New AQAP Video – „Oh People Of The Sunnah!“

by Florian Flade

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„You Have Gained Victory, Oh People Of The Sunnah!“ is the title of a new video produced and released by Al-Qaida´s Yemeni branch „Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula“ (AQAP). In it, the militant group presents a Anti-Shiite message, accusing the Houthi movement – followers of the Zaidi confession of Shia Islam – of being a Iranian puppet murdering the Sunni Muslims of Yemen.

The new video shows – besides the AQAP Deputy  Said al-Shihri aka Abu Sufyan al-Azdi  – a suicide bomber named Amin al-Uthman who carried out a attack on a convoy of Houthi leaders. „The Shiites are the enemies of Allah, they spread corruption on earth, they kill women and children and destroy mosques“, the suicide bomber says in his martyrdom statement.

Last year, on November 24, a car bomb exploded during a Houthi festival in the province of Al-Jawf, killing 23 people. The next day, the Houthi movement announced their spiritual leader Badr ad-Din al-Houthi had dead age 86 from chronic asthma. AQAP claimed it had killed al-Houthi in the bombing of the convoy.

On November 26 2010, the day of Badr ad-Din al-Houthi´s funeral in Sa´ada, North-Western Yemen, al-Qaida again struck the Shiites of Yemen, killing two people with a car bomb.

 

Jihad on the Highway – US Shuttle Driver inspired by „Inspire“?

by Florian Flade

Virginia, Interstate Highway 66, 9:25 a.m today morning: A blue SuperShuttle vehicle was heading west when it twice sideswiped the passenger side of a Dodge Charger. The shuttle then rear-ended a Chrysler Pacifica and a taxi, sending both vehicles off the highway. Four minutes later the shuttle bus caused a fourth crash in the westbound lanes of I-66 at the Dulles Connector Road. The SuperShuttle rear-ended a 2006 Mercedes C240, authorities said. Heading towards Dulles, the vehicle then hit two other cars, the drivers reported to the police.

The shuttle bus reportedly drove at 90-95 mph in an area with 55 mph speed limit. The passengers of the first car hit by the shuttle, a woman and hier old year old baby were injured and taken to the hospital for treatment.

Arlington County police, Virginia State Police and Metropolitan Washington Airport authorities were hunting for the hit-and-run shuttle driver and finally found the damaged car outside Dulles International Airport. The shuttle driver was arrested. He turned out to be a 25 year-old resident of Alexandria (Virginia) named Muhammad Teshale. Police later released a photo showing the suspect.

“He was going at a high rate of speed,” a police spokeswoman said, “But there is no indication of motive.” Allegedly Teshale, a shuttle driver at Dulles Airport, told the police he did the hit-and-run trail because „to be famous“. Investigation is still going on and first charges put up.

The incident in itself does not to be of huge significance if it weren´t for the picture of the shuttle driver and his Muslim name. Muhammad Teshale seems to bear all signs of a devout Salafi Muslim, sporting a beard and a bald shaven head. Till now the incident seems like a crazy-acting insane young man acting. But it could also turn out to be the result of Jihadi propaganda inspiring Teshale to attack US civilians in a very primitive way of hit-and-run driving on a highway.

Al-Qaeda´s propaganda wing in Yemen had promoted such behavior (as Jihadi activity) in a English-language Online-Magazin called „Inspire“, published back in October. In this second edition of „Inspire“, the organization urged Muslims in the West to strike civilian targets with regular cars or modified pick-up trucks. „The Ultimate Sawing Machine“, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula called this technique and called for Islamists to carry them out in Western countries.

There is a good chance today´s hit-and-run trial by Muhammad Teshale could turn out to be a Jihadi-inspired attack on US civilians – an attack that because of its nature and the involved equipment is potentially lethal even within a country with a high counter-terrorism security system.

Al-Qaeda´s Greetings to Dead Crusaders

by Florian Flade

 

 

 

 

 

 

When British and Dubai security officials finally found what they were looking for after a hours-long search for two bombs hidden in packages sent via U.S. postal companies UPS and FedEx on October 28th, they were surprised to see who was listed as the addressor of the parcels.

Al-Qaeda addressed the UPS package, which was found on board a cargo plane that had just landed on East Midland Airport in Britain, to a Chicago resident named „Diego Deza“. The second mail bomb sent via FedEx from Sanaa to Chicago, was intercepted in Dubai. This time, it was addressed to „Reynaldkrak“.

Diego de Deza and Raynald Krak are not actual residents of Chicago but historical figures associated with Christian brutality against Muslims.

Deza was a Spanish Church official and Theologian, born 1444 in León. He was Archbishop of Sevilla in 1504 prior to succeeding Thomas de Torquemada as Grand Inquisitor of Andalus (Spain) in 1498. Under Deza´s rule, data says 1664 people were burned to death alive and about 32,500 other people were sentenced to torture and other forms of punishment. Most of his victims were reported to be Muslims and Jews living in Andalusia back then. Diego Deza, who sentenced accused „Secret Muslims“ to torture until they confessed being followers of Islam, died in 1523 in Sevilla.

Reynald Krak is a variant of the name Raynald of Chatillon, a Crusader Knight who took part in the Second Crusade and become famous because of his attacks on Muslim caravans. He was married first to the Princess of Antioch before being captured by the Muslim army in 1159 and imprisoned in Aleppo for 17 years. In 1176, after he was released from Muslim captivity, Raynald married Stephanie, the heiress of Kerak (or Krak, in today´s Jordan) and Mont Royal.
In 1182 as a new war broke out between the Latin empire and Muslim leader Salahuddin, Raynald, who was known as „Arnat“ by the Muslims, launched ships on the Red Sea, planning to attack Mecca and take the fight to the Arabian Peninsula.

In the very same year, Raynald was attacked by Salahuddin in an assault on his castle in Krak during the marriage of Raynald´s stepson Humphrey. The Crusaders defended the fortress and Salahuddin retreated. A truce was announced between King Guy of Jerusalem and the Muslim leaders, which was not respected by Raynald of Krak who tried to attack a caravan on its way from Cairo to Damascus in which Salahuddin´s sister was said to travel in.

Crusader Knight Raynald beheaded by Salahuddin

Salahuddin swore the disrespectful Crusader Warlord Raynald would die once he would fall into Muslim hands again. Indeed, in 1187, at the Battle of Hattin, Raynald as well as King Guy and other Crusader leaders were captured by the Muslims. It is said, Salahuddin ordered Raynald to come into his tent and offered him life if he becomes Muslim. The Knight refused and was then beheaded by Salahuddin himself or one of his guards.

As usual al-Qaeda did not miss the symbolism point when it sent the explosive-filled packages from Yemen to the United States. Jewish Synagogues in Obama-Town Chicago were the final destinations of the two potentially deadly packages while the names of historical Anti-Muslim „boogeymen“ were carefully chosen.

„Oh enemies of Allah, await the good news of what will harm you“ – al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula wrote in the claim of responsibility for the parcel bombs, released yesterday on the internet forums. The packages, al-Qaeda states, were „headed to the Jewish Zionist Temples“.

Symbolism is very important to the organization since it started global attacks on American targets and American interests. The attempted parcel bombings are just the latest examples of this Jihadi symbolism.