Al Qaeda Says It Will Hit U.S., Jewish Targets Soon

[Burzhui]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&564&e=1&u=/nm/20020709/ts_nm/attack_qaeda_dc

ALGIERS (Reuters) - The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday.


"Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El Youm.

The United States blames Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites)'s al Qaeda for the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people.

"Our suicide militants are ready and impatient to carry out attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets inside (America) and abroad," the spokesman added.

El Youm director told Reuters the newspaper received on Monday by e-mail taped answers to questions that had been sent Sunday to al Qaeda's Internet Web site. Bu Ghaith warned America to "fasten its seat belts" because his organization "will hit, with God's willing, from where they will not expect."

"America knows we are men of action and not men of words," he went on, saying that attacks were also being planned against the "puppet government" of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Bu Ghaith, in a tape aired last month by Qatar-based al Jazeera television, said al Qaeda was behind a suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue in April that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists.

He told El Youm that Washington's war on terrorism since Sept. 11 had not affected al Qaeda's military, intelligence, economic and information infrastructures and reiterated that bin Laden was going about his work.

A spokesman for international forces hunting al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan ( news - web sites) has dismissed as "wishful thinking" such claims that the network is still virtually intact.

[attgig]

so, errr, what is al queda's official website?

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by attgig
so, errr, what is al queda's official website?

it's in arabic anyway so what does it matter

[whitak24]

Originally posted by Burzhui


it's in arabic anyway so what does it matter
maybe gigger's fluent in arabic :heh:

[Hiro]

There are always translating filters you can install to translate from Arabic to English.

[Burzhui]

fine fine, i have no idea what it is though

[attgig]

anyways...
this terrorist stuff sucks....

[ribitch]

i seriousy cant wait until we oust sadam. We will then set an example that we still mean business. I dont give a crap if they are men of actions not words. We need to continue showing them that we are not going to give in to them. What will they accomplish by blowing themselves up? America is still hear. They dont have the capacity to overthrow our governement.

[topane]

Originally posted by ribitch
i seriousy cant wait until we oust sadam. We will then set an example that we still mean business. I dont give a crap if they are men of actions not words. We need to continue showing them that we are not going to give in to them. What will they accomplish by blowing themselves up? America is still hear. They dont have the capacity to overthrow our governement. Yeah, he's a bastard, but we're not really fighting a country here. We can turn Iraq into a sheet of glass and there will still be plenty of lunatics out there. We shouldn't give in and we should defend ourselves, but IMO ousting Saddam won't stop any terror attacks.

[molecularfire]

Nah, the best way to stop terror attacks is to start a similiar program in their country. Or... to make it a matter of policy to trace the families of the people who carry out these terror attacks and torture and kill their families. I'm not saying that I'd support this policy. It's just kinda mean spirited, but it would be effective. It would eliminate helping your family out as a motive for doing these attacks, and give them enough to lose that only the most extreme would still be interested. Of course... we'd probably loose global support...:shrug:

[ribitch]

Originally posted by molecularfire
Nah, the best way to stop terror attacks is to start a similiar program in their country. Or... to make it a matter of policy to trace the families of the people who carry out these terror attacks and torture and kill their families. I'm not saying that I'd support this policy. It's just kinda mean spirited, but it would be effective. It would eliminate helping your family out as a motive for doing these attacks, and give them enough to lose that only the most extreme would still be interested. Of course... we'd probably loose global support...:shrug:

thats funny. It wouldnt work though since they dont value life liek americans. Families celebrate when their sons blow themselves up. By torturing their families, we will fall to their levels.

[ufcrusher]

That one over there, he dont look right to me...put him up against the wall....against the wall.


I think the Floyd plan is the way to go. Take all the terrorist, their families, their friends, and the people who support them and put them against the wall...and then pull the trigger. For every one of our lives they take, we should take 100 of theirs.

[molecularfire]

Originally posted by ribitch


thats funny. It wouldnt work though since they dont value life liek americans. Families celebrate when their sons blow themselves up. By torturing their families, we will fall to their levels.

1) It's not that they don't value life. It's that they're used to death. They've seen a lot more real death (and by real death, I'm excluding TV, video games, etc...) than almost all of us will ever see. :(

2) The higher the level you're on, the more it's gonna hurt when you fall. Our country plays chess with their people and we say that we're better than them... Hehehehe:heh: We just have other people do our dirty work. If Canada attacks the U.S. (and they destroy our military) we'd use the same tactics. :P

[hapoo]

not to say that i support anyone but just sayin'... terrorism seems so one sided, i'm sure they don't wake up in the morning and think to themselves, "hey, i'm going to go and commit an act of terrorism". They obviously think what they're doing is good, and they're fighting for the right cause. I think instead of putting the lunatic in the straight jacket first, we should try to understand them and why they do such horrible acts. I'm sure we've all at one point or another had enough ego to deny the fact that we've done something wrong and just tried to make the accuser shut up instead of facing the problem. Its easy to point a finger and say "That person is evil, lets kill him". To me, evil is in the eye of the beholder, no sane person does bad things without thinking they have a damn good reason.

[SnowSurfer]

why do we have to go through all this red tape to get something done while they can plan plan plana nd kill that many americans and u see how many coutries actually aided us. the selfish...(i hate to say it) but seriously everything we do for other countries and they do close to nothing for us. Minus the british. the al queda is pissing me off to no end. i mean seriously get in gear and go and finish them off. stop putzing around. we have made no big movements on anything in the last couple months and we have no really new leads. the bush administration can say how it was the democrats fault and the democrats can say it was bush's fault but you know what does it really matter? just get the job done now and we will stop having a problem. who knows what will happen tommrow or any day to us guys but seriously our country will have a bigger problem if we dont get in gear. feel free to disagree but i really do love my country and i would die for it if i had to

[revil]

Originally posted by molecularfire
If Canada attacks the U.S. (and they destroy our military) we'd use the same tactics.

We've been trying to take them over since we got here. Those canucks are far slicker than we would like to think. :dodgy: we all need to be careful because Canada is slowly sending in their highest trained covert op guys as... comedians. that's right. people like jim carey and that guy from new radio are plotting to take america over!

[topane]

Not only that, but 90% of Canada's population is within 100 miles of the US border. I think they're already massing for an assault.

[Jeffbx]

Originally posted by attgig
so, errr, what is al queda's official website?

(From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/09/alqaeda.statement/index.html)) - http://www.alneda.com is one that is supposedly closely linked, although it seems to be down

[ribitch]

the latest is terrorists are supposedly downloading plans for football stadiums. If they can determine whos downloading them, then why dont they stop them?

it makes sense to attack a football stadium. Its a truly american sport, and games often have over 50,000 people at them.

[Burzhui]

www.jehad.net

[ribitch]

Originally posted by Burzhui
www.jehad.net

anyone know of a translator that will do that?

[jase71]

Originally posted by ribitch
the latest is terrorists are supposedly downloading plans for football stadiums. If they can determine whos downloading them, then why dont they stop them?


Easier said than done.

With the abundance of free AOL CDs, internet cafes, cheap dialup accounts, and free web based email accounts, it'd be pretty tough to tie any particular download to an individual person, as long as he didn't repeatedly use the same account/location/phone line.

For example... sign up for a free Hotmail account using bogus information. Access it at an internet cafe. Pay cash to use the internet cafe pc. If you only use that hotmail account once or twice, and only show up at that cafe once or twice, how on earth would they ever track you down?

[molecularfire]

Originally posted by hapoo
not to say that i support anyone but just sayin'... terrorism seems so one sided, i'm sure they don't wake up in the morning and think to themselves, "hey, i'm going to go and commit an act of terrorism". They obviously think what they're doing is good, and they're fighting for the right cause. I think instead of putting the lunatic in the straight jacket first, we should try to understand them and why they do such horrible acts. I'm sure we've all at one point or another had enough ego to deny the fact that we've done something wrong and just tried to make the accuser shut up instead of facing the problem. Its easy to point a finger and say "That person is evil, lets kill him". To me, evil is in the eye of the beholder, no sane person does bad things without thinking they have a damn good reason.

In general I agree with this, but to be honest, I've done some pretty bad stuff just to see if I could get away with it. Nothing like murder, but some bad stuff nonetheless. :shrug:


it makes sense to attack a football stadium. Its a truly american sport, and games often have over 50,000 people at them.
Yeah, but those are just the special players for the teams. :P :shrug: