September 12, 2006
GOD BLESS REUTERS
Al-Zawahri hints at wider war on the West (Reuters, September 11th, 2006)
Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, condemned U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon as enemies of Islam and warned that the terrorist group will strike the Persian Gulf and Israel, suggesting new fronts in its war against the West in a video Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.Al-Qaida released a string of videos for the anniversary, showing increasingly sophisticated techniques as it tried to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force five years into the United States' war on terrorism.
One video showed images of the planes striking the World Trade Center, lionizing the 19 suicide hijackers as men "who changed history." Another was a 91-minute documentary-style video in which Osama bin Laden is seen smiling and chatting with the planners of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp.
Obviously it is only a matter of time before they discover the homing pigeon. And then where will we be?
Al Qaida has learned to create video montages? The war is lost!
Posted by: Brandon at September 12, 2006 9:41 AMHow long before we hear about the dreaded Al-Qaeda remix?
Posted by: jim hamlen at September 12, 2006 11:44 AMAnother was a 91-minute documentary-style video in which Osama bin Laden is seen smiling and chatting with the planners of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp.
Book it into a theater in New York or Los Angeles before Dec. 31, and it can qualify for next's year's Oscar for best documentary (a perfect tie-in if they let Michael Moore introduce the category).
Posted by: John at September 12, 2006 1:37 PM
"a 91-minute documentary-style video in which Osama bin Laden is seen smiling and chatting with the planners of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp" It must be fake. One third of Americans know that Osama never existed, Sept. 11 was an inside job concoted by Bush-Cheney to take over Iraqi oil.
Posted by: ic at September 12, 2006 5:54 PM