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Yemen's al-Qaida promises attacks
2004-01-25
The Yemeni branch of al-Qaida has vowed to attack western targets following the government's rejection of a conditional truce offer, according to an Islamist website. President Ali Abdullah Saleh shunned an offer by the group to halt attacks on western targets when they demanded 10 concessions on Saturday, according to www.alsahwa-yemen.net - which speaks for the Islamist Islah party. The website said it had received a statement in which "al-Qaida, Yemen" stated it had promised to secure "the blessing of Sheikh Osama bin Ladin" or another top leader of the Islamist network for the proposal spurned by Sanaa.
Qaeda's still looking for a home...
The group's conditions for not attacking Western targets included "allowing the mujahidin (Islamic fighters) to join their brethren in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine," the website said. But the proposal was rejected by the Yemeni government - "the Americans' second partner in the alliance against Islam and Muslims after the apostate Pakistani regime" of President Pervez Musharraf.
So now they'll try to bump off Saleh. And the Islah Party is probably too powerful for him to shut it down.
"We sued for peace, but they want war," al-Qaida Yemen charged. According to al-Sahwa, the group vowed to avenge the killing in November 2002 of Ali Qaid Sunian al-Harethi, alias Abu Ali - a suspected top al-Qaida operative in Yemen. Al-Harethi was killed along with five other Yemenis when a missile fired by CIA agents struck their vehicle in eastern Yemen. Sanaa has admitted cooperating with Washington in the attack. "The military wing of al-Qaida in Yemen - the Abu Ali al-Harethi Brigades - has for a year been preparing to carry out a devastating strike," the group warned, according to al-Sahwa. The group also warned of an "impending major strike in America," adding that the attacks on the Cole and the Limburg had been in revenge for the killing of Islamist leaders in Yemen. Yemen has been engaged in a crackdown on suspected members of al-Qaida since the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States for which bin Ladin's organization was blamed, but its government denies that there is such a thing as a Yemeni branch of Al-Qaida.
In that case, just shut down the Islah Party.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#6  Dot. Nation wide.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-1-26 12:32:51 AM  

#5  Hey, Dr Steve! Intermittent dial-up access for another 2 weeks or so. I have seen Nevada, now, and it is me... reminds me of the rough and tumble of Wyoming & Montana. BTW, way OT, have you checked out DLP television? I'm treating myself to one to go with my Tier-4 Digital cable, heh. HDTV on 51" screen and only 7" thick. Kicks plasma and LCD ass, bro!

On-Topic: Very sadly, I still believe we'll see a significant hit soon enough. Then we'll see how it plays out. We already know it takes being backed into a corner and having the shit slapped out of us to move the majority to action. I wonder, all of the old press that was unearthed regards post WW-II I've seen doesn't fully answer it, when we finally act, is it without so much harping and bitching by the lay-down-and-die crowd?
Posted by: .com   2004-1-25 9:16:17 PM  

#4  .com! Whereya been? And stick around, woodyas?

Gulli-press -- love it!
Posted by: Steve White   2004-1-25 8:36:57 PM  

#3  Several of the jihadi sites have been prediting a "strike" approx Feb 4th - at the end of the Hajj - for some time now. So much wolf-crying has preceeded this that it lacks real lustre, but they do seem both in-synch about the timing and quite frothy. It only takes one group getting through to make them look invincible to the gulli-press. If they fail to make good on this threat, perhaps a few thousand jihadi wannabees will lose heart and find some other diversion for their clueless lives. One can hope.
Posted by: .com   2004-1-25 8:00:03 PM  

#2  The group also warned of an "impending major strike in America,"

That's all the Islamist knuckledraggers have left, empty threats like this.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-1-25 12:24:28 PM  

#1  ... or another top leader of the Islamist network for the proposal spurned by Sanaa.

The sheikh being unable to answer the sat phone without a head and all. Or maybe the reception is really bad at the Secure Undisclosed Location© where the Bush admin is icing him until the elections.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-1-25 12:02:44 PM  

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