A video purportedly from Al Qaeda's chief of operations in Saudi Arabia vowed to Avenge™ the death of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan by expelling Americans from the Arabian Peninsula. The video, posted on an Islamic Web site viewed in Dubai on Thursday, shows a masked man identified in a subtitle as Abdulaziz al-Moqrin leaning on a semiautomatic rifle rolling his eyes and gnashing his teeth in a ferocious manner and with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on his shoulder. In the background, superimposed text reads: "Get the infidels out of the Arab Peninsula."
| "Yar! We don't need no infidels here! We don' like infidels! Hrarrr!" |
"You Americans, you dared to implant your bases in the Arabian Peninsula. ... You dared to hit Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq from [bases in] the country of the two sanctuaries [Saudi Arabia]," the speaker says in Arabic in the 12-minute video. "For what you have done, we will be following you. So watch out as you will see nothing from now on but our attacks as the real battle has just started," he says.
| "Are you scared yet? 'Cuz we're really, really ferocious!" |
It was not possible to verify the video's authenticity, but the speaker used language similar to past statements attributed to Al Qaeda. It appeared on a Web site that posts Sawt al-Jihad, a periodical of Al Qaeda ideology that carries news and statements relating to the terror network's operations in Saudi Arabia. |