Posted on 09/11/2005 7:20:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
"Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion," the tape warns. "We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators."
In response to the threats against their city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city's police department released a statement this morning. They admitted to Los Angeles being a target of terrorism, but said there are no known, credible threats against the city and labeled the tape an instrument of al Qaeda propaganda.
"The statement broadcast this morning on Good Morning America should come as no surprise to anyone. The statement was meant to instill fear, and fear is the most important weapon the terrorists possess."
The taped diatribe lasts 11 minutes. Like past tapes, it appears to include the same graphics and production techniques recognized by U.S. officials as part of al Qaeda's standard propaganda production. In this tape, the speaker levels threats against the U.S. and Great Britain.
"Don't believe the lies of the liars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 10 Downing Street," Gadahn insists. "They have dispatched your sons and daughters to die lonely deaths in the burning deserts of Iraq and the unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan."
Only a few years ago, Adam Gadahn was a southern California teenager with interests in the environment and heavy metal music
His family says he converted to Islam at an Orange County mosque. There, officials say Gadahn came under the influence of militants who took him to Pakistan.
He has since emerged as an al Qaeda propaganda tool. His latest message warns Americans an attack is imminent unless the United States stops its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American intelligence officials believe the man who appears on the tape to be Adam Gadahn of Orange County, Calif. Last year, Gadahn delivered a similar taped communiqué for al Qaeda. That tape was later deemed authentic.
On the new tape, delivered to ABC News, Gadahn's message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne.
"We love peace, but when the enemy violates that peace or prevents us from achieving it, then we love nothing better than the heat of battle, the echo of explosion, and the slitting of the throats of the infidels," the tape says.
As for the rest of the tape, the young man attempts to dispel any rumors or reports of bin Laden being deceased. He closes his tape by invoking the names of the September 11th hijackers.
"Everyone of us is Mohammed Atta," he says.
ABC News' Chris Isham, David Scott, Gretchen Peters, Krista Kjellman, and Avni Patel contributed to this report.
Who can explain anything with this crowd? I can't. But, in my heart of hearts I just know this evil scum is dead. Dead as a doornail and I ask God to forgive me one day when I say I am joyful over the loss of this scum pig. I love our American people and all our military and our President and his Administration and we did away with this pig. They just won't admit it. You can do all kinds of things with todays technology and those tapes of been lodin??? Fakes. Why else would they send out a boy who was just a teenageer a couple years ago in Orange County to threaten the United States and Britain? Who else do they have?????????????? That's tapping the bottom of the pole don't you think?
a tape?? is that all they've got??
"We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators."
dictators, eh?
Well, that explains all the bombings that they inflicted on Hussein, Ghaddafi, Mugabe, Al-Assad, Shwe, Kabila, Bozize, Castro, etc.
/smerk
Thank You!
50 BMG for the ZombieWoof! L0l
I like it
That is my opnion, as well. I just saw this on a thread, yesterday. I do plan on contacting DC and expressing my outrage over this. It is quite an insult. Good you posted it here, too!
"Sounds like a Democratic Party talking point"
Yea, probably pre-recorded at the Wellstone funeral/rally.
BTTT! and Ping!
"Was that from Al Qaeda or from the DNC?"
Does it really matter? They're equally dangerous and both want the America we know and love to go down...
I would be very happy if I shared your belief that OBL is dead. In fact, for a while I suspected he WAS dead until the election surprise video tape.
I suspect OBL has deliberately kept a low profile for a couple of reasons - mainly because it's incredibly risky for him to regularly send out tapes if he wants to remain hidden, but also because it adds to the OBL "myth" if he pops up only rarely. I think he's taken a leaf from Bolingbroke in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I:
By being seldom seen, I could not stir,
But like a comet I was wonder’d at;
They attacked New York. The libs from New York reacted to an attack on their soil by pretending that Muslims are peaceful people who are the victims of discrimination, that Islam had nothing to do with 911, and they have since directed all their venom against George Bush and Israel.
An attack on LA would probably generate the same sympathy for Muslims from the Hollywierd crowd that it did from the New York Liberal elite.
Why did ABC broadcast it?
http://www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_05-02_1.htm
The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?
"While until now there has been no "smoking gun" directly linking Al Taqwa to Ibn Ladin, what is clear is that AI Taqwa is far from an ordinary financial institution, even without Huber's presence on its board. Al Taqwa has served for years as a key financial institution for the Muslim Brotherhood."
My vote is to punch his ticket. No lawyer, no bail, no habeas corpus. He has the right to a bullet in his freaking head and thats it.
I got this one from the same friend and will continue posting these when I get them..Glad someone is listening..Thank you!
A life this empty was easy prey for an aggressive ideology.
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