(CNN) -- In a newly released videotaped message similar to a "fireside chat," al Qaeda's second-in-command issues advice and directives for the Muslim world, terrorism expert Laura Mansfield said Wednesday.
In the one-hour, 34-minute video, titled "The Advice of One Concerned," Ayman al-Zawahiri includes clips from other videos and news broadcasts, including one from al-Furqan, the video production arm of the Islamic State of Iraq, according to Mansfield, who obtained the video.
Al-Zawahiri says in the message that the defeat of the West is imminent, and that "the enemy" is trying to forestall the inevitable, Mansfield said.
"The good omens of the new dawn of victory have begun to loom on the horizon, with Allah's permission and will," he says.
"And the stage preceding victory is normally, in the history of nations, the stage in which there is most seen an increase in conspiracies, plots and inciting of discord in an attempt by the enemy, who has begun to see his defeat approach, to push back and delay the defeat as much as he can."
Al-Zawahiri does not reference the recent terrorism incidents in the United Kingdom in the video.
Thanks for the link.
As many of us are concerned about the Dr’s we have here, I can’t help but think of our Va Hospitals. They are over run with them. I know a lot of people were shocked to see Dr’s involved in the UK mess but I have never forgotten the Dr (in Jersey I think) that cheered when the towers fell. I have had an uneasy feeling about them since then.
It’s just sad that so many still have blinders on.
BTW in case I have not mentioned it I really appreciate all the work you all put into this thread. It is greatly appreciated.