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hi all,this was taken from Earthchanges TV website......recommendable to all I may add...but this is worrying...........sorry for the length...but the site is subscribable and links wont help..By Pepe Escobar, Asia TimesAt a time when a tape handed over to the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television station has received widespread expose for itspurported comments by Osama bin Laden in praise of recent terror events around the world, another al-Qaeda message releasedto the same station has received little coverage.Al-Jazeera was granted an interview with one Mohammed al-Usuquf, allegedly al-Qaeda's number three. Al-Usuquf is said to bea doctor in physics and to hold a masters degree in international economics. A copy of the interview was sent to theprestigious Arab-language daily Al Quds Al Arabi, edited in London, but it was not printed.Asia Times Online has obtained a copy of the interview, and reproduces excerpts here, with the caveat that the identity ofthe man has not yet been confirmed, nor has his membership within al-Qaeda.Al-Usuquf says that al-Qaeda's Kuwaiti spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and bin Laden himself, suggested that he grant theinterview. Bin Laden, he says, is "alive and healthy, along with his commanders Mohammed Atef, Khalid Shaik Mohammed andMullah Omar".Al-Usuquf starts by criticizing Washington's disrespect of the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change, the International CriminalCourt and the Palestinian cause, as well as the "financial greed" engendering speculative gains over Third World countries.He also criticizes the manner in which America wastes wealth, like US$80 billion a year on gambling. "They [have] lost thenotion of spirituality and only live in sin."For this reason, America must be destroyed, and al-Usuquf insists that "aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and spysatellites will be worthless in the next war".Al-Qaeda, according to him, has 5,000 first rank operatives and around 20,000 all over the world. Of all the prisoners in the US, only "20 or 30" are al-Qaeda, and all of them "second-rank". Confirming Asia Times Online information, he swearsthat there are no first-rank prisoners in Guantanamo in Cuba. Al-Usuquf says, "We have more than 500 first-rank and 800second-rank [operatives] inside the US." "First rank" are considered ones that have lived in the US for more than 10 years,most of them married with children. "They have an idea about the plans, and they are just waiting for a call.""Second-rank" operatives arrived in the past five years and "have no idea about the plans". They are all willing to die.Al-Usuquf insists that September 11 "was just the beginning. It was a way to call the world's attention to what's going tohappen." He then details a plan to destroy the US by "attacking the heart of what they consider the most important thing inthe world: money"."The American economy is an economy of false appearances," says al-Usuquf. "There's no real economic weight. American GNP issomething around $10 trillion, but only 1 percent comes from agriculture, and only 24 percent from industry. So 75 percentof its GNP comes from services, and most of it is financial speculation. For someone who understands economics, andapparently America's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill does not, or cannot, the US as a whole behaves like an immense dot.com, and dollars are its stocks. The value of stocks from a given company is directly proportional to its profitability. When a company only provides services, but does not produce goods, the value of its stocks depends on its credibility. What I'm saying is if US credibility is affected, its stocks - the US dollar - will fall at tremendous speed, and the whole American economy will collapse."Al-Usuquf is absolutely positive, "because, in a smaller scale, this is exactly what big financial conglomerates do withThird World countries to collect profits in one month that no Swiss bank would guarantee in four to five years". Al-Usuqufsays that al-Qaeda could do the same by "provoking a deficit of $50 to 70 trillion, the equivalent to five to seven yearsof the GNP of the US". How? By "destroying America's seven largest cities and some other measures". The means?"Atomic bombs." Al-Usuquf's most startling revelation is that the bombs "won't be launched, they are already there"."Seven nuclear heads have already been positioned on American soil, before September 11, and they are ready to bedetonated. Before September 11, American security was a fiasco, and even later, if we needed, we could position the bombsthere. They arrived through seaports, as normal cargo. A nuclear head is not bigger than a fridge, so it can easily becamouflaged as one. Thousands of containers arrive at a seaport every day, and even with very efficient security, it'simpossible to check and examine each one of them."Al-Usuquf says that the bombs were bought on the black market: five from the former USSR and two from Pakistan. The fiveRussian heads "are from T-3 missiles, also known as RD-107, and their power is around 100 kilotons each, that is fivetimes the Hiroshima bomb. The Pakistani ones are less powerful, something around 10 kilotons each."Each of the Russian bombs would have cost around $200 million. Al-Qaeda was able to raise the money "because we have manysponsors. Many countries sponsor us, and also some very rich people." And not all of these are Arab countries."Some European countries as well are also interested in the fall of the US." As to the "rich people", they are "peoplewho are also tired of seeing the US bleeding the rest of the world."And Iraq's Saddam Hussein, says Al-Usuquf, is not one of these people, "but just a collaborator, represented by AbdulTawab Hawaish, his vice prime minister and responsible for Iraq's arms program".Al-Usuquf says that the bombs cannot be detected by US authorities. "Even if they are old, they were modernized and arevery well hidden. Even if they were located, they have autodetonation mechanisms in case something or someone gets close.Even an electromagnetic pulse is not capable of deactivating them." The bombs allegedly cannot be detected because "theyare enveloped in thick layers of lead". They could be detonated "by various methods - cellphone call, radio frequency,seismic shock or by their regressive clock".Al-Usuquf details the whole plan. "First, one head would be detonated, which would cause the deaths of 800,000 to 1 millionpeople and a chaos never seen before. During this chaos, two or three planes, which are now disassembled inside barns near empty roads in the US countryside, would take off in suicide missions to pulverize another two or three big American citieswith chemicals. Once the disease was identified, all seaports and airports would be quarantined. Land borders would alsobe closed. No plane, boat or car would enter or leave the US. This would be total chaos." The first target would be the city "that would offer the best conditions, for example bright sky and winds of eight or more miles an hour blowing towards the center of the country, so radioactive dust can contaminate the largest possible area".This attack would not knock out the US, recognizes al-Usuquf, "But the process would be initiated. As with the World TradeCenter, it would be just a question of time for the whole economic structure to be turned to dust. If the objectives arereached with one bomb and diseases, probably we will save the lives of other people, but it's risky, and probably six morebombs will be detonated, one a week, and more attacks with chemical weapons will be launched." According to estimatesmade by al-Usuquf "and Ayman al-Zawahiri", al-Qaeda's number 2, about 15 million people would die, victims of the bombsand the radiation. Among those contaminated by diseases, "25 percent will die, a figure around more than 5 million, plusmany others due to the chaos and disorder".Al-Usuquf does not fear an American military response. "Even if five or 10 cities are chosen at random to be destroyed, it will still be a small price to pay. The problem is that the economic despair will be so great that even if it saves[money] by not using weapons, American liquidity will be near zero, and the US will make more money selling a Nimitz-classaircraft carrier to Turkey or Italy for $5 billion, because they will urgently need to recapitalize. But it will be toolate. Moreover, what will remain of an American soldier's morale to fight knowing that his whole family died and hiscountry ceased to exist? To fight for what?"The world economy would not collapse, says al-Usuquf, although "in the beginning, it will be very difficult. But withoutthe US the world will soon rise in a more just and fraternal manner. Nothing can stop the plan."And whatever America does, "it's too late". When will the attack begin? "I can't tell."
I try and try but I don't really understand their logic on stuff like this... if they blew up 10 nukes in america, it wouldn't kill 2 percent of the population, and then the president would probably do something drastic like bomb half of the middle east, and end up just causing some sort of nuclear holocaust. How would that help anything? And he thinks it would kill morale? Is he nuts? Everybody I know, including me, would join the army if we were attacked on that scale. Every muslim in the country would probably end up dead, these rednecks would flip. I love how he criticises america's gambling expenditures, but yet several Al-quaeda terrorists spent sept 10th partying in casinos in Las Vegas. What a hypocritical bitch.
The part I hate about the article if it is true... is that the guy doesn't say when. Because, he said it's too late, but really it isn't. If America occupies Iraq then it will have enough oil to pump itself out of any recession.
Al Qaeda is a puppet of the CIAyou americans cry over attacks made by American orchestrated groups, but what will yall do when you feel geniune Muslim rage?
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