Debka: Al Qaeda Threatens to Nuke New York on February 2

[OneBlueSky]

yeah, I know Debka's info is often suspect . . . but this is a pretty scary claim . . . no, a VERY scary claim . . .

Special Report
December 31, 2003, 12:03 AM (GMT+02:00)

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=757

The banner headline spread across the front page of Il Giornale, the respected Milan daily reads:

“Al Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days. Threat on the Internet. Countdown begins.”

The threat was contained in a video clip featured on a web site associated with the fundamentalist terror group. It announced al Qaeda plans to destroy New York in a nuclear blast on February 2. Il Giornale claims the FBI blocked and removed the web site.

The video clip showed three possible scenarios: 1. A bomb or giant fireball from the skies that will cover the metropolis with a radioactive cloud. 2. A storm of radioactive clouds that will topple skyscrapers one by one, along with the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. 3. An explosion on board a charter aircraft that will cause a radioactive cloud to spread over the city.

The video clip was accompanied by large, red-lettered Arabic captions saying: “If God wills it, the end of America is near.”

more . . .

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=757

[kalian]

1. And you're going to actually BELIEVE Debka....

:eyes:

[Muddleoftheroad]

3. Or al Qaeda

Even if they did threaten it, so what?

[Walt Starr]

27. There's another post I agree with, THE WORLD IS ENDING SOON!!!

Al-Queda can do more with just the threat of an attack since 9-11 than any terrorist organization in history has been able to do with an actual attack.

[OneBlueSky]

10. didn't say I believed them . . .

just that it's a scary claim . . . and it is . . . whether it has any validity whatsoever is another matter entirely . . .

[kalian]

11. Well....the source is rather dubious....

that's all.

[OneBlueSky]

18. I believe that I noted that fact right up front . . .

though probably not as explicitly as I could have . . . my point is that one of two things is true, and they're equally scary, imo . . .

1. the infomation is true, which is scary on it's face; and

3. the information was fabricated, for whatever purpose . . . that the government would construct such an atrocious scenario to further it's ends is just as scary as a nuclear threat in that it, too, means the end of the world as we know it . . .

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. YAWN

Terra Alert? Yawn...

[Bozola]

4. If Punxsutawney binLaden sees his shadow on Feb 2nd

we'll have six more weeks of nuclear winter.

[Aidoneus]

5. a report from Berlusconi's propaganda mouthpiece..

repeated by the place that reported Chinese tanks in Afghanistan to help the Taliban fight the crusaders, referencing a page that no longer exists. Massive bunches of credibility at work with the "BE REALLY FUCKING AFRAID" barrage this time.. :eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Il Giornale = Silvio Berlusconi

Says so right in the Article.

--bkl
DEBKAfiles -- So It HAS To Be True!

[Deja Q]

7. Much like * has, I suspect they're playing the "fear card"

I'll believe it when I see it.

And the Islamic terror-minded nitwits are nuts. God hates the entire world right now. Iran's been devestated, Iraq destroyed. Afghanistan in tatters. The US is in shit shape too, regardless of what the christian terror-minded nitwits tell us. Earthquake, mudslides, fires, * and Governor Groper being put into office...

[TankLV]

8. THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

So howcome NOBODY is allowed to ever ask about "Wag the Dog"?

Why was it was perfectly OK for every crazy accusation to get not only constant air play but it's own graphics and theme song during Bill's honerable tenure?

Oh, never mind.

So tell me again how we are all safer now that SH is "gone"?

Me thinks Dean was spot-on.

Still haven't made up my mind yet on the candidates, but the more the others bash Dean, the more I like him!

ANYONE would be better than bunkerboy.

[Platoface]

29. I hope Dean is nominated too..

Cause he is like a ticking time bomb ready to implode....:nuke:

[mac56]

30. Welcome, Platoface -

Explain, please.

[latebloomer]

9. OY!

Trying not to let this bother me.

Of course it falls on a Monday, which my husband spends in the city.

Nibble, nibble on the nails. . .

[Fixated]

12. A storm of radioactive clouds?

What the fuck?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

24. Yeah, how do you make a storm of radioactive clouds?

Magic?

[htuttle]

25. Ion Storm? Subspace Disturbance?

Space Time Vortex?

It's probably some damn thing like that...

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

13. Why Feb 2?

Is there a significance to that date?

[soup]

23. Great significance.

We are destined to be fed the fear over and over and over and over and over - ad infinitum - (or until glorious misleader steals another election)

[Roon]

28. Maybe because by then the terror alert level will be lowered n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. What do they propose to use for a delivery system?

A friggin donkey?

These folks need to stop cruising wacko right wing extremest conspiracy sites for their news. It's getting old.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Here's a link to the originator of this new threat

Is al Qaeda Threatening a Nuclear Attack?

Posted 12/25/03

[latebloomer]

17. Thanks for the debunking

I feel (a little) better.

[Aidoneus]

19. Reynalds again?!

that boy is persistant with these lies, isn't he?

[Military Brat]

16. Would this crap exist if * had targeted al-Qaeda instead of Iraq?

94 billion dollars (and increasing second by second) would have gone a long way towards eliminating the real threat to our country, and other countries, as well.

There's the story, not whether this threat is real or not.

http://www.costofwar.com

Edited for clarity

[maggrwaggr]

20. but, but ... I thought we were safer cuz we "had Saddam"

no?

[devinsgram]

21. What will their headline be Feb. 3?

[Loonman]

22. Mossad lies

What the Mossad does best.

[McHrozni]

26. Right. LoL!

[Ficus]

31. al qaeda wants to do this

to every American city, and to every American possible. Al Qaeda wanting to explode a dirty bomb or small nuclear device in NYC has been a possibility in our minds since 1993 and the 1st WTC attack.

[soleft]

32. So if the groundhog sees the fireball......

Crap, that's a Monday and I've already planned all my vacation time for '04. No way I can get out of town. They'll just have to reschedule.