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Arabia
Al-Muqrin sez he's gonna drive the US out of Arabia
2004-04-09
A video purportedly from Al Qaeda's chief of operations in Saudi Arabia vowed to Avenge™ the death of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan by expelling Americans from the Arabian Peninsula. The video, posted on an Islamic Web site viewed in Dubai on Thursday, shows a masked man identified in a subtitle as Abdulaziz al-Moqrin leaning on a semiautomatic rifle rolling his eyes and gnashing his teeth in a ferocious manner and with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on his shoulder. In the background, superimposed text reads: "Get the infidels out of the Arab Peninsula."
"Yar! We don't need no infidels here! We don' like infidels! Hrarrr!"
"You Americans, you dared to implant your bases in the Arabian Peninsula. ... You dared to hit Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq from [bases in] the country of the two sanctuaries [Saudi Arabia]," the speaker says in Arabic in the 12-minute video. "For what you have done, we will be following you. So watch out as you will see nothing from now on but our attacks as the real battle has just started," he says.
"Are you scared yet? 'Cuz we're really, really ferocious!"
It was not possible to verify the video's authenticity, but the speaker used language similar to past statements attributed to Al Qaeda. It appeared on a Web site that posts Sawt al-Jihad, a periodical of Al Qaeda ideology that carries news and statements relating to the terror network's operations in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#8  Re: Abdulaziz al-Moqrin and his threats

I've got a little list
I've got a little list
And they'll none of them be missed
They'll none of them be missed!

From Gilbert and Sullivan's, The Mikado

And that is what we need to do. People who make public threats have elected to put themselves in harm's way. After all, we take them at their word. We will not be loved, or even respected, but with these people we will be feared, and that is what is required to protect the American public.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-04-09 10:15:38 PM  

#7  Cool. Must be a big car, huh?
Posted by: mojo   2004-04-09 5:48:49 PM  

#6  When is the United States going to quit diddling around and accept we're at war with a large percentage of the population of the world? This asswipe is one of them, and he's certainly TELLING us, loud and clear.

You don't run away from people who have declared themselved your enemies, and have vowed to destroy you. You crush them, one way or another. Frankly, the United States has failed to address the problem for thirty years. It's time we started. Ruprecht has suggested one way. There are several hundred others we can try. Turning our backs on the problem and ignoring it, which has been pretty much what we've done in the past, is no longer a viable option. We need to pull our head out of the sand and start solving the problem we're facing.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-04-09 3:36:12 PM  

#5  Rup, hear hear. 100% concur.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-04-09 3:22:36 PM  

#4  question : haven't all US forces left SA by now ?
Posted by: lyot   2004-04-09 3:06:06 PM  

#3  When will we get serious about the war on terror:

(1) tax incentives for decentralized solar power and laws demanding the right to have two way power meters. This provides power to the grid and lessons the value of power plants as targets (2) Biodesiel fuel. Its may not be good for sports cars but it can certainly run the SUVs at nearly the exact same speed and power and with all of the French Fries we eat we've could have tons for almost nothing.

This two step plan will take some time to kick in so we should begin it now. The tech is there, and once its going we eliminate one of the major sources of foreign policy problems in the world.
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-04-09 2:32:53 PM  

#2  Yeah! An' I'm gonna tell my big brother, too! Then you'll be in trouble, boy, just you wait...
Posted by: mojo   2004-04-09 11:09:55 AM  

#1  Funny, I thought we hit from a base in Qatar because our friends the Saudis didn't want us there this time.
Posted by: growler   2004-04-09 10:18:09 AM  

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