Posted on 11/17/2005 9:07:32 PM PST by FairOpinion
Jakarta, 17 Nov. (AKI) - Britain, Italy, Australia and America have been warned "you will be the target of our next attack", in a video found in Indonesia featuring a masked man believed to be a key leader from the group accused of organising the Bali bombings. The video, which Indonesia's top police chief said appeared, from the man's accent, to show Noordin Mohamad Top from the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, was found, along with several other tapes, during a raid on a recently-abandoned hideout in the central Java province.
"As long as you keep your troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and intimidate Muslim people, you will feel our intimidation and our terror," said the man in the video, which was obtained by the Associated Press Television News agency.
The video was found around the same time as Noordin's right-hand-man and fellow Malaysian, Azahari bin Husin, blew himself up, along with two other men, after police discovered his refuge in Eastern Java on Wednesday last week. Azahari was believed to be Indonesia's top bomb-making expert.
Both Noordin and Azahari have been accused of being directly involved in at least four terror attacks in Indonesia, including the Bali bombings in October 2002 which killed 202 people, two attacks in the capital Jakarta in 2003 and 2004, in which 22 died, and more recently the bombings of restaurants in Bali on 1 October this year, which killed 20.
The video also features the suicide bombers who attacked Bali last month, and who say they consider themselves holy warriers. "My brother and wife, God willing, when you see this recording I'll already be in heaven," says Muhammad Salik Firdaus in what is thought to be the first time suicide bombers in Indonesia have made a video before launching an attack.
In the video message, Australian prime minister John Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer are also singled out and told, "You are bringing all the Australian people to darkness and terrorising the mujadeen... Remember that."
Last week, Australian police arrested 18 Islamic terror suspects in raids in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne. Some are charged with being members of a terror organisation, while others are charged with planning a terror attack.
Jemaah Islamiyah's aim is to establish an Islamic state across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the southern Philippines.
Its obviously time to pull out...everywhere...and go to a Barbara Streisand concert
Ya know....they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot, PR wise right now.....they got the idiots in Congress doing their jobs for them.....NOW, those same "idiots" might think twice about what they've been saying....I said "might."
Ya know....they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot, PR wise right now.....they got the idiots in Congress doing their jobs for them.....NOW, those same "idiots" might think twice about what they've been saying....I said "might."
Well lets see now.. Before our troops were in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were attacked on 9/11. So our choice is to return to 9/11 attacks on our soil or maintain our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A difficult choice for some ?
Shh. Terrorized people aren't supposed to think rationally.
Yea, that's the ticket. Let's give Hollywood the chance to meet with terrorists. Maybe they can find peas in our thyme. ;)
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