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Agence France Presse
November 16, 2003

Al-Qaeda warns of attack on Japan, claims bombing of Italian post

DUBAI -- A London-based Saudi newspaper, Al-Majallah, said it has
received a statement from Al-Qaeda warning of an attack in Tokyo and
claiming responsibility for last week's anti-Italian bombing in Iraq.

Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, purported to be an Al-Qaeda leader, warned the
Japanese, "If they want to destroy their economic power and be
trampled under the feet of the combatants of Allah, let them come to
Iraq," he said. "Our strikes will reach the heart of Tokyo."

Japanese Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba said that Tokyo remains
committed to aiding with the reconstruction of Iraq, but the timing of
a deployment of Japanese troops depends on the situation.

Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj also claimed the strike on the Italian police
post in Nasiriyah on behalf of Al-Qaeda. "Our strikes ... will be
painful, and what we did to the Italians in Iraq, against their
command base in Nasiriyah in the south of the county, is an example,"
said Ablaj, who often communicates by e-mail with Al-Majallah.

He also renewed threats against the United States and Israel. "Let
America and Israel mourn their dead from now, as well as the
destruction which they will suffer," the statement warned. "The Jews
and Americans will never be safe so long as we are alive."
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They have and will continue to attack America and her allies...ITALY, TURKEY, SAPIN, SAUDI ARABIA...

[spetznaz]

That seems to be the method the Queda kooks are now using. Threaten a city and hope that that the nation's citizenry force the government to take actions benefiting the terrorists. And in many cases it will be effective. In Japan it will, and it was in Spain. Britain is up in the air since most people there are against Iraq, but traditionally the Brits have been a hardy bunch when faced with danger (although a freeper did say on another post that the Brits of the 1940s are different from those of today). Who knows!?

Americans on the other hand have this 'weird' tendency to refuse to be cowed, hence an attack here would not work in the way the terrorists intended.

The only way to destroy America (and i am being 100% serious here) is to destroy it from within, using Americans. Let it rot from within like Rome did. External attacks would not work unless it has rotted enough. Otherwise external attacks will only make the American people more steadfast, make them more focused. However if you rot the American spirit all you have left is a nation of immigrants, nothing more, probably worse than the basest section of Paris! Add the American Spirit and you have a people that are virtually indomitable!

If i was a terrorist i would stay away from these shores and instead concentrate on nations like Japan and the Euro-nations. Most of those can be easily bullied and/or culled. The only way to destroy the US is either by allowing its own leaders/people to rot it from within, or by praying that allah sends his Djinns to destroy it (which will obviously not work since allah is a false god).