bin laden praises 9/11 hijacker, urges caravan of martyrs

bullehshah · September 11, 2007, 3:16pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_video

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**By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 4 minutes ago **

**CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the “caravan” of martyrs as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. **
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Al-Qaida traditionally issues a video every year on the anniversary, with the last testament of one of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This year’s video showed hijacker Waleed al-Shehri addressing the camera and warning the U.S.: “We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left.”
The new message, which AP Television News obtained from the IntelCenter monitoring group in suburban Washington, came days after the world got its first current look at bin Laden in nearly three years, with the release of a video Saturday in which the terror leader addressed the American people.
Later in the day it appeared on militant Web sites, with a note from al-Qaiada’s media production wing al-Sahab saying it was intentionally sent to television stations before being placed on the Internet.
It begins with an audiotape introduction by bin Laden. While his voice is heard, the video shows a still image of him, raising his finger. In the image, bin Laden has the same dyed-black beard and the same clothes — a white robe and cap and beige cloak — that he had in Saturday’s video.
But it was not known if the audiotape was recently made. In the past, al-Qaida has used footage and audio of bin Laden taped long ago for release later.
In the tape, bin Laden praised al-Shehri, saying he “recognized the truth” that Arab rulers were “vassals” of the West and had “abandoned the balance of (Islamic) revelation.”
“It is true that this young man was little in years, but the faith in his heart was big,” he said.
“So there is a huge difference between the path of the kings, presidents and hypocritical Ulama (Islamic scholars) and the path of these noble young men,” like al-Shehri, bin Laden said. “The formers’ lot is to spoil and enjoy themselves whereas the latters’ lot is to destroy themselves for Allah’s Word to be Supreme.”
“It remains for us to do our part. So I tell every young man among the youth of Islam: It is your duty to join the caravan (of martyrs) until the sufficiency is complete and the march to aid the High and Omnipotent continues,” he said.
At the end of his speech, bin Laden also mentions the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in an U.S. air strike there. Al-Zarqawi followed in the footsteps of al-Shehri and his brothers who “fulfilled their promises to God.”
“And now it is our turn,” bin Laden says.
After bin Laden speaks, the video of al-Shehri appears. Al-Shehri — one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the World Trade Center — is seen wearing a white robe and headscarf, with a full black beard, speaking in front of a backdrop with images of the burning World Trade Center.
“We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left,” al-Shehri said, asserting that America would suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union.
He also praised the losses the United States suffered in Somalia in late 1993.
“As for our own fortune, it is not in this world,” he said. “And we are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah’s eyes the wing of a mosquito.”
Al-Shehri warned Muslims who strayed to return to their religion and deplored the state of those who abandoned Muslim holy war, or jihad.

**“The condition of Islam at the present time makes one cry … in view of the weakness, humiliation, scorn and enslavement it is suffering because it neglected the obligations of Allah and His orders, and permitted His forbidden things and abandoned jihad in Allah’s path,” he said. **
**Suicide attacks for al-Qaida and other militant groups often videotape last testaments before carrying out their attacks. Every Sept. 11 anniversary, al-Qaida has used the tapes in a bid to rally its supporters by glorifying its “martyrs.” **
**Bin Laden’s new appearances underline the failure to find the terror leader that President Bush vowed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to take “dead or alive.” **
**On Sunday, Bush’s homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend sought to play down bin Laden’s importance — and added a taunt, saying he was “virtually impotent.” **
But terrorism experts say al-Qaida’s core leadership is regrouping in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the network is growing in strength, intensifying its efforts to put operatives in the United States and plot new attacks. Bin Laden’s video on Saturday was his first message in over a year — since a July 1, 2006 audiotape. The images came under close scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies, looking for clues to the 50-year-old’s health and whereabouts.

Who on here is going to join him? :rolleyes:

system · September 11, 2007, 4:39pm

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OBL is perhaps the greatest fool in Muslim history… It speaks volumes that people are ignorant enough to pay attention to what he has to say.

mizzrani · September 12, 2007, 8:35am

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i dont even think he exist as no one has ever found him , and eveyrtime he releases a video he weares the same clothes and does nt age or does nt have any change in appearance

these americans are capable of everything , a fake osama too

STONECOLD · September 12, 2007, 8:37am

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So how come he doesnt come on video anymore? i mean at at point there were videos of him coming out every six weeks...and now three years...and even then a still with him pointing a finger!

Face it people OBL doesnt really exist.....and this tape was most likely to have been doctored!!!

5Abi · September 12, 2007, 9:19am

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they have run out of videos to release and the impersonators, so they release whatever garbage they can find at strategic times during the year

mercenary2k · September 12, 2007, 3:52pm

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if they are capable of everything, why have they failed so miserably in Iraq?

mercenary2k · September 12, 2007, 3:53pm

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not really

he mentions current events like the elections in France

HSK · September 13, 2007, 3:55am

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Who is this he you saw on camera? Who's the guy whose picture stops moving at 1:57 into a 30 minute video? Is it the Osama who just now started recording his videos on dusty betamax tapes? Three years ago he was distributing crystal clear video in full resolution. Now? Well ...now they have some pixelated image that spans no more than 1/6 of your screen. At 16kbps bit rate these latest round of videos mean jack squat.

Thirty years ago the US government mastered voice manipulation just for kicks. This is 2007, and they have an entire world war waging on one man's existence. The war is not over until the last tank rolls over Osama's dead body.

Grab a camera, put on a beard, read a script and compress the heck out of the video. You just recreated a bogey man.

mercenary2k · September 13, 2007, 5:20am

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^^ if that is possible, then did real planes hit the WTC or were they computer generated images and timed explosions ?

also why are so many people in pakistan and around the world in love with this computer generated actor created by the CIA then?

HSK · September 15, 2007, 10:36pm

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^ It doesnt matter one bit. But I do have some questions for you,

Explain to me why Osama downsized his A/V department. Why the potty quality? Why 1/6th of the screen? Why cut out after 1:57?

A bin Laden video always does miracles for the republicans. Especially when the world's telling them to stop hunting for bin Laden.

mercenary2k · September 15, 2007, 10:48pm

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^^ no idea

maybe he couldnt get hold of better equipment

Hyperactive · September 15, 2007, 10:51pm

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Will the real OB Laden please stand up…

mercenary2k · September 15, 2007, 11:00pm

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^^ wow these sites have absolutely convinced me

why dont you post some of your images from six years ago and today

and I will prove you are not the same person

the lengths that some pakistanis go to prove conspiracy theories astounds me

Hyperactive · September 15, 2007, 11:07pm

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Yup…My nose has grown two inches in six years and my forehead expanded…

You are right…I am not the same person…

mercenary2k · September 15, 2007, 11:47pm

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^^ if you tape yourself with a panasonic camera 6 years ago and again tape yourself with a digital camera

there will be noticeable differences

Hyperactive · September 15, 2007, 11:50pm

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If memory serves me right then both pictures are from 2004…Where did this 6 years come from?

mercenary2k · September 16, 2007, 12:00am

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^^ 2007 - 2001 = 6 years

Hyperactive · September 16, 2007, 12:07am

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Both pictures in this JPEG are from 2004…What are you laughing about?

mercenary2k · September 16, 2007, 12:12am

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^^ lol ok

if u say so

and judging by the credentials of this website

bullehshah · September 16, 2007, 3:07am

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He is one of them, can’t you tell?

Using a kaffir-built computer, while living in the land of kufr.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds.