Netanyahu also recently visited Cheney. are they planning an "October Surprise?"
One thing is certain, Israel has a history of creating fake Al Qaeda.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html
Keep in mind that over the past six years, the FBI has stated several times that "previously unknown groups", who make such public pronouncements, are usually acting on behalf of professional Intelligence agencies.
Al-Qaeda in Palestine threatens truck bombings
Aaron Klein
Published: 09.21.06, 17:17
RAMALLAH – A group claiming to be al-Qaeda yesterday announced it was behind the assassination last week of a senior Palestinian security official, accusing the officer of "collaborating" with the "Zionists" and the United States.
The group, calling itself Al-Qaeda in Palestine, warned of more killings. It said its next attack in the region would be "more destructive" and would use "trucks full of explosives."
Last Friday, Jad Tayeh, director of foreign relations for the Palestinian Authority's General Security Services, was assassinated in the Gaza Strip along with four of his assistants. The G.S.S. is controlled by PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.
According to security officials here, the General Security Services routinely exchanges information with Israeli, American and European security agencies.
Senior Palestinian officials say Abbas this week told Hamas he is in possession of "concrete evidence" indicating Hamas was behind the Tayeh killing. Abbas reportedly threatened he would suspend talks of creating a national unity government unless Hamas arrested those responsible for the assassination.
Hamas currently holds the majority of Palestinian parliamentary seats. Fatah and Hamas have been negotiating the past few weeks regarding the possibility of forming a unity government.
Yesterday a pamphlet distributed in Gaza and signed by al-Qaeda claimed it assassinated Tayeh.
"We announce that our brothers in the al-Qaeda district of Palestine succeeded in reaching one of the most dangerous personalities (Tayeh) who serves his masters, the US and the Zionists, in order to hit the fighters inside and outside Palestine," read the pamphlet, which was obtained by WND.
The group said Tayeh was "part of a network of agents and traitors. It is very known this bastard was responsible for coordinating with the Zionist Mossad. This nonbeliever gave the US and Zionists important information regarding the Lebanese front during the last war."
Tayeh was mostly based in Lebanon but traveled last week to the Gaza Strip.
The al-Qaeda-signed pamphlet went on to threaten larger attacks: "Our next operation will be more destructive. The first tool we will use is trucks full of explosives. We therefore ask all the honest people in this nation to leave these traitors and not to work with them because we are going to punish them very soon."
'Armed jihad will be the main tool'
Previous pamphlets distributed in Gaza the past six months have been signed by independent groups claiming to work on behalf of al-Qaeda, such as the Palestine Islamic Army or the Army of Islam, but this was the first pamphlet in which the al-Qaeda name was signed directly.
In May the al-Quds Islamic Army, a group claiming to work on behalf of al-Qaeda, distributed pamphlets in Gaza announcing it had set up shop in the Palestinian territories and would target Americans and "Zionists."
In April, WND first reported another group, the Army of Islam, which claims to speak for al-Qaeda, announced an al-Qaeda leader as important as Osama bin Laden will soon reveal himself in the West Bank and Gaza and orchestrate local and global jihad from the areas.
The Army of Islam in June took credit along with Hamas and the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees terror group for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilaf Shalit. The abduction prompted Israel's first ground invasion of the Gaza Strip since the Jewish state withdrew from the territory last year.
In his first-ever interview, Abu Muhammad, the declared leader of the Army of Islam, explained to WND why his group is different from other major Palestinian "resistance organizations."
"We believe that Muslims should participate in the jihad no matter how far the jihad field is from a geographic point of view," he said. "We are not limiting ourselves to the jihad in Palestine as the other Palestinian groups do, and we see that our duty obliges us to help Muslims and to participate in the jihad everywhere it is needed.
The terror leader warned attacks against US interests may come soon.
"(Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice said that the US wants a new Middle East, and there is no doubt that jihad, the armed jihad, will be the main tool and weapon when the day will come, and we believe that this day is not so far," Abu Muhammad said.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3306861,00.html
Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." [Washington Times September 10, 2001]
Fake Al Qaeda
The Phony (Mossad)
Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ... said that al-Qaeda militants were operating in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. "We know that they are there. We know that they are in Lebanon, working closely with Hezbollah. We know that they are in the region," he said. [BBC News - 12/5/2002]
Does he mean these "al Qaeda militants" who were detained in December 2002?
Mossad agents arrested by the PA for attempting to set up phony 'al Qaeda' cells in the Gaza Strip.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html
Karl Rove Promises October Surprise
Ronald Kessler
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006
WASHINGTON -- In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an "October surprise" to help win the November congressional elections.
President Bush's political strategist is also saying that the final two weeks before the elections will see a blitz of advertising, and the Republican National Committee is deploying an army of volunteers to key locations to help the grass-roots effort and monitor the elections.
The RNC is offering to fly in volunteers and cover their expenses.
Rove is not saying what the October surprise will be. Asked if he would elaborate and give his thinking about the coming elections, Rove told NewsMax that his take largely parallels what RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman said in a Sept. 5 NewsMax story.
As for the October Surprise, Rove said, "I'd rather let the balance [of plans for the elections] unroll on its own."
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The previous NewsMax story quoted Mehlman as saying that Republicans will hold their majority in the House and Senate. He bases that conclusion on a recent meeting with his regional political directors, on private polling, and on analyses of individual races.
Mehlman conceded that the House is in a "competitive situation." In the House, 35 to 40 seats are in play, he said. In the Senate, 12 or 13 seats could change hands. To tilt the balance, Democrats would have to pick up six seats in the Senate and 15 seats in the House.
But, Mehlman said, "I believe that the combination of the relatively narrow playing field, the relatively strong financial position our folks are in and the national party is in, the good turnout operation that we have, the motivation of our base, and the lack of motivation of their base as indicated by turnout in a number of recent Democrat primaries," will do the trick.
Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told the American Spectator Newsmaker Breakfast that even in Indiana, "There is no question that there is public consternation about our progress in Iraq." However, he said, "Hoosiers want us to come home, but they want us to win and come home."
When he was with Bush recently, the president asked him, "What do you have to say, Pence?"
"Thanks for being more determined than our enemy," Pence said.
"I like the way you put that," Bush quickly replied.
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Tony Williams and D.C.'s Strange Election
One of the strangest elections is being held on Capitol Hill, where a black Republican is running for city council in a city where no Republican in memory has ever defeated a Democrat. In this case, it helps to be the son of Juan Williams, the Fox News contributor and National Public Radio host.
With that kind of entree, Juan's son Tony Williams has been able to line up an impressive array of backers to help raise money for his campaign for Washington's Ward 6, which covers Capitol Hill. They range from Republican guru Grover Norquist and GOP operative Ed Rogers to Fox News contributor Fred Barnes.
Four Democrats are also vying for the City Council seat, which is open to Republicans and Democrats. Some other city council seats are reserved for Republicans.
Tony Williams, 26, is taller than his father but has inherited his chiseled good looks. When the younger Williams was attending Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., a talent scout for Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch asked if he would model.
"They wanted to do a shoot," Williams recalled. "My thought wasn't, ‘I want to be a model.' It was, ‘I want to get my work done.' I told them thanks, but no thanks. Maybe I missed my true calling."
Back when Tony, as a high school kid, attended New Year's Day brunches with his parents at my home, his mother Delise, a social worker, called him Antonio. After college, he became a speechwriter and legislative correspondent for Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., a communications and public relations assistant for the Republican National Committee, and a Senate page and intern for Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.
"My connection with the city and its movers and shakers has allowed prominent D.C. residents, many of whom have never supported a non-Democrat candidate, to support me," Williams told me in his baritone voice.
While Williams was raised in a liberal home, he thought liberals at Macalester College took liberalism to an extreme, and it made him uncomfortable.
"I am just a middle-of-the-road person generally," he said. "They started labeling me as a Republican. At first, I just thought these guys were throwing names out."
But Williams realized that he really did identify more with Republicans. When Williams began interning for the RNC, his father questioned him.
"He was kind of like, ‘What are you doing over there?'" Williams said. "But he was also like, ‘Let my son do his thing.'"
Asked how he feels about his son's Republican pedigree, Juan Williams said, "Initially, it was a surprise to everybody in our family. But the whole idea was to raise a young man who was empowered to make his own choices in life. He is a conservative person and has always been. It wasn't a surprise in that sense."
Tony Williams told me he is most impressed by the difference in the way Democrats and Republicans try to solve problems.
"Democrats wait for problems to happen and put a Band-Aid over them," Williams said. "Republicans get out in front of problems and take a proactive approach to solve them. Over the years, Republicans have been on the correct side of civil rights issues, but they aren't afraid to say that personal responsibility is also important in solving problems."
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/20/141615.shtml?s=lh