How dangerous is Al Qaeda's latest tape?

[Gunny]

Mar 26, 2008 | Updated: 5:50 p.m. ET Mar 26, 2008

The FBI, spurred in part by this week's unusually menacing audio message from Ayman Al-Zawahiri, today advised state and local law enforcement officials to expect an increase in Al Qaeda propaganda messages aimed at inciting followers to commit terrorist acts.

FBI and counterterrorism officials stressed today that they have no fresh intelligence about any specific threats—one reason why today's FBI intelligence bulletin, issued in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, was blandly worded and low-key in tone.

But privately some analysts are worried about the blunt new message from Zawahiri, the deputy to Osama bin Laden. "It's a little spooky," said one senior official. Seeking to exploit a worldwide Muslim backlash over recent Israeli bombing strikes in Gaza, Zawahiri exhorted followers to "attack the interest of the Jews and the Americans." He then added, "Select your targets, collect the appropriate funds, assembly your equipments, plan [your attacks] accurately, and then charge toward your targets … There is no place today for those who claim that the battlefield with the Jews is limited to Palestine."

Counterterrorism officials and analysts have been debating for the last few days whether Zawahiri's directive to "select your targets" was a direct command to operatives in the field or a more general incitement to sympathizers.

Evan Kohlmann, a government counterterrorism consultant who studies Al Qaeda messages, says the new tape seemed "palpably different" from Zawahiri's usually fiery anti-American tirades. "It's quite rare that he would be this direct and blunt about it," Kohlmann says. "My personal opinion is when he said this"—referring to the "select your targets" line—he "wasn't talking in the abstract, he was saying, 'We're doing it.' It was very much a call to arms."

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Nah ... let's just pretend we can can't be reached cuz they're "way over there."

 

[eots]

the shadowy enemy is everywhere and nowhere...ooooo

 

[RetiredGySgt]

the shadowy enemy is everywhere and nowhere...ooooo

Ya, we are beset by white rich guys and in danger from them but no muslim has ever been a threat or ever will be a threat to us.... go buy some more tinfoil and find a good doctor.

 

[eots]

in case you where not aware RGS the terrorist are in what i like to call "sleeper cells" they could be your neighbour, someone you work with they will appear normal ....until..they receive a coded message from......OSAMA BIN LADEN !!!!!!!..then and only then will they revert back into blood thirsty Muslims !!!..THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT THERE AS WE SPEAK
WAKE UP !!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

in case you where not aware RGS the terrorist are in what i like to call "sleeper cells" they could be your neighbour, someone you work with they will appear normal ....until..they receive a coded message from......OSAMA BIN LADEN !!!!!!!..then and only then will they revert back into blood thirsty Muslims !!!..THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT THERE AS WE SPEAK
WAKE UP !!

Sure thing, you need a doctor. a good one. Even your comedy is dangerous.

 

[eots]

Your Doing A Little Thing We In The Business Like To Call "projection" Take One Of The White Ones And Hmmmm 2 Yellow Ones !!... And Post Me In The Morning..Dr. Eots