http://195.224.230.11/english/?id=14711 Al-Qaeda militants start their own news bulletin
Internet weekly news bulletin tells world about Al-Qaeda linked militants' exploits, their foes' atrocities. By Lydia Georgi - DUBAI Al-Qaeda linked militants using the Internet as a weapon of choice in their "jihad" are posting a weekly news bulletin to tell the world about their exploits and the "atrocities" committed by their foes. In the second edition of "a nation's weekly harvest," the anchor of the Voice of the Caliphate channel - a hooded gunman with an automatic weapon at his side - took his audience from "occupied Palestine to ... proud Afghanistan" and on to Iraq before revisiting the hungry of "Muslim Niger". Four million people are threatened by starvation and disease in Niger because "they do not include one Christian whom the crusader world would defend, nor is Niger sitting on oil to merit the attention of the states ruling the world," he explained in the nearly 20-minute-long footage. The "Al-Saud and Al-Sabah", the ruling families of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are "too busy making donations to save their masters" who were the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the United States. The bulletin is a production of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), whose previous postings include a "Top Ten" of bloody attacks against US forces in Iraq. It began with footage of the "capture and execution of a Zionist intelligence operative" by Palestinian militants. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, claimed responsibility on September 27 for the kidnapping and killing of an Israeli settler it described as an agent with Israel's homeland spy agency, Shin Beth. "This is the least they (Israelis) deserve," said the reader before reporting Israeli attacks and campaigns of arrests targeting Hamas and Gaza residents "with the full cooperation of Mahmud Abbas's (Palestinian) Authority." In Afghanistan, Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi claimed last week's "martyrdom attack which killed nine members of the collaborator Afghan army" on the outskirts of Kabul, said the bulletin, apparently prepared before Pakistan announced Hakimi's arrest. On to an account peppered by footage of "jihadi operations in Iraq", where a woman suicide bomber "gave pseudo-men a lesson" in self-sacrifice by blowing herself up at an Iraqi police center in the former rebel bastion of Tal Afar. The September 28 attack, which police said killed five people, was claimed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of Two Rivers. The reader accused the Badr organization, which is it said was funded by Shiite factions loyal to Iran, of abducting a 55-year-old Sunni after he left a mosque and torturing and executing him. He poured scorn on "media witches", notably Iraqi government spokesman Leith Kubba, who claimed that US and Iraqi government forces had killed Al-Qaeda's number two in the country, Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, during a shootout. The group's spokesman, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, promptly declared that Abu Azzam was "just one of the soldiers of Al-Qaeda and the commander of one of its units operating in captive Baghdad," the reader said. Like with most news bulletins, viewers were given a break between major stories. One break was devoted to shots of Al-Jazeera television reporter Tayssir Alluni, who was sentenced to seven years in jail by a Spanish court last month after he was found guilty of collaboration with Al-Qaeda. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. 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