In a bid to continue to give the illusion that he remains relevant, bin Laden and/or his al-Qaeda surrogates are releasing a new tape to threaten us all on the anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Iraq.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is expected to release a new message, the U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service SITE Institute said on Wednesday.

The message is entitled, “The Response Will Be What You See, Not What You Hear,” SITE said in a release.

It said an announcement of the pending message was posted on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, by the administrator of the al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Ekhlaas Internet forum.

The message would appear to the first by bin Laden since November 29, 2007, when he urged European countries to end military participation with U.S. forces in the Afghan conflict.

I found this disturbing video at Something …. and Half of Something. It is part of a documentary that can be viewed in seven segments at The Jawa Report. This documentary follows two Australian women who are converts to islam. Interestingly, they declare that Wahhabi is the form of islam followed by most converts. This is the form of islam that Osama bin-Laden follows. Its the hard-line fundamentalist form of islam that requires its followers to live as mohammad lived in the 7th century.

Watch, learn and know thy enemy.

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Terrorists ‘use Down’s syndrome suicide bombers’ to kill 70 in Iraq

REMOTE-CONTROLLED explosives strapped to two women with Down’s syndrome were detonated in co-ordinated attacks on pet bazaars in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi officials said.

The explosions – which Iraqi officials said were detonated by mobile phone, suggesting the women may not have been aware of what was happening – killed at least 73 people and wounded more than 160 in the deadliest day since the United States sent 30,000 extra troops to the capital in spring last year.

The attacks happened at the central al-Ghazl market, where at least 46 were killed, and a market in the New Baghdad area.

Brigadier-General Qassim al-Moussawi, the chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, claimed that both the women involved, who were killed, had Down’s syndrome.

“The operation was carried out by two booby-trapped mentally disabled women,” he said.

People are expressing shock and outrage that al-Qaeda would stoop to such morally bankrupt methods as to use mentally disabled women to carry out their dirty work. I don’t see why that is surprising to anyone. They have shown no regard for human life from the get-go. They have never shown any compunctions about killing anyone of any age, gender or station in life. Why should this be any different?

The President of Iraq had this to say …

Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president, said a total of about 70 people were killed in both attacks, which he said were committed by terrorists motivated by revenge and “to show that they are still able to stop the march of history and of our people toward reconciliation”.

The use of women as combatants violates religious taboos in Iraq. This level of desperation on their part is actually fairly predictable. There is nothing they won’t do to create chaos and carnage and prevent any reconciliation between sects in Iraq.

Never forget what your enemy is capable of.

AP

CAIRO, Egypt - One al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi was killed in Afghanistan, a Web site used by militant groups said Thursday.

Al-Libi was a key link between the Taliban and al-Qaida. He led and al-Qaida training camp and appeared in a number of Internet videos. The U.S. says he was likely behind the February 2007 bombing at the U.S. base at Bagram in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney. The attack killed 23 people.

While the claim could not be verified independently, the announcement of his death appeared as a banner in a section of the Web site reserved for affiliated militant organizations, according to the Washington-based SITE Institute which monitors such sites.

“As the banner was posted … by a webmaster of the forum, it seems as if the announcement of his death has been confirmed to the forum administrators,” SITE said in an e-mail to news organizations.

Another one bites the dust!!! Mark up one for our guys!!!

In the video that was recently released by the American Al-Qaeda Member Adam Yahiye Gadahn, he lashed out against Jay Leno’s wife, Mavis Leno and First Lady Laura Bush. He called them hypocrites and warns that they, along with other Americans, will be punished.

Mavis Leno’s wrongdoing? She has worked to help the women of Afghanistan who have suffered under the Taliban. He threatens the First Lady for the same reason.

He says we are in a fight to the death with islam. Once again, the islamist tell us what their intentions are. Once again they tell us that they intend to kill us all and that they view this as a global war with their ideology. Once again, we don’t listen.

WorldNetDaily

The American leader of al-Qaida lashed out at the wife of late-night talk show host Jay Leno in a newly released video-taped message warning fellow Americans of coming “punishment.”

Al-Qaida propaganda chief Adam Gadahn, aka. “Azzam the American,” singled Mavis Leno out for rebuke for her feminist views and criticism of the misogynistic brutality of the Taliban. He also heaped scorn on first lady Laura Bush, suggesting they are both hypocrites.

“Doesn’t it seem strange to you that Mrs. Jay Leno and Mrs. George W. Bush … have failed to express their outrage at this criminal misogynistic behavior which your government and its allies are engaged in and encouraging in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia?” Gadahn said, according to a transcription and translation of the 50-minute screed, spoken in Arabic and English.

Leno has been honored by feminist organizations for working to help the oppressed women of Afghanistan. She was one of the first celebrities to draw attention to their brutal treatment under the ousted Taliban regime.

Gadahn, who is wanted by the FBI for treason, claims U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq are handing over control of parts of the country to Shiite militias who are more brutal than the Taliban, targeting women for gang rape and assassination.

He says they “specialize in sidewalk murders of allegedly immoral women,” and their “track record is no better when it comes to their treatment of women.” Al-Qaida is comprised of Sunni Muslims.

“Doesn’t it seem as though your angry celebrity female activists only spring into action when their campaigns don’t conflict with your regime’s foreign policies,” Gadahn said, “and in fact, serve their colonialist designs?”

Gadahn went on to warn Americans, after tearing up his passport on camera, that “atrocities” against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan “will never be forgotten, nor go unpunished.”

“You’re now in a battle to the death with the Muslims,” he said, adding that only releasing Muslim prisoners, leaving Muslim lands and coverting to Islam will spare Americans from “punishment.”

“Don’t wait until it’s too late,” he warned, “until you’ve seen the punishment with your own eyes.”

Gadahn did not make specific threats against Leno or the first lady during the video.

In 2002, Leno told CNN’s Larry King that she did not plan to travel to Afghanistan to meet with the women she helped liberate, because she feared for her safety.

“I have not been there because the Taliban are well aware of my campaign,” she said. “They know what I look like, they know my name.”

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Oh goody. The Palestinians have found an excuse to have another one of their fun flag - burning - placard - carrying - photo - photoshopping -in - the - street - marching - parties. This time the occasion is the visit of President Bush to Israel and Palestine. Really, how dare he suggest they give up their national sport.

And a good time was had by all ….

Al-Qaeda came out and strutted their stuff. They now call themselves the nation’s army.

Armed and masked Palestinian supporters of the so-called ‘Army of the Nation’ protest against President Bush’s visit to Israel and the West Bank, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. Some two dozen members of the al-Qaida-inspired group displayed their weapons for the first time Wednesday, part of a series of protests against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush to Israel and the West Bank.
(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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Our little American traitor who has found a way to be heard by turning his back on his own country and fighting against his own country has issued another threat against America. He has proved himself to be quite useful to the enemies of our country.

This time, Adam Gadahn who is called al-Qaeda’s American, is calling on the muslim world to attack President Bush while he is traveling to the Middle East. Fortunately, our government says that the President will not be deterred by this little rodent. Well, those are my words. I think the official government statement was a little more diplomatic than calling him a rodent.

Gadahn spoke in English, to the American people, except when he spoke of attacking President Bush.

Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula … to be ready to receive the Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula in the beginning of January and to receive him not with flowers or clapping but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles,” Gadahn, 29, said in Arabic.

Gadahn criticized Christianity and our association with Israel. He encouraged Americans, especially veterans, to embrace islam. He went through all the typical garbage al-Qaeda usually puts out in their videos. He then did a dramatic gesture of tearing up and destroying his American passport and said something about revoking his American citizenship. That was a ridiculous gesture, of course, seeing as he’s been charged with treason. He says he doesn’t need it to travel anyway. I’m quite sure he doesn’t need his passport as he travels in the shadows of al-Qaeda. I imagine he certainly won’t be traveling to the United States of his own free will. As a traitor, his passport is not valid anyway. So it was an empty gesture probably done for the benefit of his muslim audience.

All in all, it was more of the same. Unfortunately, the audience that the video is done for may very well view it as a mandate to make attempts on the President’s life.

Here’s his little video ….

Predictably the left is blaming it all on a vast Jewish conspiracy - From the Huffers:

KenFr (See profile | I’m a fan of KenFr)
Adam Gadahn is really Adam Pearlman, and he is the grandson of a board member of ADL, the late Carl K. Pearlman. His “Al Qaeda” role is pure media hoax to keep Americans scared into supporting wars for Israel.

More sources: CNN, Fox, Reuters, Aljazeera, memeorandum
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It hardly comes as a surprise that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today. She was assassinated by a suicide bomber.

They’ve been trying to get her since she returned to Pakistan from her self-imposed exile in hopes of winning a general election in the country. The day of her triumphant return there was an attempt on her life which left over 150 others dead. There have been numerous other attempts. Each ended with words like, ‘She had just been waving to the crowd when the bomb went off, missing her by seconds’. Its was only a matter of time before they got their timing right and hit her while she was, indeed, standing with her head out of the top of her vehicle, waving to the crowd.

She played a dangerous game with her life. She knew orders had been given for her assassination, but she said she felt destiny required her to pursue the presidency of Pakistan. She seemed to almost court it. Or maybe she believed so strongly in her destiny that she thought she’d continue to sit down or step away just seconds before the blast. This time she didn’t and they got her.

The question that is being asked repeatedly is WHO got her. Well, aside from the guy who is now particles of dust after blowing himself up in his efforts to take her with him. The politics of the WHO will undoubtedly go on for a while. We always seem to continue to question the WHO after assassinations and never quite accept the facts as they are presented. Nevertheless, Al-Qaeda is taking credit for her murder. They generally seem to take credit for the acts that they are actually responsible for. It makes sense that it would be al-Qaeda or one of their sub-groups.

A spokesperson for the al-Qaeda terrorist network has claimed responsibility for the death on Thursday of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

“We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen,” Al-Qaeda’s commander and main spokesperson Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid told Adnkronos International (AKI) in a phone call from an unknown location, speaking in faltering English. Al-Yazid is the main al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan.

It is believed that the decision to kill Bhutto, who is the leader of the opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was made by al-Qaeda No. 2, the Egyptian doctor, Ayman al-Zawahiri in October.

Death squads were allegedly constituted for the mission and ultimately one cell comprising a defunct Lashkar-i-Jhangvi’s Punjabi volunteer succeeded in killing Bhutto.

Regardless of who, it seems to me that the real question is what happens now.

A nuclear Pakistan is unstable and those who would like to see Pakistan blase a trail of democracy in the Middle East are subjected to the fury of those who are determined to turn Pakistan into a haven for terrorists and Shi’a law. Those who oppose democracy in Pakistan and anywhere in the Middle East are willing to do anything to stop it. Anything. So we are left with the hope that President Pervez Musharraf will be able to get the country under control and reduce at least the immediate danger brought about by Bhutto’s return and then her assassination.

It is my gut feeling that Musharraf has a better handle on how to control his country than we on the other side of the world can conceive of. While their leadership claims to want democracy and alliance with the West, a large percentage of the people do not and even more are terrified of those who will murder them if they don’t submit to Shi’a law.

Volatile is an understatement.

Supporters carry the coffin of
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi December 27, 2007.

Here’s what other’s have to say about today’s events in Pakistan:

Michelle Malkin has a round-up.
Hot Air has photos and video of the assassination scene.
A Blog for All has a round-up and updates.
Gateway Pundit has much more.
Captain’s Quarter’s - the World Reacts.
Video of President Bush’s reaction.
The Pirate’s Cove has political reactions to Bhutto’s murder.

More at: Instapundit, NRO, LGF, Tel-Chai Nation, Ol’ Broad, Blogs of War, Jules Crittenden, Right Voices, The Belmont Club, Jihad Watch, Southern Sass on Crime

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Don’t cha just love it when al-Qaeda shows their love! This is a great video from a great blogger. Al-Qaeda showing their love for the Jewish people by wishing them a Happy Chanukah. I knew they secretly were just envious of Israel instead of being so full of hate. They just wish they could make their countries as nice as Israel. That would require them coming out of the 6th Century though so its not likely to happen any time soon.

Video by My Pet Jawa
h/t: Ironic Surrealism

Osama bin Laden is trying to flex his frail sickly muscles again. Al Qaeda is publicizing what is purported to be the fifth audio tape by him this year.

(CNN) — An audio recording attributed to Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to abandon Afghanistan and accused NATO troops of killing women and children there.

This message is obviously not intended for Western intake. We know that its not true. He, or whoever is doing these tapes, obviously wants the uneducated of the Middle East, Hollywood and other useful idiots to believe that the monster Westerners are over there feeding on their young.

He actually claims that Westerners don’t respect the rules of war as proved by us killing women and children. This coming from the man primarily responsible for killing thousands of women and children and who continues to use women and children to carry out his attacks while he cowers in a cave in Pakistan/Afghanistan. But again, that’s not intended for us. Its intended to incite those who hate us, like the hollywood pretty boys and Congressmen who would see us defeated.

In Thursday’s message, the speaker claims sole responsibility for the September 11, 2001, attacks and accuses America’s NATO allies of killing civilians in Afghanistan, where the country’s Taliban rulers allowed al Qaeda to operate prior to 9/11.

Ut-oh. Is he feeling irrelevant? It sounds like he’s feeling like someone else is trying to take credit for his murderous work! He’s having to remind us that he’s relevant. He’s having to remind us that it was he, the mighty bin Laden who murdered American women and children completely at random on September 11, 2001. Yes, I think he’s feeling a tad irrelevant. He’s just not important anymore.

The previous message from bin Laden included no dated references, making it impossible to determine when it was taped based on its contents. In the message, bin Laden called on his followers to be loyal to the Islamic nation, not to individual leaders, groups, tribes or countries.

The tape marked the first time bin Laden spoke directly to the militants.

“Beware of your enemies, especially those who infiltrate your ranks,” he said in Arabic.

“I advise myself and the Islamic nation not to follow individuals and countries,” he said. “Everything should be seen in the light of Islam.”

Addressing the mujahedeen in Iraq as “my brothers,” he said, “You have done well to perform your duty.”

And this is the basis of the problem. They are not one nation or even a group of nations. This is a war with an ideology that has no boundaries and their loyalty is to their ideology, not to their neighbors. friends and country.

In September, an audio message purportedly from bin Laden urged “jihad” against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. That message — titled “Come to Jihad: A Speech to the People of Pakistan” — was recorded over a montage of old video, and began with bin Laden reciting prayers and citations from the Quran in Arabic. The audio then faded, and a narrator translated bin Laden’s message into Pashto. The tape was subtitled in English, and an Arabic transcript was released.

And President Musharraf has had his hands full since that tape was released. Obviously, the mujahedeen in Pakistan listened and have been attempting to create chaos and lawlessness in Pakistan. That is a dire situation that is much too complicated to be solved with platitudes and armchair philosophizing.

Jamal al-Badawi was one of the al-Qaeda masterminds behind the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 that killed 17 American Sailors. His group was also blamed for the bombing of a French oil tanker in 2002 and an ancient temple earlier this year that killed eight Spanish tourists. He was released by the Yemeni government after promising to never ever do that again!

He originally was sentenced to death for his murder of American Soldiers. That sentence was commuted to 15 years in prison. He has escaped twice, the first time in 2003 and the second time in 2004. He has not been in prison since his second escape. Tribal elders brokered him turning himself in a couple of weeks ago after his latest escape because he ‘renounced jihad’. But then, Jihad isn’t a crime in Yemen.

In other words, this murderer of American Sailors, al-Qaeda fighter and enemy combatant has spent very little time in prison.

He is now a free man because he promised he wouldn’t do jihad again.

Meanwhile, al-Qaeda is actively recruiting suicide bombers in Yemen.

Also Thursday, a second security official said police have uncovered a terrorist cell composed of four extremists who were recruiting young Yemenis to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere.

The four were allegedly receiving funds from abroad and were recruiting young men in their twenties from mosques and religious seminars during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, said the official, citing their confessions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

So, he and his buddies blow up a United States war ship, kill US Sailors and basically get away with it. They have conducted and pulled off other attacks since then that have resulted in the deaths of foreign nationals (the French and Spanish). They are known to be currently actively recruiting suicide bombers, receiving Osama bin Laden funds and working to radicalize whatever muslim youth are not already radicalized in Yemen.

And now he and others are free to continue their activities unfettered.

So much for the criminal justice model for dealing with enemies of the State. How safe do you feel?

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Update: And just yesterday Bush praised Yemen for its role in combating terrorism through Francis Townsend, Bush’s assistant for Internal Security and Combating Terrorism Affairs.

The New York Sun’s Eli Lake is reporting this morning that al-Qaeda’s intranet communications system has been shut down - or more likely moved - following an report by ABC News that revealed the fact that American intelligence had penetrated and was monitoring their communications.

The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden’s first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.

But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda’s internal security division that the organization’s Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. This network of Web sites serves not only as the distribution system for the videos produced by Al Qaeda’s production company, As-Sahab, but also as the equivalent of a corporate intranet, dealing with such mundane matters as expense reporting and clerical memos to mid- and lower-level Qaeda operatives throughout the world.

And so the battle rages on with our enemies from without who received invaluable assistance from our enemies from within ….

One intelligence officer who requested anonymity said in an interview last week that the intelligence community watched in real time the shutdown of the Obelisk system. America’s Obelisk watchers even saw the order to shut down the system delivered from Qaeda’s internal security to a team of technical workers in Malaysia. That was the last internal message America’s intelligence community saw. “We saw the whole thing shut down because of this leak,” the official said. “We lost an important keyhole into the enemy.”

The founder of a Web site known as clandestineradio.com, Nick Grace, tracked the shutdown of Qaeda’s Obelisk system in real time. “It was both unprecedented and chilling from the perspective of a Web techie. The discipline and coordination to take the entire system down involving multiple Web servers, hundreds of user names and passwords, is an astounding feat, especially that it was done within minutes,” Mr. Grace said yesterday.

The fact that they can shut down and move that widespread a system in a matter of moments is phenomenal. It tells us that both them and their system is sophisticated and well organized.

Years of work to infiltrate the al-Qaeda intranet system was flushed down the drain for the sake of a story. Someone, somewhere leaked the story to ABC and ABC published it. Its being investigated where the leak came from, they know who it went to. ABC probably was really proud of themselves for getting a scoop on that story.

h/t Newsbusters

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