Al-Qa'ida Says Preparations for Attacks in US Completed, Urges Muslims To Leave

Fundamentalist websites closely associated with "al-Qa'ida" have reported that the "Sahab Foundation", which airs "al-Qa'ida" organization's videotapes, will broadcast in the coming few days a videotape entitled "Those Killed in the Confrontations on the Peninsula Soil" that will include the names and wills of the terrorists who were killed in the confrontations with the Saudi security forces, such as Abd-al-Ilah al-Utaybi and Yusuf al-Ayiri who was in charge of the "Al-Nida" website, Bin Ladin's internet mouthpiece, who was killed in the Riyadh confrontations last May.

Al-Ansar website and the Al-Liwa network, both of which are closely linked to "al-Qa'ida", said the new video includes comments on these confrontations by the organization's leader Bin Ladin.

Meanwhile, fundamentalists in London disclosed that the new video is at present with one of the satellite news channel.

The "Al-Liwa al-Islami" website yesterday cited a source inside "al-Qa'ida" as saying that the "mujahidin have completed the stage of preparations and readiness and have started the countdown for carrying out the attacks inside the United States at the right zero hour." It claimed that the "upcoming attacks will make the United States lose its self-control and lose the ability to communicate with its army."

The website also published a statement from one of the organization's leaders, whom it called a "very authoritative" one, in which he asserted that the "upcoming attacks will be extremely violent and will stun the United States." Abu-Asim al-Yamani said: "The United States has become arrogant, behaved tyrannically, attacked, taken an uphill task, shed the blood of Muslims everywhere, and acted obstinately and too far in the so-called UN Security Council. It even got to the point where it issued resolutions through this impotent council without referring to those who are supposed to be members in it."

He went on to say: "Muslims in the United States should seize the opportunity and leave it to where there is belief in the unity of Allah and that He has no partner on this earth if they fear Allah and do not want to die by the mujahidin's bombings." He also criticized the Arab newspapers and other Arab channels.

(Description of Source: London Al-Sharq al-Awsat in Arabic -- Influential Saudi-owned London daily providing independent coverage of Arab and international issues; editorials reflect official Saudi views on foreign policy)