AL QAEDA RELEASES NEW 9/11 VIDEO WARNING OBAMA MORE TO COME
DUBAI — Al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri appeared yesterday in a new video apparently marking the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, according to a US-based terrorism monitoring service.
Source: Reuters
- Zawahri was among leading figures from the group who spoke in the 106-minute Arabic-language video, entitled “The West and The Dark Tunnel,” Site Institute said.
- The video mentioned events of the past year including the global financial crisis and the election of US President Barack Obama. It was posted on websites often used by al Qaeda supporters.
- On September 14, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government’s close ties with Israel in an apparently new audio tape posted on an Islamist website.
- That message, entitled “A statement to the American people,” was around 11 minutes long.
- Analysts suggested that the posting of the latest tape might have been delayed by nearly two weeks after the anniversary of the attacks because websites have been jammed or because al Qaeda is finding it harder to operate.
- Bin Laden and Zawahri are thought to be in the mountainous territory along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where US forces and the Pakistani military are locked in conflict with militant groups allied to al Qaeda.
INDON POLICE LINKED AL-QAEDA TO JULY 17 BOMBING
Indonesian police believed that funds that financed the July 17 bombings in Jakarta's lavish J.W. Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels were directly from the Middle East in June and linked to Al-Qaeda, the Jakarta Globe reported here on Tuesday.
Source: Xinhua
- Citing to information disclosed by a senior member of police's anti-terror squad who asked for anonymity, the police failed to apprehend the courier, who was believed to have hand-carried the cash as he returned to his home country shortly after the bomb exploded, it reported.
- The source said that the courier had a link to Al-Qaeda terrorist network and that he channeled the cash through a subordinate of fugitive terrorist leader Noordin M. Top, it said.
- According to the source the courier came to Jakarta at the invitation of a former Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member living in Jakarta and stayed in a rented house in Bekasi, eastern Jakarta area.
- Due to the police's failure to prove that the money brought in by the courier were used to finance the bombings on July 17, the police failed to arrest both the courier and the inviter.
- The source, however, said that Indonesian police are working closely with their foreign counterparts to unveil the terror network and capture the foreign suspects.
- Al-Qaeda was also believed to have provided funds for the 2002 Bali bombing that killed hundreds of westerners and domestic tourists.
- Ali Ghufron, a Jamaah Islamiyah terrorist group who perpetrated the 2002 Bali bombing said that his terrorist cell group received the funds to finance the bomb attack in Bali from Riduan Isamuddin,or known as Hambali.
- Ali, who was executed to death last year, told the police that Hambali received the funds from Al-Qaeda leader, Osama ben Laden. Hambali is now detained in maximum security U.S. penitentiary.
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