London Bomber on Al Jazeera
Charles Johnson
Thu Sep 1, 2005 at 5:02 pm PDT • Views: 164
Oddly enough, Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera is showing another “martyr” video, featuring a man who claims on tape to be one of the London bombers: Video: Al-Qaida Behind London Blasts.
I’m sure it’s mere coincidence that videos featuring terrorists threatening mass murder always seem to have their premiers at Jihad TV Al Jazeera.
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida’s No. 2 made the terror group’s first direct claim of responsibility for the July 7 bombings in London in a tape broadcast Thursday that also included a farewell warning to the West from a man identified as one of the four suicide attackers.
Speaking English, the bomber identified as Mohammad Sidique Khan said he had forsaken “everything for what we believe” and went on to accuse Western civilians of being directly responsible for the terror attacks that befall them.“Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters,” said Khan, wearing a red-and-white checked keffiyeh and a dark jacket and apparently sitting against a wall lined with an ornate carpet.
Khan said he was inspired by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden; al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, who also appeared on the tape; and by the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi.
Frank says: