THE SITUATION ROOM (freeper StillProud2befree)

CNN ^ | April 25,2006

[Calpernia]

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We spoke to counterterrorism expert Laura Mansfield earlier today. She's someone that specializes in jihadi activity and how things travel around on Islamic Web sites.

She says she first picked it up on a Web forum hosted in the United Kingdom earlier today. Soon it was appearing on other Islamic Web sites.

This video is a huge file, and large files like this can overwhelm the primary sites that first link to them and post them online. So, what we are seeing is this video cropping up and being passed around on Web sites and file-sharing services that can handle huge files like this.

Bottom line, Wolf, is that this video is being passed around quickly and virally on the Internet.

BLITZER: Abbi, thank you very much.

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[Calpernia]

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April 25, 2006: Mujahideen Shura Council of Iraq releases first video of Zarqawi

The Mujahideen Shura Council of Iraq just released a video that they claim is the first video showing Zarqawi. We are attempting to authenticate; it appears that it is certainly the voice of Zarqawi.

The video claims to be the first video footage of Zarqawi ever released.

We are currently translating and analyzing the video and will update you shortly as to the content of the message.

It can be downloaded at http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/zarqawi_0425.rm

(If the file is temporarily unavailable due to heavy traffic please wait a few minutes and try again.)

The following still images are from the video:

The message accompanying the video translates as follows:

Allah Akbar! The Emir Al Zarqawi appears in a video showing him for the first time: Download here

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; Prayers and greetings to our Prophet Mohamed, and to his amily and his companions.

And then:

Your brothers in the Media Department of the Mujahideen Shura Council who are pleased to bring you the first video of the Amir of the Al Qaeda Network in the Land of the Two Rivers, the Sheikh Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, may Allah protect him. The video is titled “A Message for Mankind”.

Praise be to Allah!

Allah Akbar!

Honor be to Allah and to his messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know.

[Calpernia]

Laura Mansfield (Freeper StillProud2BeFree) will be appearing:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621115/posts
'Tangible proof' al-Qaida deploying nukes (Bombshell presentation)

excerpt

A terrorism symposium featuring leading experts will begin with presentation of "tangible proof" al-Qaida not only has developed an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons but also has begun to deploy them for use in its jihad against the United States and Israel.

The debate, Friday at 10 a.m., will be moderated by Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard and regular contributor to the Fox News Channel. The public is invited to attend.

The event offers the following speakers:

* James Woolsey, who previously held presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations, served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995.

* Kenneth Timmerman, author of "Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran," has been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

* Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and a prize-winning columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post. Pipes was one of the few analysts who warned of the threat of radical Islam to the U.S. before 9-11, writing in 1995, "war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States." The Boston Globe stated, "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9-11."

* Robert Spencer, director of the weblog Jihad Watch, is an author and researcher who has studied Islam for more than 20 years. His book "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And The Crusades)" spent four months on the New York Times best-seller list. Spencer is an adjunct fellow with the Free Congress Foundation and has written a selection of critically acclaimed books on Islam. He has appeared on CNN and Fox News and has been heard on Vatican Radio.

* David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture is the author of "Unholy Alliance," which contends America's Left is giving aid and comfort to its enemies in the terror war, and "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."

* Richard Miniter, author of two New York Times best-selling books, "Losing Bin Laden" and "Shadow War," and an internationally recognized expert on terrorism.

* Walid Phares, a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, professor of Middle East Studies and author of several books on Middle Eastern affairs including the most recent "Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America." Phares' research and analysis of the Jihadi ideology, strategies and movements goes back to the early 1980s. He conducts briefings to governments, international organizations and appears frequently in the media. Phares is called by many as "the one expert who understands the minds of Jihadists best."

* Walid Shoebat, a former Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist, converted to Christianity and now warns of the imminent threat of radical Islam to Western civilization.

* Harvey Kushner, noted author, lecturer, professor and internationally recognized authority on terrorism. Kushner has advised and provided training to numerous agencies, including the FBI, FAA, INS and U.S. Customs. He is a frequent guest of all major television networks and often is quoted by news media worldwide.

* Dr. Andrew Bostom, editor of the newly released book "The Legacy of Jihad," a compendium of writings, both modern and ancient, on the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad. Bostom is a physician specializing in epidemiology. Since 1997 he has been part of the full-time medical faculty at two hospital affiliates of Brown University.

* Bruce Tefft, founding member of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center, has trained more than 12,000 law enforcement officers and first responders and has served as the New York Police Department's counter-terrorism and intelligence adviser since 9-11.

* Brigitte Gabriel, a former anchor for world news in the Middle East and a prominent Arab-American journalist, survived a bombing in which her family's home was reduced to rubble by radical Muslim forces.

* Laura Mansfield, an author and counter-terror analyst, uses her knowledge of the Arabic language and Islamic culture to investigate jihad and jihadis in the U.S. and abroad.

* Joe Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate. He also is an investigative journalist for Frontpage Magazine and host of "The Politics of Terrorism" radio show.

* Paul Williams, award-winning journalist and author of "Al Qaeda Connection," "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11," and "The Dunces of Doomsday," has served as a consultant for the FBI, editor, adjunct professor of humanities at the University of Scranton and correspondent for WorldNetDaily.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Velveeta]

Awesome.
Soon we'll see about Laura replacing Blitzer. ;-)

[lafroste]

That kinda looks like a predator drone in the background of the fourth pic, behind and above his head.

[Calpernia]

Do you have software to view the movie slide by slide?

http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/zarqawi_0425.rm

[lafroste]

Unfortuneately no. But if it is a predator, then our guys just got a big fat hint on where he's hiding.

[Southack]

"A terrorism symposium featuring leading experts will begin with presentation of "tangible proof" al-Qaida not only has developed an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons but also has begun to deploy them for use in its jihad against the United States and Israel."

Dirty bombs are **not** tactical nukes.

...And Al Qaeda does not have the clean labs required for maintaining *actual* tactical nukes, btw. Very few nations can manage that feat, in fact, and even then only at great expense.

[compuguru]

I'd read that he always wears a suicide bomb vest; looks like it in the photos.

[uglybiker]

Mock me the infidel does because I have sagging green breasts!
Very angry this makes me!

Maka-laka-jihad!

[Calpernia]

It's a fashion statement :P

[StillProud2BeFree]

Just for the record, the story on the nuclear weapons was researched by Paul Williams.

My presentation at the symposium will be on terrorist recruitment in the United States, not on nuclear issues.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

BUMP!