[aristeides]

This significant article in today's Washington Post, Zawahiri Urged Al Qaeda to Let Fighters Escape For Jihad's Sake , has important new information not only about Zawahiri and his new book, but also about the computer finds.

[IncPen]

The computer files also show al-Qaida leaders celebrating. A homemade video file made after Sept. 11 features television footage of terrified Americans fleeing the flaming World Trade Center, overlain with a soundtrack of mocking chants and prayer in Arabic.

I want to see this on the news with subtitles, constantly, and played for our children in their schools.

Lest we forget.

[austinTparty]

bump for later reading

[Orion78]

And, after the East Africa embassy bombings in 1998, a congratulatory message to Zawahri praised “what you did and all the works and the labors that you did to plague the enemy of God.” The message, stored in the computer as a Microsoft Word document, is signed “Abu Yaser.”

Nida'ul Islam Interviews The spokesman for the Islamic Union of the Mujahideen of Ogadin (7/?/99)

To obtain the information from its correct source, and the desire of "Nida`ul Islam" to bring a true picture of the events in Western Somalia, we directed a number of questions to brother Abu Yaser who is the spokesman for external relations and the media in the Islamic Union of the Mujahideen of Ogadin, and one of the graduates of the Islamic university of Medina...

The Mujahid Usama Bin Laden announced that the Arab Mujahideen played a big role in repelling the American invaders from Somalia. Did he, or others have a hand in establishing the Union?

Yes, the team of Shaykh Usama Bin Laden had an effective role in repelling the American invaders from Somalia, that is because they participated in that battle with some explosives and in launching attacks against the army of the alliance. However, what is more relevant is the fact that neither Usama nor others had any role in creating the Jihad Union in Somalia or West Somalia. There may be, some cooperation between him and the Mujahideen of the Islamic Union in West Somalia, however, not in establishing the Islamic Union in Somalia which is called "Jama'at-ul I'tisam Bilkitab Wassuna"...

[Shermy]

I thought this article might interest you. Here's some excerpts.

"...The memo laments al-Qaida’s sluggishness in realizing the menace of these weapons, noting that “despite their extreme danger, we only became aware of them when the enemy drew our attention to them by repeatedly expressing concern that they can be produced simply.”..."

"...Particularly encouraging, the letter in the computer files said, was a home-brew nerve gas made from insecticides and a chemical additive that would help speed up penetration into the skin. The writer said Khabab had supplied a computer disk that gave details of “his product” in a WinZip file, and “my neighbor opened it by God’s will.”..." this latter one - perhaps applicable to cropdusters?