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The State of the Union - (Relative To Terrorism)
Fri Jan 23 02:14:37 2004
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The State of the Union - (Relative To Terrorism)
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21 January 2004-- Within the last several days, analysts have been carefully assessing and reviewing a number of threat issues that indicate terror attacks within the US continue to be planned. Obviously, everyone breathed a "collective sigh of relief" when Ramadan 1424-AH passed without any publicized terrorist event occurring and the Christmas and New Year holidays also passed without any successful terrorist event taking place. It has been confirmed that terrorist strikes inside the US were indeed planned but ultimately thwarted by the grounding of specific flights and through the less obvious efforts of our intelligence services.

Although the public has been hearing lately that the risk of attack is lower today than the last few months of 2003, we do not find this assessment to be consistent with our latest findings. It is important for people to understand that at least 30 major metropolitan cities remain on "high alert" status, along with our nuclear power plants, refineries, and other various aspects of our infrastructure. Similar to the events that preceded 9/11, we are findings postings by Islamic clerics and other individuals warning about a "great event." Were their such signs prior to 9/11 posted on the Internet? Our research suggest there were indeed. Although the identities of individuals posting and publishing items on the Internet can be "spoofed," the timing of the posts cannot. While there is an unending debate about the true identity of an individual named "EOM," the fact that one and apparently several postings appeared under that name that "predicted" a "great event" to take place (against and inside the US) prior to 9/11 cannot be disputed. Despite hundreds of man-hours of investigation devoted to the true identity of the original "EOM" poster, we make no claims at this point about his/her identity, only that there is indeed evidence of foreknowledge to an attack on US soil. We are seeing much of the same type of communications today as there were in the days and weeks preceding September 11th, 2001 - not by one lone poster, but throughout the Islamic jihad forums.

Although many still do not believe that al Qaeda publishes any forewarnings prior to making an attack, we have found this to be untrue. An excellent analysis of this procedure is explained in the latest assessment by network analyst Sean Osborne.

The components of terrorism are quite dynamic and are driven by a number of factors that are misunderstood by the majority in the western world. Frankly, we are in the midst of a religious war where the Islamic fundamentalists will not stop until they achieve their objective or they are in effect neutralized as an enemy. Their targets, in addition to the US, include all regimes" that do not adhere to their strict philosophy; currently on the top of the overseas list is Saudi Arabia, where there is an imminent threat of a massive takeover and the removal of the current ruling party. It is most important for our site visitors to read this analysis and realize that events that take place in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere have an effect on the security of our nation.

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