From: "greeneyes_lookinatu" <greeneyes_lookinatu@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Nov 4, 2003 6:31 pm
Subject: An Al Qaeda Web site is running a warning
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
An Al Qaeda (search) Web site is running a warning issued to Muslims
to leave Washington D.C., New York City and Los Angeles because of
implied imminent terrorist attacks, according to the Middle East
Media Research Institute.
Titled "A Warning to Muslims in America," the directive was issued by
the previously unknown "Islamic Bayan Movement" and first ran on the
Global Islamic Media Web site on Monday, according to MEMRI, which
translated the communiqué.
It has since been published on the Al Qaeda-run site Al Faroq
(search), a MEMRI release said. The Global Islamic Media site has
published several messages from Jihad groups around the world in
recent months.
As of Tuesday, there had been no increase in the Pentagon's yellow
terror alert status. Yellow represents an "elevated" status on the
five-point chart.
"Our Muslim brothers in America, we ask you to immediately leave the
following cities: Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles," reads
the communiqué, which frequently quotes the Quran.
"We are serious in our warning," the message states. "The next few
days will prove to you the truth of this warning … To the
oppressive
rulers of America we say: Expect our terms following the first strike
of Allah's believing soldiers [Quran, Chapter 59, Verse 2-3]."
The directive claims that U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq and
Afghanistan "are the only ones who know the bitter truth" about the
situation overseas.
"How would they not when they see every day dozens of casualties from
among their friends, the soldiers who die and nobody, even not their
stupid rulers, is sorry for them," the communiqué states. "Then
they
hear the lies and distortion their rulers [tell] their people and the
peoples of the world regarding the number of their dead …"
The communiqué refers to the "sufferings" of Muslims, saying they
are
victims of oppression, imprisonment and murder.
It ends with another verse from the Quran [Chapter 9, Verse
14]: "Fight them: Allah will punish them at your hands, and will
humiliate them, and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve
the minds of the believers."
In conjunction with the memo, Al Qaeda's Al Faroq posted a photo of
the Chinook helicopter shot down on Sunday with a caption in Arabic
that reads: "We shall bring down and destroy the values of the Hubal
of this generation." Fifteen Americans died in the helicopter attack.
Hubal was a pre-Islamic-era Meccan idol used by Muslims to symbolize
the U.S., according to MEMRI.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102179,00.html
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