Gość: Yidele Anthrax shmantrax IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 00:54 New Direction in Search for Anthrax Culprit 10 November: Fresh foreign leads in the FBI’s anthrax investigation point to the involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or chemical researcher with pro-Nazi leanings, part of a complicated South American web linked to the Hizballah and fugitive Nazi communities, some of whom are also connected to Iraqi military intelligence. One or a group of these researchers are thought to have entered the United States and found jobs with American industrial laboratories or research institutes, setting up clandestine private biological warfare labs in their spare time. One of those leads turned up, when on October 10 a group of 10 terrorists was caught in Mexico City on its way to assassinate Mexican president Vicente Fox and carry out a mass strike in the Mexican Senate. They were found by US and Mexican investigators to be a Lebanese Hizballah gang, preparing to celebrate the first month’s anniversary of their ally’s “feats” in New York and Washington by hitting one of America’s foremost allies on the continent. The terrorists reached Mexico from the Brazil-Uruguay-Paraguay triangle, fresh from training at the hands of German neo-Nazis. They could not say if their instructors were linked to Arab or Islamic intelligence agencies, but a description of one of those instructors rang a bell: he sounded like one of the suspects long sought in connection with the Hizballah bombings of the Israeli Embassy and Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1993 and 1994. Imad Mugniyeh, the notorious hostage-taker and bomber of Beirut in the 1980s, is now believed to have masterminded those strikes. Currently a senior commander of Al Qaeda, Mughniyeh is thought to have developed neo-Nazi contacts in Latin America through local Lebanese expatriate businessmen. Various agencies, including the FBI, are now probing his possible complicity in the bioterror attack on America, in view of the evidence of his involvement in the September 11 atrocities in New York and Washington and his links to neo-Nazi elements in South America. At the same time, Iraqi military intelligence is also known to be very active in Latin America in the Arab and Nazi expatriate communities. When last Thursday, the US president’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, administered her sharp rebuke to the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, for “hugging” the Hizballah, she certainly had the Hizballah gang in Mexico City in mind. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Osama goes nuclear - will we all glow in the dark? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 01:01 Osama claims he has nukes: If US uses N-arms it will get same response By Hamid Mir KABUL, Nov 9: Osama bin Laden has said that "we have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us we reserve the right to use them". He said this in a special interview with Hamid Mir, the editor of Ausaf, for Dawn and Ausaf, at an undisclosed location near Kabul. This was the first interview given by Osama to any journalist after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. The correspondent was taken blindfolded in a jeep from Kabul on the night of Nov 7 to a place where it was extremely cold and one could hear the sound of anti-aircraft guns firing away. After a wait of some time , Osama arrived with about a dozen bodyguards and Dr Ayman Al-Zuwahiri and answered questions. Hamid Mir: After American bombing on Afghanistan on Oct 7, you told the Al- Jazeera TV that the Sept 11 attacks had been carried out by some Muslims. How did you know they were Muslims ? Osama bin Laden: The Americans themselves released a list of the suspects of the Sept 11 attacks, saying that the persons named were involved in the attacks. They were all Muslims, of whom 15 belonged to Saudi Arabia, two were from the UAE and one from Egypt. According to the information I have, they were all passengers.Fateha was held for them in their homes. But America said they were hijackers. HM: In your statement of Oct 7, you expressed satisfaction over the Sept 11 attacks, although a large number of innocent people perished in them, hundreds among them were Muslims. Can you justify the killing of innocent men in the light of Islamic teachings ? OBL: This is a major point in jurisprudence. In my view, if an enemy occupies a Muslim territory and uses common people as human shield, then it is permitted to attack that enemy. For instance, if bandits barge into a home and hold a child hostage, then the child's father can attack the bandits and in that attack even the child may get hurt. America and its allies are massacring us in Palestine, Chechenya, Kashmir and Iraq. The Muslims have the right to attack America in reprisal. The Islamic Shariat says Muslims should not live in the land of the infidel for long. The Sept 11 attacks were not targeted at women and children. The real targets were America's icons of military and economic power. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was against killing women and children. When he saw a dead woman during a war, he asked why was she killed ? If a child is above 13 and wields a weapon against Muslims, then it is permitted to kill him. The American people should remember that they pay taxes to their government, they elect their president, their government manufactures arms and gives them to Israel and Israel uses them to massacre Palestinians. The American Congress endorses all government measures and this proves that the entire America is responsible for the atrocities perpetrated against Muslims. The entire America, because they elect the Congress. I ask the American people to force their government to give up anti-Muslim policies. The American people had risen against their government's war in Vietnam. They must do the same today. The American people should stop the massacre of Muslims by their government. HM: Can it be said that you are against the American government, not the American people ? OSB: Yes! We are carrying on the mission of our Prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him). The mission is to spread the word of God, not to indulge massacring people. We ourselves are the target of killings, destruction and atrocities. We are only defending ourselves. This is defensive Jihad. We want to defend our people and our land. That is why I say that if we don't get security, the Americans, too would not get security. This is a simple formula that even an American child can understand. This is the formula of live and let live. HM: The head of Egypt's Jamia Al-Azhar has issued a fatwa (edict) against you, saying that the views and beliefs of Osama bin Laden have nothing to do with Islam. What do you have to say about that ? OSB: The fatwa of any official Aalim has no value for me. History is full of such Ulema who justify Riba, who justify the occupation of Palestine by the Jews, who justify the presence of American troops around Harmain Sharifain. These people support the infidels for their personal gain.The true Ulema support the Jihad against America. Tell me if Indian forces invaded Pakistan what would you do? The Israeli forces occupy our land and the American troops are on our territory. We have no other option but to launch Jihad. HM: Some Western media claim that you are trying to acquire chemical and nuclear weapons. How much truth is there in such reports? OSB: I heard the speech of American President Bush yesterday (Oct 7). He was scaring the European countries that Osama wanted to attack with weapons of mass destruction. I wish to declare that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the weapons as deterrent. HM: Where did you get these weapons from ? OSB: Go to the next question. HM: Demonstrations are being held in many European countries against American attacks on Afghanistan. Thousands of the protesters were non-Muslims. What is your opinion about those non-Muslim protesters ? OSB: There are many innocent and good-hearted people in the West. American media instigates them against Muslims. However, some good-hearted people are protesting against American attacks because human nature abhors injustice. The Muslims were massacred under the UN patronage in Bosnia. I am ware that some officers of the State Department had resigned in protest. Many years ago the US ambassador in Egypt had resigned in protest against the policies of President Jimmy Carter. Nice and civilized are everywhere. The Jewish lobby has taken America and the West hostage. HM: Some people say that war is no solution to any issue. Do you think that some political formula could be found to stop the present war ? OSB: You should put this question to those who have started this war. We are only defending ourselves. HM: If America got out of Saudi Arabia and the Al-Aqsa mosque was liberated, would you then present yourself for trial in some Muslim country ? OSB: Only Afghanistan is an Islamic country. Pakistan follows the English law. I don't consider Saudi Arabia an Islamic country. If the Americans have charges against me, we too have a charge sheet against them. HM: Pakistan government decided to cooperate with America after Sept 11, which you don't consider right. What do you think Pakistan should have done but to cooperate with America ? OSB: The government of Pakistan should have the wishes of the people in view. It should not have surrendered to the unjustified demands of America. America does not have solid proof against us. It just has some surmises. It is unjust to start bombing on the basis of those surmises. HM: Had America decided to attack Pakistan with the help of India and Israel, what would have we done ? OSB: What has America achieved by attacking Afghanistan ? We will not leave the Pakistani people and the Pakistani territory at anybody's mercy. We will defend Pakistan. But we have been disappointed by Gen Pervez Musharraf. He says that the majority is with him. I say the majority is against him. Bush has used the word crusade. This is a crusade declared by Bush. It is no wisdom to barter off blood of Afghan brethren to improve Pakistan's economy. He will be punished by the Pakistani people and Allah. Right now a great war of Islamic history is being fought in Afghanistan. A Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Re: Osama goes nuclear - will we all glow in the dark? IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 01:03 Right now a great war of Islamic history is being fought in Afghanistan. All the big powers are united against Muslims. It is ' sawab ' to participate in this war. HM: A French newspaper has claimed that you had kidney problem and had secretly gone to Dubai for treatment last year. Is that correct ? OSB: My kidneys are all right. I did not go to Dubai last year. One British newspaper has published an imaginary interview with Islamabad dateline with one of my sons who lives in Saudi Arabia. All this is false. HM: Is it correct that a daughter of Mulla Omar is your wife or your daughter is Mulla Omar's wife ? OSB: (Laughs). All my wives are Arabs ( and all my daughters are married to Arab Mujahideen). I have spiritual relationship with Mulla Omar. He is a great and brave Muslim of this age. He does not fear anyone but Allah. He is not under any personal relationship or obligation to me. He is only discharging his religious duty. I, too, have not chosen this life out of any personal consideration. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Dr.FröJD Do YddEle IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 11.11.01, 01:37 Gość portalu: Yidele napisał(a): > Right now a great war of Islamic history is being fought in Afghanistan. All > the big powers are united against Muslims. It is ' sawab ' to participate in > this war. > > HM: Is it correct that a daughter of Mulla Omar is your wife or your daughter > is Mulla Omar's wife ? > > OSB: (Laughs). All my wives are Arabs ( and all my daughters are married to > Arab Mujahideen). I have spiritual relationship with Mulla Omar. He is a great > and brave Muslim of this age. He does not fear anyone but Allah. He is not > under any personal relationship or obligation to me. He is only discharging his > > religious duty. I, too, have not chosen this life out of any personal > consideration. KiP SiKRET Wi HaVe koNtaKt med MULLA OMAR ALLah DONt LAJk ChIm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Al Qaeda Chemicals Test Sites IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 12:32 November 11, 2001 CHEMICAL WEAPONS Al Qaeda Sites Point to Tests of Chemicals By JAMES RISEN and JUDITH MILLER WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — The United States has identified sites in Afghanistan that are suspected of involvement in Osama bin Laden's efforts to acquire and produce chemical and biological weapons, but none have been bombed since the military campaign began, according to American military and intelligence officials. The American bombing has spared the sites even though American intelligence officials believe that Al Qaeda may already have produced cyanide gas at one of them, a crude chemical weapons research laboratory in Derunta, a small village near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. American officials say the intelligence reports showing the possible production of small quantities of cyanide gas provide the strongest indication they have received of Al Qaeda's success in its efforts to develop chemical weapons. Cyanide gas can be used to kill small numbers of people, but it is not easily deployed on a large scale, officials say. The intelligence reports indicating cyanide gas production bolster the United States intelligence community's overall assessment that Al Qaeda is eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction but so far has only developed crude capabilities, several officials said. In addition to the Derunta chemical weapons site, American intelligence and military officials say a fertilizer plant in Mazar-i- Sharif, which the Northern Alliance captured on Friday, had been under the control of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. American officials say the fertilizer plant is near a compound that has been used by Osama bin Laden and his organization, and intelligence analysts suspected that Al Qaeda had been interested in the plant because its equipment can be used to produce either biological or chemical weapons. The fertilizer plant "is high on everybody's list" of sites suspected of involvement in Al Qaeda's chemical and biological weapons efforts, a United States military official said. It is not clear whether the Northern Alliance offensive has taken the plant out of Taliban and Al Qaeda control. An anthrax-vaccine site in Kabul has also raised concerns among intelligence analysts. The International Committee of the Red Cross had been believed to be operating the plant, which was established to produce vaccine for livestock in Afghanistan to protect them from anthrax. But American intelligence officials now say they do not believe the Red Cross controls the site, and Red Cross officials acknowledge that while it has provided funds for the plant, it is being operated by the Taliban's Ministry of Agriculture. A senior State Department official said that American experts had told him it would be difficult for Al Qaeda to use the anthrax-vaccine plant to produce anthrax weapons, and Red Cross officials have said the material produced in the laboratory is harmless. But American officials say they still believe that it is important to deny Al Qaeda operatives access to such a laboratory and any equipment it might contain. Senior officials at the White House, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency refused to say why the suspect sites have not been bombed one month into the American military campaign. White House officials declined to comment when asked if the decision not to bomb the sites represented a high-level decision by the administration. But the strategy seems at odds with President Bush's statements last week about the threat posed by Al Qaeda's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. In a speech on Tuesday, the president warned that Al Qaeda was "seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons," and said that if the group acquired such weapons it would represent "a threat to every nation and, eventually, to civilization itself." Despite the president's statements, the decision not to strike the suspect sites appears to result from a deep sense of caution among senior government officials about the quality of the intelligence collected about the sites, as well as the possible unintended political and diplomatic consequences of attacks on dual-use facilities. Collecting intelligence about facilities of this sort is an inexact science at best; intelligence officials and policy makers have learned from past mistakes to be wary when using such information. After the terrorist bombings of two American embassies in East Africa in August 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on the Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, which officials believed was connected to Al Qaeda. But the United States was heavily criticized after it became clear that the evidence linking the plant to Al Qaeda was weak, and that the C.I.A. had been unaware that the plant's ownership had changed well before the cruise missile attack. The bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war in 1999 also haunts the C.I.A.; analysts mistakenly believed that the building was the headquarters of a Serbian government agency involved in weapons proliferation. During the Persian Gulf war, United States officials engaged in strenuous debates over what to do about sites in Iraq that were suspected of involvement in Saddam Hussein's secret program to develop weapons of mass destruction. There was concern about the accuracy of the intelligence, and also about whether bombing raids would release dangerous chemicals or biological weapons into the atmosphere. After the war, American officials realized that in many cases their information had been incorrect and they had bombed the wrong sites, while many of the real weapons facilities had gone unscathed. One official said the Bush administration was worried that complaints might be made charging that the United States was destroying the public health and agricultural sites of Afghanistan. The official added that such dual-use targets — which could be employed to make fertilizer and vaccines, or chemical weapons and anthrax — were being deliberately avoided for that reason. Still, Al Qaeda has shown an eagerness to use whatever weapons it can obtain against American targets in its terrorist operations, and that makes its efforts to acquire chemical and biological weapons particularly worrisome to United States intelligence officials. The official intelligence assessment is that Al Qaeda has a "crude chemical — and possibly biological — capability," a Pentagon official said recently. In addition to the small quantities of cyanide gas that it may have produced, the terrorist group may also have experimented with other crude poisons such as chlorine and phosgene. United States officials said that intelligence reports of possible cyanide gas production at the Derunta site have been received for at least a year, and suggest an intense effort by Al Qaeda to experiment with virtually any poison it can obtain. The officials added, however, that they have no evidence that any other countries, including Iraq, have aided Al Qaeda's efforts to obtain such poisons. In addition, they stress that they do not have definitive evidence that Al Qaeda has actually produced the cyanide gas at Derunta. One senior official said that the belief that Al Qaeda may have produced cyanide gas is based in part on intelligence reports showing that the terrorist group has obtained instruction manuals on how to produce such poisons. Intelligence officials also stress that cyanide gas would be very difficult to turn into an effective large- scale terrorist weapon, since it is hard to transport and would dissipate rapidly in a large open space. And intelligence officials say they do not believe that Al Qaeda has yet found a way to make weapons from the poison. "The Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Re: Al Qaeda Chemicals Test Sites IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 12:34 "They do have some primitive capabilities, but the problem is weaponizing," a senior official said. "All of the evidence is that they have not been able to do that." Meanwhile, a senior Bush administration official said that there had been concerns about reports of suspicious activity at the fertilizer plant in Mazar- i-Sharif for some time. The plant may have been spared in anticipation of a Northern Alliance takeover of the town, an administration official said. The anthrax vaccine plant in Kabul has received more attention since the United States military campaign began, in part because of concerns over whether Al Qaeda is behind the anthrax letters in the United States. American intelligence officials say they have no evidence linking Al Qaeda and the anthrax letters. But the alarm over the use of anthrax as a weapon has heightened American concerns over the presence of the laboratory in Kabul. In fact, American national security officials say they were taken by surprise when they learned after Sept. 11 that the Red Cross had provided funds to refurbish the plant in 1997, after the Taliban had come to power. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Yidele Putin & Bush to make fuzzy - post commie love IP: *.budimex.com.pl 11.11.01, 12:39 November 11, 2001 Putin Urges A 'New Level' of the Trust With America By MICHAEL WINES OSCOW, Nov. 10 — Days before a much-anticipated meeting with President Bush, President Vladimir V. Putin called tonight for Russia and the United States to bury the vestiges of their cold war suspicions and form an alliance with "a qualitatively new level" of trust. Underscoring that, he said emphatically that Russia did not regard the mushrooming role of the United States in Central Asia, the heartland of the former Soviet Union, as either a strategic or an economic threat. While he offered no details, Mr. Putin also said he was "very optimistic" that the two nations would eventually strike a deal to rewrite the 30-year-old rules of nuclear-arms control fundamentally. In a broad-ranging interview with American journalists in the Kremlin's presidential library, Mr. Putin clearly intended to set a high tone for his American visit, which includes a two-day stopover at Mr. Bush's ranch in Texas next week. He said several times that he felt not only that he and Mr. Bush had established a close personal relationship, but also that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States had given their nations a common cause and the seeds of a lasting alliance. "We would like our joint struggle against terrorism to lead to positive results, that terrorism not only in Afghanistan but the entire world be destroyed, uprooted, liquidated," Mr. Putin said. Only a coordinated strategy will allow civilized nations to respond quickly and adequately to what promises to be a long campaign against terrorists, he said. "It is quite obvious to any objective observer," he said, "that we can find an effective response to these challenges only if we pull our efforts together." Beyond that, Mr. Putin said both nations must shed "the fears of the past" linked to their cold war rivalry, and accept that they now share not only democratic values and ambitions, but also the same commitment to market economics. Americans who think otherwise, he said, "simply do not understand the way the world has changed." Perhaps his most striking example was Russia's new attitude in the former Soviet nations of Central Asia, where the growing American military presence has convinced many Russian military officials and private experts that Washington wants to push Moscow out of its historic sphere of influence. Mr. Putin rejected that argument as an example of cold war thinking that automatically pits the United States and Russia as rivals. In fact, he said, their common cause against terrorism and their increasing cooperation in developing oil fields in the area make clear that they have common interests. "What was important in the former system of coordinates and the former reference framework now is losing its importance," he said. "If Russia is now becoming a full- fledged member of the international community, then we must not fear, and we will not fear, the development of relations between its neighbors and other countries and nations." "The times have long gone when Russia viewed the world as needing a confrontational approach," he said. "We are not for this. We are quite the opposite now." He also called for Russia and the United States to move toward settlements on other issues that have divided them, led by the yearlong standoff over Washington's plans to build a limited national missile defense. He said Russia was prepared to negotiate changes in the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which prohibits national defenses against missiles, "when we see specific options" from American experts, something he said had yet to occur. "It will be up to the political leaders to make a choice between different options, and I am very optimistic that they can be found," he said. Mr. Putin reiterated Russia's opposition to a proposal that would expand the NATO alliance to include three Baltic nations — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which once were part of the Soviet Union. But at the same time, he suggested that a shift of NATO's mission away from the purely defensive alliance that once opposed Soviet force, and toward a group that combats international terrorism and weapons proliferation, could "rekindle the nature of the alliance." Russia could offer a great deal to such an organization, he said. "I can tell you frankly that I have certain ideas of a general nature," he said. "I can't elaborate on them now, but they are very promising." Asked tonight whether he believed a claim by Osama bin Laden that the Qaeda organization possesses nuclear and chemical weapons, Mr. Putin said such statements were generally made in an attempt to sow panic. He said he was certain that none of Russia's weapons of mass destruction had fallen into terrorist hands. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś