USS Kitty Hawk the next target?

[BEER980]

29 March 2004 3:30 PM ET
Arabic posting: "Tomorrow you will watch the destruction of an American Aircraft Carrier" Within the past half hour, a posting was made on an Arabic language jihad forum that has proven credible in the past. The posting makes a threat on the USS Kitty Hawk for tomorrow, March 30. NEIN Director Douglas Hagmann has already notified the appropriate officials in the US military of this posting.

At this point it is impossible to determine the credibility of the threat (which contains references to dreams and visions), but the threat is specific in both time and target. Although this references the USS Kitty Hawk specifically, it may very well be a generic threat against any large US naval vessel. The references the the dream and visions are especially concerning given that the events of 9/11 were presented within similar metaphorical constructs. Although we cannot make any claims to the veracity the threat, given the specifity it would be foolhardy to dismiss this threat as simple bravado.

The Source and the translation of the post.

[Lindaloo]

Where is the Kitty Hawk right now?

[Josephine96]

Scary thought.. I hope nothing happens tomorrow

[Rainband]

Scary thought.. I hope nothing happens tomorrow

I doubt it will

[wx247]

Where is the Kitty Hawk right now?

good question... if it is out to sea it is definitely vulnerable. (ie: USS Cole)

[BEER980]

I will try to see where it is but I think they have ended the location reports and just say a general area. Last I remember it was in the ME but it may be rotating home. The terrorists do have quite a bit of intel on the Kitty Hawk if I remember the story from last year.

[Josephine96]

I still hope nothing happens.. There are a lot of targets and the Kitty Hawk is definitely 1

[Lindaloo]

I will try to see where it is but I think they have ended the location reports and just say a general area. Last I remember it was in the ME but it may be rotating home. The terrorists do have quite a bit of intel on the Kitty Hawk if I remember the story from last year.

I thought the Kitty Hawk was back in Norfolk. Did it leave again?!!

[Lindaloo]

I still hope nothing happens.. There are a lot of targets and the Kitty Hawk is definitely 1

RIGHT!!! Those cowards already attacked the USS Cole in 2000.

[stormraiser]

I looked around and couldn't find out where it was, but let us know Beer when you do

But according to the translation, the camel jockeys are saying that the Kitty Hawk is in the area of the Gulf

[BEER980]

Well it is based in Japan. Here is what I have found out and I hope the jihad posting is BS. She is too close to NK for this threat. There was a story of using some type of nuke on her last year.


March 16, 2004

Kitty Hawk, S. Koreans take part in war games

By Dirk Beveridge
Associated Press


SEOUL, South Korea — The carrier Kitty Hawk sailed to South Korea for annual joint military exercises, drawing condemnation from North Korea that the war games will worsen tensions amid the crisis over the communist country’s nuclear weapons program.
A U.S. military spokeswoman said Tuesday that the exercises involving 8,500 American troops and an undisclosed number of South Koreans are “defense-oriented and designed to ensure readiness and the ability to defend the Republic of Korea against external aggression.”

The exercises on land, sea and air start Sunday and run through March 28. They take place as South Korea works through a political crisis over last week’s impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun and as Seoul and five other governments try to resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff.

[Lindaloo]

Well darn!! Thanks for the info BEER!

[streetsoldier]

That bit of intel places the USS Kitty Hawk well within range of Abu Sayyaf and/or its Indonesian couterpart subsidiary of Al Qaida; maybe, this will be where we see an attack from a "missing" vessel?

[mf_dolphin]

A US aircraft carrier is protected by a whole slew of vessels in the carrier group. I would take bets on the Kitty Hawk being alive and well tomorrow

[vbhoutex]

A US aircraft carrier is protected by a whole slew of vessels in the carrier group. I would take bets on the Kitty Hawk being alive and well tomorrow

I have to agree with you here Marshall, except the first thing that popped into my head when I read your post is the fact of how many apparent sympathizers there may be intermingled into our armed forces who could help with/do something like this(ie several muslim sympathizers have been arrested among our troops for various crimes).

[blizzard]

A US aircraft carrier is protected by a whole slew of vessels in the carrier group. I would take bets on the Kitty Hawk being alive and well tomorrow

I have to agree with you here Marshall, except the first thing that popped into my head when I read your post is the fact of how many apparent sympathizers there may be intermingled into our armed forces who could help with/do something like this(ie several muslim sympathizers have been arrested among our troops for various crimes).

While there may be sympathisers in our military, commo into and off of a carrier group is so tightly monitored, getting info to a sympathizer is next to impossible.

Here it is nearly the 31st, and no news about the Kittyhawk. Thank The Good Lord for that.

[Firefighter16]

Osama best not mess with our Kitty, she has claws.

[Anonymous]

the more I read NEIN, the less credible they become in my eyes. They gather all of the information they can from credible news sources and guess what will happen based on these reports. Then, they translate a few messages on one of those radical jihad forums. A lot of things that these jihadists post are nothing but BS, plus they're trying to scare everyone. And Steve Quale's site....i'm surprised when I don't see a "high risk" or ongoing" terror threat within the US at least once a week.