Posted on 10/13/2001 6:36:50 PM PDT by sarcasm
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A spokesman for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has repeated threats to carry out new terror attacks and said in a video aired Saturday that Muslims in the United States and Britain should avoid airplanes and tall buildings.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, speaking on a videotape on Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite channel, also accused President Bush, his father, former President Clinton and the prime ministers of Israel and Britain of leading ``crusaders'' guilty of killing Muslims.
``The blood of those will not be lost in vain, God willing,'' he said.
The 8-minute statement was the third released by bin Laden's organization since the U.S.-led bombardment against the Taliban and al-Qaida began last Sunday, Oct. 7. Abu Ghaith said in the tape that he was speaking on the fifth day of bombing, which was Thursday.
He said the U.S.-led air assault on Afghanistan has ``eradicated entire villages'' but did not name them. Abu Ghaith also pledged to stand beside Afghanistan and praised Mullah Mohammed Omar, the supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. He did not mention bin Laden.
Washington has said it is trying to avoid civilian deaths in its campaign, launched to root out bin Laden, the top suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
``We dismiss it. This is just more propaganda,'' White House spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise said Saturday night of the videotape.
Abu Ghaith repeated warnings made earlier this week of more attacks. ``When al-Qaida promises, it delivers, God willing,'' he said.
``The storms will not stop. The storms of planes will not stop until you drag your defeated tails from Afghanistan, not until you raise your hands from the Jews in Palestine, not until you lift the embargo on the Iraqi people, not until you leave the Arabian peninsula, not until you stop supporting the Hindus against the Muslims in Kashmir,'' he said.
He advised Muslims in the United States and Britain ``not to ride planes and not to live in high buildings.''
Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti who appeared with bin Laden in the first video released by the group Oct. 7, said Bush, his father, Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were ``at the head of all the criminals, the Zionists and the crusaders, who have committed the worst practices and greatest atrocities against the Muslim nation.''
``Millions of Muslim men, women and children have been killed without committing any sins,'' he said.
He said al-Qaida had ordered the Americans and British to leave the Arabian Peninsula because the ``land will burn with fire under their feet, God willing.''
Abu Ghaith denounced Islamic nations, accusing a gathering of foreign ministers from the 56-member Organization of the Islamic Conference this week of ``supporting the strike.''
``These people do not represent the masses in any way and don't have any legitimacy,'' he said of the OIC members. The OIC session held in Qatar -- which the Taliban had asked to help stop the U.S. air campaign -- did not directly condemn the bombing, instead only expressing concern over civilian casualties.
This is new. I think this latest condition has been added to complicate things for Musharraf. Any moves by Powell to get India to relent in Kashmir will now be seen as capitulation to terrorism (i.e. unacceptable). And if Powell doesn't get India to relent, then the Pakistani people will see Musharraf as a weak puppet. Checkmate, Mush. Yer history.
no, i'm not happy about it
Bring it on little muslims .... eventually we are going to get tired and REALLY start breaking stuff, like Mecca.
Ok we know about planes, a hint here is that it sounds like to me, maybe we should watch out for moving trucks at apartment buildings. When can we attack this fifth column the way we need to? KEEP WATCH.
I, for one, am starting to get a liiiiiiiiiittle irritated!!!
Any thoughts?
His created God is nothing more than a sham puppet, not unlike the Wizard of Oz, used to mask the megalomaniacal desires of extremist warmongers.
Fire might surely come to the Middle East. It would be a fire that incinerates the wicked practitioners of a paper creation.
Vollständiger Krieg. Keine Gnade.
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. Revelation 19:11-15
And YOU'RE going to pay for it!
That's the ticket Fitz!
Surely they won't set fire to the oil fields in the Middle East?
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