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Dec. 16, 2004 - A new audio tape, supposedly from Osama bin Laden, celebrated the recent attack against the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, but it criticized the Saudi regime for its tolerance of the U.S.
The speaker, in calm and even tones, accused Saudi rulers of "violating God's rules," a common theme of bin Laden, who accuses Saudi rulers of being insufficiently Islamic and too close to the "infidel" United States.
Nov. 15, 2004 - On the CBS “60 Minutes” program former CIA agent Michael Scheuer says he believes Osama bin Laden will attack the U.S. homeland with some sort of nuclear weapon of mass destruction. He believes bin Laden is a brilliant opponent, capable of executing such a plan, and thinks he will be remembered as a person who changed history. He now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans. A Saudi sheik has written that...
... he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans.
Source:NewsMax
Bordering On Nukes? - Al Qaeda operatives are trying to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the U.S. through Mexico - Time.com
Oct. 30, 2004 - Again taking credit for the 911 attacks, Osama bin Laden gave Americans a video message.
Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or Al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any state that does not mess with our security, has naturally guaranteed its own security.
Oct. 26, 2004 - According to the British Medical Association, runaway development of biological weapons is a far greater threat to the world than the development of nuclear and chemical weapons.
Among the biological weapons with the potential to wreak havoc are genetically engineered anthrax and a synthetic version of the polio virus.
The report is called "Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II."
Oct. 18, 2004 - Iraq's terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the chief suspect in last year's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, and the beheading of numerous foreign hostages. He now says that his Tawhid and Jihad groups are officially alligned with Osama bin Laden.
The statement ran a Quranic verse encouraging Muslim unity and said al-Zarqawi considered bin Laden "the best leader for Islam's armies against all infidels and apostates."
Sept. 21, 2004 - U.S. intelligence sources say they believe that al Qaeda is trying to accomplish a major, "spectacular" attack, greater than the 9/11 disasters. Experts say al Qaeda fears that its credibility is on the line because there hasn't been a major follow-up to the 9/11 events. Authorities are looking for Adnan Shukrijumah.
One official said Shukrijumah recently was seen in Mexico and earlier had been in Canada near a university with a nuclear reactor, leading to concerns that he was seeking radioactive material for a radiological bomb.
It is believed that, if possible, the attack will be launched between now and the Election on November 2, or before the Inauguration on January 20th.
Sept. 8, 2004 - Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, has reacted to the recent school massacre by threatening to "liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world." They have also offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
European Union officials reacted cautiously to Baluyevsky's statements, with spokeswoman Emma Udwin saying she could not be sure whether they represented government policy. Udwin said the 25-nation EU is against "extra-judicial killings" in form of pre-emptive strikes.
Sept. 7, 2004 - Russian officials say that 10 of the 32 suicide attackers who took over a high school in Beslan were Arabs linked to Al Qaida.
The 10 Arab nationals came from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, officials said. They said security forces seized notebooks in Arabic in the school taken over by insurgents. Officials said survivors told authorities that some of the captors spoke Arabic during the three-day hostage ordeal.
Sept. 6, 2004 - Some representatives of Islamic media expressed horror and dismay about the terrorist attack on a Russian school, resulting in more than 300 deaths. Arab TV stations showed images of the carnage and pictures of dead and wounded children appeared on front pages of Arab Newspapers. Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television, wrote an article for the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, entitled "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!" In the article he listed recent attacks by Islamic extremists in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He said, "Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture." He added, that Muslims will be unable to cleanse their image unless "we admit the scandalous facts," rather than offer condemnations or justifications.
Sept. 6, 2004 - At least 330 people are dead in the school tragedy in Russia, and some 200 others are missing. Russians are observing two days of mourning and attending mass funeral services for the dead. About half of the dead were children.
The Russian Red Cross has appealed for international assistance to help overstretched local hospitals trying to treat the injured - who now number more than 560, according to the authorities.
Sept. 3, 2004 - Russian troops ended the seige of a school in North Ossetia. It is not clear what caused the collapse of the gymnasium roof where hundreds of children and adults have been held hostage since Wednesday, but there were hundreds of injuries.
Some reports say all the hostages have now been brought out of the school, but there are continuing scenes of chaos. ...Several of the hostage takers are also reported to have died in exchanges of fire with troops as they tried to escape, Reuters reports.
Sept. 1, 2004 - On the first day of school in a Russian town near Chechnya, terrorists seized up to 400 hostages, including many parents, and threatened to kill 50 children for each of their group who was killed. The terrorists are apparently Chechen rebels.
The gang, some strapped with explosives and reported to have mined the school grounds, later set free 15 of the children, Itar-Tass news agency said.
Aug. 25, 2004 - Two Russian airplanes, carrying a total of 89 people, have crashed almost simultaneously, killing all aboard. Both planes left Moscow Tuesday evening, headed for separate destinations. One of the jets sent a distress signal that may have indicated a hijacking.
Russia's main intelligence agency, however, said it had found no evidence of terrorism in initial investigations at the crash sites.
Aug. 11, 2004 - Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was arrested July 13 in Lahore, Pakistan, had detailed plans on his laptop computer for the assassination of a high-profile leader, triggered by the public release of a new message from Osama bin Laden. Multiple possible targets of the assassination include U.S. and foreign leader either in the United States or abroad.
"The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official said. "The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.' "
Aug. 9, 2004 - TIME Magazine has published details from the three laptop computers and 51 disks taken in the July 24 raid in Pakistan. This information makes a pre-election attack in the United States seem "more real."
One U.S. law enforcement official told the magazine that a recent Pakistani intelligence report alleges al-Qaida plans to use speedboats and divers for an attack in New York harbor prior to the election.
Aug. 5, 2004 - Albany police raided the Masjid As-Salam mosque and two residences to stop a terrorist plot. They arrested the Imam of the mosque and the founder of the mosque.
They are accused of reaching out to someone they thought was a terrorist trying to get a shoulder-fired missile to down planes in the United States.
The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, known to be part of bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network
Aug. 2, 2004 - Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has raised the security alert to "orange - high," but only for certain financial districts. The decision was based on specific and "credible" threats from al-Qaeda, especially after the arrest of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a high al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan last week. Some of the information was found on his computer.
Security forces will be especially cautious about the possibility of truck or car bomb. No timing is given for the threat, but it could be anytime leading up to the November elections. Particular buildings specified in the intelligence, include:
International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings, the New York Stock Exchange, the Prudential building in Newark, New Jersey, and the Citigroup CN buildings in New York.
July 29, 2004 - Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a top al Qaeda operative from Tanzania, was arrested in Gujarat, Pakistan. The U.S. has offered a reward of $25 million for his arrest. He is suspected for involvement in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
July 23, 2004 - A national commission has released its findings about the 9/11 Attacks. It reveals numerous intelligence failures and the fact that neither President Bush nor former President Clinton made anti-terrorism a top priority. Nevertheless, the commission stopped short of saying the hijackings could have been prevented.
The report says that three years later America has made improvements in homeland security, "But we are not safe." According to Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:
"Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable," Kean said. "We do not have the luxury of time."
July 20, 2004 - Documents allegedly taken by President Clinton's National Security Advisor from a classified reading room sounded the alarm that al-Qaida operatives had entered the U.S. and were preparing to strike.
Attorney General John Ashcroft detailed the highly classified March 2000 document, saying it contained a set of sweeping recommendations on how to combat the al-Qaida threat that were completely ignored by the Clinton White House.
July 14, 2004 - J. R. Nyquist, in his weekly Geopolitical Global Analysis, marshalls evidence that there is credible concern that al Qaeda operatives have smuggled "nuclear suitcase bombs" into the country and are capable of inflicting millions of casualties, possibly to disrupt our elections. Federal government officials are discussing the postponement of elections in case of such an attack.
July 6, 2004 - Natural Gas can be liquefied by refrigeration and then transported and stored. Unfortunately a tanker full of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) would be an easy target for terrorists, and would explode with the power of a small nuclear bomb. It would have the capacity to destroy downtown Boston.
July 3, 2004 - Information from Al-Qaida training camps raise fears that operatives may have been taught how to dispense poisonous gases such as cyanide in ventilation systems.
Washington and New York operate the largest rail transit systems in the country. The FBI fears ... a likely target may be the GOP convention in New York City, which begins in late August.
June 24, 2004 - The United States wants to believe the myth that "Islam is a religion of peace," but the facts of history indicate that violence is normal in the expansion of Islam. The Koran offers no mercy to the "infidel unbeliever" unless he converts to Islam.
Islam is not like Christianity, which teaches one should love his enemy. Christians seek to win converts by a loving presentation of the message of Christ's offer of pardon for sin that He purchased by dying in our place.
June 21, 2004 - Ralph Peters warns that the beheading of Paul Johnson Jr. in Saudi Arabia is not just an isolated misinterpretation of Islamic beliefs, but it is a return to "the old time religion" of their history. He thinks it is a sign of a once-great civilization in the process of failing.
Whether or not one subscribes to the idea of a “clash of civilizations,” we are incontestably witnessing the crash of an entire civilization, that of Middle Eastern Islam.
June 18, 2004 - The body of Paul M. Johnson Jr.has been found just outside the Saudi Arabian capital. Three people caught disposing of the body have been killed by officials.
Killed were Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin, the head of a group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and two militants who were on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Most Wanted list of extremists.
June 18, 2004 - Terrorists are threatening to execute , a Lockheed Martin employee who was kidnapped in Saudi Arabia last Saturday unless the Saudi kingdom releases Al Qaeda prisoners.
CIA director George Tenet's sudden resignation comes on the eve of two reports on the agency's pre-war intelligence
June 4, 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet announced plans to resign, saying that it is to spend more time with his family. However, two reports are due soon that will be critical of the CIA. The first is a Senate Intelligence Committee report ...
... that one official described as a “devastating indictment” of the agency’s handling of pre-war intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The other report will come from the national commission investigating the September 11 attacks. It is expected to be critical of the CIA's failure to identify clues before the disaster.
June 1, 2004 - Two propane delivery trucks were stolen from the San Antonio Gas Company in Texas over the Memorial Day weekend. The theft might have been planned by a known propane theft ring that takes the product to Mexico, but it might also have been taken by potential terrorists.
A tanker was converted into a truck bomb for the Khobar Towers apartment bombing in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, nearly eight years ago, he said. The June 25, 1996, explosion killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel and wounded 372 other people
May 27, 2004 - The U.S. Justice Department has released a list of seven suspected terrorists in an effort to disrupt plans for a large terror attack in the U.S. this summer.
May 26, 2004 - FBI bulletins indicate concern that a major terrorism attack could take place on U.S. soil as early as this summer or closer to the elections in November. Specific targets, plans or possible perpetrators were not mentioned, but it is likely that the FBI will be issuing "wanted" posters for some of the known terrorists that are still at large. Speculation about possible targets ranges from the World War II Memorial dedication Saturday, which is expected to have 140,000 in attendance, to soft targets that are hard to protect, like railway stations. The Homeland Security terror threat level is still at "yellow," or elevated.
May 21, 2004 - Time Magazine Online has reported that the FBI is warning local law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for suicide bombers. They evidently do not have specific information but just a general sense that we are vulnerable to such attacks by people who are angry with us.
"At the end the day, it's probably one of the simplest forms of attack, and it's one of the hardest to detect," a counterterror veteran told Time.
May 11, 2004 - Nick Berg, a 26-year-old American from Pennsylvania was beheaded to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers. The gruesome act was videotaped and posted on a radical Islamic website.
The tape shows assailants thrusting the knife through his neck. A scream sounds before the men cut Berg's head off, repeatedly shouting "Allahu Akbar!" — or "God is great." ...They then hold the head out before the camera.
A caption on the videotape claimed that the brutal act was performed (or ordered) by Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
May 12, 2004 - in 2000 a British Muslim accepted 5000 pounds from al-Qaida sponsors and came to the U.S. to be involved in plans for airline suicide attacks. He decided to gamble the money away, then turned himself in to the FBI. They interrogated him, but did not believe his story.
April 30, 2004 - The actual number of terrorist attacks worldwide is dropping!
The Patterns of Global Terrorism report said 190 acts of international terrorism occurred in 2003 -- a slight drop from 198 attacks the previous year and the lowest total since 1969.
April 27, 2004 - An intricate plot has been uncovered in Jordan that would have caused the loss of more lives than the 9/11 attacks. Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have stockpiled tons of chemicals that could be used for massive explosions and a toxic cloud. Detailed plans, automotive equipment and suicide operatives were also uncovered. Targets would have included the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office and the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence. Azmi Jayyousi, the cell's suspected ringleader, was arrested.
On a confession shown on state-run Jordanian television, Jayyousi said he took orders from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a suspected terrorist leader who has been linked to al Qaeda and whom U.S. officials have said is behind some attacks in Iraq.
April 4, 2004 - According to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice the U.S. is preparing itself for possible terrorist attacks during the election season.
The opportunity for terrorists to try to influence the election, as was the case last month in Spain, appears to be an opportunity that would "be too good to pass up for them," Rice said.
Apr. 15, 2004 - Arabic news sources are playing an audio tape that claims to be from Osama bin Laden, in which he offers a truce with Europe, but not with the U.S. The speaker claims that the truce would begin as soon as European countries remove all of their soldiers from Arab countries. He said, "Stop spilling our blood so we can stop spilling your blood."
The tape also criticised US policy for ignoring the "real problem" which is "the occupation of all of Palestine".
April 13, 2004 - The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) will broadcast interviews today with Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Janet Reno, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former director of the CIA's counterterrorism center Cofer Black and former acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard.
The panel will apparently be looking for specific things that the FBI may have failed to do before" the Sept. 11 attacks.
Questions likely will include those on the so-called "Phoenix memo," a July 2001 memo by a Phoenix-based FBI agent warning that Al Qaeda terrorists might have been undergoing flight training at U.S. schools.
April 8, 2004 - Testifying to the 9/11 Commission this morning, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice said that the Bush administration worked hard to protect the country from the beginning of their term, and that there was no specific action made aware to them that could have kept the attack from happening.
"There was no silver bullet that could have prevented” the worst terror strike in the nation’s history, adding that the United States “simply was not on a war footing” at the time of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Apr. 2, 2004 - U.S. officials are warning that terrorists are capable of making bombs that would fit in a backpack, but be strong enough to derail a train or destroy a bus.
The U.S. bulletin says that a ``viable'' explosive constructed of ammonium nitrate and diesel ``could be concealed in standard luggage.''
Mar. 25, 2004 - Richard A. Clarke, a terrorism expert who has worked for the past four presidential administrations, released his book this week, in which he was critical of our current President's handling of the threats that preceeded the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In the book, "Against All Enemies," he accuses the Bush White House's of not listening to his concerns about Usama bin Laden's terror network.
White House staffers have responded with a reminder that Clarke was very complementary to President Bush's handling of terrorism in 2002. But that was before he changed jobs and had a book to sell.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Clarke moved from his position as head of counterterrorism ... He left the administration in January 2003 after failing to get the job of deputy secretary in the Homeland Security Department.
Mar. 20, 2004 - In the ongoing battle in Pakistan, about 100 people, thought to be al Qaeda fighters, have been captured, but it is not clear whether or not al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is being protected in the fortified hideout.
Mar. 19, 2004 - Pakistani troops have surrounded a compound with two fortress-like buildings, and have waged a fierce battle there. The strength of the resistance makes them think someone important, possibly , Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, is there. They do say that there is no indication that bin Laden himself is there.
U.S. officials said U.S. troops do not operate inside Pakistan. But Task Force 121 might be authorized to enter Pakistan if actionable intelligence on bin Laden is received, officials said.
Mar. 12, 2004 - The death toll from yesterday's bombings in Madrid has risen to 198, and approximately 1400 were injured. A questionable source has claimed that al Qauida is behind the carnage.
Mar. 11, 2004 - Bomb attacks in three train stations in Madrid have killed at least 170 people [the number is rising], and injured another 500. No group has taken responsibility for the terrorism yet, but many believe it is the work of the ETA, a Basque separatist group. Others think it may be the work of Islamic terrorists since Spain was one of the chief allies of the U.S. in the Iraq war.
ETA has killed around 850 people since 1968 in its fight for Basque independence and has been a looming presence in the run-up to the Spanish elections as well as a focus for politicians vowing to take a tough line with the guerrilla group.
Feb. 4, 2004 - Ricin, the deadly toxin that was found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office, may be linked to two other letters sent to other recipients in recent months. One turned up in October in South Carolina. That one was signed by "Fallen Angel."
The letter found in October ... and one found in November at a facility that processes mail for the White House both complained about new regulations requiring certain amounts of rest for truck drivers.
Jan. 7, 2003 - In the days leading up to the New Year, Department of Energy experts were sent to Washington, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Baltimore to search for signs of radiation.
Jan. 5, 2004 - Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced that a new security program, called US-VISIT, or U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, will be installed, starting with the Atlanta International Airport. The system will use photographs and fingerprinting to instantly check an immigrant or visitor’s criminal background. It will be installed in all 115 U.S. international airports and 14 major seaports.
Jan. 5, 2004 - A new audio tape, supposedly from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was played on the Al-Jazeera satellite channel Sunday. The speaker made reference to the capture of Saddam Hussein. He said Muslims should,
"Continue the jihad to check the conspiracies that are hatched against the Islamic nation." He said the U.S.-led war against Iraq was the beginning of the "occupation" of Gulf states for their oil.
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