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Terrorist threats to destroy US city posted online
US and British intelligence services are investigating a series of alleged al Qaeda internet warnings predicting a terror attack which would "destroy an entire American city". The messages, posted on a number of Islamic websites over the last week, say the countdown to attack has already begun. They claimed it would be "an even stronger strike than nuclear weapons".They also warn that unless the US and its allies withdraw immediately from Iraq, Afghanistan, and all other Muslim countries, the terror network has ordered the elimination of American leaders and their supporters. The post of most concern to Western intelligence has appeared three times in three days on a radical Islamic internet forum called the Mujahideen Network. It claimed to be "from the Islamic nation to the American people" and boasted that its forces now had the ability to wipe out an entire city. A security source said last night: "There is no way of determining whether these warnings are genuine or wishful thinking on the part of extremists. But there are disturbing parallels with the background threat-level chatter which preceded the September 11 attacks in 2001." The investigation came as the UN said almost 100 countries should be "named and shamed" for failing to enforce international sanctions against known members of al Qaeda and its Taliban allies and to block the flow of money and arms to the groups. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-15 |
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