AL-QA'IDA ALLIES THREAT TO ATTACK 800 AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN UNCOVERED (BREAKING)

ABC News ^ | 18 November 2002 | ABC News (Australia)

[AmericanInTokyo]

"New Terror Threat (to American children) in Indonesia"

The Al Qaeda-linked network that carried out the October 12 nightclub bombings on Indonesia's resort island of Bali is planning to strike international schools in Jakarta, Indonesia, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing Western and Indonesian officials.

The plan to attack Western students at the schools was uncovered in the last few days, and officials said the schools would be closed until at least Wednesday, the Times said in its online edition.

Officials declined to say precisely how they had learned of the plot, but the United States and Australia have stepped up intelligence gathering in Indonesia since the Bali attack, which killed more than 180 people, including many Australians, the newspaper said.

Based on information from Western intelligence agencies, diplomats said the planned attack was directed primarily at the Jakarta International School, (http://www.jisedu.org/) which has 2,500 students, about a third of whom are Americans, the paper said.

Diplomats told the Times the Australian and British schools also plan to close, the report said.

They are to remain closed until Indonesian police provide adequate security, one diplomat told the newspaper.

The plotters are thought to be a cell within the Al Qaeda network of Muslim extremists that has carried out several terrorist actions in Indonesia, and nearly succeeded in blowing up the American, Australian, British and Israeli embassies in Singapore last December, officials told the newspaper.

[Lent]

The purpose of course is to drive any vestige of the American imperialist and infidel out of Islamic countries so that the Islamics can live in peace and prosperity under Shari'a (/extreme sarcasm).

[fightinJAG]

I don't think it's the public's fault, it's the media here. They think, ho hum, another plot uncovered in another far-away place.

[Gurn]

Remember, bin Laden wants to bring about a holy war. The response you suggest may be precisely what he wants.

Suits me. I'd like to turn every Muslim on the planet into a martyr.

Would that mean they'd won, or we had? Hmmmm.....

[facedown]

BTTT

[concerned about politics]

It's hard to fathom the PC attitude here by so many.

That's because the real patriots are here to protect them,like parents to children. They know they're in good hands no matter what. America has always protected them. They feel safe enough to play political games.
Imagine if we weren't here. What would happen to them?

[AmericanInTokyo]

sorry couldn't link. but try a 'cut and paste' of the URL, or perhaps a freeper can oblige here. [the URL to the school was in the text of my post]

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Bush should call in the Saudi ambassador and tell him "One more attack on us and we nuke your holy sites. Now you'd better go and use your contacts to make sure it doesn't happen."

[AmericanInTokyo]

and to the ABC (Australian article) here is the URL (sorry for broken link, above...apparantly)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-18nov2002-79.htm

[Ranger]

There is no reason to think that a school in Indonesia wouldn't be targeted since the same scenario happened in Pakistan this summer on a smaller scale. What people will do in the name of God is hard to fathom.

[Madame Dufarge]

Bump.

Thanks, Ivan.

[Seeking the truth]

I was thinking of you as I designed this......

No Muslims - No Terrorism (Vinyl or Magnetic Bumper Sticker or License Plate)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thats right. In Pakistan, earlier this year.... They hit a school and a Christian church (filled with Americans) if I recall, in Islamabad w/ grenades. Some embassy employees and children who were friends of the American Ambassador's children were also slaughted by the al-Qaida.

They have shown they can do it, and they indeed would not think twice about escalating the death toll.

[Shermy]

Here's a new story.

Aussie JI bomb 'plotter' arrested

English born man, plotting to blow up Israel embassies in Australia.

Though that's the cover story they always use - Iraqi terrs learn when caught, mention jews, despite real targets.

[widgysoft]

just imagine the alphabet news agenices explaining that!

[MadIvan]

Let me make it clear, if Muslims behave like the citizens of the countries they are in are supposed to - like good Americans and British citizens - I have no problem. However if they are acting like Communist cells used to, working to undermine, infiltrate and destroy - then I reach for the sword.

I have only heard of a couple of mullahs who are on side with us. One was a Sufi - and they are an entirely different sect from the Sunnis and Shi'ites.

Regards, Ivan

[calenel]

I attended one of these International Schools. Graduated from it, in fact.

Slowly but surely people are beginning to realize that this is indeed a war between Civilization and Barbarism. I hope the realization comes quickly enough.

War to the knife. No quarter.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My, the stinking bearded little ones are everywhere this week. There is a lot to this 'chatter' western intel folks are picking up. I am afraid it is gonna get ugly.

SO MUCH FOR 'RAMADAN'.

ANYONE REMEMBER THE PARADE OF AMERICAN LIBS AND IVORY TOWER PROFESSORS (AREA/CULTURE 'SPECIALISTS') LAST YEAR CRYING WE HAD BETTER NOT ATTACK MUSLIMS DURING 'RAMADAN'?

Imagine if they had been successful this week in Jakarta.

Well, we had better make it ugly for the perps and the hometowns of the perps who are visiting war and terror upon peace-seeking people of all ages, everywhere, even during times of 'fasting and holiness for the brothers' (barf).

[AmericanInTokyo]

excellent. thanks for your international perspective, too. quite agreed there, calenel

[nanny]

["One more attack on us and we nuke your holy sites. Now you'd better go and use your contacts to make sure it doesn't happen."]

Dream on. "Islam is a religion of peac."

[Stefan Stackhouse]

You know, I'm not suggesting this as the sole solution to the problem. Our military will have to be engaged in multiple places and times. But it does seem to me that we have it in our power to bring the economies of most, if not all, muslim nations to their knees. Other than Iran, what muslim nation has yet received the Cuba treatment? Have we even gone that far with Iran, for that matter?

I see no good reason why we should not make it our policy that any muslim nation that does not FULLY COOPERATE with us in the war on terror will be treated exactly the same way as Cuba is, at least as far as economic sanctions are concerned.

And I don't give a damn about their oil! If we have to do without, then so be it.