Zarqawi appears in rare Web video
Via MSNBC
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said insurgents were fighting on despite a three-year “crusader” war, according to a rare video of him posted on the Internet on Tuesday.
“Your mujahideen sons were able to confront the most ferocious of crusader campaigns on a Muslim state. They have stood in the face of this onslaught for three years,” Zarqawi said on the video.
The video was believed to be the first to contain a “message” from Zarqawi, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
“As far as we know, this is the first video,” said a senior intelligence official. “We have seen videos of him before but they were older, more like home videos like the one of him at a wedding.”
Technical and contextual analysis was under way at the CIA, the official said.
More at Site Institute
The Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq issued a video today, April 25, 2006, featuring Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Images provided show Zarqawi speaking, instructing mujahideen and standing with a machine gun. The video is titled: “A Message to the People”.
Wizbang has a news roundup:
Hot Air has things covered.
Bill Rogio has commentary at the Counterrorism Blog
CNN has commentary and visual of the video.
Bare Knuckle Politics has the full video.
Expose The Left has the video too.
My Pet Jawa has rough translations.
It seems to me that his video following on the heels of Osama’s and repeating many of the same talking points about Zionist-Crusader garbage, is a desperate attempt to rekindle their dying cause. Many are also taking note that he is wearing a suicide belt. Don’t think these thugs will let us take them alive. He also talks about Iraq’s new government, obviously unhappy that a liberated people can now choose their own leaders instead of being dictated.
Beth is on the same wavelength as I am, with this message.
Extensive analysis at the Counterterrorism Blog
Zarqawi’s new videotape comes one day after the Sinai’s attacks and two days after Bin Laden’s “state of the world Jihad” audiotape aired on al Jazeera. Many questions are fusing: Why now and is there a connection between the three events? What is the essence of Abu Mus’ab’s message and why is he risking so high? Are there troubles behind the release of the video? In fact there are many levels of analysis and multiple dimensions. Here are some early points of reflection some of which were made on MSNBC this afternoon:
Read the whole thing. Quite scary stuff.
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Posted by Jay on April 25, 2006 1:02 pm
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