al Qaeda Terror Threat Warns Germany Of October Plans
October 4, 2009 by national
Filed under World Report
MEMRI reports that a message released on the Al-Falluja jihadist forum warns of an al Qaeda terror attack against Germany, to be carried out on an apparently ‘random’ Sunday during the month of October. The message entitled “To the Infidel German Nation: We Bestow on You the Kindness, for the Third Time, of Specifying the Appointed Day,” is apparently receiving a lot of attention on the Al-Falluja site, however there is no way to ascertain if in fact the threat is real.
MEMRI has the details…
This message had a strange rollout. Early on October 3, 2009, a forum member called Abu Hamza 2005 wrote a post titled “Welcome to the new member Mou10ra11bitt18oun25!” He wrote that when browsing the Al-Falluja forum he had come across this newly-registered user, and that the username reminded him of “p2l0a0g8u9e,” a member on the now-defunct Al-Ekhlaas forum who, in May 2008, posted a video threatening the destruction of the U.S. in a nuclear strike.
The Al-Falluja moderators made Abu Hamza 2005’s article a featured post. [3] About 12 hours later Mou10ra11bitt18oun25 posted his threat; [4] it was a featured post, and was later given a banner on the top of the Al-Falluja home page.
A jihadist media workgroup that had been formed ahead of time to distribute threats to German forums and emails [5] took the post by Mou10ra11bitt18oun25 as their go signal and began to distribute it. [6]
As with the other threats on Al-Falluja, it is difficult to know whether Mou10ra11bitt18oun25 is really privy to Al-Qaeda attack plans (if these exist), or whether the post is just meant to spread panic and/or disinformation. The circumstances of the release of his message do seem to indicate that the Al-Falluja moderators had advance knowledge of it. Al-Falluja has a direct link to Al-Fajr, the media group Al-Qaeda uses to distribute its propaganda.
Forum members have speculated that the numerals in Mou10ra11bitt18oun25’s username refer to the month of October (”10″) and the dates October 11, 18, and 25, all of which are Sundays. [7] One forum member voiced the opinion that the numerals in the username mean that the attack will be on October 11 at 18:25 (6:25 PM). [8]
My God! While we Americans debate about healthcare and the economy–rightly so, I believe–we forget one simple fact: none of us will need either money or healthcare if we are all killed in the next terrorist attack. Osama bin Laden has repeatedly and explicitly stated that he wants to kill as many Westerners as he can–wherever and whenever he can. And this latest of his many vile threats is proof positive of that. Wake up, people! As far as bin Laden and his murderous ilk are concerned, I say, let’s do it to them before they do it to us!