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New Al Qaeda message threatens France

Paris - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported Thursday.

According to a transcription of a video released earlier this week, al-Zawahiri announced the official alliance between al Qaeda and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and threatened that it would be a 'thorn' in the throat of the French.

'Our soldier sheikh..., Osama bin Laden, has charged me to announce that the GSPC has joined al-Qaeda. We pray to God that they become a thorn in the throats of the American and French crusaders and their allies,' al-Zawihiri said in the video, which was primarily concerned with the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The substance of the video statement was made public on Monday.

Al-Qaeda messages directly targetting France are rare. The last one dates back to 2004, when bin Laden criticized the French for banning the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public schools.

The GSPC was created at the end of the 1990s by dissidents of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and in September 2005 declared France to be 'public enemy number one, enemy of our religion, enemy of our community.'

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1201373.php/New_al-Qaeda_message_threatens_France

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New Al Qaeda message threatens France

Paris - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported Thursday.

According to a transcription of a video released earlier this week, al-Zawahiri announced the official alliance between al Qaeda and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and threatened that it would be a 'thorn' in the throat of the French.

'Our soldier sheikh..., Osama bin Laden, has charged me to announce that the GSPC has joined al-Qaeda. We pray to God that they become a thorn in the throats of the American and French crusaders and their allies,' al-Zawihiri said in the video, which was primarily concerned with the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The substance of the video statement was made public on Monday.

Al-Qaeda messages directly targetting France are rare. The last one dates back to 2004, when bin Laden criticized the French for banning the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public schools.

The GSPC was created at the end of the 1990s by dissidents of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and in September 2005 declared France to be 'public enemy number one, enemy of our religion, enemy of our community.'

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1201373.php/New_al-Qaeda_message_threatens_France

912 posted on 09/14/2006 9:58:26 AM PDT by penguino
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Europe is pregnant with Islam and will give birth to an Islamic Nation. (Saidi Kurdi 1908)

913 posted on 09/14/2006 9:59:15 AM PDT by penguino
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Still photos from Zawahiri's latest tape with English subtitles:

http://www.minbar-sos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872

918 posted on 09/14/2006 12:14:28 PM PDT by penguino
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Ayman al Zawahiri makes very specific references and attacks President George Bush for not accepting the “truce offered by Osama bin Laden.” He urges all Muslims to take up jihad, to make use of every opportunity to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman,” a reference to Abd al-Rahman who is imprisoned for his role in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

"The days are pregnant and will bear new events God Willing"

1) Warnings and more warnings
2) A Truce offer
3) An invitation to convert to Islam
4) Indication that the truce and invitation to convert was not accepted. They now believe that they are justified in launching another 9/11 or worse.

Stat safe and vigilant!!!

Steve

919 posted on 09/14/2006 12:21:52 PM PDT by Mossad1967
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Slightly Off Topic:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913614750&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Sep. 12, 2006 17:06 | Updated Sep. 12, 2006 20:05
"Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue"
By MICHAEL FREUND

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An al-Qaida-linked Algerian terror cell that was broken up by Italian police last fall was planning to carry out attacks on targets in Oslo, Norway, including the city's main synagogue.

Anne Sender, president of Norway's Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post during a telephone interview from Oslo that local authorities had informed her shortly after the suspects were arrested in November that there existed a credible terrorist threat against the synagogue.

The plot came to light only this week in the wake of a report on Monday in the Norwegian Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper.

"At the time, we were informed by the government that some people had been caught in Italy and that police had found plans indicating that they were targeting the synagogue in Oslo," Sender said.

She added that the threat was considered sufficiently serious that, in its wake, Norwegian police decided to adopt additional, unspecified measures to boost security at the synagogue.

The terrorists, who resided in Italy but were allegedly plotting attacks against sites in Oslo, belonged to an Algerian-based group known as the GSPC, a French acronym which stands for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

The GSPC, which has links to al-Qaida, is a splinter faction that broke away from Algeria's Armed Islamic Group in 1996.

Sender praised Norwegian police, but nonetheless expressed concern over the community's security with the approach of the High Holidays."