An ominous new threat against the U.S. appears on a Web site and claims to be from an Al Qaeda spokesman.


It says the U.S. has killed thousands of people in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, and other places.

And so, it reads: "We have the right to kill four million Americans, including one million children," and it says, "we have the right to fight them by chemical and biological weapons so they catch the fatal and unusual diseases Muslims have caught due to U.S. chemical and biological weapons."

Reports from Morocco say three Saudi members of al-Qaeda have been arrested as they prepared attacks on American and British naval ships in the Straits of Gibraltar.
There has been no formal announcement from the Moroccan authorities, but officials are quoted as saying the three had been arrested in May with the help of the intelligence services of several friendly countries.

The names of the detainees were not released.

The men, aged between 25 and 35, are reported to have links to the al-Qaeda, the organisation suspected of carrying out the 11 September attacks in the United States.

Officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the suspects planned to sail inflatable dinghies loaded with explosives alongside ships patrolling the straits.

In October 2000 two suicide bombers, suspected of being members of al-Qaeda, carried out a similar attack against the USS Cole in Yemen killing 17 sailors.

The suspects were planning to sail the dinghies from Ceuta and Melillia, the Spanish enclaves on Moroccan territory, the officials said.

The British Foreign Office issued a statement welcoming "the arrests if they involve individuals who may have been planning terrorist attacks against UK assets".

The UK Ministry of Defence said it had no knowledge of specific threats to Royal Navy ships.

A French judicial official on Monday confirmed the existence of "an anti-terrorist police operation in liaison with Western interests in the Strait of Gibraltar".

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Maybe not Egypt, I still wish to see the pyramids someday without all the radiation.

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We had better get together with our friends (Israel, India) and eliminate this common threat. It's us or them.