From: dcopley at eeye.com (Drew Copley)
Subject: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

Various stories on this coming out:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&scoring=d&edition=us&q=Al+Qaeda+claims
+blackout

(Of note: 'Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Power Blackout In U.S.!'
(Saudi)
http://english.daralhayat.com/arab_news/08-2003/Article-20030818-14bdd65
9-c0a8-01ed-0079-6e1c903b7552/story.html)

(Of note: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95049,00.html Covers
possibility of hackers, timeline, mention of terrorists)


MEMRI's site has the raw info from which "Worldtribune" is basing their
article (note: MEMRI says they released this online -- at Yahoo forum,
no less):

"A communiqu? by the Abu Hafs Brigades was published at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan2/message/330. "

Full Article url:
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD55303


Full Article:

Al-Qa'ida's Abu Hafs Brigades has claimed responsibility for "Operation
Quick Lightning in the Land of the Tyrant of this Generation," referring
to the blackout last week in the Northeast and Midwest United States. A
communiqu? by the Abu Hafs Brigades was published at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan2/message/330. This is the third
communiqu? by the "Brigades" that is being published by the same
web-group; in the first, they accepted responsibility for the downing of
an airplane in Kenya. The second accepted responsibility for the Jakarta
bombing of the Marriott hotel on August 5, 2003. 

The new communiqu? says that in compliance with the orders of Osama bin
Laden to strike at the American economy, the Brigades struck two
important electricity supply targets on the East coast. The Brigades say
that they cannot reveal how they did it, because they will probably have
to use the same method again soon. The communiqu? also claimed that the
operation was meant as a present for the Iraqi people. 

The following are excerpts from a report by the London-based Arabic
daily Al-Hayat about the communiqu?: [1] 


The Blackout was 'a Realization of bin Laden's Promise to Offer the
Iraqi People a Present' 

"A communiqu? 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 communiqu? 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 Americans Lived a Black Day they will Never Forget' 

"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 communiqu? 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.'


'The U.S. will not Live in Peace until Our Conditions are Met' 

"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 communiqu? 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 communiqu? said that the strikes aimed at 'hitting
the major pillar of the U.S. economy (the Stock Exchange)
 [and] 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
' 

'The Gift of Sheikh Osama bin Laden is on Its Way to the White House' 

"The communiqu? 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 communiqu? 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 gift
of Al Aqsa, where and when? The answer is what you are seeing!' 





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