Too late for detection?
Al-Qaida's 'final' warning
© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 04.08.2005 20:48
Something different about al-Zawahiri's videotape message
There was something different about al-Qaida's videotape communique delivered by Osama bin Laden's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, say intelligence analysts and terrorism experts.
"What you have seen in New York, Washington and Afghanistan, are only the initial losses," he said, referring to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States for which al Qaeda claimed responsibility. "If you continue the same hostile policies you will see something that will make you forget the horrors you have seen in Vietnam."
Though it is not unusual for al-Qaida statements to suggest attacks more fearsome than 9-11 are coming, the reference to Vietnam suggests bin Laden and al-Zawahiri believe they can either wear down the U.S. in a protracted conflict in Iraq or demoralize the U.S. public with a continuing barrage of terrorist attacks.
But the next sentence contained a word, omitted in some Western translations of the speech, not seen or heard in previous al-Qaida messages.
"Our message to you is clear, strong and final: There will be no salvation until you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and resources and end support for infidel, corrupt (Arab) rulers," he said.
The word "final" was the word that jumped out for intelligence analysts and terrorism experts contacted by G2B.
As if to underline that word portending a punishment of some kind, the next sentence suggested urgency also not common in al-Qaida messages.
"There is no way out for Washington except by immediate withdrawal," said al-Zawahiri. "Any delay in this decision means more killing and losses. If you don't withdraw today you will inevitably withdraw tomorrow, but only after tens of thousands are killed and injured."
The words "immediate," "any delay" and "today" stand out to intelligence analysts as suggesting an imminent attack of grand proportions.
The tough rhetoric from bin Laden's right-hand man is raising more concerns about the possibility of an attack involving weapons of mass destruction – the attack referred to by so many U.S. officials, including President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney – as inevitable.
As G2B has reported, for more than a decade, al-Qaida is known to have been planning what is referred to as an "American Hiroshima" attack on the U.S. involving nuclear weapons.
Bin Laden has spent billions of dollars on the successful purchase and development of nuclear weapons – money his al-Qaida terrorist network earned by directing poppy cultivation in the fields of Afghanistan, right under the noses of U.S. occupation forces, G2B has reported.
The findings are confirmed by the investigative work of journalist Paul Williams, author of the upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection," and international terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America."
Bin Laden used the vast drug fortune to help al-Qaida smuggle some of those nuclear weapons – along with thousands of sleeper agents – over the Mexican border with the help of the MS-13 criminal street gang, say the sources.
Al-Qaida has obtained at least 40 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union – including suitcase nukes, nuclear mines, artillery shells and even some missile warheads. In addition, documents captured in Afghanistan show al-Qaida had plans to assemble its own nuclear weapons with fissile material it purchased on the black market.
Besides trying to detonate its own nuclear weapons already planted in the U.S., military sources also say there is evidence to suggest al-Qaida is paying former Russian special forces officers to assist the terrorist group in locating nuclear weapons formerly concealed inside the U.S. by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Osama bin Laden's group is also paying nuclear scientists from Russia and Pakistan to maintain its existing arsenal and assemble additional weapons with the materials it has invested hundreds of millions in procuring over a period of 10 years.
The plans for the devastating nuclear attack on the U.S. have been under development for more than a decade. It is designed as a final deadly blow of defeat to the U.S., which is seen by al-Qaida and its allies as "the Great Satan."
At least half the nuclear weapons in the al-Qaida arsenal were obtained for cash from the Chechen terrorist allies.
At least nine major U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, have been mentioned as prime targets for the al-Qaida nuclear terrorists.
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