10th
August 2007
The
threat was picked up by Debka.com monitors from a rush
of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug.
8.
The al Qaeda
communications accuse the Americans of the grave error
of failing to take seriously the videotape released by
the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week.
“They will soon realize their mistake when American
cities are hit by quality operations,” said one message.
Another said the attacks
would be carried out “by means of trucks loaded with
radio-active material against America’s biggest city and
financial nerve center.”
A third message mentioned
New York, Los Angeles and Miami as targets. It drew the
answer: “The attack, with Allah’s help, will cause an
economic meltdown, many dead, and a financial crisis on
a scale that compels the United States to pull its
military forces out of many parts of the world,
including Iraq, for lack of any other way of cutting
down costs.”
There is also a message
which speaks obliquely of the approaching attacks easing
the heavy pressure America exerts on countries like
Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.
DEBKAfile’s
counter-terror sources and monitors say there is no way
of gauging for sure how serious these threats are, how
real, or whether they are part of a war of nerves to
give the Gaddahn tape extra mileage. But it is important
to note that the exchange of messages took place over al
Qaeda’s internal Internet sites and that they contained
the threat of radioactive terror and specific American
cities for the first time after a long silence on these
subjects.
In addition, a growing
number of clips has been disseminated of late over al
Qaeda sites instructing the faithful how to design
remote-controlled gliders, pack them with explosives and
launch them against predetermined targets.
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