Are you an enemy of God?

Al-Qaida in North Africa issues threats

CAIRO, Egypt - The North African branch of al-Qaida, believed responsible for a suicide bombing in Algeria this month, threatened Monday to carry out new attacks against "enemies of God" in the region.

"The Holy warriors, thanks be to God, have managed to reorganize their ranks and set forth their plans, and they are preparing a lot of surprises," said the statement, posted on a militant Web site usually used by the group.

These "surprises" will escalate "until the enemies of God's religion realize that they have no choice but to repent to God and halt the war against Islam and Muslims" in north Africa, the statement said. The message's authenticity could not be independently verified.
The statement also called on "all Muslim brethren" to stay away from army, police, and official centers because militants "are determined to target their bases ... by all means of explosions, shelling and destruction until they are either uprooted or return to their senses."

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By the way, some of us (you) share the same religion as these holy warriors. But we should not be worried, we just have to return to our sense or stay away from targets!!!!!!

None of these idiots thought that this kind of statements is not doing any good to "their" religion and that it gives more reasons to our dictators to justify their oppressive actions? Who cares about "your" religion when we loose our freedom!

NYC Explosion!

No No, it is not a terrorist attack!


NEW YORK (Reuters) - An 83-year-old steam pipe exploded underground in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, shaking buildings, creating a towering geyser of debris and sending people fleeing in scenes reminiscent of the September 11 attacks.

Officials in New York and Washington promptly ruled out terrorism. One person died of cardiac arrest and about 20 others were injured, some seriously, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.

Boiling, brownish water and steam gushed geyser-like at least 120 feet high out of a crater about 20 feet

wide on Lexington Avenue at 41st Street, one of the busiest areas of New York City near the Grand Central transportation hub.

The scene evoked memories of buildings collapsing in a billow of debris as they did on September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan was destroyed.

"We ran down 43 floors thinking we were going to die," said Megan Fletcher, 35, who works for an Australian company in the Chrysler Building. "It looked like when the buildings collapsed on 9/11."[...]

"It looked like the World Trade Center had exploded. I saw rocks and pebbles coming down. As I was running I got pelted in the head by rocks and concrete. Steam came up and then the ground started breaking up," said Reggie Evans, an office administrator who was covered in mud.[....]

Kwang Choi, 57, was working at a laundromat one block away when the explosion occurred. "People just kept running. People were saying a building collapsed," he said. "I looked outside -- huge smoke, just like 9/11. I just ran."

Said 50-year-old computer worker Azad Mohamed: "Of course, the first thing you think about is terrorism. It's pretty scary."

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Algeria bombings: 6 killed, dozens injured.

After years of truce, a new wave of 7 coordinated bombings put our western neighbor in a bad spot. After recovering from years of islamist insurgency killing hundred of thousands, and after seeing its economy emerging, here we are again. Let's hope this is an isolated incident. This is really scary for the whole region, specially after what happened few weeks ago in TN.

An apparently co-ordinated wave of bombings largely targeting police killed six people and wounded nearly 30 others in Algeria on Tuesday, according to the official news agency, police and hospital staff.

While no one claimed responsibility for the attacks, they bore the hallmarks of the Salafist Group of Call and Combat, or GSPC, an al-Qaeda-linked insurgency group.

Less than a month ago, it announced it was changing its name to al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa, raising the stakes in the region's fight against terrorism.

The attacks surprised the North African country, which has steadily emerged from an Islamic insurgency that killed more than 150,000 people in the 1990s.

While scattered violence by the GSPC continues, such carefully planned strikes are rare in today's Algeria, an ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism.

The seven bombings tore through towns and countryside east of Algiers between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time, the APS agency said.
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