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Awlaki calls for killing of American military and civilians
Anwar al-Awlaki, 39, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen with no formal Islamic training or study, has released a new al-Qaeda video Sunday wherein he advocates the killing of American civilians and urged all Muslims serving in the US military to follow the example of Major Nidal Hassan who stands accused of killing 13 of his comrades.The video of al-Awlaqi was released by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on jihadist websites according to the US monitoring group SITE. In it he says : "What Nidal Hassan did was heroic and I call on all Muslims serving in the US army to follow his path. Nidal Hassan is one of my students and I am honoured by that. In a wonderful action he killed American soldiers on their way to Afghanistan and Iraq." He then added : “Hasan, who is of Palestinian origin, was "defending his nation." Major Nidal Hasan is the US army psychiatrist who is being accused of having opened fire on colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas. Al-Awlaki then calls the failed attempt by Nigerian student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger plane with explosives last Christmas, "very successful even though it did not even kill anyone." "Those who were to be killed in the plane are nothing compared to ... a million women and children in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan (whom he accused the US military of having killed). We must treat them the same way and attack them just like they've attacked us." Moreover that the targeting of American civilians is legitimate in that they had "participated in the war because they have elected this (American) government". Also: "If the situation remains we will see new Nidal Hasans appearing," Awlaki said in the tape. "These American soldiers on their way to Afghanistan and Iraq, we will kill them." Asked by an interviewer if killing U.S. soldiers would have a negative impact on Muslims in the United States, Awlaki said defending Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan was a larger priority. "Is protecting the reputation of Muslims in America more important than bombs dropping on millions of Muslims elsewhere?" Posted by: ryuge 2010-05-23 |
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