Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: “Lamentation of the Sheikh, Amir Mustafa Abu al-Yazid”

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Written by Administrator Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:00

In an audiotape titled “Lamentation of the Sheikh, Amir Mustafa Abu al-Yazid”, produced by As-Sahab and released on July 27, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri mourned Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a founder of Al-Qaida who has been identified as “the overall head of al-Qaida Organization in Afghanistan” and who was reportedly killed in a U.S. strike. Zawahiri threatened more attacks against the West in the tape: “O’ American people and O’ peoples of the Crusade alliance: you are paying the price and you’re paying it high. Your leaders are collecting money from the war trade and you are its fuel and victims. We offered you a plan for peace and exchanging benefits, but your governments refused and became arrogant, and [so] the campaigns have continued against you everywhere, from Indonesia to Time Square, passing by Madrid and London. And the campaigns remain continuous and more are coming in succession, with Allah’s grace.” He also urged the Turkish people to “regain the glorious role the Ottoman Empire carried out in defending the Islamic homelands in general and Palestine in particular…The Ottoman State used to send sweeping armies and entire fleets to defend any threatened Muslim area, so how is it that your children’s role is limited to simply sending a ship or a number of ships that get overpowered like cattle in the sea of wolves?” Turning to France, he remarked, “What France is waging as it is spreading in Europe and the West must push us to tightly hold onto our truthful faith to counter their deviational doctrines. We must call our daughters and sisters and mothers to wear Hijab and to support them and defend them. As every Hijab-wearing and Niqab-wearing female Muslim, who defends her Hijab, is a mujahid who defends the rulings of Sharia against the Crusade, secular, Western invasion…The law that was declared in France prohibiting Niqab proves that the Western freedom is its freedom [to choose] in disbelief [in Allah], disintegration, degeneracy, and fighting Islam, and not the Muslim’s freedom in abiding by his religion.”

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Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: “Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized”

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Written by Administrator Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:34

In an audiotape titled “Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized”, produced by As-Sahab and released on July 19, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri addressed President Obama: “O’ Obama, whether you admit or not, the Muslims have defeated you in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they will defeat you—and the powers that brought you—soon Inshallah in Palestine, Somalia, and the Islamic Maghreb. Not only will you be defeated militarily and economically, but also, most importantly, you were defeated morally and constituently.” He harshly criticized Muslims who applauded Obama’s speech in Cairo despite the fact that “His criminal, invasive forces were occupying Afghanistan, Iraq and the Gulf, and wide ranges in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the Islamic Maghreb and Yemen…” He then argues that “we are the greatest reason in losing Palestine because some of us are requesting to unify with the Arab Zionists and call them with prefixes like brother and president…to the end of these falsehoods, in which they realize their own lies.” For Zawahiri, “Arab Zionists are more dangerous…than the Jewish Zionists. Who is sanctioning our people in Gaza and circulates them with a metal wall underground? Who? Isn’t it the head of the Arab Zionists Husni Mubarak?...And who is helping the Mossad in killing the mujahideen and imprisoning them? Isn’t he the Arab Zionist Mahmoud Abbas?” He counsels that “we first have to liberate ourselves in order to liberate what is outside of it; we will not liberate our homelands if we are weak slaves with our fear, incompetence, greed and delusions, with the incompetent rulers and the greedy leaders and the scheming cooperatives and the apostate sheikhs.”

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Flashpoint Global Partners Exclusive: Video of Pakistani Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar

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Last Updated (Monday, 26 July 2010 14:30) Written by Laith Alkhouri Monday, 26 July 2010 14:21

In the wake of the latest embarrassing disclosures about Pakistan's unhelpful role in the Afghan conflict, Flashpoint Global Partners has obtained an unpublished video of retired Pakistani military and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar, who has been held hostage by militants in Pakistan’s tribal region since March 2010, when he arrived in the area alongside another former ISI officer Khalid Khwaja.

Tarar, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war and a reputed expert on guerilla warfare, has acknowledged a long relationship with the Afghan Taliban and its leader Mullah Mohammed Omar—but has been far more critical of the Pakistani Taliban movement. During a recent New York Times interview, Tarar admonished the TTP and its leadership as “troublemakers” who should be “neutralized.”

In his latest video-recorded message, Colonel Imam Tarar claims that he has been kidnapped by “Lashkar Jhangvi al-Alami, Abdullah Mansour” faction and insists that the Pakistani government has done nothing to facilitate his release. If the government continues to refuse negotiations for his freedom, Tarar further threatens to disclose highly sensitive information about “the weaknesses of our nation” and the secret “game being played with Afghanistan, India, Russia, and America.”

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Flashpoint Exclusive: Video of Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad with Taliban Commander Hakimullah Mehsud

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Last Updated (Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:10) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:00

Flashpoint Global Partners has released a previously unpublished video excerpt of a meeting between confessed Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad and the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud. During the undated video clip, Hakimullah and Shahzad are shown shaking hands and hugging, as Shahzad speaks in an overlaid audio track: "Today, along with the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud and under the command of Amir al-Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar Mujahid (may Allah protect him), we are planning to wage an attack on your side, inshallah." In a statement read out in U.S. federal court on June 22, 2010, Shahzad admitted to receiving "training [in Pakistan] to wage an attack inside the United States of America... How to make a bomb, how to detonate a bomb, how to put a fuse... I asked them [the Taliban] for some cash 'cause I only had - my cash was like $4,500 that I had with me when I was leaving, and I asked for some more cash because I had to do the whole operation here."