(Jawa, Indondesia) A new video from Jemaah Islamiah. al Qaeda's Southeast Asia counterpart, warns Australia to pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq or faced renewed acts of terrorism. The video was found ten days ago in a cave on the Island of Jawa (Java in English) after a top Jemaah Islamiah was killed there. The man on the video (shown right) is believed to be Malaysian national Noordin Top, a senior operative of Jemaah Islamiah.
SOUTH-EAST Asia's most wanted terrorist has warned in a video message seized by Indonesian police that Australia will be the prime target of new "intimidation and terror" attacks while its troops remain in Iraq.
In an apparent copy of al-Qaeda tactics, the video features a masked man believed to be Jemaah Islamiah mastermind Noordin Top urging strikes against Australia and claiming Prime Minister John Howard is leading the nation into tragedy.
The video threat, a first for Jemaah Islamiah, was seized when police raided Noordin's Central Java hide-out 10 days ago, soon after his bomb-making partner, Azahari Husin, was shot dead. Farewell video messages from the three suicide bombers who struck Bali in October were also recovered.
Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla played the videos to Islamic leaders, saying police believed the man issuing the warning was Noordin.
"America, Australia, England and Italy are all our enemies," says the militant. "We especially remind Australia that you, Downer and Howard, are killing Australia, leading it into darkness and tragedy and into mujahideen terror.
"Know that as long as you continue to colonise the land of Iraq and Afghanistan and intimidate Muslims then you, too, will feel our intimidation and terror."
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Interesting - found in a cave huh. Seems they're having some problems with their film distribution network.
Posted by: hondo at November 17, 2005 09:26 AM (Jvmry)
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Spiderhole Productions, LLC ?
Posted by: Rusty at November 17, 2005 09:33 AM (JQjhA)
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I guess Judaism has the Dead Sea Scrolls, Islam has the Java Terrorism DVDs.
What is it with terrorists and the 'pull my finger' routine?
Posted by: Graeme at November 17, 2005 09:41 AM (1t7Hl)
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What is it with terrorists and the 'pull my finger' routine?
From what I've seen, it's a common mannerism of the imams. Since they're delivering a religious message, they do the same thing.
Posted by: Robert Crawford at November 17, 2005 10:24 AM (n5eDP)
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I've been collecting pictures of murderous psychopaths and their sycophants, and it seems that finger-pointing is a common trait when they're ranting, regardless of ideology. The finger seems to me symbolic of a phallus/weapon, and thus regardless of what they're saying, their body language clearly communicates what they will do given the chance. This also partly explains why so many younger and older females, as well as Beta and Omega males flock to them, and why Alpha males react to them with derision.
Every dictator, or potenial dictator, from Bill Clinton, to Saddam Hussein, to Osama bin Laden, to Joseph Stalin, to Adolph Hitler, et al, fancies himself an Alpha male, but in reality, they are actually Betas and Omegas who have managed to figure out how to sucker enough people to believe in them, and always lead their followers to ruin. Such figures always depend on reliable, sycophantic toadies, who actually make everything run. Hitler had Goebbels, Himmler, and Eichman; Osama has Zawahiri, and Bill had Hillary, who wasn't really a toadie, but rather the true power behind the throne. Bill was her stooge, her public face, because she is not capable of appealing to the rabble like Bill does, mainly because she despises every person who isn't Hillary Clinton.
I could go on, but I have things to do, so more on this later...
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 17, 2005 10:59 AM (0yYS2)
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The finger-in-the-air thing is something George Galloway does as well.
Posted by: Oyster at November 17, 2005 11:36 AM (YudAC)
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I think that Robert Crawford's explanation applies to Galloway. He wants to be seen as Islam's greatest friend in the West, so whatever the imams and radicals do, he'll do as well. Heck if they started giving sermons with chickens on their heads, he'd do the same thing during his speeches.
Posted by: Graeme at November 17, 2005 12:25 PM (1t7Hl)
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IM I noticed the finger pointing thing as well. It just makes me hate the little prick even more.
Posted by: Jester at November 17, 2005 02:05 PM (BypR5)
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Think you guys are reading too much into the finger pointing thing - I mean, my mother was always doing it to me and she doesn't fit into Maxie's cast of characters. Maybe Mrs Attila the Hun - you guys are not gonna start bad-mouthing my momma now, are ya?
Posted by: hondo at November 17, 2005 03:30 PM (Jvmry)
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I'll tell ya, I'm more afraid of momma's pointing finger than any jihadi's. Hell, I'd guess even jihadi's are afraid of
their momma's pointing.
All kidding aside, I think there really IS something to it.
Posted by: Oyster at November 17, 2005 05:49 PM (YudAC)
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Hondo, a good mother is no less a dictator than Hitler, though hopefully with better outome for the dictatees. Any family that tries to operate as a democracy produces goth kids and such.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 18, 2005 10:31 AM (0yYS2)
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