Purported al Qaeda Newscast Debuts on Internet

[SillyGoose]

Masked Anchorman Lauds Gaza Pullout, Iraq Attacks, Hurricane Katrina

By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 27, 2005; A16

ROME, Sept. 26 -- An Internet video newscast called the Voice of the Caliphate was broadcast for the first time on Monday, purporting to be a production of al Qaeda and featuring an anchorman who wore a black ski mask and an ammunition belt.

The anchorman, who said the report would appear once a week, presented news about the Gaza Strip and Iraq and expressed happiness about recent hurricanes in the United States. A copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, was placed by his right hand and a rifle affixed to a tripod was pointed at the camera.

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A commercial break of sorts followed, which previewed a movie, "Total Jihad," directed by Mousslim Mouwaheed. The ad was in English, suggesting that the target audience might be Muslims living in Britain and the United States.

The final segment was about Hurricane Katrina. "The whole Muslim world was filled with joy" at the disaster, the anchorman said. He went on to say that President Bush was "completely humiliated by his obvious incapacity to face the wrath of God, who battered New Orleans, city of homosexuals." Hurricane Ophelia's brush with North Carolina was also mentioned.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601613_pf.html

al Qaeda is debuting newscasts now and we are supposed to believe we are winning the war on terror?? Like my dad says - Bin Laden and al Qaeda make more tapes than Britney Spears.

[yankeedem]

1. Take away the costume and substitute

the Bible for the Koran and it sounds like the 700 Club.

[tainowarrior]

2. damn fundamentalist loonies

here, AND there.

They're all the same. Preoccupied with homosexuality and itching to return to medieval, religious feudal rule.

Backwards morons...all of 'em.

[Lerkfish]

3. conveniently timed, of course.

gotta shore up the core base.
terra terra terra....

[bemildred]

4. This is propaganda, horseshit, drivel.

Orwell must be laughing his ass off.