Here's a more recent post from Usamah al Qariah at IH:
Re: Dodging the Nuclear 9/11 9-30-2004, 12:58 PM #32
Usamah AlQariah Allahu Akbar
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: the water pipes
Posts: 111
its not about bush or kerry. Its about the american policy that will not change as long as america supports the jews in palestine.
NYC must go. as well as LA.. the entire atlantic and pacific borders must be shut down. And it will be either leave the muslim lands or the plague will open up the heart of america to those trapped inside.
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October 18, 2004
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Zarqawi Apparently Pledges Allegiance to Osama bin Laden
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid wal- Jihad group declared allegiance to the al-Qaeda terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden, according to a statement posted on a radical Islamic Web site.
"We announce that Tawhid wal-Jihad, its emir and its soldiers have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahedeen, Osama bin Laden," Bloomberg media reported the group said. The statement couldn't be independently verified. "Osama bin Laden is the best leader for Islam's armies against the infidels and the apostates."
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid wal- Jihad Group Logo
A montage of pictures of Zarqawi, his group's distinctive logo (and also presumably the statement of allegiance) were also posted on Yahoo's al Qaeda related Global Islamic Media (GIM), which now goes under the name of Markazilamislami. An apparent Yahoo group mirror site, jabha, also carried similar images.
Pictures Posted on GIM
Global Islamic Media (GIM) has been widely regarded as being a mouthpiece for al Qaeda and at one point it had more than six thousand members. Now with a new on line name it has 130 members and its mirror site has 72.
GIM's history is revealing. In a March 2004 Agence France Press (AFP) story, the news agency reported that Britain's Channel 4 News told of a Dec.10 2003 posting on GIM, (which had previously carried statements purporting to be from al Qaeda affiliates), suggesting that attacks could help bring about a Socialist election victory and the withdrawal of Spain's troops from Iraq.
According to Channel 4 News, the GIM posting was issued under the name of the Centre for Services to the Mujahideen and read, "The approaching general elections in Spain in March next year must be exploited to the extreme. We think that the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw (from Iraq) because of the public pressure on it. If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist party will be almost guaranteed, and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto."
After the bombings, which killed 200 people and injured 1,500, Spain's conservative party was defeated. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who criticized President George W. Bush for the Iraq campaign, withdrew the country's troops.
Zarqawi is behind suicide bombings, mortar attacks and shootings in Iraq, the U.S. government said. His group claimed responsibility for the beheadings of foreign hostages, in statements and videos posted on the Internet. The U.S. State Department on Oct. 15 designated Tawhid wal-Jihad a terrorist organization.
With the U.S. government's $25 million bounty on his head, Zarqawi has evaded capture. Bloomberg reported the 37-year-old Jordanian said he moves "around through all of Iraq, staying with brothers and treated as their guest," according to a statement posted on the Internet on June 23.
U.S. and Iraqi forces last week carried out operations in the city of Fallujah targeting suspected weapons caches, checkpoints and safe houses linked to Zarqawi in an effort to find him and quash violence before Iraqi elections that are expected in January, the U.S. military said.
Muslim clerics said Zarqawi isn't in Fallujah, the Associated Press reported, without identifying the clerics.
There have been doubts in the past months over the nature of Zarqawi's relationship with al-Qaeda, Bloomberg reported.
The French daily Le Figaro on Sept. 27 cited the head of the Moroccan security service as saying Zarqawi's network is separate from al-Qaeda and that he rivals bin Laden in prominence, Bloomberg said. Al- Zamman, an Iraqi independent newspaper, on Sept. 10 said Zarqawi is fighting for leadership of al-Qaeda.
"I've long thought that Zarqawi was working as the operations manager for al-Qaeda in the Gulf area, and especially in Iraq," said Paul Wilkinson, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
"Zarqawi and his group watch the media's account of their actions very carefully, and so it wouldn't be surprising that they wanted to send out a message reaffirming their allegiance to quell doubts that have emerged recently," Wilkinson said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.
"It's likely that this statement is authentic, as it's clear there is hardly a millimeter between the ideology of Zarqawi, his group and al-Qaeda," Bloomberg reported Wilkinson said.
Tawhid wal-Jihad was in "communication" with its "brothers" in al-Qaeda eight months ago, and is waiting for that "exchange of viewpoints" to begin again, according to the latest statement from Zarqawi's group. Al-Qaeda leaders approve of Zarqawi's strategy in Iraq, the group said in the statement monitored by Bloomberg.
The Bush administration said the statement supported its claim that Iraq was central to the war on terrorism.
"We've always said there were ties between Zarqawi and al-Qa'ida, which underscores once again why Iraq is the central front in the war on terror," The Australian reported White House spokesman Trent Duffy said, citing wire service reports from AFP and AP.
"It's also proof positive of why the President's firm resolve to fight terrorists overseas, so we don't face them in America's neighborhoods, is the only clear way to prevail."
US and Iraqi officials believe Zarqawi's group is based in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, wire services reported, where US troops and militants continued to clash yesterday. But Tawhid wal Jihad banners have been seen recently in Samarra, Ramadi and even on the streets of Baghdad.
In Cairo, wire services reported that Mohammed Salah, an authority on Islamic militancy, said the claim that bin Laden and Zarqawi were in regular contact was "more or less a media stunt to frustrate" the United States.
He said it appeared that the announcement also was aimed at enabling Zarqawi, who has a background as a common criminal, to profit from bin Laden's stature among radical Muslims.
Yesterday's car bombing near the Australian embassy in Baghdad destroyed a cafe popular with Iraqi police officers.
Wire services reported that Australian military spokesman Brigadier Peter Hutchinson said the bomb went off a few hundred meters from the embassy and no troops in the security detachment were hurt.