A new videotape on which Islamist militants threaten to attack Germany and Austria if they do not pull their troops out of Afghanistan was broadcast on Austrian television Tuesday evening.
The German and Austrian interior ministries confirmed the existence of the tape, which also demanded Austria release two people arrested over a similar threatening video issued in March. In the video, aired by Austrian television ORF2, the militants identified themselves as the Globale Islamistische Medienfront or GIMF (Global Islamist Media Front).
Austrian interior ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said the ministry had received the video, which lasts about four minutes, several days ago and described it as "an abstract threat". "We're taking it seriously. But it does not alter the security situation" in Austria, he said.
"We can't say where the video originated. We're in the process of analysing that with our colleagues" at the German domestic intelligence service, he added. A German interior ministry spokesman said in Berlin that the video was "currently being evaluated by our experts. Until then, we're not saying anything about its content". In the video, a disguised voice can be heard saying that "Germany and Austria should take the threat seriously because we are not going to let it remain a simple threat."
Excerpted
ATF-involved shooting in the Bronx
NYPD bomb squad on the scene
November 20, 2007
New York - Eyewitness News has learned that a suspect was shot and killed by an ATF agent after trying to sell grenades to ATF operatives. It happened in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx Tuesday night.
The suspect, during the undercover buy, mentioned he had a grenade in the car, according to sources. ATF agents then tried to stop the car. When the suspect refused, he reportedly drove away and wound up hitting and dragging an ATF agent. Sources tell us the suspect was shot and later died at the scene. The agent who was dragged is at Columbia Presbyterian in stable condition. The NYPD Bomb Squad is on the scene.
ON THE INTERNET:
www.youtube.com/user/albattaralyemeni
www.gimf5.extra.hu/
gimfblogweb.extra.hu/wordpress/
Adding on to Oorang’s post no. 944.
#
Thanks to Nick Grace for pointing to this detailed analysis:
http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2007/11/germany-austria-issued-video-t/
“Germany & Austria Issued al-Qaeda Video Threat”
By Nick Grace and Steve Schippert on November 21, 2007 at 2:12 AM
“[ThreatsWatch thanks Bruce Kesler of the Democracy Project for translation assistance.]”