Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles (thread 2) Daily Terror Threat

DEBKA ^ | 11/03/03

[JustPiper]

Chgo Sun-Times World Briefs

Politics behind Iraq attacks

Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, said Wednesday that recent attacks in Iraq are the work of groups seeking to sabotage -- or gain leverage in -- a future independent Iraqi government that is due to take power by July.


Mad cow panel wants new rules

An international panel convened by Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman after the first U.S. case of mad cow disease called Wednesday for more restrictions on cattle feed, saying there's likely undiscovered cases among the nation's cattle.

[Domestic Church]

Thank you for finding that!

"Berezovsky is now Platon Ilyich Yelenin."

Ye lenin, lol...

[labolarueda]

"If you hold these ideals as truth, then there is only one solution to illegal immigration."

Illegal immigration is a ruse. Let me explain...

Illegal immigration is a real problem, but a manufactured one by the leftist "enemy within" intent on the incremental destruction of our country through balkanization, subversion, and perversion of our Western culture. Illegal immigration acts as wedge and smokescreen to the number one critical issue facing America in the 21st century: LEGAL IMMIGRATION. Notice how many ardent opponents of illegal immigration (eg, Buchanan and Tancredo) are caving in to the "enemy within" by demanding a moratorium on immigration, both legal and illegal. Notice how the vast majority of the masses, while against illegal immigration, bleet like a bunch of sheep that they are not opposed to immigration per se and they would be content if these illegal aliens entered through legal means. But the issue is not one of legality or quantity, but one of QUALITY.

Few would argue that illegal immigrants should not be sent home to where they came from. I'm one who would love to see them deported. They bring little to our way of life other than crime, job losses, educational chaos, cultural erosion and language barriers.

The writing on the American wall reads: Legal immigration is the national issue that will determine whether we survive or be driven to extinction.

It seems though that America is asleep at the wheel of a car headed for assimilation by foreign cultures at breakneck speed. No sizeable nation in the history of the world has ever undergone such a sweeping population shift in so short a period. In addition to the cultural changes, immigration (both legal and illegal) will transform a spacious and resource rich nation to a far more crowded and environmentally damaged land.

The fact is that the notion of multiculturalism is a lie, for it demands the destruction of the United States and Western culture. Many who can see what's happening cannot muster the courage to speak out openly and endure the accusations of the leftist media. The oft-repeated refrain of the American government and the media is that to be opposed to unlimited immigration is un-American, against the very principles upon which our Founding Fathers created this nation. But the more I research this issue, I find that the medai has embarked on a massive non-American, alien invasion that is un-American.

What is at stake here is nothing less than the essential nature of the United States being changed, debased and degraded through illegal and legal immigration.

[Velveeta]

If this thread detour lured you to post, then I'm grateful for the detour!

A FABULOUS, insightful and chilling post.

Thank you! Welcome to FR, hope you feel better soon.

(Please post more often)

[JustPiper]

» THE MOB AND POLITICS

Did feds kill off the mob?

A mere decade ago, the Chicago Outfit's political wing still had an address: Room 2306 of the Bismarck Hotel, at Randolph and LaSalle, the 1st Ward offices of Committeeman John D'Arco Sr. and Ald. Fred Roti, a made member of the mob.


» FOLLOWING THE MONEY: THE MOB

The new Chicago mob: who's in charge, how it makes money and what it does with the cash-- a pittance compared with the days of Al Capone.

Mob's latest trend: farming out hits to gang-bangers

The new 'Outfit'

» GANGS AND POLITICS

Candidates lean on gang members to get out the vote
Come Election Day, gang members across the city will likely trade their baseball caps and street colors for white shirts and ties.

16th Ward rivals embrace the help
Gangs are a fact of life in this rundown pocket of Chicago's South Side. They're on the street corners. In the classrooms. And they campaign for Baskin and 16th Ward Ald. Shirley Coleman.

One gang-banger's political past
They never actually asked their neighbors to vote for their candidate. They didn't have to.


» FOLLOWING THE MONEY: GANGS

The investigation focuses on the millions of dollars that gangs make, the businesses they buy and the expensive toys they flash.

Dope sales build secret empires

http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/crime/index.html

[knak]

Hunt for Links in Clandestine Nuclear Chain Widening to Japan, Africa, Diplomats Say

[labolarueda]

Has anyone mentioned it will soon be election time in Russia?

[judicial meanz]

Thats an awesome analyis!

I didnt mind the length one bit, because in my opinion, you are dead on target.

[freeperfromnj]

Anyway, I'd been saving my two cents for a few thousand posts at least.

Thank you for a most articulate explanation on that subject. I agree with everything you said. Glad you decided to put your two cents in.

[Domestic Church]

"Illegal immigration acts as wedge and smokescreen to the number one critical issue facing America in the 21st century: LEGAL IMMIGRATION."

"The writing on the American wall reads: Legal immigration is the national issue that will determine whether we survive or be driven to extinction."

Do you see anyway we can stop this since the political momentum on this is generated by both parties at this point even though the public would love to see immigration halted and the borders shut? As much as I am proBush, I cannot fathom his shortsightedness due to the upcoming election...do you think he intends to make a reversal once re-elected? Do you think he's holding out until a martial law situation arises to avoid the mudslinging and to milk the immigrant vote?(it's scary to think the immigrant vote carries that much weight.) It's as if there is political schizophrenia in the Republican party on this issue.

[freeperfromnj]

Purported al-Qaida Shows Terror Planning

Thursday February 5, 2004 7:16 PM

By TAREK AL-ISSAWI

Associated Press Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A video purported to be from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network shows Saudi militants planning, training for and carrying out what it claimed was the Nov. 8 bombing of a housing compound for foreigners in the Saudi capital that killed 17 people.

The 90-minute video, viewed on an Islamic Web site by The Associated Press in Dubai, shows a vehicle driving up to what it says is the Muhaya compound in Riyadh before loud explosions and gunfire erupt. That portion is blurry and badly lit, and the building is not visible.

It was not possible to verify the video's authenticity. However, it uses language similar to past statements attributed to al-Qaida, and the training scenes are like those seen in videos of al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan. The Web site that showed the video has released other seemingly credible al-Qaida statements.

In October, an al-Qaida-style recording surfaced on the Internet that included what was described as audio of militants launching May 12 attacks on Western housing compounds in Riyadh that killed 26 people and the nine attackers. Bits of video also were accessible with it, but the only clip allegedly of the assault itself showed a black screen with text identifying gunshot noises as a recording of the start of the attack.

The new video contains excerpts from several of bin Laden's previously broadcast comments, as well as the words of other al-Qaida members and Khattab, a Saudi-born Chechen military leader who was killed by Russian forces in 2002.

Militants are seen training with rocket-propelled grenades and surface-to-air missiles, and in hand-to-hand combat.

The video also showed training courses on bomb-making and displayed detonators, timers and wires. It calls the training camp al-Battar and says it is on the Arabian peninsula.

American and Saudi officials blamed al-Qaida for the attack on the Muhaya compound. Although Arabs and other Muslims were living in the compound, the video claimed it housed members of the CIA as well as other Americans. No Americans were killed in the attack.

``If we wanted to destroy the country, then attacking institutions beneficial to the people is much easier than killing a single American,'' said a man who identifies himself as Nasser bin Hamed al-Harbi, allegedly one of the two suicide bombers.

The video showed men purportedly carrying out reconnaissance of the compound, and said the attack was rehearsed repeatedly and computer-simulated.

Some of the footage clearly came from a handheld camera. Two voices could be heard praying as the vehicle moved, moments before the sound of an explosion.

Some members of the team that attacked the compound were believed to have escaped.

In one scene on the video, more than 10 men are shown, most of them covering their faces with ski masks or Arab headscarves, carrying RPGs, semiautomatic weapons, grenades and AK-47 semiautomatic rifles. The video also showed the two purported suicide bombers.

Some militants were shown spraying the vehicle dark blue with light blue stripes along the sides. Saudi authorities said the vehicle used in the attack had been painted to resemble a Saudi security vehicle, with a dark blue body and light blue markings.

``The mujahedeen target only the crusaders. As for the infidel leaders, their day will come, God willing,'' a masked man identified in a subtitle as Abdul Aziz al-Moqrin said on the video, holding an assault rifle.

Al-Moqrin is on a Saudi list of most-wanted terror suspects. He has been identified in newspaper reports as the mastermind of the attack.

Saudi Arabia has been under pressure to show it is more active in fighting terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

[Domestic Church]

From your link, Knak:

"Scomi Precision Engineering, or SCOPE, accepted a contract from a Dubai-based company after negotiating with a middleman, identified as a Sri Lankan, B.S.A. Tahir, police said. "
Dubai..isn't that Daleel's locale? Malaysia we know has the EOM syndicate shuffling through.

[labolarueda]

You, sir, are a much-needed voice of reason here.

Please don't stop the presses by leaving these threads.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Oh brother!!!

You believe this claptrap????

Why are you so eager to defend Mother Russia, eh comrade?

Shto eta?

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Oh brother!!!

You believe this claptrap????

Why are you so eager to defend Mother Russia, eh comrade?

Shto eta?

[Labyrinthos]

it's like deposing a witness. The more they talk, the more they spin, the less credible the story.

Great analogy. A great depositions is when, after pinning the witness in the corner, he say's "I don't have to take this fing shitake," as he storms out of the room while calling you all sorts of names.

[labolarueda]

About posting the answer with all the facts and valid evidence here for all of us to read and decide.

In the meantime I'll wait for the US government to officially inform us of the OBL capture, rather than trust hearsay and rumors on the Internet.

Post it here. We'd like to know.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I am posting this again. Either you missed it or deliberately avoided a response, so let's have another go at it...


Tell me one thing... when was the last time the United States embarked on a global thermonuclear exercise aimed specifically at Russia????

The answer is zero. This answer is placed in the right-hand side of the truth scales.

Then tell me how many times in the past two years the have Russian's done this to America????

The answer is twice. 2 times. This answer is placed in the left-hand side of the truth scale.

Do you see the heavily weighted scale identifying Russia as a belligerent enemy of the United States? It's so obvious that a blind man can see it.