CAIRO, Egypt, May 8, 2007
Al Qaeda Video Claims Algeria Bombing
Al-Jazeera TV Airs Tape Claiming To Be Of Suicide Bombings That Killed 33 In April
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Aftermath of a bomb blast in Algiers, Algeria, on April 11, 2007. (APTN)
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The brief video showed equipment and wires being put together, followed by a large explosion. The equipment appeared to be land mines and explosives.
Al-Jazeera said it had obtained the footage exclusively and that a longer segment would be aired later. The network provided no details on how or when it had obtained the video, and its authenticity could not be independently confirmed.
At the end of the initially aired segment, a bearded man said to be Abu Musab Abdulwadood, the leader of Algeria's main Islamic insurgency movement, called on young Muslims to join his group and carry out suicide bombings.
Abdulwadood said the young should join the "long list of martyrs."
"We carry the good news to our nation and our young people and tell them that the list of martyrs is long and is getting longer day after day," Abdulwadood said. "Volunteers are competing to open this glorious combating door. Don't miss out on (joining the) entourage."
"This is a crusader war on Islam, this is a decisive battle between the infidels and the believers," he added. "Whoever misses this war will be missing a chance in a lifetime."
A group called Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for the April 11 attacks in Algiers which killed 33 people and wounded 57 in coordinated suicide bombings targeting the prime minister's office and a police station.
The attacks were the deadliest in the Algiers region since 2002. They came as the North African nation struggles to come to terms with an insurgency that has killed up to 200,000 people since 1992 but has largely died down in recent years. The insurgency erupted after the army canceled elections that a Muslim fundamentalist party was set to win.
Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa is the new name for the GSPC, a group built on the foundations of the insurgency movement.
According to media reports in Algiers, Algerian security services arrested an unspecified number of suspects accused of "logistical preparations" for the attacks, and some of them have already reportedly been brought before prosecutors. However, there have been no official statements on this.
The Algerian reports said the explosives were a mixture of fertilizers and other chemical supplies, with two detonators — one controlled by the suicide bombers, the other by remote controls.
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And what's this nonsense that Arabs need to fix what they broke? Alqaeda before our invasion of Iraq were kicked out of EVERY Arab country. Alqaeda, in other words, didn't have a single base in the entire Middle East and that's why they ended up in Afghanistan, remember? You don't? Still living in your own dreamland? Shame.
And why was Alqaeda not welcome in the entire Middle East? Because the majority of Arabs more than understood Alqaeda is made up by a bunch of criminals and shouldn't be helped in any way.
But now that the US invaded Iraq based on the most bogus reasons all bets are off. The Sunnis who compromised over 90% of the Arab world are simply not going to let their brethren in Iraq suffer for the idiotic policies the US carries in the MIddle East. Period. No two ways about it.
Bush and his ilk can *** all they want about "moderate" Muslims but how moderate can you be when you see that wherever the US has been directly involved in the Middle East, that is Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq, they've ended up being invaded, divided, partitioned and walled up. They can't even choose their own leaders no matter how democratically elected they are.
It's high time for us to stop whining about how people don't appreciate our well meaning mistakes, and get real for freaking once.
And what's this nonsense that Arabs need to fix what they broke? Alqaeda before our invasion of Iraq were kicked out of EVERY Arab country. Alqaeda, in other words, didn't have a single base in the entire Middle East and that's why they ended up in Afghanistan, remember? You don't? Still living in your own dreamland? Shame.
And why was Alqaeda not welcome in the entire Middle East? Because the majority of Arabs more than understood Alqaeda is made up by a bunch of criminals and shouldn't be helped in any way.
But now that the US invaded Iraq based on the most bogus reasons all bets are off. The Sunnis who compromised over 90% of the Arab world are simply not going to let their brethren in Iraq suffer for the idiotic policies the US carries in the MIddle East. Period. No two ways about it.
Bush and his ilk can *** all they want about "moderate" Muslims but how moderate can you be when you see that wherever the US has been directly involved in the Middle East, that is Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq, they've ended up being invaded, divided, partitioned and walled up. They can't even choose their own leaders no matter how democratically elected they are.
It's high time for us to stop whining about how people don't appreciate our well meaning mistakes, and get real for freaking once.
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Radical Islam is nothing but an extreme form of Christianity.JESUS was an ISLAMIC RADICAL who gave his life for a cause just like Islamic Radical Suicide Bombers in Iraq do in following his footstep.
Radical Islam is a threat and we can not win agianst Radical Islam unless we crush and destroy it's root known as CHRISTIANITY.
Radical Islam is nothing but an extreme form of Christianity.JESUS was an ISLAMIC RADICAL who gave his life for a cause just like Islamic Radical Suicide Bombers in Iraq do in following his footstep.
Radical Islam is a threat and we can not win agianst Radical Islam unless we crush and destroy it's root known as CHRISTIANITY.
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Radical Islam is a threat and we can not win agianst Radical Islam unless we crush and destroy it's root known as CHRISTIANITY.
Radical Islam is nothing but an extreme form of Christianity.JESUS was an ISLAMIC RADICAL who gave his life for a cause just like Islamic Radical Suicide Bombers in Iraq do in following his footstep.
Radical Islam is a threat and we can not win agianst Radical Islam unless we crush and destroy it's root known as CHRISTIANITY.
If all of the young commit suicide attacks or a significant proportion of the youth what becomes of the society? Self destruction? A wise course of action.
"When will the Muslim world rise and say enough murder?"
I've asked the same question. All the moderate Muslims are afraid that if they say anything, they will be killed also.
"This is a crusader war on Islam, this is a decisive battle between the infidels and the believes." "Whoever misses this war will be missing a chance in a life time."
Sounds like they are ready to have at it.
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See all 14 CommentsSomeone ought to put Al brazier out of business.
We invest so much money in the so-called 'war on terror' and the media arm of al kaida, al brazier, is still putting out propaganda videos? Tsk-tsk
Who the hell in our government is in charge of shutting down the maniac muslims and their broadcasts?