Thread: Al-Qaida plot to kidnap Russell Crowe?

Actor says terror group targeted him as part of ‘cultural destabilization plot’
Russell Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired private security guards.

The Associated Press
March 9, 2005

SYDNEY, Australia - Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot,” according to an Australian magazine.

In an interview published in the March edition of Australia’s GQ magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in “Gladiator.”

“That was the first (time) I’d ever heard the phrase ‘al-Qaida,”’ Crowe said. “It was about — and here’s another little touch of irony — taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot,” he added.

Crowe was born in New Zealand and has a ranch in eastern Australia but made his name in Hollywood.

It was not clear if there were other targets in the plot.

Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired private security guards.

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Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot,” ...

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Thursday , March 10, 2005

U.S. FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN FIND DETAILED DIAGRAMS OF RUSSELL CROWE
Bush Calls Aussie Actor New Front in War on Terror

One day after Russell Crowe revealed that the al-Qaeda terror network wanted to kidnap him as a part of a “cultural destabilization plot,” U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan seized a laptop containing detailed diagrams of the Oscar-winning actor.

At a press briefing at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed the grim discovery, found in an abandoned cave outside Tora Bora. “The laptop contained crude drawings of the Golden Gate Bridge and Grand Central Terminal, but a highly sophisticated and detailed diagram of Russell Crowe,” Mr. Rumsfeld said. “Based on this evidence, one can only conclude that Mr. Crowe is now al-Qaeda’s number one target.”

Speaking at the White House today, President Bush told reporters, “Russell Crowe is the new front in the war on terror.”

Mr. Bush said he was instructing his military commanders in Iraq to transfer five thousand troops currently stationed in Basra to Mr. Crowe’s beach house north of Sydney. “We will fight the terrorists at Russell Crowe’s beach house so we do not have to fight them here,” Mr. Bush said.

But moments after Mr. Bush’s speech, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden issued a new statement saying that the information on the laptop was no longer valid: “It is true that Russell Crowe was on our list of targets when ‘Gladiator’ and ‘A Beautiful Mind’ came out, but after ‘Master and Commander’ we took him off.”


Elsewhere, oil prices reached record highs, sending shares in Dick Cheney soaring on the New York Stock Exchange.

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