al Qaeda is warning of major attacks by February

www.briefing.com ^ | 11/21/03 | www.br

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11:00AM: Equity market deteriorates further amid reports that al Qaeda is warning of major attacks by February... Such terrorist-related talk has provided another excuse for traders to take profits, just as yesterday's bombing of two British sites in Istanbul did the same in the opening action... Biotech and pockets of technology have fallen further, and erased most of the gains on the Nasdaq... Meanwhile, the bond market has enjoyed another flight-to-quality bid off the news, the yield on the 10-year note now pushing close to 4.1%...NYSE Adv/Dec 1656/1249, Nasdaq Adv/Dec 1274/1409

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Actually the link is
http://biz.yahoo.com/mu/update.html

[hankbrown]

Geez, I thought this was supposed to happen in early November.

[Trampled by Lambs]

In Feburary: "Al Qaeda threatens major attacks by August - "We really mean it this time!"

[thoughtomator]

Monday is the last day of Ramadan... if they don't hit us by then, with all the dramatic warnings for Muslims to leave NY, LA, DC, then they're screwed big time. No one will believe them again!

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It seems to keep slipping, doesn't it? They'll probably just be coming back from the holidays...LOL

Do they really know what they are doing? Sound psychological warfar.

[So Cal Rocket]

Actually, the continued terrorist THREATS are having some of the effect on the world's economy as that of an actual terrorist ACT.

[hankbrown]

Yeah, too bad about all those moslems in New York, DC, and LA who left town a couple weeks ago based on the warnings.

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Just saw this as well:

1 November 2003-- Advisory from the Northeast Intelligence Network: Based on newly obtained data and information collected from a variety of sources (Internet and human intelligence) within the last 72 hours, the terror threat to the United States has increased. Although the exact timing with regard to the execution of planned terror operations cannot be pinned down with any reasonable or responsible degree of precision, we have been seeing references to planned operations extending through the Christmas and New year holidays, with specific references to a time period from 21-28 November 2003. How valid are these threats? We can only speculate based on a careful analysis of the data found, but consider the weight of the evidence to be substantial enough to offer this advisory. We have identified various threats from the air and against seaports, nuclear facilities and harbors, with continued interest in financial and symbolic targets. Cities of interest continue to include New York, Washington, DC, and all coastal cities. A full report containing sources and reference citations is being compiled at this time.

21 November 2003-- Baghdad--Rockets slam into Iraq oil ministry, hotels-- Guerrillas fired rockets from donkey carts on Friday into Iraq's Oil Ministry compound and two Baghdad hotels used by foreign contractors and journalists. Rockets slammed into the Oil Ministry building that controls Iraq's oil industry. Also hit were the Sheraton and Palestine hotels, which face each other near the banks of the Tigris river. See Northeast Intelligence Network alert about new rocket in Iraq.

21 November 2003-- Intelligence reports have been received by US and coalition forces about the possibility of chemical weapons being used in the southern city of Kut in Iran and additional homicide attacks and bombings planned against Italian forces in Iraq.

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21 November 2003:--IMPORTANT READ: "Al-Qaeda Leadership in Iran:" Given the latest strikes in Istanbul and the ongoing guerilla war in Iraq, it appears clear that there is an operational leadership behind Al-Qaeda. Although the highest leaders like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are in Pakistan or on the Afghan-Pakistan border, there appears to be a separate cluster of leadership based in Iran. Given the high level of radicalism sentiment in the Revolutionary Guards and portions of the various security forces, it is not surprising they are being charged with housing al-Qaeda operatives. It is likely some of the Iranian mullahs and high clerics know about this, and are content with harboring America's greatest enemy. Identifying the extent of which the Iranian government and religious leadership knows about this is impossible. Only one thing is for sure--Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, now more than ever.

Ryan Mauro; More: http://www.worldthreats.com/middle_east/Iran-harbor.htm

[Vermont Lt]

What happend to the 100K dead americans in Rama-lama-ding dong. Not that the car bombs in Turkey don't suck, they do. Its that if they want to keep our attention they need to get our attention. The only Turkey 99% of Americans pay attention to is the one on our table next Thursday.

[sarasota]

How long will it take before we just eliminate their attack thinking from Wall Street? In fact, my guess is that it's just another Friday well-off before a short holiday week.
These attacks are akin to crying wolf/the sky is falling.

[sarasota]

well-off = sell off.

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New Year's Eve last year was about 100K, wasn't it?

[ken5050]

Here's the headline from next year..."Al Queda blows up EuroDisney outside Paris, in huge explosion....all Frenchmen cheer!"

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...in Time's Square

[mewzilla]

SSDD. When they shut up, then I'll worry.

[grumple]

The economy must be getting better...

[VaBthang4]

So let me get this straight...they're gonna be blowing up more Muslims?


Whatever.

[kevao]

Are these major attacks in February going to happen before or after the major attacks they threated were going to happen in November?

[xp38]

As Mark Steyn said in a column a while back they're all turban and no jihad.