Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks

In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqu� broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.

“Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don’t count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion,” the tape warns.

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Sacramento Mosques Probed, Gun Charges Filed

The FBI conducted extensive surveillance of two mosques for months, monitoring them with closed circuit television and using two undercover agents, raising complaints from the mosques’ leader.

On New Year’s Eve, video surveillance showed two men pulling up to the now-defunct Masjid Al Mu’mineen, pulling firearms from the trunk of their car and firing shots into the air, the FBI said in an affidavit filed in federal court. The mosque’s leader on Saturday denied any wrongdoing.

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Bin Laden plans for terrorist strikes next month

Al Qaeda’s plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East and said to be coordinated by Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant in Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.

The attacks, planned to coincide with the Muslim observance of Ramadan and dubbed the “Great Ramadan Offensive,” are designed to create a “fateful confrontation” with the U.S. and Israeli forces in the Middle East, according to a May 30 letter from Zarqawi to bin Laden. The contents of the letter are referenced in the report written by Yossef Bodansky, the former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.

The Sept. 2 report is accessible only to government officials on the Global Information System (GIS) database. Cybercast News Service obtained the report on the same day as its release. It warns of planned attacks in Western Europe, Russia and perhaps the continental U.S. The specific targets are believed to include airports at Schiphol in the Netherlands and Fiumicino in Italy.

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Al-Qaida’s spectacular ‘Ramadan Offensive’

Raising new concerns about the use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists, al-Qaida is planning spectacular attacks next month against the U.S., Russia and Europe in what it is calling the “Great Ramadan Offensive.”

The offensive, designed to overshadow the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon, was first referenced in a May 30 letter written by al-Qaida’s Iraq commander Abu Musab Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden. It is the subject of a report written by terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, the former director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, to government officials.

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Jihad declared against LAPD

The Nation of Islam in Los Angeles is calling on the Crips and Bloods street gangs to stop fighting each other and to unite in a jihad against the LAPD.

That’s the essence of a flyer obtained by KFI News and circulated in South Los Angeles, calling on members of two violent street gangs to start a “holy war” against the police department.

The telephone number listed for the Nation of Islam’s Los Angeles mosque near 87th and Vermont has been disconnected, but a check of a reverse directory reveals the phone number on the flyer is connected to the mosque at the same address, according to KFI.

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