I Will Deny You
9th July 2002, 20:16
Since September 11, authorities have been telling us to be on high alert for terrorist in between telling us that we should go back to our normal lives and telling us that Dick Cheney did nothing wrong. Here's an article to prove it:[hr]Terror analysts at "The Daily Show" laboratories have hit upon a revolutionary new technique in news dissemination. Rather than get people all freaked out about one "big" story, the labs decided to get people a "little" terrified over a Lot of smaller items all at once. That way, a person's vague feelings of general anxiety can last the whole day through. With that in mind, we bring you "The Daily Show" terror roundup.
While visiting India and Pakistan earlier this week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday he believed that al-Qaeda agents were operating in the disputed Kashmir region, and though he gave no specifics, Rumsfeld commented, "I have seen indications that there in fact are al-Qaeda in the area." Rumsfeld said these signs included dirty robes left lying around, radioactivity burns on the sofa cushions, and things just slightly shifted in India's medicine cabinet.
Meanwhile, lawyers for alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid want to suppress the confession he gave authorities, saying drugs used to sedate Reid on the plane may have caused him to forget that he had the right to remain silent.
Legal experts say the 28-year-old British citizen could have easily been unaware of those rights, assuming he had never seen a movie, television show, play, sketch, commercial or cartoon mentioning cops in it, at any time, anywhere, ever.
In New York, Jose Padilla, a.k.a. al Mujahir, is being detained on suspicions of plotting to build a dirty bomb. However, Mr. Padilla was hardly acting alone, according to White House Spokesperson Ari Fleischer, who said, "Mr. Padilla received training by the al-Qaeda, in the art of radiological material, in the art of detonation of bombs." Fleischer added that Padilla also received the less-Threatening al-Qaeda training in the art of Japanese flower arrangement.[hr]The latest threat:[hr]Al Qaeda Says It Will Hit U.S., Jewish Targets Soon
Tue Jul 9, 9:51 AM ET
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday.
"Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El Youm.
The United States blames Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites)'s al Qaeda for the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people.
"Our suicide militants are ready and impatient to carry out attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets inside (America) and abroad," the spokesman added.
El Youm director told Reuters the newspaper received on Monday by e-mail taped answers to questions that had been sent Sunday to al Qaeda's Internet Web site. Bu Ghaith warned America to "fasten its seat belts" because his organization "will hit, with God's willing, from where they will not expect."
"America knows we are men of action and not men of words," he went on, saying that attacks were also being planned against the "puppet government" of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Bu Ghaith, in a tape aired last month by Qatar-based al Jazeera television, said al Qaeda was behind a suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue in April that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists.
He told El Youm that Washington's war on terrorism since Sept. 11 had not affected al Qaeda's military, intelligence, economic and information infrastructures and reiterated that bin Laden was going about his work.
A spokesman for international forces hunting al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan ( news - web sites) has dismissed as "wishful thinking" such claims that the network is still virtually intact.[hr]This time, the difference is that Al Qaeda itself made the threat (instead of Rumsfeld warning us). But I'm still not scared. I am making an honest effort to piss in my pants and cry for my mommy, but at this time I can't bring myself to be shaken.
Lindsay
While visiting India and Pakistan earlier this week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday he believed that al-Qaeda agents were operating in the disputed Kashmir region, and though he gave no specifics, Rumsfeld commented, "I have seen indications that there in fact are al-Qaeda in the area." Rumsfeld said these signs included dirty robes left lying around, radioactivity burns on the sofa cushions, and things just slightly shifted in India's medicine cabinet.
Meanwhile, lawyers for alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid want to suppress the confession he gave authorities, saying drugs used to sedate Reid on the plane may have caused him to forget that he had the right to remain silent.
Legal experts say the 28-year-old British citizen could have easily been unaware of those rights, assuming he had never seen a movie, television show, play, sketch, commercial or cartoon mentioning cops in it, at any time, anywhere, ever.
In New York, Jose Padilla, a.k.a. al Mujahir, is being detained on suspicions of plotting to build a dirty bomb. However, Mr. Padilla was hardly acting alone, according to White House Spokesperson Ari Fleischer, who said, "Mr. Padilla received training by the al-Qaeda, in the art of radiological material, in the art of detonation of bombs." Fleischer added that Padilla also received the less-Threatening al-Qaeda training in the art of Japanese flower arrangement.[hr]The latest threat:[hr]Al Qaeda Says It Will Hit U.S., Jewish Targets Soon
Tue Jul 9, 9:51 AM ET
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday.
"Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El Youm.
The United States blames Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites)'s al Qaeda for the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people.
"Our suicide militants are ready and impatient to carry out attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets inside (America) and abroad," the spokesman added.
El Youm director told Reuters the newspaper received on Monday by e-mail taped answers to questions that had been sent Sunday to al Qaeda's Internet Web site. Bu Ghaith warned America to "fasten its seat belts" because his organization "will hit, with God's willing, from where they will not expect."
"America knows we are men of action and not men of words," he went on, saying that attacks were also being planned against the "puppet government" of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Bu Ghaith, in a tape aired last month by Qatar-based al Jazeera television, said al Qaeda was behind a suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue in April that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists.
He told El Youm that Washington's war on terrorism since Sept. 11 had not affected al Qaeda's military, intelligence, economic and information infrastructures and reiterated that bin Laden was going about his work.
A spokesman for international forces hunting al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan ( news - web sites) has dismissed as "wishful thinking" such claims that the network is still virtually intact.[hr]This time, the difference is that Al Qaeda itself made the threat (instead of Rumsfeld warning us). But I'm still not scared. I am making an honest effort to piss in my pants and cry for my mommy, but at this time I can't bring myself to be shaken.
Lindsay