al-Zawahri issues new videotape

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Isn't he dead?

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Al-Qaida's deputy issues new videotape By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer
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Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a new videotape Saturday along with a man identified as an American member of the terror network, inviting Americans to convert to Islam.

The 41-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site nine days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, had footage of al-Zawahri and a man the video identified as Adam Yehiye Gadahn, an American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.

Gadahn and al-Zawahri did not appear together in the footage but were each featured on a split screen. Both wore white turbans and robes.

It was the second time Gadahn has appeared in the same video with al-Zawahri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of bombings against the London transit system, Gadahn said no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks.

"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald," al-Zawahri said in an introduction to Saturday's video.

Gadahn spoke with his face uncovered, resembling FBI photos, with his name and nom de guerre — "Azzam the American" — written in titles in Arabic and English next to him.

"We invite all Americans and unbelievers to Islam," Gadahn said, sporting a long, thick black beard with a computer terminal in the background.

Gadahn, a 28-year-old from California who converted to Islam, is wanted by the FBI in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States, though the agency says it has no information linking him to any specific terrorist activities.

Gadahn spoke for much of the video, saying he wanted to correct the image Americans have of Islam.

He described the West as "the civilization which enslaved Africa, slaughtered native Americans, fired bombs at ... Tokyo and (the Iraqi city of) Fallujah and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

He said America shows more concern for archaeological sites, like statues of Bhudda destroyed by Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers, "than it shows of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq."

He said "ignorance" of Islam "causes the people of the West to rapturously applaud when Israel perpetrates wholesale slaughter of Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine and leads them to give their consent to the atrocities that governments commit in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Muslim world."

The video, issued by al-Qaida's production wing As-Sahab, had been advertised on militant Web sites for several days before it appeared Saturday.

Besides the July 7 video, Gadahn is believed to be a masked figure who appeared in two previous videos not officially from al-Qaida, given to ABC News in Pakistan in 2004 and a few days before Sept. 11, 2005.

In the 2005 tape, the speaker threatened new terror attacks in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. The 2004 tape praised the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings and said a new wave of attacks could come at any moment.

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Associated Press correspondent Bassem Mroue in Cairo contributed to this report.




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[Eurobabe]

1. no Al-Zarkawi (sp?) the guy in Iraq

Zawahi is the guy with the knot on his head.

[treestar]

2. All those names must be sounding alike to me

So this is a deputy but not the number two guy killed in Iraq.

They should really give the characters more different sounding-looking names. :evilgrin:

[AntiFascist]

6. I'm sure its an "intelligence" strategy

:grr:

[MADem]

5. Ha, beat me to it!! Knothead, not the one-legged, two-legged guy! NT

[The Straight Story]

3. I ought to start making video tapes and putting em on youtube

the great prophet ss with a message to the american masses, the great JAB (Jesus, Allah, Buddah) calls upon us to resist the war machine, known the world over as BAM (big ass military).

The BAM has led to the rise in unemployment of the grim reapers, especially hard hit is the iraqi local 525, now all but replaced by the illegals from america. What once was a natural occurence has become a man made event, stealing the natural positions of reapers appointed by the JAB.

A recent poll of BAM shows most feel they are doing the jobs reapers don't want to do, and crys of human phobia are not uncommon.

SS calls for a GEHAD, Gainful Employment for Humans and Death, by having open trade with Americans - allowing reapers from local unions to be able to work in the US and assist with the 45 million without health care (praise JAB for allowing bush to be in power and create a death culture in america's poor).

[Blue-Jay]

4. Zawahiri is the tape-releaser.

He ordered all Americans to convert to Islam.

Yeah. I'll get right on that, Al.

[Jensen]

7. So we have Al-Zawahri making tapes Not OBL??

We would not want the masses just before 9-11 asking why OBL has not been caught, Now would we???
Let's keep terra terra to a lower level!:grr:

[Disturbed]

8. Timely PR from al Q.

The Busholini Regime and al Q. are two sides of the coin when it comes to "Catapulting the Propaganda". Do the colab on their timing?

[Art_from_Ark]

10. "Catapulting the propaganda"

That phrase sums it all up

[treestar]

11. Maybe when it comes to getting us to convert to Islam they figure

OBL is not the right man for the job?

They're trying a "kindler and gentler" approach.

[AnnieBW]

9. Slavery?

Yeah, and just who do they thing was capturing those African tribesmen and selling them to the Westerners? Arab Muslims.