Terrorists seeing Hajj & Eid as a good reason to strike?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The Bush administration planned to increase its terrorist threat level to “orange” — or high risk — on Friday, reflecting concerns among U.S. security officials that terrorists are planning a “major attack” as early as next week, sources told NBC News. The decision comes a day after the State Department warned Americans abroad of the threat of new terrorist attacks using chemical or biological weapons.
UTD, i hope you dont seriously believe that to do you! These sort of allegations are made all the time!
instead of just cut and paste can you like give an opinion...!
You guys are going to love this. This was posted 3 days ago on a web site that I have confirmed has Mossad connections. does sound a little bit familiar to the warning issued today by the US government:
Mega-Terror Menaces on Three Continents
Combined DEBKAfile-DEBKA-Net-Weekly Special Report
February 4, 2003, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Terror quartet in action: Al Qaeda, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Albanian mafia
With the approach of American military action against Iraq, the United States and its war allies, including Israel, have gone on top alert to steel themselves against a multi-pronged mega-terror offensive assault.
According to DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive counter-terror and intelligence sources, six entities have come together to prepare this offensive, operating both together and independently. They are:
Iraqi military intelligence, or rather the dread Unit 999, which is an arm of the super-secret Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam’s Martyrs), commanded by the Iraqi ruler’s eldest son, Uday.
Al Qaeda’s top men.
Iraqi and Al Qaeda sleeper cells planted in the United States, Europe, the Persian Gulf and Israel.
Palestinian terrorists operating on West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian terror groups and militias based in Damascus.
Hizballah security and intelligence bodies working in harness with al Qaeda.
Hizballah leaders and high officers under instructions from Tehran to open a second anti-American front from Lebanon or elsewhere in the Middle East, in support of Iraq.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly and DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources reveal exclusively that the al Qaeda cells rolled up in the last three weeks in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany - some plotting chemical attacks, some actually caught with the poisonous ricin in their possession – started their journeys to target in two places: Chechnya and Algeria.
Those same sources report too that interrogation of the dozens of terrorist suspects in custody revealed that Iraq and Saudi intelligence agents continue to provide the terror cells with operational intelligence, while Saudi institutions and bodies are al Qaeda’s primary source of funds and manpower.
The “smoking gun’” link between Iraq and al Qaeda is readily available to Secretary of State Colin Powell for use in his presentation before the UN Security Council on Wednesday, February 5. However, Washington is not yet prepared to expose Saudi complicity in the terror conspiracy, and for that reason is likely to withhold the key role played by Baghdad as well. The al Qaeda detainees in Europe also laid bare the Albanian mafia’s role in providing weapons, forged travel documents and passports, transport and hideouts for terrorists before and after their hits. The Albanian underworld, based in Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo, is well placed for this operation, having spread its tentacles across the European continent.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s counter-terror experts have mapped the routes taken by the terrorist cells from Chechnya and Algeria across Europe.
To full-size version of the map click HERE .
The consensus of our experts is that the terror cells picked up in Europe before they went into action constituted the first wave of a multi-pronged offensive which Baghdad and al Qaeda planned to unfold in stages with the approach and onset of American military action against Iraq.
Wave One was to have struck European capitals and major cities with chemical toxins, such as ricin, and assassinations of prominent political and military figures. The 28-man Pakistani al Qaeda group captured last week in northern Italy plotted the murder of the British chief of staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, during a visit he paid to NATO’s Naples Headquarters.
Wave Two is destined for Israel. Al Qaeda cells assigned to carry out mega-attacks are already present, planted in Palestinian-controlled territory or secreted into Israeli towns from abroad.
Wave Three in the Persian Gulf is scheduled to come next and consist of attacks against US forces in the region and large-scale targets like aircraft carriers, warships and oil tankers.
Wave Four will aim for American cities and strategic installations and send hit teams against leading political, military, social and religious personalities.
Western governments may strive to present the global war on terror and the campaign against Iraq as not being a declaration of war on the Islamic world, but these efforts are not believed and only incense the terror movement. The coming American military action against Iraq is perceived by the Arab world and many Muslims as an assault on the Islamic nation.
As DEBKA-Net-Weekly 94 reported on January 24, radical Arab Muslims are explaining that America’s objectives in Iraq are to seize Arab land and its natural resources, oil. Young Gulf Muslims are being told that, whereas in Afghanistan, Bin Laden led a global jihad, in Iraq and Arabia, his followers are fighting for their sacred homelands and their violation by infidels. Today the Americans will conquer Iraq’s cities and oil fields; tomorrow, it is said, they will use Iraq as a jumping-off base to capture Saudi Arabia and its oil riches.
Al Qaeda’s spokesmen are going beyond general calls for action against the enemy. They have announced a serious escalation of tactics. They are telling partisans explicitly that American troops and civilians must be fought with nuclear weapons. In some Internet sites associated with the group, such slogans as “the way to kill Americans is by nuclear attack,” appear of late. Another favorite is: “There are no Western civilians. Every Westerner is a combatant whom we are enjoined to kill.”
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s counter-terror experts estimate that Al Qaeda is striving to prepare the ground for the mass murder of American and Western civilians by unconventional means of warfare.
The network’s sites abound with detailed instructions on how to prepare chemical agents and dangerous toxins for harming American troops. They also offer detailed information on security procedures at American Gulf military installations and ways to overcome them for the kidnapping of US troops as hostages. Our experts suggest that their harping on the nuclear option is a strong indication that the fundamentalists possess some sort of nuclear weapon.
Our monitors have picked up another alarming development on the al Qaeda Internet scene. While the chatter continues unabated, operational signals among activist cells in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon have dried up. This organized blackout of electronic communications on open channels appears to portend some operation.
There are a number of possibilities:
A nuclear/mega attack on an American Gulf installation, such as bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, or even Saudi Arabia.
A multi-location mega/nuclear strike against a number of bases, oil fields, terminals or tankers.
A mega/nuclear attack against an Arab capital assisting in American war preparations, such as Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar or Oman, where heightened al Qaeda activity has been registered in the last weeks.
A mega/nuclear attack against one of Israel’s main cities. Israel is deep in preparations to meet such an attack, often disguised as measures to confront an Iraqi assault. Last month, Israel’s government hospitals signed contracts with a number of big hotel chains, especially along the Mediterranean coastline, for the lease of whole wings for conversion into hospital facilities in case of a terrorist attack of disastrous proportions. Large firms who rely on exports, like Intel, have been shipping inventories out of the country. Essential government offices, banks and large commercial firms have moved staffs and equipment to nuclear bomb shelters and especially built bomb-proof building complexes outside Tel Aviv and Haifa.
This menace was behind the warning issued Monday, February 3, by Maj. Gen. Amos Gilad, the senior officer in charge of war information, when he said: “Israel must be ready for dangerous events of a one-time nature.” He added that Saddam Hussein, who already has bio-weapon capability, will do its utmost to procure nuclear weapons - and is not like to be put off this objective. Since the American attack is no more than weeks away, Iraq may be presumed to already have a nuclear option of some kind.
A mega/nuclear attack in London, which the British premier Tony Blair declared as a definite possibility in Parliament last month.
A mega/nuclear strike in a major American city.
All six might take the form of biological or chemical attack.
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UTD, i hope you dont seriously believe that to do you! These sort of allegations are made all the time!
instead of just cut and paste can you like give an opinion...!
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Opinion of what? What allegations are made all the time? Try making some sense before posting.
hmm interesting how some people know what's going to happen.. not quite different from the old joke about the Pakistani Police which catches criminals 'before' they commit the crime.
I like the timing of these terror alerts.. add to it the fact that nothing came out of all the earlier ones combined. I sure do hope that these warnings are from proper intelligence work and not some $10 a session psychic!
hey after UK's 'borrowing' a decade old academic report repackaged as 'intelligence' ..anything is possible.
PA, the point of these alerts are so people are alert more so then before to (hopefully) assure nothing happens.
ok utd how are you more ‘alert’ than before because of the terror alert??
Maybe u’re just more anxious and scared.. and that’s exactly what’s desired of you.. fear fear and more fear.. prepetual fear so u just give in your rights and cry out to Big Brother to protect you from the evil evil mad man Saddam.. 
PA, the system was demanded somewhat by the public as they wanted to know what level of threat was "out there". It alerts all law enforcement, all government agencies and all private sectors that a threat is out there greater than before. This allows public and private sectors to prepare accordingly. I don't see to many Americans doing anything different or being anymore fearful.
terror alert is twice as alarming for some of us.
double double your threat level
double double your problem
no single threat worries you as much as
double threat double threat alert
(sing to the tune of double mint jingle)
Mr. Fraudia,
If anybody hassles you just let them know you are pals with MV and me. We get a lot of respect from the toothless.
and remember this, things could be worse, you could be Michael Jackson! :)
OG..long time..
It was just a point to illustrate the anxiety that some of us feel sometimes, which is two pronged..the direct threat thatall of us facem and the indirect threat that some of us face :)
I aint afarid of the toothless (just their guns)
things could be worse for you too, you could be bubbles.. wacko jacko's monkey :D
Fraudz,
Wear a NASCAR jacket, it makes you immune to rednecks.
I understand your dilemma. Wish I could help.
Regards.
(And I watched that Michael Jackson thing last night, and washed my hands about 10 times afterward. Yuk)
!!
nascar.. u mean hill-billy-go-round? okay where can i buy that.
as far as the dilemma, u sure can help.. you have interacted with enough ppl here to know that muslims are of all types, all views etc..pass it to your family and friends. Thats one way you can actually help.
hands? what were you doing while watching teh wacko jacko interview..wait dont tell me.
anyways, to be clean after watching that interview, i would suggest taking a shower for about 12 hours.
ok indulge me utd.. how do the public and private sectors 'prepare'?
Fraudia,
“you have interacted with enough ppl here to know that muslims are of all types, all views etc..pass it to your family and friends.”
Groan…
You mean I HAVE to tell them about Malik and Dil?
Oddly enough my daughers’ high school class is studying the history of the middle east. We had a long chat regarding the Palestinians, Ariel Sharon, (Even Nadia would have been proud) etc. Her school is doing a remarkably balanced job of teaching. They have them tallying the number of times the Israeli’s are on the television vs. the Palestinians. She is using the word propaganda a LOT!
I think the US, like any society, the US has it’s fair share of morons, and i feel for you and all of the other guppies who are unfairly grouped with a small group of extremeist. Best wishes, and I hope that you and your family are safe as we go through a rough period.
And watch what you are talking about with the NASCAR. My father lives in SC, and there are people down there who have Dale Earnhart SHRINES!
and no more MJ, it makes me ashamed that I ever learned to moonwalk…
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ok indulge me utd.. how do the public and private sectors 'prepare'?
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Security upgrades, increase surveillance, review of worst-case scenario plans, etc.
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Opinion of what? What allegations are made all the time? Try making some sense before posting.
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UTD, I am making sense, let me re-phrase again for you...
id rather people gave some sort of opinion about it rather than cut and paste job, its really irritating!
We hear alerts like this all the time, oh such and such place will be next, These alerts cause more harm than good, innocent people sometimes become tragets. Just recently in the UK, men were arrested in undergroud London of African background (correct me im wrong) for having some sort of chemical possesions, they were arrested just on suspicion, turned out that they had just faulty passports!
I mean these sort of alerts give a heavier hand to the police for more stop and search and questioning(in UK,i dont know about US). Even though they have the authority to do so, for a muslim woman it would be degrading and humiliating to take of her burqa in middle of the street whilst she was going about her daily buisness.
Sometimes words of this nature can have a detremental affect on any society, where there is growing hatred, racism and other problems. You worry about family and friends being caught up in this facade...
Did they catch those 5 bad Pakis who crossed over from Canada 
This color coding is all bs...no one cares about it anymore. What are people going to do? get up in the morning and say.I really needed to go to hospital for checkup on my kidney but cheez..color is too dark so I will stay home.
<~~~ Opinion is that headlines = Propaganda.
But just in case...
If ya don't ever hear from me again......
<~~~~ dead from a terrorist attack.