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| Zarqawi releases "greatest hits" video |
| 2005-07-27 |
| In the propaganda war waged in parallel to the bloody attacks by Jihadi terrorists around the globe, the Internet and video images are paramount. The latest salvo from Jordanian terror chief, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is a 46-minute video, of which Adnkronos International (AKI) has a copy. Entitled "Religion is all for Allah" the mini-documentary, recaps the terrorist activity perpetrated in recent years by the organisation of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Unlike the grainy amateurish videos issued by Iraqi terrorist groups two years ago, the latest 'film' has high production values and is technically sophisticated. The images are accompanied for the most part by a voice speaking in Arabic which viewers are told is that of al-Zarqawi, alternated with Jihadist songs and the original sounds from some of the scenes shown. In some parts the narrator's voice is accompanied by archive images of attacks or explanatory texts in Arabic on the screen. Evan Kohlmann, terror expert and director of globalterroralert.com, described the video which has been on Islamist sites over the past 24 hours, as "recent" and that the narrator is indeed al-Zarqawi. According to Kohlmann, the video includes some previoulsy unreleased footage. The video opens with high definition images of Osama bin Laden walking through the mountains in Afghanistan. At the fourth minute the narrator says: "The crusader armies have been taken prisoner in Iraq and the head of the crusaders [the US president George W. Bush] made an error when, in 2003, he announced the end of the war in Iraq, because it has only just begun". Six minutes into the video, a compedium of images of al-Zarqawi's group, al-Qaeda in Iraq, most serious attacks appears, including one on an Italian base in the southern city of Nassiriya, in which 19 people were killed. "Then came the Nassiriya expedition in which the crusaders base was destroyed and their prime minister shed tears over its desruction". Al-Zarqawi's group had claimed responsibility for the November 2003 attack on one previous occasion. This segment is accompanied by video footage of the devastated base and of Berlusconi with his head in his hands. The mujahadeen have turned Iraq into an inferno, the narrator informs, with a series of attacks, including "the destruction of the UN headquarters which protected Jews and that of the Red Cross". The video-history of al-Zarqawi's group continues with quotations from a Human Rights Watch report on Iraq and on torture in Iraqi jails. It shows the interrogation of an Iraqi policeman and it attacks the Iraqi Al-Iraqiya television channel which it says is "funded by the United States and by Jews to transmit false videos of Mujahadeen turncoats". The final part of the video shows videos shot by the insurgents themselves during various attacks. One shows US soldiers in combat and the images shown suggest that whoever recorded the footage was remarkably close to the troops. A group of 20 young suicide bombers, the testimony of a Falluja woman who claims she was beaten by the police and the video-will of a Saudi suicide bomber conclude the video document. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Isn't there a fatwa against video? Surely Mohammed never approved of videos? we know he engaged in rape, beheadings, mass-murder, etc. but videos! |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-27 18:28 |
| #3 Find and kill every jihadi fuck on the video, then release footage of their deaths and/or bodies with AC/DC's Highway to Hell playing in the background. Mix in some clips of a few old super bowls or those Wolf Brigade videos of jihadi confessions and a most wanted list that produced jihadi body counts and we've got high entertainment value! I'd watch that, hell I'd buy my father in law a copy for Christmas, he'd love that shit! EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-07-27 17:08 |
| #2 So how does this differ from any CNN broadcast? |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-07-27 16:05 |
| #1 It's like a Disney classic for the faithful! Not terribly original though. Baseyev and Khattab in Chechnya had two hourlong versions called Russian Hell in Chechnya pre 9/11. Back then they peddled the crap for a buck through the Kavkaz and Azzam sites. Copies were reportedly found in the residences of a few of the nutters nabbed in the west. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-07-27 15:52 |