"Cleric warns Muslims linked to U.S."
Washington Times ^ | 11/17/03 | Sharon Behn
Posted on 11/16/2003 9:58 PM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JAKARTA, Indonesia — The imprisoned Islamic cleric thought to be a guiding force behind the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah warned that all Muslim countries with close ties to the United States were targets for attack.
"As long as Muslim countries have close ties or support the U.S. government or U.S. policy, [they] will be threatened by a Muslim militant attack," said Abu Bakar Bashir, as he sat on the rough floor of the Salemba Prison, the Jakarta prison where he has been held for the past year.
"Indonesia, Egypt, Afghan-istan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and some Mideast countries," were all potential targets, the 66-year-old, white-bearded cleric told The Washington Times.
Bashir was convicted last year on charges of treason. But prosecutors at the time tried and failed to convince the court that the preacher was a leader of the militant Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network responsible for a string of bombings and attacks across Southeast Asia, capped by the horrific October 2002 explosions that killed 202 persons, including many Australian and Western tourists, in the Indonesian beach resort of Bali."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023149/postshttp://www.jihadonline.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=610 JIHAD ONLINE.net: "Saddam : English: New tape from Saddam"
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 16 @ 18:19:54 EST
"A voice purported to be that of ousted president Saddam Hussein has said the US-led occupation forces in Iraq have reached "a dead end", in an audiotape broadcast on Arabic television.
In Sunday's tape, Saddam calls on Iraqis to resist the occupying forces and warned of more deaths for US-led troops.
"Fighting them...is a legitimate, patriotic and humanitarian duty and the occupiers have no choice but to leave our country Iraq, the country of Arabs and Islam, as cursed losers," the speaker, who sounded like Saddam, said on al-Arabiya television.
"The path of jihad and resistance is the best path under God, human kind and history and is the only path which will guarantee the expulsion of the tyrannical foreign forces from our country and grant total freedom and sovereignty to our people in their land," Saddam said.
"The evil ones are at a dead end in Iraq after having imagined they were going out for a walk" when they launched the invasion on 20 March that led to Saddam's fall, he said."