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New Al-Zawahiri Video?

June 21, 2006 11:19 PM

Zawahiri21jun2006rel01_1 What appears to be a new videotape from Ayman al-Zawahiri, produced by As-Sahab and dated June 6, has been posted on one of the websites frequently used by al Qaeda. The rough title of the video, which is three minutes and 44 seconds long, is "America's Crimes in Kabul."

According to Ben Venske of the Intel Center, a government contractor that tracks Arabic websites, this is the sixth video statement showing al-Zawahiri to be released in 2006. Venske says the release of the video is part of an ongoing propaganda campaign that has intensified dramatically since the end of 2005.

The following is a rough translation of the video:

"My speech today is directed to the people in Kabul who have witnessed the bitter experience yesterday and watched new evidence of the crimes of the Americans against Muslims in Kabul. The new aggression against you was preceded by a series of killings of the innocent in Kabul, Khost, Kandahar….etc. and torture of Muslims and humiliation of the Qur'an and the humiliation of the prophet and it was preceded by the honoring of Salman Rushdi who mocked the prophet. Therefore I call on Muslims in Kabul in particular and the Muslims in Afghanistan in general to stand in the way of the invading forces. The flags of these forces are all over. I call on Muslims in Kabul and in all of Afghanistan to follow Islam, the Qur'an and the prophet and to be proud. I call on them to remember the history of their fathers in resisting the invaders. I call on them to resist this occupation. I call on the youth in the schools and the universities in Kabul to defend their religion. Don't believe these invaders or their agents, the traitors, who want to humiliate you for their interests. Stand as one with the mujaheddin until the invaders are kicked out and Afghanistan is liberated and the Islamic sharia is applied and there’s security and justice."

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What a bunch of bologna.

Posted by: BiloxiChef | Jun 22, 2006 2:39:17 AM

He's a master at twisting his own religion to manipulate the decent Muslums into working for his warped views.

Posted by: Phil | Jun 22, 2006 10:05:10 AM

Ummmm yea since when did America "invade" afghanistan??? I thought we were there ousting a terrorist regime and helping to liberate the oppressed citizens of the country so that they could attempt to live like normal human beings instead of the way you idiots made them live. You actually think American wants your country? No we wanted to help but some people can't be civilized, they have to act like theives and animals and act as if were living in the medieval ages, cough taliban cough, so like I have been saying recently: Put your damn swords back in their sheaths and go back to your tents and try to do something more constructive than act out what you think the will of allah is...

Posted by: teodoro | Jun 22, 2006 10:24:08 AM

What a coward?! It is so pitiful that they call on the children to defend a cause that is deeply corrupted and unworthy of sacrifice. That is the true injustice. The children who believe strapping themselves to explosives is courageous and will be rewarded. It is sick.

Posted by: EKirk | Jun 22, 2006 10:41:54 AM

I know a Muslim man how gets up in the morning, gets in his Lexus and goes to work just like me. He owns a home, pays property and income taxes just like me. He comes home to sit out in the backyard enjoying a tall glass on sweet tea while watching the kids play in the yard that he cuts with a John Deere tractor just like me. What's wrong with that? Only in America!

Posted by: Gerld | Jun 22, 2006 11:22:53 AM

I find it highly ironic how he tells all his "brethren" to stand and fight the "invaders" while he is constantly on the run and hiding from us.

Posted by: Grant Thompson | Jun 22, 2006 11:29:51 AM

I hope I never change my way of thinking to kill in the name of anyone. To hate in the name of anyone. I would never want to be person with so much hate, with those who have no regard for life asking children to defend anything. They are cowards. They are evil people. And their behavior says it all.

Posted by: karen | Jun 22, 2006 12:27:35 PM

How much is it to produce a 500 pound bomb, like the ones that killed the terrorist leader in Iraq? I think I can spring for one if it goes after this nut case.

Posted by: Nate | Jun 22, 2006 12:32:11 PM

Amen, Grant! :)

Posted by: Rose | Jun 22, 2006 12:43:06 PM

Hmmm, He mentions "Kabul, Khost, Kandahar" -- initials: KKK. This guy must be really evil, he's connected to the Ku Klux Klan.

THAT is the sort of logic expressed here about a man being called a coward. A coward willing to live in caves, fight a guerrilla war against the world's only super power, because they "liberated" Afghanistan. That is, if you define "liberated" as dead farmers and peasants who no longer have any worries about this great American nation murdering their children with their "moron bombs" (nothing smart about them OR those deploying them).

Posted by: Gabe | Jun 22, 2006 12:49:59 PM

We need to activate about 1,000 sniper teams and introduce them to day and nightime terror, where to be outside is to be a target. Specifically target the leaders and their families in specific response to beheading U.S. servicemen rather than treating as prisoners of war. War is grisly, but you make pain and suffering so intense for the other guy that he seeks any solution and questions his own agenda.

Posted by: Rick | Jun 22, 2006 1:40:01 PM

What is sad here is that Afghanistan was left unfinished in the rush to jump into Iraq. Many powerful countries have stubbed their toes in Afghan wars. We had the opportunity to do it right. it was all going in the right direction and we had the Taliban defeated and pushed to the fringes. Then we turned our back and went off chasing ghosts in Iraq. Now we've got two Middle Eastern insurgencies to deal with and they will continued to be very ugly wars that will chew up lots of resources and grind down our already exhausted military. It seems a shame to disgrace our brave soldiers by following such terrible leadership policies. Afghanistan is a dangerous place and the real "cut and run" story in the Middle East won't be in Iraq but has already happened in Afghanistan. I fear we have made some bad decisions in executing two wars that had some good reasons to justify them--argubable on both sides. But the leadership shown to this point is terrible and now we see just how determined these people are in fighting us.

Posted by: Richard | Jun 22, 2006 2:49:06 PM

Very similar things were said by the British about Washington and the American colonists circa the Revolutionary War. It all really comes down to ones perspective, what propaganda one chooses to believe. Abu Ghraib, Falluja, the Highway of Death and Guantanamo are just the tip of the iceberg of what the U.S. has unjustly sown in the M.E. She will certainly reap what she has sown. Just imagine if the communist Chinese Army (P.L.A.)came to the U.S. to "help" the illegal Mexican immigrants, and while they were here a squad of their soldiers took the liberty to introduce your wife to what it is to be a "liberated woman", the whole time forcing you and your children to watch as they rape her, and then murdered her and then each one of you when they were done. You may think that could never happen here, but that and worse will soon enough. It all gonna come home, and very hard. It's the law.

Posted by: Bryan | Jun 22, 2006 3:41:30 PM

Just wait until he goes back to Lenscrafters, we'll get him then!!!

Posted by: Rick | Jun 22, 2006 5:29:03 PM

"Resistance is futile.
You will be assimulated."
We are just the latest in a laundry list of empires in the last several thousand years that thought they were doing the semetic people of the middle east a favor by invading, occupying, subdividing and repartioning their lands and diluting their culture into something other than what it was meant to be all along.
Through it all this part of the world has shrugged it off like a summer cold.
Because they have a culture that is different doesn't make it a bad culture in and of itself.
And because we enjoy the benefits of our own consumer based culture and can't tolerate anyone truely being different doesn't make us right.
Take a look at the world around us and the dilution of most every culture that came before us into what now has become our own image and you know what I see?
"We are the Borg."

Posted by: zach | Jun 22, 2006 10:35:01 PM

I would like to see them try to take South Dakota...theres enough guns here to resupply the armed forces, and then some.

Posted by: Grant Thompson | Jun 23, 2006 9:56:46 AM

Yet one more day passes and Zawahiri and Bin Laden are still free. Boy, George, you are doing one heck of a job. You've completely destroyed Iraq, spent $250 billion of our hard earned dollars, and those responsible for 9/11 are still roaming free.

Posted by: Eric | Jun 28, 2006 3:17:05 AM

I've always wondered why we never hear of a devout Christian plot to hijack a planeload of pilgrims and fly it into the Kaaba or some other holy site.

I nominate Pat Robertson. I'm sure if we pass the hat around we could get him a scholarship to flight school.

Posted by: Poor Richard | Jul 27, 2006 3:04:28 PM

"What appears to be a new videotape from Ayman al-Zawahiri, produced by As-Sahab and dated June 6, has been posted on one of the websites frequently used by al Qaeda"

uhhh, sources please. This is 5th grade journalism. Always post your sources...what website? What video? what are you talking about????

please tear up your crackerjack credentials.

Posted by: Questioner | Jul 28, 2006 5:58:57 AM

I think I have solved the problem regarding- "should we leave Iraq, or should we stay" SInce it is very apparent that we are not leaving---

Consider:
We,(or local terrorists) are killing about 36 Iraqis per day X 365 days per year+ 13,140 casualties per year. This meand based upon 26,074,906 Iraqi population divided by 13,140 deaths per year= only 1,984 years before the Iraq population will be entirely gone.

Posted by: Glenn DeBard | Sep 5, 2006 4:35:42 PM

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