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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: New al Qaeda Tapes Feature U.S. Capitol Under 'Attack' |
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New al Qaeda Tapes Feature U.S. Capitol Under 'Attack'
May 22, 2007 2:01 PM
Rhonda Schwartz Reports:
Al Qaeda has a new opening graphic for its propaganda tapes: the U.S. Capitol under "attack."
"The Islamic State of Iraq...March Toward Washington" reads the headline in English superimposed over a digitally created scene of the U.S. Capitol under attack in the introductory sequence of one tape released on the Internet this week.
Another from al Qaeda's "as Sahab" production arm announces "Holocaust of the Americans in the Land of Khorasan" and shows an image of the U.S. Capitol to introduce a short clip of al Qaeda fighters.
"This is a disturbing new trend," says Laura Mansfield, an Arabic expert who monitors jihadi videos on the Internet.
"Recall that in January 2006, Osama Bin Laden said that plans for attacks in the U.S. were in progress," Mansfield told the Blotter on ABCNews.com. "It may be that this new imagery is designed to motivate terrorist activity in the U.S., but it is certainly intended as a recruiting tool and perhaps intended to reassure al Qaeda's jihadi followers they haven't forgotten their goal of an al Qaeda attack on Washington, D.C.," she said. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Does it really qualify as newsworthy that Al Qaeda uses violent anti-American imagery in their propaganda? |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| When the left seems to denounce the entire thing as a pretext and fabricated threat...? Yes, it is important to remember that there is an actual enemy who hates us and is aiming weapons at us out there. |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Al Queda can have DC. It might do them some good. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| When the left seems to denounce the entire thing as a pretext and fabricated threat...? Y |
It's like that old fable about boys who cry wolf.
Except this time it's "The Greaseball Neo-Con Opportunists that Cried Osama/ Saddam!" so you'll have to accept the skepticism that results from them cheapening the threat while they pursue their own social, financial and political goals. |
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