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Atomic Jihad Reportedly has Been Declared: "Nuclear Warfare is the Solution for Destroying America" The coming days will prove that Kaedat el-Jihad [the Al-Qaeda organization] is capable of turning America into a sea of deadly radiation, and this will prove to the world that the end is at hand.... Yes, we will destroy America and its allies, because they have used their power for evil against the weak...

<p>An Al Qaeda web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington, D.C., New York City and Los Angeles because of implied imminent terrorist attacks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.</p> <p>Titled "A Warning to Muslims in America," the directive was issued by the previously unknown "Islamic Bayan Movement" and first ran on the Global Islamic Media Web site on Monday, according to MEMRI, which translated the communiqué.</p>

<p>Those were the items blown up by the Cincinnati Fire Department's bomb squad Monday afternoon after a suspicious suitcase was found near a local restaurant.</p> <p>The suitcase was found at about 2:25 p.m. in front of the Fuddrucker's restaurant on Madison Road in the Rookwood Pavilion shopping center.</p>

February 28, 2003 U.S. Lowers Warning Level to 'Yellow'By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — The Bush administration lowered the nation's terrorist alert level today back to "elevated risk," or yellow on its color-coded scale, but warned of a continuing serious threat of terrorist attacks on American soil. Senior administration officials said that there was still an alarming level of intelligence suggesting the possibility of a new domestic attack by Al Qaeda's terror network, and that the alert would almost certainly return to "high risk," or orange, in the days before an American invasion of Iraq. They...

<p>Two weeks after putting the nation on high alert, President Bush lowered the level from code orange on Tuesday because of disruptions in the Al Qaeda terrorist network.</p> <p>The president left the decision with his senior advisers, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, who decided in a Tuesday morning meeting to recommend lowering the threat level.</p>