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| Terror Networks |
| Video shows purported suicide bomber |
| 2007-02-19 |
| Al Qaeda has released a video showing a young man asking for forgiveness from family, friends and teachers before he purportedly carries out a suicide car bombing against foreign troops in Afghanistan. The video also carries comments from Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s No 2 leader, as a train of armed men are shown walking through mountains and while an explosion hits a military vehicle on a turn in a road. In the video, the man, who does not identify himself, asks his parents to pray for their patience when they get word that he has been “martyred”. “I tell my parents that when they hear of my martyrdom, that I have given a sacrifice for the religion, they should offer prayers and ask God to grant them patience because people have given great sacrifices for the religion,” the man said in Pashto, the language spoken by Pashtuns, Afghanistan’s largest ethnic-group from which the Taliban militia draws its main support. IntelCentre, a US group that tracks extremist messages said on Sunday that the video was released on the Internet over the weekend and was the latest in a stepped up media campaign promoting jihad by Al Qaeda. In the video, the young man is seen sitting in front of a bare wall. An AK-47 rifle is propped against the wall on one side and another weapon, apparently a grenade launcher, on the other. |
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| Posted by: treo 2007-02-19 10:30 |