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Tue. Jul 09, 2002

I'll Bite Your Knees Off!

I’ll Bite Your Knees Off! – One can’t help but be reminded of the initially intimidating but ultimately looney Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Yes, Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman ”Chicken Little” Ghaith is back to say ”boo” yet again.

"The al Qaeda network will strike U.S. targets in America and around the world soon, an al Qaeda spokesman said in an interview published Tuesday.

’Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long,’ spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El Youm."

There’s that time thing again, ”a period of time that is not long.” Let’s look at his record. As we’ll see, Sir Ghaith has a continual problem with time perception. It may have been last October when we first heard him promise new attacks: "An al Qaeda spokesman Tuesday promised more terrorist attacks against U.S. targets as he praised the men who hijacked the aircraft that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. Suleiman Abu-Gheith stopped short of claiming al Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 attacks during his speech broadcast by the Qatar-based television network al Jazeera. But he urged all Muslims to attack American targets until the United States leaves all Muslim countries and stops supporting Israel."

He’s been at it ever since. He’s the one who boasted last October, ”When al-Qaeda promises, it delivers … The storm of aeroplanes will not be calmed.” He was the one who finally stepped forward in April to tardily admit, yeah, we did it: "’We were able to hit the head of the infidels on his own turf,’ al-Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith "

A month ago on June 2, he told us to buckle our seatbelts. On June 24, he told us to buckle them again:

”We will not desist from striking at America everywhere … The whole world will see these are not just threats. The coming days and months will prove to the world the credibility of what we are saying. Our (would-be) martyrs are bracing to carry out these operations against US and Jewish targets.”

James Robbines reports the website added, " ’reports that Shaykh Osama is ill or was wounded in Tora Bora are completely unfounded.’ Furthermore, he stated that bin Laden would soon appear in a televised interview [...] The website promised that he would appear on television before July 4."

Oh, Osama? Videocam break? Did you oversleep, or are you taking a dirt nap? Well, there you have a partial record of Sulaiman ”Chicken Little” Ghaith, a man whose predictions have never come to pass. A continuous boast that is never backed up.

Al Qaeda’s Black Knight:

[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT’s right leg off]

Black Knight: "Right. I’ll do you for that!"

King Arthur: "You’ll what?"

Black Knight: "Come here!"

King Arthur: "What are you going to do, bleed on me?"

Black Knight: "I’m invincible!"

King Arthur: "You’re a looney."