From: ptourvi1 at twcny.rr.com (JT)
Subject: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

Oh no, the much funnier part is how they supposedly were trying to hit the
NYSE which, last I heard, had absolutely no troubles trading. If I remember
correctly they didn't even have to bring up their backup power which would
have let them trade anyways. Smart Al Qaida

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> Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout
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> World Tribune
> Monday, August 18, 2003
> 
> http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_5.html
> 
> Al Qaida's Abu Hafs Brigades has claimed responsibility for the 
> blackout last week in the Northeast and Midwest United States. A 
> communiqu? by the Abu Hafs Brigades made reference to Operation Quick 
> Lightning in the Land of the Tyrant of this Generation."
> 
> It was published as "the third communiqu? by the "Brigades."
> 
> 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, according to 
> the Middle East Media Research Institute. 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!'
> 
> [1] Published in English on Dar Al-Hayat website, August 18, 2003,
> http://english.daralhayat.com/arab_news/08-2003/Article-20030818-
> 14bdd659-c0a8-01ed-0079-6e1c903b7552/story.html
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