Osama Bin Hiden's Ass Puppet Zawahiri to Declare War on Musharraf in New Video

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AP: Bin Laden to Declare War on Musharraf in New Video

Thursday, September 20, 2007

CAIRO, Egypt - Usama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring

war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Al Qaeda announced Thursday.

The announcement of the upcoming message came as Al Qaeda released a new

video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, boasted that the

United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts.

Speakers in the video promised more fighting in Afghanistan, North Africa

and Sudan's Darfur region.

The messages are part of a stepped-up propaganda campaign by Al Qaeda around

the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the World Trade Center

and the Pentagon. Earlier this month, bin Laden released two messages -

including his first new appearance in a video in nearly three years.

A banner posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Thursday advertised that

another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin Laden

would appear in video or speak in an audiotape.

"Soon, God willing: 'Come to Jihad (holy war)', from sheik Usama bin Laden,

God protect him" the banner read.

"Urgent, Al Qaeda declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his

apostate army, in the words of Usama bin Laden," it read.

Such advertisements usually preceed the release of the video by one to three

days, according to IntelCenter, a U.S. counterterrorism group that monitors

militant messages.

The sophisticated 80-minute video released Thursday on the same Web site was

in the style of a documentary, intersplicing the speech by al-Zawahiri with

footage from the 9-11 attacks, interviews with experts and officials taken

from Western and Arab television stations and old footage and audiotapes of

bin Laden.

Al-Zawahiri began by condemning the Pakistani military's July assault on

Islamic militants who took over the Red Mosque in Islamabad, and he paid

tribute to one of the militants' leaders, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed

in the fighting.

The siege "revealed the extent of the despicableness, lowliness and treason

of Musharraf and his forces, who don't deserve the honor of defending

Pakistan, because Pakistan is a Muslim land, whereas the forces of Musharraf

are hunting dogs under (U.S. President George W.) Bush's crucifix,"

al-Zawahiri said.

"Let the Pakistani army know that the killing of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his

male and female students ... has soaked the history of the Pakistan army in

shame and despicableness which can only washed away by retaliation," he

said.

Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are thought to be hiding in the lawless

Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, where many analysts believe they have

rebuilt Al Qaeda's core leadership.

The tone of Thursday's video was triumphalist, with al-Zawahiri calling for

attacks on French and Spanish interests in North Africa and on U.N. and

African peacekeepers expected to deploy in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region.

"What they claim to be the strongest power in the history of mankind is

today being defeated in front of the Muslim vanguards of jihad six years

after the two raids on New York and Washington," al-Zawahiri said, speaking

in what appeared to be an office, with shelves of religious books and an

automatic rifle leaning agains them.

"The Crusaders themselves have testified to their defeat in Afghanistan at

the hands of the lions of the Taliban," he said. "The Crusaders have

testified to their own defeat in Iraq at the hands of the mujahideen, who

have taken the battle of Islam to the heart of the Islam world."

It included footage of Al Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu

al-Yazeed, meeting with a senior Taliban commander. In contrast to past

videos that showed Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in rough desert terrain,

Abu al-Yazeed and the commander were shown sitting in a verdant field

surrounded by trees as a jihad anthem played, extolling the virgins that

will meet martyrs in paradise.

Abu al-Yazeed said Al Qaeda's ties with the Taliban were strengthening. The

Taliban commander, Dadullah Mansoor, said, "We shall target the infidels in

Afghanistan and outside Afghanistan: inside all the infidel countries

oppressing the Muslims. And we shall focus our attacks, Allah willing, on

the coalition forces in Afghanistan."

Another clip in the video showed Abu Musab Abdulwadood, the leader of

Algeria's main Islamic insurgency movement, addressing bin Laden and vowing

that "our swords are unsheathed."

Al-Zawahiri called on supporters in North Africa to "cleanse the Maghrib

(western region) of Islam of the children of France and Spain ... Stand with

your sons the mujahideen against the Crusaders and their children."

The video also included what IntelCenter said appeared to be old, but

previously unreleased footage of bin Laden. The images show the terror

leader, with a beard streaked with gray and a a white cloth draped over his

head, in front of a map showing the Middle East and South and Central Asia.

He points to the map with a stick and addresses an unseen audience.

He condemns Arab Gulf governments that have allied themselves with the

United States, saying they have "sold the Islamic nation, colluded with the

enemies of Islam and backed the infidels. And this is the greater form of

being an infidel ...But Allah permitting, they shall leave the Gulf under

the blows of the mujahideen," bin Laden said.