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THE BLACK WIND COMING?? - CONSIDER THIS A "RED ALERT"

Spanish leader blasts U.S. policy
March 16, 2004
BY GEIR MOULSON
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-spain16.html

MADRID, Spain -- Spain's incoming prime minister launched a verbal attack on President Bush on Monday and pledged to bring Spanish troops home from Iraq unless the United Nations takes control there.

A day after his Socialists swept Spain's ruling conservatives from power in elections overshadowed by terrorist bombings, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also promised to lead a more pro-European government that would restore ''magnificent relations'' with France and Germany -- which unlike Spain's outgoing government both opposed the Iraq war.

In a surprise defeat, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservatives on Sunday became the first government that backed Washington in Iraq to be voted from office.

The election was held amid charges that Aznar made Spain a target for terrorists by supporting the war, and that his government concealed possible connections between the attack and Islamic terrorists for political gain.

Thursday's train bombings -- the worst terrorist attacks in Spain's history -- killed 200 people.

Zapatero campaigned on a pledge to order Spain's 1,300 troops home. He made clear Monday he is prepared to fulfill it.

''I have said clearly in recent months that, unless there is a change in that the United Nations take control and the occupiers give up political control, the Spanish troops will come back, and the limit for their presence there is June 30,'' Zapatero said. He described Spain's decision to commit peacekeepers to Iraq as ''an error.''

The U.N. Security Council has authorized the current multinational force in which Spain is participating. But there has been no talk of turning that force, which is led by the United States, into a U.N.-controlled peacekeeping force.

Zapatero promised to maintain ''cordial'' relations with Bush, but he had harsh words on the war in Iraq in a separate interview.

''It divided more than it united, there were no reasons for it. Time has shown that the arguments for it lacked credibility and the occupation has been managed badly,'' he said.

Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair ''will have to engage in reflection and self-criticism,'' he said. ''You cannot organize a war with lies.''

Zapatero's rise is "a blow" to Bush, said Nile Gardiner, a conservative U.S. analyst. "The Spanish statement has sent the wrong messages to the rest of Europe. It amounts to a policy of appeasement."

Other governments helping rebuild Iraq pledged Monday to stay the course. Poland said a pullout would hand a victory to terrorists.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that all countries, not just those who supported the campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, were the targets of terrorists.

''We are under a threat from Islamic extremism, and so is almost every other country in the world,'' Straw told BBC radio. ''No one should believe that somehow if you say 'I opposed the military action in Iraq,' that this makes you safer or exempts you as a potential victim.''

AP
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Bombings tied to Morocco, Islamic radicals

BY ANDREW SELSKY AND NICOLAS MARMIE

MADRID, Spain -- Evidence is mounting that the Madrid bombings may be tied to a bloody attack in Morocco last year and that Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida were behind the bombings, officials said Monday.

One of five suspects held by Spanish police in connection with Thursday's attack had traveled to his home country of Morocco, then left on April 20, 2003 -- almost a month before the May 16 attacks in Casablanca that killed 45 people, officials said.

The suspect, Jamal Zougam, also has connections to a key suspect in the Casablanca attacks and possibly to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Moroccan official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Al-Zarqawi is a key operative working with Osama bin Laden's terror network.

It appears ''increasingly likely'' Islamic extremists played a role in the Madrid attacks, though ''a number of avenues are being pursued,'' said a U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Cell phones apparently were used as detonators on the 10 train bombs, and the five suspects were arrested after a phone and prepaid card were found on a bomb that failed to explode.

Zougam, two other Moroccans -- including Zougam's half brother, Mohamed Chaoui, 34 -- and two Indians are being questioned in the Madrid attack.

In 1983, Zougam's mother took him and Chaoui to Spain. Years later, as young men, they opened a shop repairing cell phones in Madrid. In 2002, they were joined by Mohammed Bekkali, the third Moroccan suspect.

Meanwhile, a victory against terror was scored Monday by Saudi security forces. They killed two militants, including one considered al-Qaida's chief of operations on the Arabian Peninsula, in a shootout.
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TOP 10 FOREIGN TROOP CONTRIBUTORS TO IRAQ

**United Kingdom -- 8,220
**Italy -- 3,000
**Poland -- 2,500
**Ukraine -- 1,650
**Netherlands -- 1,307
**Spain -- 1,300
**Australia -- 850
**Romania -- 500
**Denmark -- 500
**Thailand -- 451
**Remaining 25 coalition countries: 3,722
Source: Brookings Institution
AP

Countries besides the United States that are assisting in postwar Iraq, and their troop contributions:
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Searched the web for "Black Wind Threat".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&edition=us&q=%22Black+Wind+Threat%22&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web

Ramadan and "black wind"
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=19281

Anyone got any info on this? The word around CIA official intel is that Osama might make a move...

I found this
Terror Days of Ramadan

To peaceful, devout Muslims, this is a time of prayer and reflection, but to extremists, Ramadan heralds a call to jihad. Uosama bin Laden said he would "die in the Belly of the Eagle in 2003".

UBL stated, "We reserve the right to retaliate at the appropriate time and place against all countries involved, especially the [U.S.; Israel] UK, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy, not to exclude those Muslim states that took part, especially the Gulf states, and...Kuwait...."

(reported in the Feb 21, 2004, Lampholder)
http://www.lampholderpub.com/

Al Qaeda Tape Reveals "Winds of Black Death" Coming
(see The Lampholder Black Wind article and

The Time-Line)
http://www.lampholderpub.com/

THE BLACK WIND COMING??

In Islamic tradition there are four winds, similar to "the four horsemen of Revelation' (Ch 6), "...And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." The Black Wind may correlate with an example of the third seal in Revelation 6, or black horse, and may depict an intentional economic disaster as a direct result of a terrorist attack - "an economic implosion." Revelation 6 also reveals a symbolic "pair of balances" depicting a process of "weighing" or preservation - i.e., a separation of the good from the bad.

In Islam, the huayra yana is the black wind. In a symbolic sense, a black wind spreads similar to the act of throwing ashes into the air. The dust particles appear momentarily suspended then carried along by an invisible stream before dissipating and falling to the ground. In Islamic eschatology, hell is pictured as a desert, scorching wind, black smoke, and boiling, bubbling water. Hell is reserved for the enemies of Allah led by the Christian counterpart of the devil known as Eblis, who roams the Earth seeking those whom he may devour. Hell awaits the unbelievers where they will be cast into "scorching wind and shadow of black smoke," and will drink of boiling water for eternity. Hell is the most terrible of places where the wicked are cast in scorching fires to eat thorns and thistles.

To Islamic extremists, terrorism may have a greater purpose, even more so than causing fear and panic among people. Terrorism is purification (the cleansing) of people (the cursed; especially nonMuslim) by fire either causing repentance and submission to Islam or coming judgment through death. The cursed are the people of the "left hand," "And (as to) the companions of the left hand (mash'ama); how wretched are the companions of the left hand!" This form of punishment is also pictured in the Qur'an [39.60 and 56] - "And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who lied against Allah; their faces shall be blackened. Is there not in hell an abode for the proud?"

[56.41] And those of the left hand, how wretched are those of the left hand!
[56.42] In hot wind and boiling water,
[56.43] And the shade of black smoke,
[56.44] Neither cool nor honorable.
[56.45] Surely they were before that made to live in ease and plenty.
[56.46] And they persisted in the great violation.

Prophetic key numbers are "7's" (sevens), "5's" (fives) and "4's" (fours).
http://www.lampholderpub.com/new_page_19.htm
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THE BLACK WIND COMING?? - CONSIDER THIS A "RED ALERT"
Purported Qaeda Letter Says U.S. Strike Near Ready
Thu Mar 11, 4:45 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040311/ts_nm/security_usa_qaeda_dc

DUBAI (Reuters) - A letter purporting to come from Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s militant Islamist al Qaeda network said a big attack on the United States was in the final stages of preparation, a London-based Arabic newspaper said on Thursday.


"We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stage...90 percent (ready) and God willing near," the letter said.

The letter, signed by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades which said it is part of al Qaeda, was sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper. A copy of the letter was faxed to Reuters in Dubai.

It was not possible to independently authenticate the letter.

The United States blames al Qaeda for September 2001 attacks on New York on Washington that killed some 3,000 people. The Spanish government has said Basque separatists are the main suspect in the bombings of four trains early on Thursday that killed 192 people.

But the country's interior minister held open the possibility of a militant Islamist link on Thursday evening when he told a newspaper conference that a suspect van had been found containing detonators and an Arabic-language tape. He said, however, militant Basque separatists remained chief suspects.

The al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper received similar letters from the same brigade claiming responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda for a November bombing of two synagogues in Turkey and the August bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

Spain backed the United States in its invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), drawing the opprobrium of militant Islamist groups.

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NO U.S. MEDIA HAS REPORTED THIS NOTICE OF TERROR THREAT!

• 'Black wind of death' will hit the US — The editor of Al Quds, Tue Mar 16 13:42