The Marian Legion was the prototype for the Roman body of maneuver, the Legion. Developed between 100 and 80 BC by Consul Gaius Marius.
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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.
No it won't. Hell, even if they deployed nukes in ten of our major cities, Bush would still do a photo-op the next day with the local hate-spewing clerics. We're in a new age--the age of not defending ourselves.
They can't and won't do that, they are cowards all of them. They would not be able to go head to head with most of our cities police forces. I'm pretty confident that most suburban/urban areas have more fire power, and are better trained in warfare than Al-Qaeda.
The Marian Legion was the prototype for the Roman body of maneuver, the Legion. Developed between 100 and 80 BC by Consul Gaius Marius.
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Not yet. So far, Islam is at war with us. We are only at war with a few gang members of a cult, supplied, aided, and comforted by several Islamofascist nation states farming their murderous opiate of the masses.
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Considering that Eastern Christendom has and is sending more Islamos to their devil Allah then any other force on Earth....I just hope the Western Christiandom doesn't do as in the past and betray us.
I'm not sure I would trust them to translate honestly and accurately...
I don't know about the poster you were responding to, but for myself, I started listening whenever Steven Emerson was on tv talking about terrorism and it had to be about '93 or '94. He was on CNN now and then in those days.
I couldn't understand why no one I knew or heard about was worried about this, and why no one I heard about in Congress seemed to be talking about this. Because I've been worried about this since I first heard Emerson.
But it seems not enough are serious yet about our immigration problems. I suppose we have to wait till we lose 3 million instead of "only" 3 thousand, before our govt and more of the people are fully awake.
I like your thinking!
I worry about what North Korea may do to Japan, as well, now that they have nukes.
Considering that Eastern Christendom has and is sending more Islamos to their devil Allah then any other force on Earth....I just hope the Western Christiandom doesn't do as in the past and betray us.
Not a chance. This ain't the Balkans, fella. This is about survival of our civilizations and our mutual faiths.
Even in its woefully undersupplied state, the Red Army is more than a match for the Islamic Fascists.
See, the bin Ladenists believe that since they bested you in Afghanistan, they would do the same in the Rodina.
What they don't recall is what happened to the last army that tried to do that.
Fully 75% of the Deutsches Wehrmacht, man-for-man the finest and best led fighting force of the Second World War and one of the finest since the above-mentioned Marian Legions, were buried in the Russian steppe, in the Pripet Marshes, in the warrens of Stalingrad, and finally, before their own capitol of Berlin. These Islamists have no idea what they are toying with, nor do they understand what happens to them when Western Christendom and the Eastern Orthodox faiths unite for common survival.
They simply have no idea. When one lives in a fantasy world of jihadist bullsh*t, where the rest of the world is rotten fruit ready to fall from the tree, then one believes one's own propaganda.
Hitler made the same mistake, as did the Japanese. The rest is history.
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Chris
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