No surprises here: Adam Gaddahn in new Al Qaeda tape says "We shall continue to target you, at home and abroad"

No surprises here: Adam Gaddahn in new Al Qaeda tape says “We shall continue to target you, at home and abroad”

Those are the words of Orange County Adam Gaddahn, aka Azzam al Amriki, in a new hour-plus video message, announced Thursday by As Sahab, Al Qaeda’s media production group. In the 1 hour 17 minute video, which takes the form of a documentary, Gaddahn says that Al Qaeda will continue to target the US both at home and overseas. He singles out embassies and consulates as specific targets.

Gaddahn says:

“As for our message to the Americans and their Crusader allies, it is this: The amount of respect we have for your international law is even less than the respect you hold for defined shari’ah, and our observance of it is comparable to your observance of sharia’h. How can we comply with a law which contradicts divine law in whole and in part? How can we recognize a law which states that the Embassy or Consulate is for all intents and purposes an inviolable fortress which the host country has no right to enter or monitor and when our sharia’h commands us to liberate every handspan of Islamic land occupied by the unbelievers?”

He continues:

“How can we comply with a law whose inequities and double standards are more obvious than the noonday sun? The diplomatic immunity and freedom from arrest and prosecution behind which you hide and which international law theoretically sanctifies apparently didn’t apply to Mullah Abdul Salam, Ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in Islamabad, whom you forced out of Pakistan so you could arrest him and send him off for torture and humiliation in the dungeons of Guantanamo Bay? Nor is the right of states to establish foreign missions in friendly states which your law is supposed to uphold given to the Islamic Emirate whose Embassies and Consulates in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and Pakistan, you’ve forcibly closed down through threats and intimidation.”

Later in the video, Gaddahn makes explicit threats against the United States and US interests in both the homeland and overseas.

“Therefore, we shall continue to target you, at home and abroad, just as you target us, at home and abroad, and these spy dens, and military command and control centers, from which you plotted your aggression against Afghanistan, and Iraq, and which still provide vital moral, military, material, and logistical support to the Crusade, shall continue to be legitimate targets for brave, Muslims, like our martyred brother Umar Uthman, until and unless you heed our demands. Stop the Crusade and leave the Muslims alone.”

The video begins with a computer animation sequence showing a reproduction of the March 2006 attack on a US Embassy vehicle in Karachi, Pakistan, that killed four people including one American diplomat. In the attack, an explosives-packed car rammed a vehicle carrying the American diplomat.

The animated reenactment shows a white subcompact car backing from a parking place into the target vehicle, which is displaying small American flags. Most of the video is focused on the suicide bomber who carried out that 2006 attack.

The video includes footage of the aftermath of the US Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998, the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Madrid bombings in 2003, and the London bombings in 2005.

The video also includes footage from Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, and includes a lengthy statement from the young man who committed the suicide attack on the US diplomat.

A more detailed description and analysis will be uploaded shortly.

The video can be downloaded here.
http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp