Posted on 09/05/2006 5:02:33 AM PDT by SJackson
The video tape issued by al Qaeda’s “as-sahhab” production, in which Ayman Zawahiri introduces Jihadist Adam Gahdan to the world as a senior speaker to the American people on behalf of the movement, should be taken seriously. Not necessarily at the level of detecting the next terror attack but at the level of understanding this prelude to future Jihad both in America and within the West. I wasn’t surprised at all by the 45 minutes elaboration by convert Gahdan regarding all of the issues he raised. For “Azzam al Amrikee” is the clearest specimen of Jihadism’s second generation within the US, in as much as the 7/7 videos revealed the type of future Jihadists for Great Britain’s second generation. However, when one would listen carefully to the taped video, you would find a treasure of knowledge and indicators for the current state of thinking of al Qaeda and its ideologues. In short it is a sample of what is on the mind of Salafi Jihadists for the United States and the West. Following are few of the issues I noted: 1) The hand behind the message
In short, Azzam’s videotaped message is indeed “American.” Experts have heard it in the US and Canadian cities and internet is flowing with it. Whether Gadahn was reading from a prompter or not –and I believe he was with great skills- I tend to believe that such a speech –rather than being dismissed as mere propaganda- is a message coming to us from what’s already inserted inside America, which leads me to the second point
2) Who is it destined to do?
It is basically addressed to those who will carry a “Jihad in America,” possibly asserting Adam Gahdan as their leader. Also, this is a very intelligent move to pierce the linguistic shield of America’s media and reach US citizens directly, as a way to spread confusion at least among those who have a hazy understanding of the Jihadists.
3) The ideological platform.
In short, the “Azzam” video reconfirms clearly, in an English language that academic translators won’t be able to distort, that al Qaeda’s movement worldwide and in the United States is seeking total annihilation or conversion of the enemy: American and other democracies.
4) Argumentation tactics:
The “speech writer,” emulating many commentators on al Jazeera or al Manar, hopes to rally many among those who “hate Bush and Blair” but stops short of stating that Jihadism will hate all future US Presidents and British Prime Ministers “if they do not convert.” He reminds us of the Crusades, Inquisition, Hiroshima, and killings in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obviously, the “writer” skips the Genocides of Sudan, and the massacres of Algeria, the Kurds, Shiites perpetrated by Salafists or Baathists.
5) The enemies of Jihad in America
Sensationally but not unexpectedly, he “named” a number of intellectual-enemies in this country: Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson, Robert Spencer and Michael Scheuer. Rarely Jihadi terrorists at this high level media exposure named symbols of their enemy’s intelligentsia. And in addition to “experts” named in the tape, Gadahn goes on a ferocious attack against American “Tele-Evangelists” and their media, showing the other type of foes al Qaeda is very upset with.
6) The “friends” of al Qaeda?
“Azzam” names “sympathetic” personalities for whom he has messages for action; He asks journalist Seymour Hirsh to “reveal more” than what was published in a New Yorker article on the War: Obviously an open call by al Qaeda to M Hirsch to resume the attack against the US War on Terror. Then “Azzam” turns to two British journalists and thanks them for their “admiration and respect for Islam” encourage them to do the final step: Convert. He names British MP George Galloway and journalist Robert Fisk. But more troubling in Gadahn’s tape was his direct call to Jihadists within the US Armed forces to work patiently till the time comes and they should continue to aggregate while escaping the surveillance of their military authorities. This theme, which I covered briefly in Future Jihad, is of great concern to US national security. The “Azzam” speech brings further concerns as to the credibility of this threat.
7) The Al Qaeda offer: Conversion or fire
“Azzam”’s mission in this tape was to deliver a message. His bottom line is this: We –the Jihadists- have you cornered everywhere and you are not going to win this war. His central message is typically Jihadic: “Surrender, convert or the fire:” Meaning war on Earth, all of it, and Hell fire after death.
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This fascinating and revealing taped-speech bring the American public even closer to what lays ahead for this generation and the next one as long as the Jihadist ideology is spreading inside America and worldwide.
My hope is that Azzam is a CIA plant, but I'm not holding my breath.
***My hope is that Azzam is a CIA plant, but I'm not holding my breath.***
More likely a George Soros plant.
I'd bet the farm he isn't.
Still, the democraps and liberals will insist that it's GW Bush and republicans who are public enemy #1.
Forgive me but I am beyond tired of hearing thse types of forcasts.
I wish these morons would either do whatever they are going to do or shut the heck up.
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My interpretation of the video slightly differs. I pretty much gathered what he said was convert to Islam because you all are going to die. It was not an "or else" statement. It was pretty much a statement of fact.
Thanks for posting. BTTT.
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I'm sure that whatever relativistic moral haze he was raised in had only one constant: that the CIA is the world's most evil organization.
it is per the Koran....they offer to cultures, three choices. Convert, subjugate, or pay a tax....if none, then Jihad....
They don't even want to think about it here in the U.S. It would be like a beetle stumbling into a fire ants nest. Just go ahead and scratch 50% or more mosques...and there would not be one safe place for anyone looking Arabic....Cletus and Homer will git thar guns and open up a can of whoop---donkey. :)
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Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.
This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for few days and try to come to a consensus.
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he is probably one of the converts to Islam....like the ones they have targeted in Prisons, as part of their 20 + year plan...same old story.
This should put to bed the feeling among a few freepers that the jihadists don't pay THAT much attention (just a little attention) to our media and that speaking out against the administration and the war isn't REALLY unpatriotic (just a little unpatriotic) and won't REALLY affect the war in Iraq or Afghanistan or result in more soldiering being killed.
Islam is being preached all over America and it attracts the malcontent, the "oppressed", the criminal, the uneducated and the poor. America is breeding these types by the tens of millions. The muslims will bring their jihad to our shores and many homegrown islamists will have to die with them.
.... none of the above.
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