August 05, 2005

Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan: English, Irish, French

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Frequent contributor to The Jawa Report, Chad Evans, has posted a link to a MEMRI translation of an al-Aribiya story that ran today on the latest propaganda video out of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. See his post for link to video and commentary. The video shows the downing of a helicopter last month. More importantly, though, the video shows various jihadis ranting against the West. One of the jihadis has a British accent. Traitor.

Because I have been unable to capture images from it, I have transcribed the video below. MEMRI has not yet posted it:

[Narrator] In a film by the Al-Qaeda organization, excerpts of which are shown here in an Al-Arabiya exclusive, Al-Qaeda presents an ambush followed by an attack (Operation "Vanquishing the Cross") on an American army base in Kunar District in Afghanistan.

The film showed that the commander of the squad that carried out the operation is Abd al-Hadi al_Iraqi, who is also known as 'the Emir of the Arab Mujahideen in Afghanistan.'

He prepares a plan, using special squads from a number of countries.

It is noteworthy that al-Qaeda fighters from Britain, Ireland, France, and Pakistan, in addition to Arabs, speak in the film before the military operation.

[Man with British accent] Oh people of the West, don't be fooled by the lies of Blair and Bush that you are free nations, for the only freedom that you have is the freedom to be slaves of your whims and desires.

[In French] We the Mujahadin to all Muslims the victims of unlimited and endless barbarism, that we will avenge their martyrs, and that we will slit the throats of the Americans and the Jews [sawing motion with hands].

[Unrecognized. Pashtun?] Come and join us. Join the blessed jihad. Come for the sake of Allah. Join us in this blessed jihad with Mullah Omar and Sheik Osama bin Laden. [Narrator] The film shows al-Qaeda's military capabalities in producing explosives which were used in this operation.

Then the al-Qaeda fighters manage to break into the American army base after American planes evacuated the wounded and the dead.

[picture ID of Danny Phillip Dietz JR]

The film shows documents the fighters tooke from a soldiers computer. In this computer were documents, military plans, and maps belonging to the military command of the American forces in Afghanistan.

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Posted by: dave at August 06, 2005 02:59 PM (DO6vD)

4 I just want to thank you for being the only website that has something on this al-queda video. As a family memmeber it helped me see a little of what happend out there. It is hard to get ahold of that video and you have help me see part of it. If you have more footage, it will be more help to understand the events.thank you

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