Purported al-Qaida video threatens troops ("Op. to Defeat the Crucifix")

[truthpusher]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/12341576.htm

Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005
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Purported al-Qaida video threatens troops
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JIM KRANE
Associated Press
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A purported al-Qaida-made video shows militants in Afghanistan - including Europeans, Arabs and others - preparing to attack U.S. troops and showing off what they said was a U.S. military laptop.

The video, parts of which have been shown by Al-Arabiya television, including a segment aired Tuesday, features interviews with a masked man yelling "As you bomb us, you will be bombed!" and shows a group of men packing explosives into bombs.

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The three-part video, titled "The War of the Oppressed People," depicts what appears to be a few months in the lives of a group of fighters in wilderness camps in the Afghan mountains.

The men cook tea over campfires and kneel in prayer under the open skies, then duck into a makeshift classroom where an instructor outlines the coming "Operation to Defeat the Crucifix" against U.S. and allied forces.

In one scene, the tape claims al-Qaida was responsible for shooting down a U.S. Chinook helicopter, killing all 16 American troops on board.

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complete story: http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/12341576.htm

[eissa]

1. Let's see

they call it "Operation to Defeat the Crucifix," our great leader calls it a "crusade." Why do I feel like the patients are running the asylum?

[hobbit709]

2. I wonder who

REALLY made this tape.

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Yeah, this sounds a bit odd...

[wli]

5. not sure, but I'll bet Cheney and/or Rummy ordered it

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. they hate us fer our Christendumb

:eyes: