Al-Qaeda vows to “bleed enemy to death”

Below is an article from Al Arabya.net. However if you want a little insight into Al Qaeda especially AQ in the Islamic Magreb, AKA AQIM check out the latest edition of their glossy hate mag, ‘Inspire’ by clicking here. Not that I recommend this as regular reading or anything but its nice to have direct evidence of what the enemy thinks of, and plans for, us.

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Yemen-based branch promises more parcel bombs

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Agencies)

The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaeda has vowed to continue attacks against the West such as last month’s cargo plane parcel bombs, in a “strategy of a thousand cuts” that will “bleed the enemy to death”, a monitoring group said.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said the packages it put aboard freight planes bound for the U.S. in late October were never intended to cause mass casualties, but were aimed at creating maximum economic damage.

The group said the parcels, which were intercepted by security officials in Dubai and Britain, were part of “Operation Hemorrhage” a plan that had cost just $4,200 to mount.

This strategy of attacking the enemy with smaller, but more frequent operations is what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. The aim is to bleed the enemy to death 

AQAP

It said there was now little focus on large-scale mass-casualty attacks like those on New York and Washington in September 2001.

“To bring down America we do not need to strike big,” the terror network said, in an English-language magazine called Inspire which was monitored Saturday by the U.S.-based Intelcenter.

“In such an environment of security phobia that is sweeping America, it is more feasible to stage smaller attacks that involve less players and less time to launch and thus we may circumvent the security barriers America worked so hard to erect.

“This strategy of attacking the enemy with smaller, but more frequent operations is what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. The aim is to bleed the enemy to death.”

The two parcels were addressed to synagogues in Chicago and found to contain the hard-to-detect explosive PETN hidden in ink toner cartridges.

The group boasts that they chose printer cartridges in which to hide the explosive because toner is carbon-based, with a molecular composition “close to that of PETN,” so it would not be detected. “We emptied the toner cartridge from its contents and filled it with 340 grams of PETN,” the writers say.

The article states that the package attacks were intended to cause economic harm, not casualties. “We knew that cargo planes are staffed by only a pilot and a co-pilot,” it reads, “so our objective was not to cause maximum casualties but to cause maximum losses to the American economy,” by striking at the multi-billion dollar U.S. freight industry.

A massive global security clampdown on airfreight followed the discovery, with a number of countries banning cargo or flights originating from Yemen, including the United States, Canada and several western European countries.

The al-Qaeda offshoot insists it also brought down a UPS cargo plane in Dubai in September, in addition to the Oct. 29 attempts to bring down a FedEx plane, and a UPS plane bound for the U.S. But U.S. officials insist the Dubai crash was an accident caused by a battery fire, not terrorism.

“Total bill of $4,200”

We are laying out for our enemies our plan in advance because… our objective is not maximum kill but to cause a hemorrhage in the aviation industry, an industry that is so vital for trade and transportation between the U.S. and Europe 

AQAP

The AQAP magazine details the “total bill of $4,200” for Operation Hemorrhage, adding that it was three months in the planning and execution.

“On the other hand this… will without a doubt cost America and other Western countries billions of dollars in new security measures. This is what we call leverage.

“From the start our objective was economic… It was determined that the success of the operation was to be based on two factors: The first is that the packages pass through the latest security equipment.

“The second, the spread of fear that would cause the West to invest billions of dollars in new security procedures.

“We will continue with similar operations and we do not mind at all in this stage if they are intercepted. It is such a good bargain for us to spread fear amongst the enemy and keep him on his toes in exchange of a few months of work and a few thousand bucks.”

The magazine says AQAP intends to pass on its know-how to other radical Islamists around the world, to encourage them to mount similar operations.

“We are laying out for our enemies our plan in advance because… our objective is not maximum kill but to cause a hemorrhage in the aviation industry, an industry that is so vital for trade and transportation between the U.S. and Europe.”

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4 Replies to “Al-Qaeda vows to “bleed enemy to death””

  1. The best defence is offence. Always.

    At this moment in time, Islamic Jihadis are on the offence while we are on the defensive. This means that we have to guard everything, while the Jihadis have the strategic advantage of where and when to attack, or not attack at all, and watch as we tie ourselves in knots chasing false alarms.

    This is no way to win the war. We have to attack them everywhere and anytime, and keep them guessing where the next attack is coming, and against whom. This also means that we treat the enemy as not just Jihadis, but the human support structure, without whose support the Jihadis would not be able to do anything.

  2. You know, this is just going to keep getting funner and funner for these guys, isn’t it. There are just so many thousands of ways of using our freedom and decency against us, so many thousands of potential Jihad opportunities. We don’t like to talk about it, for fear of giving them ideas, but what’s to stop some kid with a hockey bag from getting on the sky train? What’s to stop a guy with a canister from going to a football game? What’s to stop a girl with a backpack from going to the fireworks display? That’s all it takes. We’re basically screwed when you think about it. They can hit us with impunity, and they know it. As for the damage being done to our society, they’re right about that, too. We are, in fact, marching stolidly onward into George Orwell’s 1984. As I write, there is a remote control movie camera under a dark glass dome, focussed directly at my front door. Literally. Really. Security just trumps everything nowadays, have you noticed? And with each new atrocity they commit, the authorities will ban whatever thing happened to get used by the terrorists and our freedoms will continue to shrink as they move on to another tactic. DP111 is right. We need to go on the offensive and give these characters something to think about. We’re making it way too easy for them. May I suggest we start by dividing all flights into Muslim and non-Muslim? Let the marketplace decide, nothing personal. People can vote with their butts. Put me on the Infidel red-eye to New York, I’ll take the roast ham and martini special. Maybe we should make the Muslims wear special flashing suits with emergency buzzers, just to be on the safe side. Maybe we should stop letting them make monkeys out of us. Just a few ideas…

  3. What the Moslems are ignoring is that we aren’t really fighting back, we are flailing about in our sleep brushing away the insects, enough big or small cuts will wake us up and we will start fighting back. I have a neighbor who is a Japanese who married a US soldier, on 9/12/01 she ask me what the attack meant, I told her we had a war, she said she didn’t want a war, she remembered how Americans fight wars. So far we aren’t fighting, even though most people think we are, when the fighting starts the rules of engagement will be to survive the fight and keep the other members of your unit alive, all else will be a side issue that can be ignored.

  4. An admission of failure folks. An admission of failure from the big boys of terrorism. Where does it say in the Koran to use this as the main stratagy. Jihad is the main stratagy. Jihad means attacking and totally destroying the enemy culturally, economically and religiously. How hard can it be to kill a kuffar? Oh thats right a little too hard so we will try to damage you economically. With our security rising sky high with technolgy, with the oil running out for you muslims, we know were this is going. Just keep going and just failing.