Posted on 09/11/2005 7:20:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
"Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion," the tape warns. "We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators."
In response to the threats against their city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city's police department released a statement this morning. They admitted to Los Angeles being a target of terrorism, but said there are no known, credible threats against the city and labeled the tape an instrument of al Qaeda propaganda.
"The statement broadcast this morning on Good Morning America should come as no surprise to anyone. The statement was meant to instill fear, and fear is the most important weapon the terrorists possess."
The taped diatribe lasts 11 minutes. Like past tapes, it appears to include the same graphics and production techniques recognized by U.S. officials as part of al Qaeda's standard propaganda production. In this tape, the speaker levels threats against the U.S. and Great Britain.
"Don't believe the lies of the liars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 10 Downing Street," Gadahn insists. "They have dispatched your sons and daughters to die lonely deaths in the burning deserts of Iraq and the unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan."
Only a few years ago, Adam Gadahn was a southern California teenager with interests in the environment and heavy metal music
His family says he converted to Islam at an Orange County mosque. There, officials say Gadahn came under the influence of militants who took him to Pakistan.
He has since emerged as an al Qaeda propaganda tool. His latest message warns Americans an attack is imminent unless the United States stops its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American intelligence officials believe the man who appears on the tape to be Adam Gadahn of Orange County, Calif. Last year, Gadahn delivered a similar taped communiqué for al Qaeda. That tape was later deemed authentic.
On the new tape, delivered to ABC News, Gadahn's message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne.
"We love peace, but when the enemy violates that peace or prevents us from achieving it, then we love nothing better than the heat of battle, the echo of explosion, and the slitting of the throats of the infidels," the tape says.
As for the rest of the tape, the young man attempts to dispel any rumors or reports of bin Laden being deceased. He closes his tape by invoking the names of the September 11th hijackers.
"Everyone of us is Mohammed Atta," he says.
ABC News' Chris Isham, David Scott, Gretchen Peters, Krista Kjellman, and Avni Patel contributed to this report.
2 things that concern me about this:
1) Al Queda loves to use anniversaries for thier attacks.
2) Attacks usually do immediately follow the release of these kinda tapes.
I hope that this doesn't follow thier past track record.
Want to see how Mecca will look as a shining sea?
Show me one, I repeat, one moo that is not a complete drama queeen. I swear they are all members of GLAD.
And the brainiacs in Hollywood who've been hoping their support of Islam through all that Bush bashing would save their own necks are wondering, "Why me?"
LOL.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Right. The old "why didn't Osama attack Idaho" theory. Idiots.
Oh right, lets roll back the clock to just before we "attacked" Afganistan/Iraq. THen we'll only have to put up with the normal everyday Islamofascist pin-prick shenanogans of the Cole, Lebanon, WTC#1, WTC#2, Pentagon, field-in-PA, shoe-bomb, Beirut, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc <1000 more etc's>.
Sure, that's where they store the copies of the really good old movies! :)
Exactly!
What a bunch of idiots. Who do they think they are talking to?
Thank you for the target selection intel.
I don't know why not ask the GOV of CA. Does he care?
You said it brother. And as far as this Adam Gadahn- traitor, let's capture IT, torture IT for info, then BEHEAD IT! Hell it works for them!
OMG! Islamic Drama Queens!
Before or after they replaced all the guns with walkie talkies?
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