Posted on 09/30/2006 10:18:39 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
States with poor governance; ethnic, cultural, or religious tensions; weak economies; and porous borders will be prime breeding grounds for terrorism.
Louisiana? :-)
Seriously: Thanks for posting this
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30282635.htm
Brazilian Senate president hurt in copter crash
30 Sep 2006 20:38:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The president of Brazil's Senate, Renan Calheiros, was slightly hurt when the helicopter in which he was traveling crashed in northeast Brazil on Saturday, a congressional spokesman said.
The incident occurred in Arapiraca city in Alagoas state on the eve of general elections in Brazil and one day after an Amazon plane crash in which 155 people are feared to have been killed.
Another senator, Teotonio Vilela, was also hurt. He is running for governor of Alagaos in the election for the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Movement.
An aide and a third politician were also on board as well as the pilot. All were taken to a local hospital then discharged without serious injury.
Federal Police, aviation officials and a Senate security team were investigating the cause of the crash.
The helicopter belonged to a businessman, Agencia Estado said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30885264.htm
Egypt busts Sinai arms ring - security sources
30 Sep 2006 22:02:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
Background
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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(Adds MENA says two arrested, denies Palestinian involvement)
AL-ARISH, Egypt, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Egyptian police busted a weapons-dealing ring on Saturday that sold guns and grenades in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and whose members included security men, security sources said.
"Nine members of this network were caught red-handed while selling weapons and explosives on one of the streets in al-Arish to a group of Bedouin and Palestinians," one of the sources told Reuters, asking not to be named.
The Sinai peninsula has been the scene of a string of three deadly bomb attacks targeting popular Red Sea beach resorts over the past two years that have killed scores of people.
Palestinian militants have also used Sinai to smuggle weapons through tunnels across the border into the Gaza Strip for use in fighting Israel.
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http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2006/09/29/update/friday/news01.txt
Plane torn to pieces in crash near Safford Regional Airport
By Adam Gaub, Assistant Editor
An Oklahoma man was able to walk away from a horrific plane crash when it ran out of fuel and crashed near Safford Regional Airport on Wednesday evening, police reports stated.
Jerald Pate, 48, of Muskogee, Okla., a pilot who was flying equipment for Phelps Dodge for the construction at the new Safford Mine, was able to walk nearly a mile and a half from the wreck to the airport hangar. He was in good enough condition to refuse medical treatment, police reports stated, despite the wreck causing Pate's plane to be torn apart.
Safford Regional Airport Manager Doug Benson, who later went and viewed the wreckage, said it was a miracle Pate was able to walk away from that crash.
"I really can't conceive how anyone could have walked away from (the crash)," Benson said. "How he went through all that sheet metal and Plexiglas without getting torn up is incredible."
Benson said other than a few scrapes and being dusty, Pate looked otherwise unharmed when he talked to him at the airport. Medics checked Pate and the airport, but Pate refused to be taken to a hospital, police reports stated.
Pate told Graham County Sheriff's deputies that he took off from Austin, Texas, after refueling there at 1:50 p.m. He was approaching Safford when he ran out of fuel and his engines shut down. He said his gauges were not reading properly.
Pate told deputies he tried turning on auxiliary tank, but the plane stalled anyway, dropping from 6,000 feet at speeds estimated to be as high as 80 mph.
The plane slammed into the ground near a ravine about a mile east of the airport, police reports stated, tearing the front half of the twin engine Beechcraft Baron apart.
The plane is registered to Bruce Hensley, also of Muskogee. Pate told deputies the plane was uninsured.
Sheriff's deputies went out to locate the plane the night of the crash so they could turn off the plane's emergency locator transmitter signal. When deputies located the aircraft, it was broken in two behind where the seats were located, Commander Dwayne Elders stated in his report.
Pate was transporting eight concrete vibrators and tools to be delivered to the Phelps Dodge mine project just north of Safford. When Sheriff's deputies returned to the scene, they were able to help Pate get the mostly intact equipment from the wreckage, and helped him get it loaded for delivery the next day, Benson said.
Contact Adam Gaub at 428-2560, ext. 240, or e-mail him at adam@eacourier.com.
Plenty of truth to that--though those were evidently fallen angels or akin to such in some way.
Thanks.
September 30, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
(Sudan) Al-Qaeda's Al-Zawahri calls U.N. resolution to send
peacekeepers into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region a "Crusader plan," imploring the
Muslims of Darfur to defend themselves (my title)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_tape;_ylt=ApOv3Z1gWuk_HX5OmLC7bdILewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--
(Afghanistan) Twelve killed in Kabul suicide blast
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20503314-1702,00.html
NATO meeting fails to solve Afghan troop shortfall
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2381434,00.html
Indian police: Pakistan behind bombings - Mumbai police chief A.N. Roy
"The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by
Lashkar-e-Taiba and their operatives in India."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_re_as/india_train_bombings
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1235708,00.html
(India) July 11 blast probe: Police search for Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) activist
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1809894,001302390000.htm
Pakistan 'the West's main ally': Musharraf warns warned the West would
be "brought to its knees" without his country's co-operation in the war
against terror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5394278.stm
Yemen arrests 5 suspected of kidnapping
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_re_mi_ea/yemen_arrests;_ylt=Amx7Mdm8FzEHxLGfXWbLbEBvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-
Bomb explodes in Indonesia's Poso
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/30/eng20060930_307886.html
Congress pushes through security measures - Homeland security, border
fence bills passed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15058456/
US House passes ports security bill
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193345623&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Detainee Legislation Puts CIA Interrogations Back on Track
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216818,00.html
Report says detainee plan would pardon U.S. officials
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52217
Bush says terrorists seek new base
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20060929-121755-5456r.htm
Commander: Iraq insurgents losing ground
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq
Iraq shuts down Baghdad with one-day curfew
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15066939/
(Iraq) U.S. Detains Sunni Politician's Bodyguard on Suspicion He
Planned Attacks in Iraq
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216819,00.html
(Iraq) Shia's flee reign of terror in mixed Iraqi city
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/September/focusoniraq_September195.xml§ion=focusoniraq
(France) Teacher forced into hiding after attacking Islam
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2381435,00.html
France: Women's Rights Group Protests Entry of Pro-Stoning Muslim
scholar Hani Ramadan
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.345250300&par=0
(Israel) Syria threat over Golan puts Israel on war alert
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/30/wmid30.xml
Israel Infrastructure Minister: 'Liquidate Hizbollah Chief'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1235705,00.html?f=rss
Kenya: Muslims in Demo Over Terror Suspects' Arrests
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609290921.html
(UK) Terror police shake-up proposed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5393578.stm
Kuwaiti emir pressed Bush for Guantanamo detainees release: lawyer
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/September/theworld_September1043.xml§ion=theworld
(Australia) Hicks trial 'unlikely this year'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20502333-1702,00.html
Canadian pledges better airport security
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060929-042135-9615r
(NYC) Man placed dummy bomb in JFK parking lot arrested
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193345166&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Philadelphia) Imam guilty of selling guns & ammo
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/15626500.htm
(Iran) Woman Accused of Supporting Terror Group - supporting MEK group
to overthrow Iranian regime
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/entrefinance/feeds/ap/2006/09/30/ap3056740.html
Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=QH5T1Z30W4AMRQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml
Fresh violence claims 15 more lives in Sri Lanka
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/September/subcontinent_September1135.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
States with poor governance; ethnic, cultural, or religious tensions; weak economies; and porous borders will be prime breeding grounds for terrorism.
Louisiana? :-) <<<
Good choice, should we include, Michigan, and California?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/jonsson092906.htm
The Rise of the East Asian Caliphate
The rise of a potential caliphate in East Asia takes on added significance when we recognize the close association between Chavez of Venezuela and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Further increasing the risk for the Sunni faction's goal of reconstructing a caliphate was that the Russian military recently held its annual RUBEZH ('Border') maneuver in the Caspian Sea region. (Reference MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 1296 September 22, 2006) 'The Iranian website Baztab, affiliated with Expediency Council Secretary and former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezai, presented the maneuver, based on a report in the Central Asian press, as aiming to prepare the Russian army to respond to a possible U.S. military assault on Iran.'
'The maneuver, called 'RUBEZH 2006,' [which included] 2,500 troops from the armed forces of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, was held the week of (August 24-29) in the port of Aqtau, [Kazakhstan]... on the basis of the 'Collective Security Treaty' [CST]. Uzbekistan participated, as an observer in this exercise; Belarus and Armenia did not take part in it.'
'In parallel with the Aqtau maneuver, the armed forces of Kazakhstan and China conducted joint military operations in Kazakhstan in the context of the Shanghai Cooperation Pact (SCO). These military operations revealed more clearly the signs of cooperation and military-security coordination between the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the member states of the Collective Security Treaty.'
' Iran , which is a member with observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), continues to maintain informal relations with the Collective Security Treaty.'
Paper says it has unseen video by Atta
A previously unseen video made by Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been obtained by Britain's The Sunday Times, the newspaper reported Saturday.
In editions available late Saturday, the paper said it had been handed the so-called martyrdom video, but did not reveal the source of the tape.
It reported that Atta was filmed reading a document marked in Arabic as a will as he sat beside fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah — who seized control of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa.
The newspaper said that a timecode stamp on the videotape indicated it had been recorded on January 18, 2000 and the recording was made at an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan.
There was no soundtrack, the newspaper said. It quoted an unnamed U.S. source as saying that attempts to lip read the tape to transcribe the content had been unsuccessful.
The recording could help resolve questions over Atta's whereabouts in January 2000, after he fled his home in Hamburg, Germany.
Osama bin Laden is also shown on the hour-long video addressing supporters at a site in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the newspaper reported. It said a timecode stamp indicated the al-Qaida leader was speaking on January 8, 2000.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_re_eu/sept11_video&printer=1;_ylt=AgTJwzH0jeieYmAkVbDRdjBbbBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
Was it this site?
http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp
Full translation of Zawahiri 9/29/2006 video, courtesy of Laura Mansfield
In the name of God, praise be to God, and may peace and prayers be upon the Messenger of God, his family, companions, and allies.
Muslim brothers everywhere, peace be upon you and the mercy of God and His blessings.
The murderer and spiller of Muslim blood, Bush, has stated that he has secret prisons, in which he holds the dangerous leaders of the group of Qa'idat al-Jihad, including the mujahid brother Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, may God free him, and he has stated that during the three years after Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad's arrest, the interrogators have been able to get from Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad valuable information which has helped the Crusaders to kill and arrest a number of leaders of Al-Qa'ida.
I want to ask this lying failure: Who are those leaders of Al-Qa'ida whose killing or capture was facilitated by the information extracted from Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad? And I say to him: You lying failure, what is the size of your losses after the capture of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, may God free him?
Bush, you deceitful charlatan, three and a half years have passed since you captured Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, so how have you found us during this time? Losing and surrendering? Or, by the grace of God, attacking, seeking martyrdom, advancing, and injuring you on a daily basis. The strikes of the mujahidin deprived you of the pleasure of quenching your thirst for revenge with the capture of our champions, those who repeat what (Islamic poet) Abu-Firas (al-Hamadani) said:.
And I tell him: You lying failure: Why can't you be brave at least once in your life and inform your nation of the disasters, which your forces are facing in Afghanistan and Iraq? Why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and its allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people's sons in order to increase your profits?
Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar, who intentionally deceived your nation, when you drove them to war in Iraq under the pretext of the presence of nuclear weapons there and under the pretext of Al-Qa'ida's connections with Saddam Husayn, following which evidence proved that you intentionally lied and misled? And do you have the courage to stand in front of your people and tell your nation that you lied to them and drove them -- and continued to drive them -- to terrible things for the sake of stupid fantasies?
And I tell him: You frivolous charlatan, if the arrest of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, may God free him, has helped you in the war on terror, why then are your forces retreating in secret from the south and east of Afghanistan and handing over their tasks to the NATO forces, which are screaming for help due to the horribleness of what is happening to them at the hands of the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida?
I tell him that if arresting Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, may God set him free, enabled you to deal painful blows to Al-Qa'ida, why then your troops are making quick arrangements for withdrawal from Iraq? I also tell him that Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, may God set him free, has hurt you thou sands of times more than you hurt him.
Abu-Firas says: Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad is a soldier of Islam who has been fighting its enemy; first the Russians, and then the Americans, for more than 20 years.
I also tell him that Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad is the leader of the march, the pioneer of an awakening, and the vanguard of a nation, and he has left behind him thousands others who have learned from him or those who learned from those who learned from him and who take their example his life story and his continuous sacrifices and giving in the path of God so that the word of God be the highest and the word of the unbelievers be the lowest.
I also tell him that what you have committed against Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad and the other Muslim captives in your prisons and the jails of your slaves in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and elsewhere is not a secret to anyone and we are a people who do not tolerate oppression and we do not abandon our revenge until our chests are healed of those who aggressed against us. By the grace of God, we are seeking to extract revenge on behalf of Islam and Muslims from you, your soldiers, and your allies. So be patient if you can when you face the horrors of war because we, with God's help, will tolerate it.
Al-Barudi (an Egyptian poet) may God have mercy on his soul said: Bush, you deceitful charlatan: You have captured Ramzi Yusuf, Umar Abd-al-Rahman, Wali Khan, Ibn al-Shaykh, Ramzi Bin-al-Shibah, Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, Abu-al-Faraj al-Libi, and hundreds of Islam's mujahidin and heroes in your war against Islam which you call the war on terror. And your agents in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have captured thousands of the youth and soldiers of Islam. You have let them taste various types of torture at the hands of your tormentors and agents.
But, by the grace of God, we are taking revenge on their behalf on a daily basis from your soldiers and the soldiers of your allies and agents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and all Muslim countries from Indonesia to Morocco and even in your own country every day. The horror of fighting only increases our determination to sacrifice and give more of ourselves in the path of God.
Abd-al-Rahman Bin-Hassan Bin Thabit (an old Arab poet), may God be pleased with him, said: Bush, you deceitful charlatan: Be aware that the liberation of our captives is a debt on our shoulders, which we must fulfill, with God's help and power. You should know, O deceitful charlatan, that you are not facing individuals or organizations but you are facing the Muslim nation in which the spirit of jihad flows and which rejects humiliation under Zionist-Crusader arrogance. So are you able to kill or capture the nation of Islam.
Therefore, stop bluffing by saying that you have captured this one or killed that one because your soldiers who have been killed are filling the fields in Iraq and Afghanistan and their colleagues are fleeing from death to death by committing suicide out of despair.
The second issue that I want to talk about is the statement made by the pope of the Vatican, who blasphemed God and insulted the reverend Prophet (Muhammad), peace and prayers be upon him, and what this charlatan said; that Islam is unreasonable. The pope with his contradictive remarks has pretended to have forgotten that his Christianity cannot be accepted by a sound mind because it includes superstitions like the trinity, the crucifixion, redemption, the original sin, the infallibility of the pope, and the church's forgiveness of sins.
He forgot that the book he deems holy does not have an authentic source and did not descend on Jesus, peace be upon him. Rather, it is about what was written about Jesus, peace be upon him, without specifically identifying its writers, translators, or original texts. After the bishops selected parts of the book and accepted them as legal, they considered other parts as illegal, without having clear justifications or intelligible proofs for this.
O our Muslim nation, these acts of insolence did not come single. Rather, they were part of a series of insults targeting Islam, such as the writings of Salman Rushdie, the honored guest of the White House, France prohibiting wearing scarves in schools, US desecration of the Holy Koran, the US pressure to hold Wafa'i Qustantin and her sisters to the vaults of torture in the monasteries that are protected by the US-Crusader influence, and the cartoons insulting the character of the reverend messenger, peace and prayers be upon him.
All of these insults coincide with the Crusade on Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, including the carpet bombing of villages, violation of the women's honor, torture, secret jails, and other forms of the dirty Crusader-Zionist series of the Crusader US campaign against Islam and Muslims.
The charlatan Benedict XVI reminds us of the speech delivered by his predecessor Pope Urban II in the 11th century in Claremont in France, in which he instigated the people of European to fight Muslims and wage Crusade wars because the pagan Muslims, the enemies of Christians, as he claimed, desecrate the grave of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him. He deliberately lied to the mob of the West and ignored the crystal-clear facts; namely, that Muslims are not pagan and that they eradicated paganism wherever they go.
They are monotheists who worship the One and Only God who begot not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him. He also ignored the fact that Muslims cannot be enemies of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, because they believe in his prophecy and consider him an apostle messenger of inflexible purpose. They believe in the Bible that descended on him and believe in all God's prophets, messengers, and books.
The result of this charlatanism was Crusade wars that lasted for about two centuries and ended with the utter defeat upon the Crusader West.
Benedict XVI fabricated lies against us, but we respond to this insult by benevolence, inviting him and all Christians to Islam, religion of monotheism, which does not know trinity, the superstition of crucifixion, redemption, and incarnation. It is the religion the well-guarded book of which has not been distorted or changed and defies humans to create a book of its like.
However, if they insist on their failed Crusader war, let them have the same fate of Urban II and those who obeyed him and believed his lies.
The third issue that I want to talk about is the Crusader plan to send Crusader forces to Darfur, which is about to become a new field for the Crusader wars. O nation of Islam, rise to defend your land and sanctities against the aggression of the Crusaders who are using the cover of the United Nations. You will only be protected by a popular jihadist war which the mujahidin are undertaking.
As for the government of Khartoum, which conceded the south, is too week to defend Darfur after inciting wars and seditions in it. This government permits the impermissible, seeks its own interest, and ga rners spoils. How can a government of a defeated belief be steadfast in the face of the gravity of wars?
Is it not the government that had dissolved the popular defense forces so as to hand over the south to the US-Zionist influence? So it cannot be farther from leading popular jihad. So, honorable and noble people of Darfur, cling to your religion, and resolve your differences among yourselves. Do not allow the conniving and deceitful government of Khartoum or the anti-Islam Crusader West to intervene among you.
Be prepared to fend off the Crusader campaign against you. you should realize the powerlessness of the governments in control of the Muslim land against the forces of Crusader invasion. These governments are suffering two kinds of impotence. The first is ideological, for they accepted the legitimacy of the Unit ed Nations, which is in violation of Islam.
This organization obliges all those governments to maintain Israel's sovereignty and territorial integrity, for it is a member, like them, to the United Nations. They also suffer behavioral impotence, for they agreed to remain in power through submission to the will of the Crusader West and allowing it to occupy the Muslim land in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. you should realize the impotence of many resounding names who install themselves as leaders of the Muslim masses.
I will specifically mention three categories: The category of those who are ideologically-defeated, those who accepted the governance of the masses instead of the governance of the Shari'ah (Islamic law).
They acknowledged the legitimacy of the corrupt rulers and accepted the national bond instead of Muslim brotherhood and the Sykes-Picot borders instead of the Islamic caliphate. They entered Kabul aboard America's tanks, under the cover of its Cross, and the protection of its bombers.
They participated in the councils of the occupation, and then in the rigged elections and referendums in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second category is the category of the deceptive merchants of religion, those who colluded with the US occupation of Iraq, before, during, and after the invasion.
They also participated in defending the US occupiers and waged a war against the Muslims and mujahdin in the name of Islam in the service of the US master. The third category is the category of the clerics of beggary, those who sold their religion for salaries and posts. They approved of recognizing Israel and reconciliation with it. They sold off Palestine, and installed their rulers as pious followers of God.
They labeled those who confront their corruption as being extremists and infidels. we should renounce all the resolutions and treaties of capitulation, beginning with the resolution on the partition of Palestine, and ending with Resolution 1701, passing through the Camp David and Oslo accords.
All these are resolutions and treaties that hand over the land of Islam to its enemies, recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist entity, and incriminate those who wage jihad against it. the Muslim nation should wage a popular jihadist war against the Crusader campaign.
What the enemies of Islam fear most is the popular jihadist war. the Muslim nation should realize that Afghanistan and Iraq are the most two important fields for confronting the contemporary Crusader war.
Therefore, the Muslim nation should support the mujahdin in these two countries with all its power. God, be He blessed, says: Those who believe, and adopt exile, and fight for the Faith, in the cause of Allah as well as those who give (them) asylum and aid,- these are (all) in very tru th the Believers: for them is the forgiveness of sins and a provision most generous.
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Preliminary analysis of Zawahiri 9/29/2006 video courtesy of Laura Mansfield:
The video released yesterday by Al Qaeda second-in-command Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri was supposed to be a ranting attack against the US administration, with vitriolic jabs at President George W. Bush, and was intended to influence the US public just a month before the 2006 interim elections.
Instead the video gave the appearance of an organization that has become distracted and is on the run.
It’s interesting to note that in the first portion of the tape, Zawahiri wears a white robe with a black turban and scarf; but in the second and third portion of the tape he wears a white turban.
It’s surprising what can be gleaned from a mere 18 minutes or so of video tape.
The first ten minutes of the tape containing the diatribe against Bush is recorded in what appears to be some sort of studio, like the last several Zawahiri tapes, with proper lighting and what is most likely a chromo-key backdrop. That portion of the tape has English subtitles.
The backdrop features a white flag containing the words “There is no God but Allah; Mohamed is the Messenger of Allah” in Arabic, as well as a small cannon to the left of Zawahri pointed to the right. There is a light on the left as well.
Approximately ten minutes into the tape, when the portion discussing Bush ends abruptly, a dramatic shift in video quality is seen.
The remaining two segements of the three-segment tape are videotaped in front of what appears to be a sheet of brown fabric. Although Zawahiri wears a microphone, the lighting is of a much poorer quality, as is the sound quality, resulting in a dramatically different appearance for Bin Laden’s lieutenant.
Based on the way the hanging fabric backdrop moves, it is possible that this portion of the tape was filmed outdoors.
The tape, which was released just two weeks after the remarks by Pope Benedict XVI regarding Islam, gives the appearance that the first portion was complete and ready to release, but that the statements of the Pope compelled Zawahiri to film a postscript of sorts to address those comments.
The fact that Zawahri did not film the portions of the tape dealing with the Pope and Darfur in his studio may indicate some sort of time pressure to get the tape out on schedule. It also seems to demonstrate the existence of some sort of logistical issues in reaching his usual studio or having a cameraman with a portable studio come to his location.
This is further evidence by an examination of the digital signatures of the different portions of the tape, which indicates that they were filmed using two different camera types.
In addition to examining the tape itself, a review of the content of the message is also somewhat different that previous Zawahiri messages.
The first ten minutes or so of the tape was devoted to the diatribe against President Bush, with Zawahiri calling him a liar repeatedly, as well as a charlatan, and claiming that he is lying to the American people about the “disasters they face in Iraq and Afghanistan”.
In each tape, Zawahiri, who has never been a Bush supporter, seems to become bolder and more overtly hostile to President Bush, this time spewing insults at the President repeatedly..
He stresses over and over that the US could not possibly have gotten any valuable information from captured Al Qaeda mujahid Khalid Sheikh Mohamed. In fact, after listening to his repetition of this claim several times during the first few minutes of the message, the phrase “me thinks he doth protest too much” comes to mind.
Instead of convincing the world that no information has been obtained from Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, Zawahiri gives the impression that valuable intelligence has in fact been obtained, and that it has hurt his organization.
Zawahiri shows that he is in touch with western media reports, echoing the sentiments of the American anti-war movement, claiming that the reasons that Bush cited for going to war with Iraq were fabricating, citing the failure to find nuclear weapons in Iraq and the lack of evidence linking Al Qaeda with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Zawahiri implies the existence of current Al Qaeda terror attacks in the US on a daily basis but offers no proof or even specific information about these alleged attacks in this statement: “But, by the grace of God, we are taking revenge on their behalf on a daily basis from your soldiers and the soldiers of your allies and agents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and all Muslim countries from Indonesia to Morocco and even in your own country every day.”
The Bush portion of the tape appears incomplete; it is likely that we will see more of this tape at some point in the future.
The remaining seven minutes of the tape discuss the Pope’s comments, and make reference to the situation in Darfur, Sudan.
Zawahiri calls the Pope a charlatan, and compares him to Pope Urban II, who launched the first Crusade in 1095. Zawahiri threatens the Pope with the same fate as that of Urban II, which is somewhat confusing considering that Pope Urban II died fourteen days after Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders.
Zawahiri accuses Pope Benedict of blaspheming the Prophet Mohamed. He claims the Pope has forgotten that the book (a reference to the Bible) “does not have an authentic source and did not descend on Jesus”.
He accuses the Pope of pretending to forget that “Christianity cannot be accepted by a sound mind because it includes superstitions like the trinity, the crucifixion, redemption, the original sin, the infallibility of the pope, and the church's forgiveness of sins.”
In the segment on Darfur, Zawahiri tells the Muslims of the region that they must stand up against the “Zionist-Crusader threat”, which their own government is too weak or corrupt to withstand.
Please see the full translation for more information.
Coming up in the next post.
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Russian Invaders Attacked in Chechnya and Dagestan
Kavkaz Center - Istanbul,Turkey
Russian media reported Saturday a landmine attack by Chechen Mujahideen
on a Russian military convoy consisting of two jeeps and one truck on
the highway ...
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/09/30/5760.shtml
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Iraqi Mujahideen Attack US Troops Every 15 Minutes On Average
Kavkaz Center - Istanbul,Turkey
... CBS news that the US government is concealing the full extent of
violence
against the US occupation forces in Iraq, noting that the Mujahideen
activity
have ...
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/09/30/5763.shtml
Musharraf blames West for terrorism
Hindustan Times - India
... Mujahideen, who were brought, trained and financed by the West to
fight
Soviet troops coalesced into Al-Qaeda after the withdrawal of the
invading
(Soviet ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1810158,000500020000.htm
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Brazilian plane, is getting very odd.
Even the pilots don't
know when they were hit, only that they lost a wing.
Osama bin Laden is also shown on the hour-long video addressing supporters at a site in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the newspaper reported. It said a timecode stamp indicated the al-Qaida leader was speaking on January 8, 2000. <<<
Does this tape count as an OBL tape? Is it the "next" one?
Why is it coming out now?
So they can read the will? warning to get our wills ready?
Or to tell us that their wills are ready to be used?
Vel, thanks for getting the Laura translation.
See #32 of this thread, it has the quotes in poem form.
Something is bugging me, in one of the translations that Iread yesterday, it said something about 'dog'.
I can't get that arrest/and the threat of extridation of that bounty hunter that has been on the news a man they call Dog.
Guess he has a tv program, LOL, what I miss by not having a tv..
If it was then the association would be Mexico and Hawaii.
But Hawaii comes up. Which reminds me, did you see the posts of yesterday on page 4? One of them was a strange death of another fully suited scuba diver.
Poems and songs, as in "yellow brick road".
The tin man, would that be a hazard suit.
Need coffee, had my nap, but brain did not wake up, when the cat bit me and I got up. He can only go so long without loving.
[Poems and note the description of the time filmed, does it match the Zawihiri tape, description too....photos at link.]
As-Sahab Releases "Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi"
By Nick Grace
September 17, 2006
As-Sahab, al Qaeda's media propaganda unit, today released a new 23-minute video on radical message boards called "Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi" that features Mohammad Hassan (alias Abu Yahya al-Libi), an al Qaeda fighter originally from Libya who escaped from Bagram prison in July 2005. He appears wearing a suicide vest as he reads handwritten notes in front of at least 14 al Qaeda militants, some of which clutch kalashnikovs. During the introduction of the video the crowd fires the weapons into the air.
This is the fourth known video to feature al-Libi. Previous as-Sahab videos that include him include a sermon in celebration of Eid, a eulogy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and an interview about his imprisonment and escape from Bagram. Unlike most of as-Sahab's recent video products, this new video is not subtitled in English.
An animated gif banner was posted in advance on the Ekhlaas Forum, the main portal for al Qaeda messaging, on Friday, September 15.
The video was released in two file formats (MPEG and RealMedia) and compressed in the RAR format. The RAR files are password-protected, presumably to block the video from being opened and viewed by Web surfers who discover the files through random searches. The password, "qwert55," is included in the text of as-Sahab's post on the Ekhlaas Forum.
A total of five different file sizes have been posted to exactly 300 links on free file transfer sites, including sendspace.com, badongo.com, openupload.com, megaupload.com, depositfiles.com, filehostia.com, quicksharing.com, share2net.com, filecities.com, filefactory.com, bigupload.com, desiupload.net, clonefile.com, filehosting.cc, savefile.info, fileblob.com, uploadr.com, spywork.info, axifile.com, mytempdir.com, savefile.com, easy-share.com, sharex1.com, bigupload.com, rogepost.com, share42.com, rapidshare.de, zshare.net, ez-files.net, yourfilelink.com, quickdump.com, savefile.info, oron.com, storeandserve.com, crazefiles.com, reshare.co.uk, up4world.com, filecoast.com, uploadyourfiles.de, transferbigfiles.com, razr-host.net, uploadpalace.com, and hyperupload.com.
227 Megs (MPEG): 44 links
38.1 Megs (RM): 89 links
16.9 Megs (RM): 73 links
7.96 Megs (RM): 58 links
3.52 Megs (RM): 36 links
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060917_assahab.rm [38.1 Megs]
The video appears to have been recorded recently during the Summer months with two cameras. Wide shots reveal background topography, especially two distant hills behind al-Libi, but it remains unclear where this product was taped. Trained analysts may, in fact, be able to identify the location. The lighting is also rather poor in comparison with other videos and there does not appear to be any visible direct sunlight. It is possible that al-Libi's speech was conducted either at sunrise or shortly before dusk.
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Zawahiri's Attack on Fellow Muslims and Threat Against Jordan
By Nick Grace
September 12, 2006
The 12th message from Ayman al-Zawahiri was released on September 11, "Hot Issues with Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri," which is dated September 2006. The video, which lasts 01:16, is not as well produced as as-Sahab's more recent products but is subtitled in what appears to be colloquial American English. The video features a one-on-one interview with the al Qaeda operations chief and an off-camera interviewer. Zawahiri sits in front of a bookshelf. As evidenced with shoddy editing during some of the questions, the original interviewer's voice has been replaced with a slick and deep-voiced presenter.
The video contains three main points: promotion of the fight to establish Islamic Emirates in Iraq and Afghanistan, criticism of Muslims who do not support al Qaeda or its Jihad, and a declaration that the looming theater in Jordan will lead to the biggest conquest - Israel.
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060911_zawahiri.rm [55.3 Megs]
"Hot Issues" was advertised on September 10 in the form of a promotional animated gif banner and was finally posted across the Internet in the Real Media and 3GP file formats.
Real Media 782 Megs: 6 links
Real Media 227 Megs: 19 links
Real Media 55.3 Megs: 86 links
3GP 30.4 Megs: 21 links
Total: 132 links
An Arabic-language transcription zipped as a RAR file was also posted across 89 free file transfer Web sites, some of which advertise pornography.
The video has three main messages:
1)To convey the importance of converting Iraq and Afghanistan into Islamic Emirates for the ultimate goal of establishing the global Caliphate superpower.
2)To criticize fellow Muslims who refuse to support al Qaeda and its Jihad either through donations or manpower. He spends a great deal of time on this issue, calling them religion-trading charlatans, defeatists, and collaborators. Interestingly, this is a theme that Adam Gadahn in his "Invitation to Islam" as-Sahab video also hit upon. Gadahn said: "What is really surprising is that some among us want to suffice with invitation (to Islam) alone without resorting to self-defense."
3)To threaten Jordan and Israel. Zawahiri states: "(I)f the Islamic Emirate arises in Iraq... and is able to infiltrate the traitorous Jordanian entity to stand on the borders of Palestine and... the Mujahideen come one after another from both inside and outside Palestine, then we will see the biggest conquest and greatest victory, with Allah's permission."
On the Defeatists:
"(T)hey in fact are striving for the secularization of Islam... (O)ur fundamental difference with them is in their backsliding from the faith..."
On the Collaborators:
"They have three things in common: abandonment of the rule of Shari'ah, recognition of the legitimacy of the corrupt status quo, and cursing and abusing the Mujahideen."
On the Followers:
"I call on every Muslim to make use of every opportunity afforded him to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman."
To the Western Peoples:
"Your leaders are hiding from you the true extent of the disaster which will shock you... (T)he days are pregnant and giving birth to new events with Allah's permission and guidance."
Below is a revealing exchange:
Question: And what is al-Qaeda's wider vision regarding the Jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Zawahiri: The wider vision of the Mujahideen in Iraq and Afghanistan is the establishment of an Islamic Emirate in both of them which will be a launch pad for the defense of Islam and the Muslims and a step on the road to the restoration of the Caliphate. And in Iraq, we must not forget that Jerusalem is a stone's throw from Baghdad, so if the Islamic Emirate arises in Iraq, with Allah's help, and is able to infiltrate the traitorous Jordanian entity to stand on the borders of Palestine and - Allah permitting - the Mujahideen come one after another from both inside and outside Palestine, then we will see the biggest conquest and greatest victory, with Allah's permission.
Speaking of America and the spreading of democracy, you mentioned just now that America cooperates with three groups to detour around the Islamic Jihadi resistance against it, and you mentioned one group, which you called the religion-trading charlatans. What are the other two groups?
Yes. We mentioned the first one, which is the group of religion-trading charlatans. As for the second, it is the group of defeatists, and as for the third, it is the group of beggars.
Amazing. You choose for them strong descriptions: charlatans, defeatists and beggars!
Yes, because of the ugliness of what they do.
OK. Who, as you see it, is this group of defeatists?
After the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, a wave of psychological defeatism and doctrinal breakdown spread, and there crept into the people a tendency - through good intentions - that held that we should benefit from the status quo to rescue what can be rescued and achieve what can be achieved. And this trend, with the continuation of the blows aimed at the Muslims, continued to retreat one step after another, until, int he end, they pledged allegiance to Hosni Mubarak as president of the republic, 'Ali 'Abdullah Salih as commander of the believers, 'Abdullah bin al-Husain as leader of the Muslims, and Al al-Sabaah as guardians of the Muslim's affairs. And they entered Kabul on the backs of American tanks, with the protection of America's bombers, and in the shade of its cross; took Erdogan and friends as their role-models for success and superiority; declared their total observance of majority rule and abandonment of Shari'ah rule; and defined their affiliation by the nationalistic, territorial affiliation that prefers the patriotic unbeliever to the foreign Muslim. They have adopted a new creed which is incompatible with the creed of Islam and based on majority rule, national affiliations, restriction to the borders of Sykes/Picot, and allegiance to the nationalist state, as opposed to the creed of Islam which is based on the rule of Divine Shari'ah, the brotherhood of Islam, the unity of the Islamic lands, and the establishment of the Caliphate state. So they in fact are striving for the secularization of Islam... Thus, he calls for removing religion from life and making it a personal matter, and flees from the frank, serious ideological confrontation, which is that if the religion is a flase creed, then it must be removed from all aspects of life, whether public or private...So if the secularists are more cowardly than the atheists, then you can imagine the condition of those who strive for secularism under the cover of Islam.
Let us concentrate on the connection of those whom you call the defeatists to what you mentioned just now about the American attempt to detour around the Mujahid Islamic resistance to Crusader aggression.
...This faction detours around the Ummah's Mujahid vanguard and tries vainly to divert the Muslim masses from it with a fabricated deception which says that the violent confrontation with the ruling regimes which violates the positive law imposed by the traitorous rulers is forbidden and Haram, while they flee from Jihad against the foreign enemy, permitting it, but on two conditions: that it be in the occupied country only, and after permission is given by their local ruler to travel to the field of battle. And then, in the occupied country like Iraq and Afghanistan, they seek to cooperate with the Crusader occupation authorities in resisting Jihad - which they call terrorism - and entering the fraudulent political process under the supervision of the international false witness, the UN. So tell me by Allah, after this ploy - or predicament - how is it possible for the Jihad to come into being? And the American Crusaders couldn't be happier about these ploys...
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