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Friday, 17 October 2003 - Intercept:  HOMICIDE BOMBINGS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT -THIS WEEKEND IN POPULATED ISRAEL CIVILIAN AREAS

Network analysts "intercepted" messages posted in Arabic that called for homicide bombings on civilian areas. Calls for the attacks to start on Friday and last through the weekend were found as indicted in the partial Arabic text below. Although it was thankfully a "relatively quiet" weekend, the overall violent intent of the Islamic fundamentalists cannot be ignored. Let us never forget the objectives of the terrorists.

Islamic Sermon of Hate Precedes Bomb Attack

3 US Soldiers killed

Shaykh Ibrahim Mudayris delivers the sermon, which he devotes to underscoring the strong link between the holy mosque in Mecca and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This link, he says, is signified by two major events in
Islam: The prophet's night journey to Al-Aqsa, and the change of prayer direction from Al-Aqsa to the holy mosque in Mecca. The imam argues that the change of prayer direction does not detract from the importance of Al-Aqsa, as it came to please the prophet who yearned for his homeland, Mecca.

The imam urges Palestinians everywhere to follow the example of the prophet on the love of homeland and vows: "We promise that we will not forget you, O land of Palestine. We promise that we will not forget you, O Al-Aqsa. We promise that we will not forget you, O Jerusalem, Haifa, Yafo, Lod, and Ramle."

The imam continues with the same theme in the second sermon. He says: "Al-Aqsa Mosque, O Muslims, is not just a Palestinian, Arab, or Islamic cause, but also a world cause. There will be no security or peace on earth
unless the Palestine question is settled justly by returning Al-Aqsa Mosque to its rightful owners." "The world," he adds, "will never enjoy security unless our children enjoy it here in Palestine. We hear statements by the
little US President. We hear unfair and tyrannical statements in which he says Israel has the right to defend itself. These statements carry destruction for the United States itself." "From this place," the imam says, "we warn the American people that this President is dragging them to the abyss."

The imam says: "If Israel has the right to defend itself, then the Palestinians also have the right to defend their blood and children. We have the right to defend our houses, which are being demolished right now in Rafah. We have the right to defend our children's blood, which is being spilled right now in Rafah."

The imam defends the girl who carried out the Haifa operation, saying: "We have to defend our rights, land, and sanctities by all legitimate means. The terrorist is the one butchering innocent people there in Iraq and Afghanistan. The terrorist is the one butchering our brothers and children now in besieged Janin, Tulkarm, Ramallah, and all the villages of Palestine. They are the real terrorists."

The imam concludes with this prayer: "O Lord, protect our people in Rafah, Janin, and the whole of Palestine. O Lord, protect our sons and youths and spare their blood. O Lord, O Avenger, take vengeance on Your enemies, our enemies, and enemies of religion. O Lord, take vengeance on the Jews and their supporters. O Lord, take vengeance on the Jews and their allies. O Lord, take vengeance for the blood of our martyrs. O Lord, take vengeance for our deported people."

Gaza Palestine Satellite TV Channel in Arabic also carries the following report at 1300 GMT on 10 October: "President Yasir Arafat performed Friday prayers at the Protocol Mosque [Masjid al-tashrifat] in the presidential compound in Ramallah. The Friday imam, Shaykh Khamis Abda, denounced the Israeli aggression against our people and holy places. He affirmed that our people will remain solidly steadfast in the land of steadfastness and the night journey and the ascension to heaven in face of this escalation. The imam said that the Israeli machine of tyranny and death and destruction will not weaken our will. The imam called on our people to entrench national unity in face of the serious challenges and to rally around the wise leadership of the president until the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with Holy Jerusalem as its capital."

The report includes a recording of a small part of the sermon in which the imam says: "It is important today to be one stand and one heart behind our leader. This example, O God's subjects, exists in many of the traditions and
sayings by the prophet, peace be upon him." The imam then cites a tradition from the Hadith that says: "The true Muslim is the one who spares fellow Muslims his tongue and hand." The imam concludes with this prayer: "O Lord, preserve for us Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque. O Lord, protect our people and leader from every evil."

Ramallah Voice of Palestine, official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, carries at 0937 GMT a live sermon from Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Sheikh Yusuf Abu-Sunaynah delivers the sermon, in which he calls on worshippers to observe their religious duties, avoid sins, and turn to God for pardon and mercy.

In the second sermon, the imam alludes to the raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on Syrian territory, saying: "It is a blatant violation of the sovereignty of a member state of the United Nations, the Arab League, and
the Organization of Islamic Conference. What has the world done in face of this aggression? The United States, in a statement by its President, openly supported the aggression, considering it self-defense. It also called on
Syria to stop harboring what it terms armed groups."

In an apparent criticism of Syria, the imam says: "Corrupt leaders are worse to their people than the imperialist states themselves. He who has the right cannot beg it. What did Syria do when the US President justified the Israeli aggression? It said it hoped that the United States would not use the veto right. What utter humility! What weakness! Syria had the right and it was the aggrieved party. Yet, it placed itself in a position of soliciting
sympathy, while Israel brags and continues to make threats against Syria and Lebanon. How can there be victory? How can it be possible to stop the aggression?"

The imam also directs his criticism at the Arab states for not condemning the aggression and says: "Our Islamic religion has indicated the bases of free, respectable life and explained that the State of Islam is the real
strategy, the real power, future way, sound view, and most ideal solution to all our crucial issues. There is no honor for us without Islam and no dignity without the State of Islam. History will not have mercy on the
defeatists. Is it not time our nation in the east and the west returned to its senses, awakened from its slumber, adhered to its religion, and worked for the establishment of its state, the State of the Caliphate, the state of
right, justice, and victory?"

The imam concludes with a prayer to God to support Islam and Muslims and improve Muslim conditions. He prays: "O Lord, deal with the enemies of Islam for they are within Your power."

Partial Blackout in Israel?

Message Secured by Network Analyst: Tel Aviv; 2003/10/04: The Iranians penetrated  the central computer system the electrical company, cutting off the power to part of Israel.

Based on a "non-denial" confirmation from a HUMINT source, it would appear that the following post, roughly translated from Arabic to English, has merit:

The Nazareth is Jerusalem 's Arab ـ a ـ from Zuhair Indraos: Disclosed the Israeli Haartz Newspaper is Friday the veil that the Iranians could the penetration of the central computer belonging to the company of the Israeli electricity with the target of cutting off the electric current about the Hebrew country .
     And the Israeli newspaper said that it in the last few months disclosed attempts of the penetration of the central computer at the company in Al-Khudeira city and that supplies Israel with the electric power, and it became clear that Iranian races are the one that executed the penetration operation from the initial investigation .
And said the general manager to the company the target from this Iranian operation he the electric current was cut off in Israel or the confusion to it permanently .
     And Ha'aretz continued that the operations of the penetration of the central computer took place by the sending of terrific quantities from the computers viruses in addition to the sending of tens thousands of the electronic messages to the company address on the Internet, and that with the target of burdening the central computer is more than its energy and its ruining . But the Israeli company claimed that it could the frustration of the ruining operations by the companies of computers concerned with the Hebrew country and that the Iranian operations did not cause grave damages to the company .
     In another context Friday the veil disclosed that the Islamic Jihad Movement planned for the assassination of president of the institution of the former Alshabak Yacoub Perry . It is pointed that Perry is the leaving of its position and appointed a president to my one the telephones companies are the Israeli Alkhliwea and claims a Silkom, and she from the more Israeli companies a success . And Maariv newspaper said the operation thwarted in the middle of present year.

"I have come here to voice what I believe is an urgently needed reminder: That the war on terror can be won with clarity and courage or lost with confusion and vacillation".

"Half-measures against terrorists will leave their grievances intact, fueled by the hope of future victory. Full- measures will not redress those grievances, but it will convince them that pursuing terror is a prescription for certain defeat".

---Benjamin Netanyahu 10 April 2003 in speech before United States Senate

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