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New Message from al Zawahiri "Soon"
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A new message from al Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman al Zawahiri entitled "Bush...the Vatican's Pope...Darfur...and the Crusader Wars" will soon be released on the Internet, according to a banner posted on a number of websites often used by the group.
Announcing the upcoming release of messages from al Qaeda on the Internet has become a common practice for the group. The actual statements usually appear around two days after the announcement.
A top Taliban commander told ABC News today by satellite phone that a tape from Osama bin Laden could also be expected soon.
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Al Zawahiri has been making an increasing number of statements in recent months. Since last March, he has made nine statements, all of them video. Al Zawahiri's last message coincided with the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and came in the form of a video interview with al Qaeda's so-called production company al Sahab. Today's banner announcing the upcoming statement also carried al Sahab's logo.
Some observers had anticipated that al Qaeda's media capabilities would improve and that it would release videos more frequently after Mohamed Khalil al Hakayma joined the group. Al Hakayma was part of the media department of the Egyptian al Gamaa al Islamiya group. He appeared in a video in August to declare his support following al Zawahiri's announcement that the group had joined al Qaeda.
September 27, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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This could be bad news according to some folks who follow these communications for a living. Hamid Mir was informed that UBL would be putting out a new tape soon to give a final warning before another attack on the USA.
Posted by: Mike | Sep 27, 2006 5:00:14 PM
btw, can't the US govt not trace the IP address of the person posting these messages?
Where are these websites hosted? Who is suporting these sites?
Internet is not that anonymous. You can trace people esp if you have a website hosted. Someone must have registered the domain name, someone paid for the web hosting expenses - it should not be difficult to trace them.
Posted by: Name | Sep 28, 2006 1:34:07 AM
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