http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/09/29/al_qaeda_in_iraq_beckons_nuclear_scientists/
Al Qaeda in Iraq beckons nuclear scientists
Also calls for kidnappings of Westerners
By David Rising, Associated Press | September 29, 2006
(excerpted)
BAGHDAD — Al Qaeda in Iraq’s leader, in an audiotape released yesterday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group’s holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a US prison.
The speaker, who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir — also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also said that more than 4,000 foreign militants have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. It was the first known statement from the insurgents about their death toll.
The fugitive terrorist chief said experts in the fields of ``chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences — especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts” should join his group’s jihad, or holy war, against the West.
“We are in dire need of you,” said the speaker. ``The field of jihad can satisfy your scientific ambitions, and the large American bases [in Iraq] are good places to test your unconventional weapons, whether biological or dirty, as they call them.”
The 20-minute audio was posted to a website that frequently airs Al Qaeda messages. The voice could not be independently identified, but it was thought to be Masri. He is believed to have succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who died in a US airstrike north of Baghdad in June, as head of the Al Qaeda-linked organization. . . .
Yep and thank you callmejoe.
We will blow up the White House, al-Qaeda threatens
Habib Trabelsi Dubai
November 12, 2006 (excerpt)
AL-QAEDA’S chief in Iraq used an audio message posted on the internet yesterday to threaten that the terror network would “blow up the White House”.
“We announce today the end of a phase of the jihad [holy war] and the start of a new one … to usher in the project of an Islamic caliphate and restore Islam’s glory,” Abu Hamza al-Muhajer said in the message.
“We swear we will not rest from our jihad … before blowing up the filthiest house, dubbed the White House,” he said. . .