By Douglas J. Hagmann
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
*also, FULL VERSION of 91-Minute Video Released, titled: "Knowledge is for acting Upon," subtitled "The Manhattan Raid."
11 September 2006; UPDaTED: Timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks against the US, al-Qaeda's #2 leader says US and coalition forces in Iraq and afghanistan are "fighting their last battles." In a 76-minute video, ayman al Zawahiri told his decidedly Western audience: "You shouldn't bother yourselves with defending your forces in Iraq and afghanistan because they are doomed to defeat and are all but defeated, fighting their last battles." again filmed by and distributed through al-Qaeda's propaganda arm, as Sahab Productions, the video is an interview with al Zawahiri dressed in white and seated in front of shelves of books.
ayman al Zawahiri makes very specific references and attacks President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for not accepting the "truce offered by Osama bin Laden." He urges all Muslims to take up jihad, to "support other Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine," and "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. Rahman was also imprisoned in Egypt in 1981 for his role with the assassination of Egyptian President anwar Sadat, although was eventually acquitted and extradicted to the US.
ayman al-Zawahiri also discussed the recent conflict regional war between Hezbollah terrorists and the nation of Israel. Intelligence analysts are currently analyzing the video message.
INITIaL REPORT: as Sahab announces the expected release of another video
10 September 2006: as the dawn of the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on america by Islamic fascists approaches, arabic language web sites sympathetic to terrorists are announcing yet another video message expected to be released by as-Sahab Productions, the propaganda arm of al Qaeda. according to the arabic sites, a video from al Qaeda #2 leader ayman al Zawahiri is expected to be released soon, "God willing."
91-Minute Video Released, titled: "Knowledge is for acting Upon," subtitled "The Manhattan Raid."
11 September 2006; UPDaTED: Late yesterday, another video was posted in its entirety on the Internet; bearing the markings of as Sahab, the video contained previously unseen footage of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda terrorists allegedly planning the attacks of September 11, 2001 in a mountain camp type setting. Only sections of the 91-minute video were aired by the al-Jazeera network on Thursday, which was titled: "Knowledge is for acting Upon," and subtitled "The Manhattan Raid." Sections of that video show terrorists undergoing martial arts training, and using knives and box cutters to act out the slashing of the throats of their intended victims, most likely thethe first victims of 9/11 – the flight attendants and crews of the four hijacked airliners.
The video includes the "last testament" of two of the terrorists , Wail al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi, and also shows Osama bin Laden walking throughout the training grounds greeting followers.
Narrated on the video: "among the devout group which responded to the order of allah and order of his messenger were the heroes of September 11, who wrote with the ink of their blood the greatest pages of modern history," referencing the hijackers. al-Shehri was on american airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, and al-Ghamdi was on United airlines Flight 175, which hit the second tower.
an analysis of the video described it as being "unusually long and sophisticated in its production" compared to previous al-Qaeda videos, according to US intelligence analysts.
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