The Imams may claim that...

"Allah has punished America with winds and water," and "America is 
under 'the curse of the Jews'"

... but they are in for a surprise. God, not "Allah", will protect
Israel and destroy the nations that gather against it, as described
in Ezekiel 38 and 39.

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Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
September 8, 2005

(CNSNews.com) -- 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.

[...]

An Aug. 8 televised message from bin Laden's overall second-in-command
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri - is now viewed as the approval Zarqawi was
anticipating. "What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and
Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in
spite of all the media blackout, are only the losses of the initial
clashes ... You will see the horror that will make you forget what you
had seen in Vietnam," Zawahiri said.

The al Qaeda official's threat, according to the report, wasn't
delivered until the jihad forces were organized and ready to strike.

The GIS report also cites an Aug. 21 message recorded by Zarqawi,
which references the next phase of the terrorist jihad. "The
[mujahedeen] in Iraq, have, praise be to God, moved the battle from
the ground (in Iraq) to the land of the cross."

Zarqawi's message claimed that "[J]ihadist units have been founded in
all of Western Europe, to defend the powerless within the nation. For
the crimes the Crusaders have committed against the Muslims, they will
reap in their own homes, God willing."

A few days later, according to GIS, a doctrinal statement from Zarqawi
emerged, which stressed the priority of al Qaeda in Iraq establishing
"another base that will export jihad to all parts of the world the
same way the mother al Qaeda in Afghanistan was."

'The heart and lair of the Great Satan'

Bodansky's report states that "concrete preparations for the
consolidation of Islamist-jihadist springboards against the heart and
lair of the Great Satan are being completed -- for Western Europe in
the Balkans, for Russian and Eastern Europe in Chechnya, and for the
United States in the tri-border area in Latin America."

Widespread anticipation throughout the Muslim world of the Great
Ramadan Offensive was being picked up by intelligence analysts in
August and then was reinforced by a slew of theological statements 
-- all buttressing what the GIS report calls "a forthcoming, well-
coordinated global onslaught." 

[...]

Hurricane Katrina's message

Terrorist leaders may also have taken the devastation wrought by
hurricane Katrina as a symbol that God is pleased with their plans 
to launch the "Great Ramadan Offensive," according to the GIS report.

"Allah has punished America with winds and water," said one imam
quoted in the report. America is under "the curse of the Jews," said
another.

"It's clear the jihadists regarded Katrina as a sign from God they're
doing the right thing," said Gregory R. Copley, president of The
International Strategic Studies Association in Washington, D.C. 

[...]

Full article at GOPUSA ...
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/september/0908_alqaeda_plans1.shtml

Cheers, Steve..

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