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Video Contains Threat of Major Attack on U.S.

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Ripclawe

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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,136815,00.html

Video Contains Threat of Major Attack on U.S.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004



WASHINGTON — The CIA is unable to authenticate a videotape that is said to threaten an assault on the United States that would "dwarf" the Sept. 11 (search) attacks.

The tape was handed to the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency by ABC News two days ago, multiple government sources told FOX News.. ABC is said to have received the tape last weekend from a terrorist source in Waziristan, a region in Pakistan near the Afghan border where the Taliban and Al Qaeda (search) are believed to be holed up.

The government set a 3 p.m. EDT interagency deadline to determine the authenticity of the tape. But after the deadline, the CIA said a preliminary technical analysis presented inconclusive results.

"We cannot verify the authenticity of this tape," one official told FOX News.

The speaker in the video is disguised but speaks "alarmingly" fluent English in an American accent, leading some U.S. officials to believe that the voice belongs to Adam Yahiye Gadahn (search). Gadahn, who also goes by the names Adam Pearlman and Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, is a 25-year-old Southern Californian fingered by the FBI for possible ties to Al Qaeda.

Officials believe American Adam Yahiye Gadahn appears in tape, promising large attack against America
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Ripclawe

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6345734/

The CIA is unable to authenticate a videotape in which a man claiming to be an al-Qaida terrorist warns of devastating new attacks on the United States, a senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News on Wednesday.

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The existence of the tape was first reported Wednesday afternoon by Internet columnist Matt Drudge, who said it was obtained last weekend in Pakistan by ABC News. Drudge quoted an unidentified “senior ABC News source” as saying the network was “working 24 hours a day trying to authenticate” it.

But the senior intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that “we can’t authenticate” the tape, a copy of which ABC gave the CIA on Monday. He would not elaborate, adding, “I think that is where we are going to stand.”
 

xsarien

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Hey, wait! Bush said we were fighting the terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here!

/deep, deep, penetrating sarcasm.
 

firex

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I think the biggest attack on the US is the attack on common sense and rational thinking done by the Bush administration.
 
As posted above, the tape's authenticity cannot be verified.

In other news, the GOP learned today that the CIA won't be their monkey. :D
 

Lakitu

st5fu
Didn't they say that the U.S should be expecting a "back-breaking" attack by July 2004?

P.S-
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What's that from? >_<
 

Ripclawe

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bob_arctor said:
Come on, you have to admit the timing on this is really suspect.

How can you work a GOP operation out of this? Rove sends someone to Warizitan Pakistan to give a tape to a ABCNEWS terrorist source to bring back here to America? Hell, if the GOP worked that well this election would have been in the bag before primary season.
 

bob_arctor

Tough_Smooth
Ripclawe said:
How can you work a GOP operation out of this? Rove sends someone to Warizitan Pakistan to give a tape to a ABCNEWS terrorist source to bring back here to America? Hell, if the GOP worked that well this election would have been in the bag before primary season.

Hey, we can't even figure out how you work a war out of well, lies, but look at us now. :)
I guess it's the same way ppl think that "missing tons of explosive" thing from yesterday is all just a Kerry scam to make Bush look bad.
 

KingGondo

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This just in...terrorists are in fact planning MORE and potentially BIGGER attacks! There have also been indications that they have ambitions to kill American citizens.

Stay tuned for further details on this story!
 

Ripclawe

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Fragamemnon said:
As posted above, the tape's authenticity cannot be verified.

In other news, the GOP learned today that the CIA won't be their monkey. :D


CIA and FBI have authenticated al Qaeda videotape


ABCNEWS EXECUTIVES CONSIDER POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AIRING DISTURBING TERROR TAPE DURING ELECTION WEEK... MORE...
http://www.drudgereport.com/
 

megateto

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Ripclawe said:
ABCNEWS EXECUTIVES CONSIDER POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AIRING DISTURBING TERROR TAPE DURING ELECTION WEEK... MORE...


Don't be afraid of the Madrid 11-M sindrome.

If it did have political implications, which way do you think the elections would turn, right or left side?

PD: Spaniard talking, just to clarify.
 

Prospero

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megateto said:
If it did have political implications, which way do you think the elections would turn, right or left side?

PD: Spaniard talking, just to clarify.

My personal hunch is that a terrorist attack in the coming days would put Bush in office by a landslide. The newly-terrified populace will vote to "stay the course" and keep the incumbent in.
 

Ripclawe

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http://www.drudgereport.com/abct1.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 28, 2004 10:44:01 ET XXXXX

CIA, FBI AUTHENTICATE NEW QAEDA TERROR TAPE; ABCNEWS EXECUTIVES CONSIDER POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AIRING

**Exclusive**

The CIA and FBI late Wednesday authenticated a disturbing new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11.

"The streets will run with blood," and "America will mourn in silence" because they will be unable to count the number of the dead, a man claims on the video.

Further claims on the video: America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.

ABCNEWS obtained the tape from a source in Waziristan, Pakistan over the weekend. The network has withheld airing it, initially citing concerns over its authenticity.

One senior federal official alleged ABCNEWS is now holding back from broadcasting any portion of the video out of fear it will be seen as a political move by the network during election week.

One ABC source, who demanded anonymity, said Thursday morning, the network was struggling to finding the correct journalistic "balance."

"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting," the ABC source explained.

A second ABC source told DRUDGE: "We continue to report this story aggressively."
 

Ripclawe

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http://www.drudgereport.com/abct2.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 28, 2004 17:02:35 ET XXXXX

TERROR TAPE WARN OF BUSH, CHENEY CONSEQUENCE; ABC WITHHELD PORTIONS FROM CIA

**Exclusive**

ABCNEWS withheld portions of an alarming new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11 from the CIA when they submitted the video for analysis, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The CIA and FBI late Wednesday authenticated the tape, federal sources tell DRUDGE. ABCNEWS has been informed of the government's standing.

"What took place on September 11 was but the opening salvo of the global war on America and that our Lord willing, the magnitude and ferocity of what is coming your way will make you forget all about September 11," the man, whose face is covered by a headdress, warns in the video. "After decades of American tyranny, now it's your turn to die."

ABCNEWS submitted portions of the video threat to the FBI and CIA on Monday for analysis, top government sources tell DRUDGE, after obtaining the tape from a source in Pakistan.

A top goverment source said from Washington that ABC withheld the final 15 minutes of the tape from the CIA -- the portion of the tape where the man warns of retribution for Americans electing Bush and Cheney.


uh...That's not very smart.
 

Baron Aloha

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Prospero said:
My personal hunch is that a terrorist attack in the coming days would put Bush in office by a landslide. The newly-terrified populace will vote to "stay the course" and keep the incumbent in.

Or Kerry might win in a landslide since we would have been attacked twice under Bush's watch. Democrats would definitely spin it as a failure of the administration and (depending on what the attack is) blame the administration for not implementing any of the 9/11 commission's recommendations...one of which may have prevented this hypothetical attack.
 

SteveMeister

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JC10001 said:
Or Kerry might win in a landslide since we would have been attacked twice under Bush's watch. Democrats would definitely spin it as a failure of the administration and (depending on what the attack is) blame the administration for not implementing any of the 9/11 commission's recommendations...one of which may have prevented this hypothetical attack.

Exactly. I think that a terrorist attack before the election would only reinforce how people already feel, and wouldn't do much to get people to switch sides.
 
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