mr mahs Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.htmlFriday, January 23, 2004"The Al Qaida of the 9/11 period is under catastrophic stress," State Department counter-terrorism coordinator Cofer Black said. "They are being hunted down, their days are numbered."Black's assertion, made in an interview with the London-based British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday, is based on U.S. intelligence community estimates that about 70 percent of Al Qaida has been neutralized, officials said.Saudi officials agreed with the U.S. assessment and said the kingdom has made significant gains against Al Qaida, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Al Qaida leaders have been arrested and training camps have been discovered. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Health insurance for the self-employed: Special offer--------------------------------------------------------------------------------U.S. officials said Al Qaida has been rapidly losing its attack capabilities and was relying increasingly on smaller Islamic groups based in Southeast Asia and North Africa. The officials said thousands of Al Qaida operatives have been captured, killed or neutralized, with cells eliminated even in such strongholds as Kuwait and Yemen.The intelligence community assessed that Al Qaida was at the height of its strength in mid-2001 with thousands of recruits trained in Afghanistan and other sent abroad as agents and sleepers. The intelligence assessment was presented to the Bush administration and reported by President George Bush during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. The assessment regards Al Qaida as becoming steadily weaker, with difficulties in raising funds and sustaining insurgency cells.[in Hamburg, a German court was told that authorities have a witness who claims that Osama Bin Laden met Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian officials on May 4, 2001. The meeting took place in an air force base to plan the suicide attacks in the United States in September 2001. The witness was identified as an Iranian defector, known by his cover name Hamid Reza Zakeri, who had been an agent for Iranian intelligence until mid-2001.]Officials said Al Qaida would continue as a much weaker organization and would focus largely on Saudi Arabia, the Horn of Africa while seeking to consolidate under the protection of Iran. They envision attacks being financed rather than carried out by Bin Laden. The loss of veteran insurgency operatives has reduced the lethality of operations, officials said. Another factor has been the lack of success by Al Qaida to establish and sustain cells in many Western countries."The next group of concern would be a generation younger," Black said. "They're influenced by what they see on TV; they are influenced by misrepresentation of the facts. They seem to be long on radicalism and comparatively short on training." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Secret Society of Independent Investors Whips the Market Prosper beyond the market. Find safety and wealth in the market's most exclusive research-based equities team. Learn how they're extracting unseen profits out of the market and how you can double your money in 30 days or less with their proven strategies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------"We have arrested over 600 terror suspects; many of the top Al Qaida leaders in the kingdom have been killed or captured," Adel Al Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said. "And scores of cells and training camps have been uncovered and destroyed before they could do any harm to the innocent."On Thursday, the United States and Saudi Arabia requested that the United Nations freeze the assets of four branches of an official Saudi charity accused of financially supporting Al Qaida. The U.S.-Saudi demand concerned the freezing of assets of the Riyad-based Al Haramain Islamic Foundation in such countries as Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania."These branches have provided financial, material and logistical support to the Al Qaida network and other terrorist organization," the U.S. Treasury Department said.Al Haramain is a charity sponsored by the Saudi government. Saudi Islamic Affairs Minister Salah Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Sheik oversees the charity."Al Haramain stated it closed branches in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan, but continued monitoring by the United States and Saudi Arabia indicates that these offices and or former officials associated with these branches are either continuing to operate or have other plans to avoid these measures," the Treasury Department said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 Originally posted by mr mahs "They're influenced by what they see on TV; they are influenced by misrepresentation of the facts. this made me laugh for some reason other than that, bravo! :clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 70%, eh? Not bad. I wonder how big of the al qaeda pie would we have if we spent 150 billion into hunting down bin ladin rather than Saddam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted January 26 Author Report Share Posted January 26 Originally posted by jamiroguy1 70%, eh? Not bad. I wonder how big of the al qaeda pie would we have if we spent 150 billion into hunting down bin ladin rather than Saddam. You just don't get it bud..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Originally posted by mr mahs You just don't get it bud..... And never will.....he is just another douche bag with a mouth who unfortunately is not afraid to display his stupidity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Originally posted by igloo And never will.....he is just another douche bag with a mouth who unfortunately is not afraid to display his stupidity Every point I make is backed up by facts as opposed to your shit spewing ass. Go back to jerking off, wanker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Originally posted by jamiroguy1 Every point I make is backed up by facts as opposed to your shit spewing ass. Go back to jerking off, wanker. :laugh: Shut the fuck up retard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Originally posted by igloo :laugh: Shut the fuck up retard Eat shit, you fucking pathetic sheep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 your "facts" are misconstruing fallacies. they are things you invent in your premature cranium to justify your socialist way of life that you crave so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Originally posted by pattbateman your "facts" are misconstruing fallacies. they are things you invent in your premature cranium to justify your socialist way of life that you crave so much. Don't pretend to think you know what way of life I crave, dickhead cause you don't know me, shit-for-brains.What "facts" am I misconstruing specifically? If you can't say specifically what I'm miscronstruing then shut the fuck up, cockboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 everything that comes out of your mouthand is it true that all people in this messageboard who feel the same way about thing have their periods the same time cause it seems that way. everyone seems a little testy on the dark side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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