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Video: 9/11 Hijacker Ziad Jarrah Being Coached By His Al-Qaida Handlers
Take a look at this tape of 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah. During the recording of his martyrdom tape which was supposed to be his last words — he can’t even keep a straight face. He recorded his last words more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.
I just can’t get over the fact that Jarrah and the rest of the hijackers lived among us for years before they committed their atrocity. Think about the kind of discipline it took to know they were in this country for a single purpose — to kill as many Americans as they could. Every single day they spent on American soil was in preparation for the 9/11 attacks.
So when you hear liberals downplaying the threat from Al-Qaida, just think about the dedication and the commitment those hijackers had to seeing us all dead.
9/11 Pledge: ‘I Will Not Submit’
Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”
Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for getting the above translated. Everyone should read Michelle’s 9/11 anniversary message.
As we mourn the loss of of our fellow countrymen 7 years ago, it’s important also to remember that the fight is not over — not by a long shot.
The radical ideology that led to 9/11 is alive and well in the world and Americans must not be fooled by those who seek to downplay the threat or blame America for the attacks.
Report: Inside A 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation
The International Herald Tribune has a detailed account of how 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was captured and interrogated. Learn about a soft-spoken CIA analyst named Duece Martinez who became instrumental in the interrogation of high profile terrorists.
The article offers some amazing insight into how the War on Terror was conducted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and how we’ve managed to prevent new attacks. The men and women who work behind the scenes both in the U.S. and around the world to keep our country safe are true heroes.
Gitmo Hearing For 9/11 Mastermind Begins
The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his co-conspirators appeared today in a Gitmo courtroom for the start of their military tribunal.
All five defendants face execution if found guilty. Mohammed told the court today that he welcomes death and hopes he’s executed so he can become a Martyr.
Al-Qaeda No. 2 says 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Propagated By Iran
Apparently Al-Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, is outraged that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad keeps spreading the 9/11 conspiracy theory.
In a newly released audio tape Al-Zawahri accuses the Iranian President of trying to discredit Al-Qaeda by suggesting that Israel and the U.S. were behind the 9/11 attacks.
On the tape, Al-Zawahri answers questions posted to him on an Islamic militant website.
One of the questioners asked about the theory that has circulated in the Middle East and elsewhere that Israel was behind the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Al-Zawahri accused Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television of starting the rumor.
“The purpose of this lie is clear—(to suggest) that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no else did in history. Iranian media snapped up this lie and repeated it,” he said.
“Iran’s aim here is also clear—to cover up its involvement with America in invading the homes of Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he said.
Iran cooperated with the United States in the 2001 U.S. assault on Afghanistan that toppled al-Qaida’s allies, the Taliban.
The terror leader was also asked for his thoughts on global warming (I’m not making this up) and he was happy to opine on that subject as well:
He predicted that global warming would “make the world more sympathetic to and understanding of the Muslims’ jihad against the aggressor America.”
I really hope the handful of people who still believe Al-Qaeda wasn’t really behind 9/11 will at least begin to rethink their conclusions after this latest audio tape. Maybe this will make some of America’s great thinkers like Rosie O’Donnell, Charlie Sheen, and Jesse Ventura, take a second look at the evidence and quit being stuck on stupid.
Ahmadinejad Casts Doubts About 9/11 Attacks, Death Toll
The crazed lunatic that runs Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that he’s not convinced the 9/11 attacks happened like we say they did or if the death toll was accurate.
As usual the little man had his facts wrong:
“Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names,” Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
Obviously, Mr. Ahmadinejad failed to attend the last anniversary of the attacks where the names of 2,750 victims killed in New York were read aloud at a memorial ceremony.
-Chris Jones
Former Governor Jesse Ventura Says 9/11 Was Inside Job
Former Governor Jesse Ventura has officially become a nut, and anything he says from this point forward doesn’t matter and isn’t worth listening to.
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura vehemently savaged the official 9/11 story on a syndicated national radio show today, saying the WTC collapsed like a controlled demolition and was pulverized to dust as he also highlighted the impossible 10 second free fall speed of the towers.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, Ventura said that his initial reaction to 9/11 was much like most people at the time, and he accepted the official story outright, a response he now regrets because he was in a position of power and could have used it to raise a lot of pointed questions.
“I kicked myself when it initially happened that the light didn’t go off but I was so shocked that this thing had even taken place that I apologize for not being more aware,” said Ventura, adding that watching Loose Change at the insistence of his son was part of the catalyst for his wake up call.
It’s absolutely terrifying that a seemingly rational person can watch a ridiculous discredited 9/11 conspiracy documentary on the Internet and suddenly become a nut.
Not that Jesse Ventura mattered anyway, but it’s not good for America when a former governor buys into lunatic nonsense like the 9/11 truth movement. People like Ventura who can be so easily manipulated by propaganda are dangerous people to have walking around.
-Chris Jones
MASTERMIND OF 1993 TWIN TOWERS ATTACK CLAIMS HE HAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive “Supermax” prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports that some 900 force feedings were performed on other al-Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison. The 60 MINUTES segment will be broadcast Sunday Oct. 14 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET/7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Anyone who’s read extensively about Yousef would know that the mere suggestion that he would convert to Christianity is ridiculous. In addition to being of nearly genius intelligence level and a master bomb maker, he’s also a true believer.
His uncle and mentor is Khalid-Shakh-Mohammed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and top Al-Qaeda operative. It was with his uncle that he hatched the 1993 Trade Center bombing that ended in failure. Since Yousef was apprehended it was up to KSM alone to plan out the 2001 attacks.
The idea of using planes to crash into the the Trade Center was originally thought up by Ramzi Yousef back in 1992, but Osama Bin Laden thought the plan would take too much planning. So Ramzi and KSM decided on a truck bomb which they used in the ‘93 attack.
-Chris Jones
Obama Stops Wearing Flag Pin
Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama has decided to quite wearing a flag pin on his lapel.
Asked about the decision Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped doing so shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.
“The truth is that right after 9-11 I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9-11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.
“I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest,” he said in the interview. “Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism.”
I don’t get why Patriotism is such a taboo thing on the left. This is clearly Obama’s way of throwing some red meat to the far-left. For some reason displays of patriotism make liberals very uncomfortable and the flag pins in particular are an issue that continues to come up.
Last week Katie Couric said it made her “uncomfortable” when everyone was wearing flag pins and using “we” when referring to America.
-Chris Jones
REPORT: Ahmadinejad to meet with 9/11 families; ‘critics of the Bush administration’…
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Tehran on Sunday for his third trip to the United States, saying the visit was a good chance to present Iran’s solutions for the problems of the world.
Ahmadinejad, who is due to address the UN General Assembly in New York and hold other meetings, said he would be meeting “intellectuals and independent US politicians” on his trip to Tehran’s arch foe.
“The General Assembly of the United Nations is a good opportunity to present the solutions of the Iranian people to solve the problems of the world,” the president told reporters before leaving.
“The United States has had influence in international relations since World War II but the American people have suffered in diverse ways and have been deprived of access to accurate information,” he added.
“We need to take advantage of such opportunities to present the positions of the Iranian people as they (the Americans) are very keen to hear them.”
Since taking office, Ahmadinejad has addressed the UN General Assembly in both 2005 and 2006.
During his two-day sojourn in New York, the Iranian president, who will be accompanied by a group of high-ranking officials, is also scheduled to attend bilateral talks with several of his counterparts and meet Iranians residing in the US.
Ahmadinejad is also set to use a speech at a leading US university to challenge George W Bush at a time of high tensions with Washington over his country’s pursuit of nuclear technology.
The invitation by New York’s Columbia University to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is attracting growing criticism from the US hawks ahead of his arrival on Sunday.
Meetings with the survivors and bereaved families of the 9-11 incident, journalists and critics of the Bush administration are also included in Ahmadinejad’s itinerary.
After attending the UN meeting, which will be his third since he ascended to power more than two years ago, the president will leave New York for the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas.
This is while the US administration, in a blatant violation of diplomatic norms, refrained from issuing an entry visa for Iran’s ambassador to Geneva and chairman of the Group 15.
Alireza Moayyeri, who heads the Group 15 in Geneva, was due to present an annual report to a meeting of the foreign ministers of the group on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York next Friday.
International rules require the Untied States, as the host to the UN headquarters, to issue visa for other countries’ envoys to the United Nations and to refrain from disrupting the operations of the world body.
Due to similar incidents in the past, Iran has called on the UN member states to change the UN headquarters from New York to Geneva or a more convenient and impartial place.
Ahmadinejad is also due to pay a visit to Brazil following his trip to Caracas.
Brazil has made large investments in Iran’s oil industries and is among those states enjoying very good political relations with the Islamic Republic. The two countries’ trade balance amounts to USD 1bln.
Bin Laden Wants ‘Caravan’ of Martyrs
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the “caravan” of martyrs as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Al-Qaida traditionally issues a video every year on the anniversary, with the last testament of one of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This year’s video showed hijacker Waleed al-Shehri addressing the camera and warning the U.S.: “We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left.”
The new message, which AP Television News obtained from the IntelCenter monitoring group in suburban Washington, came days after the world got its first current look at bin Laden in nearly three years, with the release of a video Saturday in which the terror leader addressed the American people.
Later in the day it appeared on militant Web sites, with a note from al-Qaiada’s media production wing al-Sahab saying it was intentionally sent to television stations before being placed on the Internet.
It begins with an audiotape introduction by bin Laden. While his voice is heard, the video shows a still image of him, raising his finger. In the image, bin Laden has the same dyed-black beard and the same clothes – a white robe and cap and beige cloak – that he had in Saturday’s video.
But it was not known if the audiotape was recently made. In the past, al-Qaida has used footage and audio of bin Laden taped long ago for release later.
In the tape, bin Laden praised al-Shehri, saying he “recognized the truth” that Arab rulers were “vassals” of the West and had “abandoned the balance of (Islamic) revelation.”
“It is true that this young man was little in years, but the faith in his heart was big,” he said.
“So there is a huge difference between the path of the kings, presidents and hypocritical Ulama (Islamic scholars) and the path of these noble young men,” like al-Shehri, bin Laden said. “The formers’ lot is to spoil and enjoy themselves whereas the latters’ lot is to destroy themselves for Allah’s Word to be Supreme.”
“It remains for us to do our part. So I tell every young man among the youth of Islam: It is your duty to join the caravan (of martyrs) until the sufficiency is complete and the march to aid the High and Omnipotent continues,” he said.
At the end of his speech, bin Laden also mentions the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in an U.S. air strike there. Al-Zarqawi followed in the footsteps of al-Shehri and his brothers who “fulfilled their promises to God.”
“And now it is our turn,” bin Laden says.
After bin Laden speaks, the video of al-Shehri appears. Al-Shehri – one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the World Trade Center – is seen wearing a white robe and headscarf, with a full black beard, speaking in front of a backdrop with images of the burning World Trade Center.
“We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left,” al-Shehri said, asserting that America would suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union.
He also praised the losses the United States suffered in Somalia in late 1993.
“As for our own fortune, it is not in this world,” he said. “And we are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah’s eyes the wing of a mosquito.”
Al-Shehri warned Muslims who strayed to return to their religion and deplored the state of those who abandoned Muslim holy war, or jihad.
“The condition of Islam at the present time makes one cry … in view of the weakness, humiliation, scorn and enslavement it is suffering because it neglected the obligations of Allah and His orders, and permitted His forbidden things and abandoned jihad in Allah’s path,” he said.
Suicide attacks for al-Qaida and other militant groups often videotape last testaments before carrying out their attacks. Every Sept. 11 anniversary, al-Qaida has used the tapes in a bid to rally its supporters by glorifying its “martyrs.”
Bin Laden’s new appearances underline the failure to find the terror leader that President Bush vowed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to take “dead or alive.”
On Sunday, Bush’s homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend sought to play down bin Laden’s importance – and added a taunt, saying he was “virtually impotent.”
But terrorism experts say al-Qaida’s core leadership is regrouping in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the network is growing in strength, intensifying its efforts to put operatives in the United States and plot new attacks.
Bin Laden’s video on Saturday was his first message in over a year – since a July 1, 2006 audiotape. The images came under close scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies, looking for clues to the 50-year-old’s health and whereabouts.
[AP]
al-Qaida Announces New Bin Laden Video
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Al-Qaida said Monday that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks.
The announcement from the terror group’s media arm came only days after bin Laden appeared in his first video in three years, giving an address to the American people, lecturing them to abandon capitalism and democracy and convert to Islam.
The announcement came in a banner advertisement posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida often releases messages and was signed by Al-Sahab, the media arm of bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network.
“Coming soon, God willing, the testament of the attacks on New York and Washington, Abu Musab Waleed al-Shehri, presented by Sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserve him,” the banner read. It showed an image of bin Laden wearing the same black beard and clothes as in the most recent video.
[AP]
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