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| Terror Networks |
| Al-Qaeda vows new attacks on U.S. targets |
| 2002-06-23 |
| A spokesman for the al-Qaeda network has claimed responsibility for the explosion on the Tunisian island of Djerba, that killed 14 German tourists in April. We knew that. We also noticed it was an act of senseless violence in a Muslim country, and that it had no military significance whatsoever... "This operation was carried out by al Qaeda network. A youth could not see his brothers in Palestine butchered and murdered...(while) he saw Jews cavorting in Djerba," Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said in the undated recording broadcast by Qatar-based al-Jazeera channel. "So this spirit of jihad surged and he (the al Qaeda member) carried out this successful operation, may God accept it," said Abu Ghaith. So the guy's now burning in hell after killing some innocent civilians for no other reason than their religion... It was not clear when the tape was received or where Abu Ghaith was speaking from. Osama bin Laden and his No. 2 man [Ayman al Zawahiri] are both alive and well and their Qaeda network is ready to attack new U.S. targets, Abu Ghaith added. "I want to assure Muslims that Sheik Osama bin Laden ... is in good and prosperous health and all what is being rumored about his illness and injury in Tora Bora has no truth... I can say that 98 percent of the leadership of al-Qaeda are safe and are running their affairs perfectly." We saw Binny on tape, and he was not a well man. Has he had a kidney transplant? Is that why he's been out of sight for so long? Or is he dead and they've been grooming one of his stand-ins to pick up the slack as a figurehead? An Al-Jazeera presenter quoted Abu Ghaith as saying that fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who had protected bin Laden, is also alive. Nobody even said he was dead... Referring to recent U.S. warnings about imminent al-Qaida threats, Abu Ghaith said the group would choose the right time, place and method. The warnings were "a cover-up for the ugly face of the onslaught by the Democratic Party against the Republican Party after the American president announced he was aware of the Sept. 11 operations and because of the economic problems the American government was suffering from," Abu Ghaith said. "I say 'Yes' to what American officials are saying ... that we are going to carry out attacks on America," he stated. Al-Qaeda, according to Abu Ghaith, "is now monitoring, detecting and observing new American targets other than the targets previously monitored, which we will strike at in a period that is not long." Probably be the worst thing they could possibly do. The American public has spent the past nine months telling each other that there must have been some sort of mistake, that we shouldn't hate people because of their religious affiliation — on campuses and in the National Council of Churches we shouldn't hate anyone, anywhere, any time without approval — and they've been concentrating more on popular culture than on the war. Britney's titties are more pleasant to look upon than Osama's mug. The post-911 fury's worn off. Another heavy strike like 9-11, and the public will be up for taking another Islamic rathole apart and they'll want to string Bush up for listening to the yammering "voice of reason" instead of killing Bad Guys by the dozen, starting last January. He called the Sept. 11 attacks a "great historic victory that broke the backs of the Americans, the strongest power in this world." End of Dispatch from La-La Land. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Well, I think OBL is in the safe hands of some Saudis somewhere, either in Arabia or Pakiland, connected to a dialysis machine while he awaits a transplant performed by a visiting MD. I am leaning toward the belief (pure speculation) that if we can't find him, we're looking in the wrong places. And since we're looking in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Stan, Stan, Stan, and Stan, it leaves few places: Iran, Iraq, or most likely Saudi Arabia. God help George Bush if this is true and it leaks to the press. |
| Posted by: tonecluster 2002-06-23 10:49:07 |