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.

[goodnesswins]

I'm here on the west coast.....but, thank you for taking the "bullet" for us....I CANNOT watch the liberal press....I'll wait for your report. ... (:>)

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, heads on stakes isn't gruesome enough to impress this crowd. Christian Europe was saved from the last really restive Jihad in part by Vlad Tepec (sorry I don't know how to get the Romanian diacritical mark), a.k.a. Dracula.

Mehmet the Conqueror's advance into Romania (and, it was intended the rest of Europe) was stopped not by battle, so much as by the "forest of the impaled": the Turks taken in battle (and probably some corpses, too) were impaled whole on stakes by the hundreds and left for the carrion foul. When Mehmet's army came upon this sight, he turned and went back to his recently claimed capital of Constantinople. (Odd fact: it is only the New Turks under Ataturk, who changed the name to "Istanbul"--it was Constantinople to Christian and Muslim alike until the 1920's.)

[concerned about politics]

WHAAAAAAAT??????

Wellll.... Jennings showed Ministers talking about Muslim being a religion of hate, then showed Bush condeming them for it. Jennings said "some people think the evangelists are just trying to drum up more donations.". Muslims are our allies!

[Spottys Spurs]

Put the bastards under 6 feet of ground... preferably wrapped in pig skins!

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I second, and also third.

[mountaineer]

US policy toward the Muslim world resurrects the posture of imperial Rome toward all other nations: if you toe our line, you will handsomely rewarded — regardless of whether you are a democracy, possess weapons of mass destruction, or follow UN resolutions. If you don’t toe our line, you will be attacked and eliminated.

Excerpted from an editorial in the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times. The author? Ahmad Faruqui, a fellow of the American Institute of International Studies, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and author of “Rethinking the National Security of Pakistan,” Ashgate Publishing. Any chance we could get him and the like-thinking Peter Jennings to get the heck out of the U.S.?

[tlrugit]

If these murdering bastards do this I propose we nuke mecca. NOW. Does someone second my motion?

Seconded.

[nanny]

[Front of the school, from an Indonesia paper today.....]

You realize I was being sarcastic, don't you?

[New Horizon]

We won't see any Jennings follow up about muslims who attack us infidels.

Oh, he must only be upset about the the unnecessary VERBAL attacks. We don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, you know...

Hey, Peter...remember this?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for the ping, Julie. This isn't surprising. The militant Muslim terrorists have been bragging of just this sort of assault on our most innocent since 9-11, and before.

An ethics prof. at one of our military academies (sorry I didn't catch his name...it was 9-12-01, I think, on EWTN TV) told a story that crystalized the terrorists for me (backed up by research over the following days). Two rival warlords and their "gangs", "tribes" in Afghanistan were fighting over power, territory, the usual. One leader captured and cut the head off of a young boy, the son of the "enemy" and sent it back to him in a hatbox.

I e-mailed this story to college "peacenik" groups in the weeks following 9-11, and received this and similar responses: "you sound like an angry person." Sigh. WTC didn't do it, Bali didn't do it...too many Americans are habitual escape artists. The most we can hope is that they stay out our way while we try to save the civilized world. Barbra Streisand, NY Times, Daschle and Carter aren't likely to cooperate.

[Sunshine55]

I second it!!!

[mathluv]

I don't think it's the public's fault, it's the media here.

We know the media is primarily liberal. To them, it's America's fault because we're mean - and now with this past election, we're really dumb. The media does not support war, or any action related to war.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I propose we nuke mecca. NOW. Does someone second my motion?

I think Daisy Cutters would be more environmentally sound.

[bonfire]

How proud those Muslims must be... target vacationing foreigners and school children. What's next for these daring troops? How about a daycare? Maybe a jihad at a hospital's maternity ward? Cowards and sub-humans .... No civilized country would even consider such an act.


Ditto what you said.......and you said it well.

[Peach]

Let's see if I have this right. ABC News-Australia reports this. The New York Times reports this, but we've yet to hear word one on any of the television media in this country? Guess it doesn't fit in with their agenda - Americans are the bad guys and Islam is the religion of peace. Touch one of our kids, or anyone else's for that matter, and even soccer moms will take up arms.

[CatoRenasci]

Indeed. I'm beginning to support the William T. Sherman solution for producing good Moslems.

The only 'good' Indians I ever saw were dead. Gen. W.T. Sherman, Ft. Union, Ark. 1869.

[ladylib]

I worked with a woman who is a Christian from Indonesia. She says radical Islamists are vicious, sick animals. Her pastor was disembowled right before her eyes by marauding Islamists during a chuch service.

By the way, she says it's going to take a couple of 9/11's before America finally wakes up.

[TLBSHOW]

the link says story is gone?

[calenel]

About Ramadan:

Ramadan is not and never has been any sort of "hiatus" from war for the Muslims. They even have a sort of "dispensation" for those engaged in jihad during Ramadan whereby they do NOT have to observe the normal strictures (such as fasting). There is no concept of "laying off" during Ramadan. All the libs (American and other) claiming there was any merit to us not attacking during Ramadan were posers and liars.

[Inkie]

Re: Daschle. He has a hide criticizing that we haven't made enough progress when he and his ilk (ACLU, etc.) have put every possible hurdle in the way of doing what needs to be done.