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posted at 6:09 pm on September 10, 2006 by Allahpundit
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I have nothing special blog-wise planned for tomorrow save for a = short film=20 from the New York City archives I=E2=80=99ll post in the a.m. = We=E2=80=99ll commemorate the day=20 in Vent, of course, but anything I=E2=80=99d have to say will be said = more eloquently by=20 others. I do commend to you this superb t= hree-part=20 essay by Martin Amis (part two especially) in the Observer as a = reminder=20 that one can oppose the war in Iraq while appreciating the jihadist = threat in=20 its full metastasis. It=E2=80=99s easy to forget that when you read the = nutroots, but=20 the fact remains. I also recommend this short=20 remembrance of the Madrid bombings in today=E2=80=99s Times. This = sounds=20 familiar:

[The attack] turned the whole political landscape in Spain upside = down.=20 Politicians on both sides were more than ready to cash in on the = tragedy:=20 instead of a nation united in sorrow, Spain became a dismal = battleground where=20 lies and slander reached an appalling level of viciousness.

Even today, political partisanship has erased any chance of = national=20 agreement on remembrance, and both the government and the opposition = are too=20 busily engaged in their short-term skirmishes to remember the = suffering of=20 innocent victims and the courage of the heroes who rushed to their=20 rescue.

We haven=E2=80=99t sunk that low, but the fiasco over =E2=80=9CPath = to 9/11=E2=80=B3 does seem to me=20 to be a perfect microcosm of where the west is at five years after the = war began=20 in earnest.

So let=E2=80=99s forget that and focus on the real enemy. Thanks to = the generosity of=20 counterterrorism expert Laura = Mansfield, we=E2=80=99re=20 able to make the new Al Qaeda video available for download in its = entirety. Here=20 it is, broken into two Real Media files: pa= rt=20 1 and pa= rt=20 2. The copies aren=E2=80=99t very good, unfortunately, but = I=E2=80=99m working on=20 getting a version that=E2=80=99s high rez. Once I do, I=E2=80=99ll cut a = few highlights and=20 upload them here for those who can=E2=80=99t be bothered to watch the = whole film.=20 Update: Video highlights here.

Things to look for in part 1:

7:25 =E2=80=94 Wail al-Shehri, one of the = =E2=80=9Cmuscle=E2=80=9D hijackers on Flight 11,=20 names Bosnia=20 as among the crimes against Muslims that he hopes to avenge by = attacking, um,=20 America.
25:00 =E2=80=94 AQ lays out the neocon conspiracy. If = you watch=20 nothing else on this video, watch this. See if any of it rings a=20 bell.
28:50 =E2=80=94 Fat Adam Gadahn makes his first = appearance, accusing the=20 Bush administration of having plotted to invade Afghanistan in the fall = of 2001=20 before the attacks took place =E2=80=94 thus making 9/11 a = =E2=80=9Cpreemptive=E2=80=9D=20 strike.
54:15 =E2=80=94 The =E2=80=9Csmoking gun=E2=80=9D = footage, showing Osama meeting with=20 9/11 architect Ramzi Binalshibh. =E2=80=9CAbu Abdullah,=E2=80=9D = who=E2=80=99s credited with supervising=20 all stages of the planned attacks, is Bin Laden=E2=80=99s nom de = guerre.

Things to look for in part 2:

1:05 =E2=80=94 Fat Adam returns with high praise for the=20 hijackers.
3:25 =E2=80=94 A re-enactment of hijacker training = with=20 boxcutters.
11:03 =E2=80=94 Jihadi jujitsu.
15:25 = =E2=80=94 Another one of=20 the =E2=80=9Cmuscle=E2=80=9D hijackers, Mohand al-Shehri, speaks at an = AQ meeting in=20 Afghanistan. This clip was featured in the AQ video =E2=80=9CThe = Nineteen Martyrs=E2=80=9D that=20 was released on the first anniversary of 9/11 in 2002. In that film, the = clip of=20 al-Shehri proceeds to show him handing the mike off to yet another = hijacker,=20 Abdulaziz al-Omari, whose martyrdom video was incorporated into that=20 tape.
29:45 =E2=80=94 Fat Adam makes his last appearance, = marvelling that=20 never in his wildest dreams did he think the =E2=80=9Cheroes=E2=80=9D of = 9/11 were plotting an=20 attack on =E2=80=9Cenemy soil.=E2=80=9D

There=E2=80=99s something else to look out for at 26:35 of part 2: = very brief clips=20 from three hijacker martyrdom videos previously released by Al Qaeda. = Al-Omari=E2=80=99s=20 video from =E2=80=9CThe Nineteen Martyrs=E2=80=9D is there, as are clips = from Ahmad al-Haznawi=20 and Saeed al-Ghamdi, both of whom were onboard Flight 93 and the latter = of whom=20 might = have been=20 flying the plane when it crashed in Shanksville. Al-Haznawi was one = of the=20 =E2=80=9Cmuscle=E2=80=9D hijackers, though, whose job it was to keep the = passengers at bay. I=20 like to think Todd Beamer and company cracked his head open before the = plane=20 went down.

Here are screencaps, just so you can put some faces to the names.=20 Al-Haznawi:

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Al-Omari, a =E2=80=9Cmuscle=E2=80=9D hijacker on Flight 11 (North = Tower):

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And al-Ghamdi:

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As previously mentioned on this site, the new video contains = heretofore=20 unseen martyrdom clips from two more hijackers. Wail al-Shehri, onboard = Flight=20 11:

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And Hamza al-Ghamdi, onboard Flight 175 (South Tower):

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How many more hijacker videos is AQ sitting on? Quite a few, it = appears. I=20 have a copy of =E2=80=9CThe Nineteen Martyrs=E2=80=9D here, the = beginning of which features a=20 voiceover by Osama himself identifying and praising each hijacker in = turn. Check=20 out these screencaps identifying each group of hijackers by which flight = they=20 were on, and remember =E2=80=94 this video was released in 2002.

Flight 11. Clockwise from upper left: al-Omari, Mohammed Atta, Waleed = al-Shehri, Wail al-Shehri, Satam Suqami.

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As you can see, the image of Wail al-Shehri in the lower right comes = from his=20 martyrdom video, which was only released this week =E2=80=94 thus = confirming that AQ=E2=80=99s=20 had the video in its possession for four years. Note also the lavalier=20 microphone on Waleed al-Shehri in the upper right; sure looks like that = image=20 comes from a video too, but to the best of my knowledge, no such video = of him=20 has ever been released. They must be saving that for a =E2=80=9Cspecial = occasion.=E2=80=9D The=20 shot of Suqami in the lower left also looks like a video capture. No = video of=20 him has been released either.

Flight 175. Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Marwan al-Shehi, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Mohand = al-Shehri, Fayez Banihammad.

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Again, this video was released in 2002 but the video of Hamza = al-Ghamdi, from=20 which the image in the upper right was taken, was only released this = week. The=20 image of Mohand al-Shehri in the lower right comes from the film of him = speaking=20 in Afghanistan, but the image of Ahmed al-Ghamdi in the upper left looks = like=20 yet another martyrdom video screencap. No video of him has (yet) been=20 issued.

Flight 77 (Pentagon). Khaled al-Mihdhar, Hani Hanjour, Nawaf = al-Hazmi, Majed=20 Moqed, Salem al-Hazmi.

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Except for Hanjour and Moqed, these all look like screencaps from = videos.=20 None of those videos have been released.

Flight 93. Al-Haznawi, Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed = al-Nami.

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The images of al-Haznawi and al-Ghamdi come from their martyrdom = videos; the=20 image of al-Nami comes from video taken of him in Afghanistan and = included in=20 =E2=80=9CThe Nineteen Martyrs.=E2=80=9D In the clip, he=E2=80=99s = alleged to be studying flight=20 schedules.

One other point worth noting. Some of the images in the screencaps, = including=20 the images of the four pilots, come from photographs, not videos. = It=E2=80=99s tempting=20 to assume that means they never made a video, but that assumption might = not be=20 solid: in the first screencap, in the upper right, AQ used a photo of = Abdulaziz=20 al-Omari. But as we=E2=80=99ve seen, he did shoot a video =E2=80=94 the = one AQ chose as its=20 showpiece for the =E2=80=9CNineteen Martyrs=E2=80=9D film. Are they = holding back videos shot by=20 the four pilots too? Time will tell.

Why do I mention all this? Because,=20 my friends, because.

I leave you with this=20 excellent article by Jim Dwyer in last week=E2=80=99s Times politely = poking holes in=20 conspiracy madness. The impetus was the publication by the Stat= e=20 Department and NIST,=20 respectively, of concise rebuttals to various Truther talking points. = Read them=20 both. They don=E2=80=99t take much time.

And once again: don=E2=80=99t forget to meet the=20 enemy.


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this superb three-part essay by Martin Amis

Absolutely right.

EFG on September 10, 2006 at 6:42=20 PM

Allah, all of the muscle hijackers made martydom videos

From the 9-11 Report:

=E2=80=9CBin Ladin, assisted by Atef, personally chose all the future = muscle=20 hijackers for the planes operation, primarily between the summer of 2000 = and=20 April 2001. Upon choosing a trainee, Bin Ladin would ask him to swear = loyalty=20 for a suicide operation. After the selection and oath-swearing, the = operative=20 would be sent to KSM for training and the filming of a martyrdom video, = a=20 function KSM supervised as head of al Qaeda=E2=80=99s media = committee.=E2=80=9D

And knowing the propaganda value that Atta, Shehhi, Hanjour and = Jarrah=20 marrtydom videos would have for al Qaeda, I think it certain they were = made and,=20 further, will be released to either signal or commemorate (not 9-11) a = momentous=20 occasion.

Also, I believe the UBL lecture to prospective muscle hijackers was = given at=20 the Faruq training camp near Kandahar in the summer of 2000 and Ramzi = bin=20 al-Shibh meeting with bin Laden and Mohammed Atef was shot at the al = Matar=20 complex in early spring of 2001 after the 15 muscle hijackers had been = chosen=20 but before they transited to the US.

ganeshpuri89 on September 10, 2006 at 6:46=20 PM

Great job, btw, Allah on breaking down the videos into things to look = for.

Here=E2=80=99s another. At 1:40 in the second video UBL is seen = giving a lecture to=20 the muscle hijacker hopefuls.

Below is the text of most of his address (poor video quality = prevented a=20 complete transcription) which Laura was kind enough to allow me to post = to=20 alphabet city.

=E2=80=9CSome people think that the issue is training only. One of = them will say =E2=80=9CI=20 already know this.=E2=80=9D Even if you know it take it again. But = there are other=20 purposes. The elements must get to know one another because this jihad = doesn=E2=80=99t=20 rest on one person. The members of the squadron must know one another = in order=20 to build confidence between them. And the instructor must acquaint = himself and=20 write the reports =E2=80=93 which in the end reach me =E2=80=93 that = this brother was patient,=20 showed endurance, was well mannered and tolerant and so on. This one = is a=20 candidate for martyrdom operations abroad, whereas one whose temper is = short=20 and patience thin won=E2=80=99t be able to bear up on the outside. And = we can only=20 know that from here. Your brothers in Nairobi spent nine months in an=20 apartment while their brothers smuggled them TNT and they pounded it. = Can you=20 be that patient? You aren=E2=80=99t patient with us here two hours so = how can we send=20 you there for nine months?

A lot of things stem from the time you spend here, and your reward = is there=20 if you intend to emigrate, prepare and perform Ribat. [here Ribat = means living=20 on the front-line of jihad amongst the enemy in the period prior to = combat -=20 ed.] So for Allah is all praise and [may] Allah choose from among the=20 candidates for participation in the martyrdom operations a group of = unique=20 heroes to be the young strong arms who would take control of the = planes until=20 the moment of impact.

ganeshpuri89 on September 10, 2006 at 7:35=20 PM

Chilling. That said, I can never see a picture of Mohammed = Atta=E2=80=99s jackal-like=20 mug without thinking of the Onion special issue of Sep 26, 2001.

I=E2=80=99ll avoid posting the link, because the issue was quite = inflammatory,=20 though, to my mind, the content was not objectionable.

Patton on September 10, 2006 at 8:34=20 PM

=E2=80=A6 and WE celebrate the death of thousands of a.q. and taliban = fighters,=20 killed during the U.S. liberation of Afghanistan in Oct of =E2=80=9801. =

Suggested reading for Hotair(heads) =E2=80=A6 = =E2=80=9CJawbreaker=E2=80=9D.

Tony737 on September 12, 2006 at 6:11=20 AM

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