Purported al-Qaida Newscast Makes Debut
An AP Newswire article by Bassem Mroue, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A purported al-Qaida newscast that promises weekly updates made its online debut with a report read by a masked man that included video of Hurricane Katrina — subtitled "divine punishment" — and a message from the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
The first newscast of the Voice of the Caliphate, appeared on Sept. 21 showing a masked man wearing a black shirt reading the bulletin with an automatic rifle on his right side and a copy of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, on his left side.
The man congratulated Palestinians on Israel's recent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The video also aired parts of an audio recently made by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq group, in which he declared war on Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority.
When the announcer read a report on Hurricane Katrina, footage from the area appeared with a subtitle in Arabic reading: "Hurricane Katrina: divine punishment."
posted by Fergie @ 9/27/2005 03:34:00 PM
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