Al Queda Clains Responsibility for NA Power Outages

[klesh]

http://english.daralhayat.com/arab_n...552/story.html

Cairo

A communiqué attributed to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the power blackout that happened in the U.S. last Thursday, saying that the brigades of Abu Fahes Al Masri had hit two main power plants supplying the East of the U.S., as well as major industrial cities in the U.S. and Canada, "its ally in the war against Islam (New York and Toronto) and their neighbors."

The communiqué assured that the operation "was carried out on the orders of Osama bin Laden to hit the pillars of the U.S. economy," as "a realization of bin Laden's promise to offer the Iraqi people a present."

The statement, which Al-Hayat obtained from the website of the International Islamic Media Center, didn't specify the way the alleged sabotage was carried out. The communiqué read: "let the criminal Bush and his gang know that the punishment is the result of the action, the soldiers of God cut the power on these cities, they darkened the lives of the Americans as these criminals blackened the lives of the Muslim people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. The Americans lived a black day they will never forget. They lived a day of terror and fear… a state of chaos and confusion where looting and pillaging rampaged the cities, just like the capital of the caliphate Baghdad, and Afghanistan and Palestine were. Let the American people take a sip from the same glass."

It added: "we heard amazing statements made by the American and Canadian enemies which have nuclear physics universities and space agencies, that lightning hit and destroyed the two plants. And we are supposed to believe this nonsense. If the blackout occurred in one or two cities, their lie would have been credible. But the fact is that the blackout hit the entire East and part of Canada."

The communiqué continued: "one of the benefits of this strike is that the U.S. will not live in peace until our conditions are met, such as releasing all the detainees including Sheikh Omar Abdulrahman, and getting out of the land of the Muslims, including Jerusalem and Kashmir."

The authors of the communiqué said that the strikes aimed at "hitting the major pillar of the U.S. economy (the Stock Exchange)," considering that the operation was "a message to the UN, which is opposed to Islam, and is based in New York. It is a message to all the investors that the U.S. is no longer a safe country for their money, knowing that the U.S. economy greatly relies on the trust of the investor." They added: "seven major airports stopped working, which is a strike to airlines companies; nine nuclear reactors broke down, something that never happened before, and this is considered as a major economic hit for the nine reactors in the states of New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Michigan. Means of transportation broke down: trains, cars and trucks, which resulted in great losses. The Internet stopped, leading to a freeze in trade transactions. The international banks headquartered in New York closed, not to mention the great losses incurred by the insurance companies, and the massive deployment of the police and security forces."

The communiqué mentioned that some economists said the blackout in the U.S. and Canada would cost the U.S. Treasury no less than ten billion U.S. dollars and in order to "break the hearts of U.S. officials, just know that the cost paid by the Moujahideen to sabotage the power plants was a mere seven thousand dollars. Die of sorrow!"

The communiqué ended with: "we tell the Muslims that this is not the awaited strike, but it is called the war of skirmishes (to drain the enemy), and that the American snakes are enormous and need to be consumed and weakened to be destroyed. We tell the people of Afghanistan and Kashmir that the gift of Sheikh Osama bin Laden is on its way to the White House; then the gift of Al Aqsa, and do we know what is the giftof Al Aqsa, where and when? The answer is what you are seeing!"

Thoughts? Discuss....

[GePap]

Well, why not claim credit? They lose nothing by it, and the few people who will believe them will be awed.

Why didn;t I claim credit for it earlier?

[Elok]

I didn't know Al Qaeda had anywhere near the resources, manpower, and effective organization needed to organize that kind of operation. There's also the fact that we've never heard of any such sabotage and the administration is clearly willing to vilify Al Qaeda. In other words, whatever.

[Zylka]

Yes, they were also responsible for this season's hurricanes and killing Jesus. All hail the inept monkey-f*cks who somehow opened those soviet arms crates that fateful day many ago!

[Oerdin]

This seems like an after thought. If they really were responsible then why wait 4-5 days before claiming responsibility? More likely they saw a good opportunity for getting credit for doing absolutely nothing at all.

Do you guys remember how the various Palestinian terror groups yused (and probably still do) fight over the claim for each terror bombing? Each group wanted to one up the other and gain fame so they'd try to claim responsibility for terror attacks they didn't even commit!

Silly little Arab terrorists.

[Oerdin]

BTW Nice avatar Zylkie.

[Japher]

They'll claim responsibility for the next eclipise I'm sure... I don't believe those putz'

[Zylka]

Maybe I should indeed join the USMC

I seriously want to kill people like this, now. At least before they get a chance to do me! (Or mastermind the next minor earthquake which hits California)

[SlowwHand]

**** Al Queda. Group of wimps and sissies.

[Dom Pedro II]

Joke all you want people! But we've been hit again!

[yavoon]

I say we invade syria, I mean iran. well atleast one of them.

[Sava]

It hasn't been proven that this wasn't a terract. Personally, I don't think it was, but it's a bit presumptuous to say this wasn't a terrorist attack.

[Zylka]

Why don't you shut the f*ck up and go argue that OJ might not have killed his wife, instead?

[Sava]

Why don't you shut the f*ck up and go argue that OJ might not have killed his wife, instead?

bad batch of heroin?

[Zylka]

No, just of brain dead Serbian immigrants who weren't sterilized before entering the US, in this case.

[Chemical Ollie]

This sound like BS to me.

Zylka, don't inhale when smoking that banana

[DinoDoc]

Bastards! How dare they steal credit for my work!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Olaf Hårfagre
This sound like BS to me.

Never mind there isn't anything I could say that wouldn't make me sound like a smart ass.

[Dis]

As of yet, there is no proof they have any kind of computer sabatauge capability. And that is what this was. As there was no physical sabatauge discovered yet.

It is more likely this was a hacker in the U.S. that did this.

[Dom Pedro II]

Or maybe it was just a freak accident??

[Dis]

I think it was more likely somebody screwed up doing their job. And it has already been noted that the alarms didn't go off when those power lines went down. So combine human and mechanical error and you have your answer.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Zylka
Why don't you shut the f*ck up and go argue that OJ might not have killed his wife, instead?

Originally posted by Sava
bad batch of heroin?

Originally posted by Zylka
No, just of brain dead Serbian immigrants who weren't sterilized before entering the US, in this case.

I see that you two still haven't learned to play nicely with each other...

You can both chill for 48 hours... next time, play nicer

[Dom Pedro II]

Point being, not intentional though.

[Kirnwaffen]

And all they managed was the north east? ****ing amateurs.

[Eli]

It's like the Hamas claiming responsibility for a technical failure on an Israeli F-16.

[Andrew1999]

Do we have any idea this claim actually came from Al Qaeda? I know nuts fake claims of resposibility all the time. I'm sure the FBI has gotten a call from someone claiming his cat used its psychic powers to blackout New York, and if we don't all bow down to it then Nashville is next.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm scared now. They have obviously developed the Weather Control Device, like in RA2

[Nubclear]

Actually people...I'm responsible.

You see, I actually have a nuclear weapon in my basement. So I sabatoged the power grid and blackmailed Bush so that he wouldn't say it was me.
I then paid off Al Qaeda to say it was them.

I'm sorry guys It's just...um....I wanted to. Thats it.

[DRoseDARs]

If Al-Qaeda was responsible for the blackout last week...
...I assasinated President Kennedy.

[Oerdin]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Bastards! How dare they steal credit for my work!

The cause of the power outage has already been determined HERE.