no fools. One at a time inside and outside the country. Black, white, all nationalities.
Oh, but they DO care when their families, friends and neighbors are offed.
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