Suicide Bomb Teams Sent To U.S., Europe
Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...ive_suici.html
(Gold9472: FBI Director Robert Mueller recently said, "Several rogue nations -- and even individuals -- seek to develop nuclear capabilities. [...] the next terrorist attack is not a question of if, but when." According to Luke Ryland and Sibel Edmonds, "Al-Qaeda" already has nuclear weapons. [...] with the help of people in the US government." Bush recently entrusted himself "with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government” in the event of a "catastrophic emergency." Let's not forget Zbigniew Brzezinksi's warning about "A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks; followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a “defensive” U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It was also reported recently that a "military plan against Iran is ready." I think it's safe to say we should be a little concerned about now.)
Brian Ross Reports
June 18, 2007 4:45 PM
Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.
A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions.
The tape shows Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah, whose brother was killed by the U.S. last month, introducing and congratulating each team as they stood.
"These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places," Dadullah says on the tape. "Why shouldn't we go after them?"
The leader of the team assigned to attack Great Britain spoke in English.
"So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain," he said. "Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible)."
U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of "an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign."
Others take it very seriously.
"It doesn't take too many who are willing to actually do it and be able to slip through the net and get into the United States or England and cause a lot of damage," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism official.
"Iranian provocations" are turning up everywhere...
It's as if the neocon approach is to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/872421.html
Last update - 02:37 19/06/2007 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif Abbas aide says Iran told Hamas to use violence in Gaza http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif By Reuters http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/images/0.gif An aide to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday Iran had encouraged Hamas to use violence to take control of the Gaza Strip.
"Iran supports non-democratic groups in Palestine, Lebanon and in Iraq and we hold Iran responsible for encouraging Hamas to carry out its coup in Gaza," senior Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo said.
A Hamas spokesman in Gaza said the charges were "weak and false."
"The involvement of senior Fatah leaders with the occupation (Israel) has become clear and Abed Rabbo is trying to cover up for this by spreading weak and false allegations that will not fool the Palestinian people," Hamas's Sami Abu Zuhri said.
Abbas swore in an emergency government on Sunday after Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip last week forced him to sack the Hamas-led unity government.
"We reject accusations by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki that the formation of the emergency government is a step that is hostile to democracy. Iran has no right to give us lessons in democracy," Abed Rabbo, a senior Abbas aide, told Reuters.
Iran, which supports Hamas, blamed the United States and other foreign parties for the crisis between Hamas and secular Fatah, an Iranian news agency reported.
Mottaki said: "America and some foreign parties in the region are trying to increase clashes in Palestine, although individual movements of the Palestinian groups can make the current gap wider."
Iran was one of the few states which provided financial support to Hamas despite the international restrictions imposed on the government which it led.
Mottaki also called for calm between the Palestinian factions.
Despite Abbas's sacking of Ismail Haniyeh's three-month-old unity government, Haniyeh insists his administration is still legitimate.
The new emergency government has already received the backing of Western powers, Arab states and Israel, who have all vowed to lift economic sanctions.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that the United States would resume direct aid.
The sanctions were imposed 15 months ago because Hamas refused to recognise Israel, end violence and abide by existing agreements between the parties.
The European Union also said it wants to resume direct aid to the Palestinian government but did not say when the funds would begin to flow.
