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Tape of US hijacker aired
BBC News ^ | Monday, 15 April, 2002, 14:27 GMT 15:27 UK | BBC News

Posted on 04/15/2002 8:32:38 AM PDT by CreekerFreeper

Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera has broadcast a tape that appears to show one of the 11 September hijackers reading his last will and testament. The channel also aired a brief clip of wanted Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden, who is shown kneeling beside his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, as al-Zawahri praises the actions of the bombers.

The channel identifies the hijacker as Ahmad al-Haznawi al-Ghamdi, a name which closely resembles that of Ahmed al-Ghamdi, who was on Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.

Al-Jazeera said the footage - which it says it checked thoroughly before broadcast - showed for the first time that the hijackers knew that they were on a suicide mission.

'Enslavement is over'

Al-Ghamdi is shown dressed in fatigues and sitting before what appears to be a montage of the World Trade Center in flames.

"The time of humiliation and enslavement is over and the time has come to kill the Americans on their own turf," he is heard to say.

There is confusion as to when the tapes were made.

Al-Jazeera claims the video was made in the former Taleban stronghold of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, six months before the attacks on New York and Washington, which killed more than 3,000 people.

Al Jazeera said that it would air the full tapes on Thursday this week.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; 911hijackers; alghamdi; aljazeera; alqaeda; amerithrax; anthrax; aq; flcell; flt93; johnnytaliban; kandahar; lindh; middleeast; osamabinladen; terrorism; unitedstates; walkerlindh; war; worldtradecenter

1 posted on 04/15/2002 8:32:38 AM PDT by CreekerFreeper
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To: CreekerFreeper
We see these things daily from Palestinian homicidal maniacs...this is non news in my opinion. But we sure as hell didnt kneel before them after their attack...i wonder if the house still stands where he filmed this???
3 posted on 04/15/2002 8:37:02 AM PDT by smith288
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To: smith288
Please file under the category "ISLAM IS A PEACEFUL RELIGION."
4 posted on 04/15/2002 8:40:02 AM PDT by jrlc
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To: right_to_defend
It's funny how the Muslim world were screaming in September and October last year that there was "no proof" that Osama bin Laden was responsible for September 11.

Muslims speak with forked tongue.

5 posted on 04/15/2002 8:40:13 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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6 posted on 04/15/2002 8:41:47 AM PDT by Jean S
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To: The Great Satan
How could it be otherwise? Islame is a religion of Lies created by the Father of Lies himself.
7 posted on 04/15/2002 8:42:16 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit
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To: right_to_defend
But it does make you wonder - if these Muslim governments can so fiercely lie about this - what other lies are they telling us?

Every single word out of their mouths is a lie, I'm beginning to believe. Truth sits precariously on the shifting sands of their deserts.

I once read a quote by someone who had spent years in the ME, wish I could remember who said it or the exact phrasing, but it was to the effect that truth is all relative to them, it's whatever it takes to get what they want. There is really no absolute truth to them.

I'm beginning to think we should paraphrase Ronald Reagan here, Don't even bother to trust or verify.

8 posted on 04/15/2002 8:43:28 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: CreekerFreeper
Ahmad al-Haznawi al-Ghamdi = Ahmed al-Ghamdi

I wish these clowns would get their names right.

9 posted on 04/15/2002 8:43:44 AM PDT by DoctorMichael
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To: texasbluebell
I once read a quote by someone who had spent years in the ME, wish I could remember who said it or the exact phrasing, but it was to the effect that truth is all relative to them, it's whatever it takes to get what they want. There is really no absolute truth to them.

No wonder our Left love these MF-ers. They've been pushing the same BS for decades.

10 posted on 04/15/2002 8:45:08 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: right_to_defend
But it does make you wonder - if these Muslim governments can so fiercely lie about this - what other lies are they telling us?

My list would start with "Islam is a religion of peace"
and
"Allah is great"

11 posted on 04/15/2002 8:45:29 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: CreekerFreeper
Don't know if it means anything, but Ahmed Alhaznawi is the hijacker who was treated in Florida for cutaneous anthrax (New evidence hints at hijack link to anthrax attacks).
12 posted on 04/15/2002 8:51:34 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: CreekerFreeper
Islam is Peace TM

Remove all the plagiarized Biblical references from the Koran, and all you have left are the hallucenegenic meanderings of an angry arab cave dweller.

13 posted on 04/15/2002 8:56:15 AM PDT by rageaholic
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To: rageaholic
that's a good one.
14 posted on 04/15/2002 9:00:46 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: CreekerFreeper
the video was made in the former Taleban stronghold of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, six months before the attacks on New York and Washington, which killed more than 3,000 people.

UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
v.
JOHN PHILLIP
WALKER LINDH,
a/k/a "Suleyman al-Faris,"
a/k/a "Abdul Hamid," Defendant.

8.In or about late May or June 2001, LINDH agreed to attend an al-Qaeda training camp for additional and extensive military training, knowing that America and its citizens were the enemies of Bin Laden and al-Qaeda and that a principal purpose of al-Qaeda was to fight and kill Americans.

9.In or about late May or June 2001, LINDH traveled to a Bin Laden guest house in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he stayed for several days.

10.In or about June 2001, LINDH traveled to the al-Farooq training camp, an al Qaeda facility located several hours west of Kandahar, in Afghanistan. LINDH reported to the camp with a group of approximately twenty other trainees, mostly from Saudi Arabia.

11.In or about June and July 2001, LINDH remained at the al-Farooq camp and participated fully in its training activities, after having been told early in his stay at the camp that Bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United States and Israel.


15 posted on 04/15/2002 9:05:18 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: dennisw;CreekerFreeper;harpseal
"Religion of Peace" bump.
16 posted on 04/15/2002 9:31:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: right_to_defend
You posted this excellent observation:

It's funny how the Muslim world were screaming in September and October last year that there was "no proof" that Osama bin Laden was responsible for September 11. All that seems to be forgotten now, as slowly but surely all the smoking guns get revealed. But it does make you wonder - if these Muslim governments can so fiercely lie about this - what other lies are they telling us?

I would just ask this simple question, "When do Muslims, Arabic countries and their supporters around the world/in America lie to the American People??"

17 posted on 04/15/2002 9:50:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: right_to_defend
Add to that the fact that Al Jazeera, the ultimate news source for the same Muslims who argue no proof, is airing these condemning statements and attesting to their validity in a manner very like throwing red meat to dogs.
18 posted on 04/15/2002 11:32:04 AM PDT by fire and forget
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To: CreekerFreeper
This is just a general rant and not directed toward you. It saddens me when everyone keeps referring to the deaths in New York and the Pentagon and rarely mentions all of the souls who were lost in Pennsylvania. No matter how they died (brought down by passengers or shot down), their deaths were just as unnecessary and cold at the hands of some of the most evil men who have no understanding about the value of life. I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think of 9/11.
19 posted on 04/15/2002 11:32:18 AM PDT by Eyes Now Opened
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To: texasbluebell
I once read a quote by someone who had spent years in the ME, wish I could remember who said it or the exact phrasing, but it was to the effect that truth is all relative to them, it's whatever it takes to get what they want

I wonder who represents their moral equivalents here in America. Clinton and his groupies come to mind as do pretty much every Democrat in office or otherwise. Hateful words but true all the same.

20 posted on 04/15/2002 11:36:58 AM PDT by fire and forget
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