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Counterterror experts analyzing Islamic website posting 
'There will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan'

 DEVELOPING STORY: Federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of "a special gift" to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.

The warning was posted Sept. 2 on a site frequented by radical groups and said in part that "there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan."

Federal officials told FOX News they are trying to determine if it might be a specific warning or just part of broad chatter that has been heard during the last few months.

Postings talking about "gifts" have been seen before in the days leading up to the anniversary of Sept. 11.

    A jihadist website published yesterday a logo which announced that “there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan”.

    These threats are consistent with several echoed by Al-Qaeda during the Summer of 2007. The Taliban spokesman, Mansur Dadullah, warned America on July 15, 2007 of a “big attacks to come soon and revenge the failed plots against UK”.

    On August 2, 2007, an Al-Qaeda video announced that America will face “a big surprise soon”, and on August 11, 2007, the US born jihadist Adam Gradhan spoke about specific threats of radiological attacks against New York, Miami and Los Angeles. The same day, NYC authorities sent teams with radiological detection systems in patrol whithin the city.

    That’s propaganda maybe, BUT

    1. There has never been so many threats since 2001 2. The CIA and FBI openly said the danger has been the “highest” since 2001 3. Al-Qaeda even published a logo to announce the coming attack 4. In chats, most of jihadists seem to agree that there is a long-waited “quality operation” to come.

    [Translation - There will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan…]


Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror monitoring groups said Thursday.
SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the al-Qaida leader from the upcoming video—his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with gray, was entirely dark.

The Intelcenter, which also monitors Islamic Web sites, said the video is expected within the next 72 hours, before the sixth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. The last bin Laden video was in October shortly before the U.S. presidential elections.

More coming as news is still breaking on this.

I know this morning that, a large bust was made in Germany.  The explosion the bombs would have made every other explosion look small.  There was something like 12 - 55 gallon containers filled, and ready to place, and explode.

I'll check my news links, and post it here.

Germany's thwarted bombers: "Not an abstract danger, but a very real threat"

Germany is still reacting to the news of the arrests on Tuesday afternoon of three men in a town in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia who were suspected of having ties to Islamic-terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, and of planning bombing attacks on Frankfurt's airport and on the United States' Ramstein Air Base. The military facility in southwestern Germany serves as the headquarters for U.S. Air Forces in Europe. It is also a North Atlantic Treaty Organization installation where Canadian, German, British, French, Belgian, Polish, Czech, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch forces are stationed. Frankfurt's airport is the busiest in continental Europe.


The three men, all of whom are in their twenties, were identified by German law-enforcement officials as "Daniel S. from the state of Saarland and Fritz G. from Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, both of whom are German converts to Islam, as well as Adem Y., who is believed to be from Turkey. The three, who had apparently founded a terrorist cell, have been under intensive investigation for several months. All three men were considered radical Islamists and had contact with Islamist groups in Germany and Pakistan." They had been staying together in a vacation apartment and, according to a local newspaper in the area where the residence was located, "police from Germany's elite GSG-9 unit had stormed" their hangout.

German authorities zeroed in on the men after they had been "observed moving chemicals that could be used to make bombs....Police believe that the men wanted to experiment in the coming days and weeks with the chemicals and possibly start building a bomb. They were, however, far away from making a bomb that could be detonated." As well as the Frankfurt airport and the U.S. base, the three would-be terrorists reportedly had also considered targeting pubs or nightclubs frequented by Americans. "The preparations for the attacks were, however, at an early stage."

German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms told the press the arrested men "were two German converts to Islam and a Turkish Muslim" and that they "are being held on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and preparing a bomb attack." Harms indicated that the men "were members of the Islamic Jihad Union, which has its origins in Uzbekistan," and that they had "attended a militant training camp in Pakistan last year...." At their hangout, they had gathered "massive quantities of hydrogen peroxide," the same chemical suicide bombers had used in the 2005 London transportation-system attacks. Harms noted that, "once turned into bombs, the material could have created an explosion with the same strength as 550 kilograms (1210 pounds) of dynamite." German Chancellor Angela Merkel, commenting on Tuesday's arrests, said they showed that terrorist attacks in Germany are "not an abstract danger, but a very real threat."

Jörg Ziercke, the head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, pointed out that the Islamic Jihad Union had ties to Al-Qaeda. He said the arrested men were "driven by a hatred of U.S. citizens."

Writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, commentator Berthold Kohler observed: "New York. Madrid. London. And then Frankfurt? Hanau? Heidelberg? The names of German cities could have lengthened the list of those that have been severely attacked by Islamist terrorists who aspire to shake the very foundations of the West. It's good to know that the state knows how to protect the life and limb of its citizens and visitors in the struggle against transnational terrorism. It's inevitably unsettling, though, that this Hydra always grows new heads and tentacles, for a long time now also in our villages and cities....The next attack is perhaps already being planned."

Germany's thwarted bombers: "Not an abstract danger, but a very real threat" (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=20048)