Don't know if this has been posted already:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_.../al_qaida_video
<b>Al-Qaida tape urges Americans to convert</b>
Does this mean they have started issuing the famed Islamic "convert or die" option that Islamicised Arabia's Islamoterrorists had sent to Persia and Byzantium before they attacked the two? The same options which were later sent to other unconverted countries, before Islamoterrorists declared Jeeeeehad?
Or maybe AQ is saving that for next week, in case nothing else of excitement is happening then.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the    Iraq and Afghan wars.
The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, had footage of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and of Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.
It was the second time Gadahn appeared in the same video with al-Zawahri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of the terror attack on London commuters, Gadahn appeared briefly, saying no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks.
But Saturday's video â and the length of Gadahn's speech â suggested al-Qaida has found in him someone who can communicate effectively with Americans.
Appearing days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S., Gadahn spoke for nearly the entire video, wearing a white robe and a white turban, sitting in front of a desk with a computer and Islamic religious books in a room with a white wall.
The video included no direct threats of terror attacks.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Gadahn delivered a lecture on Islam and the "errors" in Christianity and Judaism. He also said the United States is losing the wars in Iraq and    Afghanistan and told U.S. soldiers they are fighting    President Bush's "crusades."
"Instead of killing yourself for Bush ... why not surrender to the truth (of Islam), escape from the unbelieving army and join the winning side. <b>Time is running out so make the right choice before it's too late," he said.</b>
Al-Zawahri gave only a brief introduction to the video, calling on Americans to convert to Islam.
"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->More in the news article itself.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_.../al_qaida_video
<b>Al-Qaida tape urges Americans to convert</b>
Does this mean they have started issuing the famed Islamic "convert or die" option that Islamicised Arabia's Islamoterrorists had sent to Persia and Byzantium before they attacked the two? The same options which were later sent to other unconverted countries, before Islamoterrorists declared Jeeeeehad?
Or maybe AQ is saving that for next week, in case nothing else of excitement is happening then.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the    Iraq and Afghan wars.
The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, had footage of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and of Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.
It was the second time Gadahn appeared in the same video with al-Zawahri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of the terror attack on London commuters, Gadahn appeared briefly, saying no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks.
But Saturday's video â and the length of Gadahn's speech â suggested al-Qaida has found in him someone who can communicate effectively with Americans.
Appearing days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S., Gadahn spoke for nearly the entire video, wearing a white robe and a white turban, sitting in front of a desk with a computer and Islamic religious books in a room with a white wall.
The video included no direct threats of terror attacks.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Gadahn delivered a lecture on Islam and the "errors" in Christianity and Judaism. He also said the United States is losing the wars in Iraq and    Afghanistan and told U.S. soldiers they are fighting    President Bush's "crusades."
"Instead of killing yourself for Bush ... why not surrender to the truth (of Islam), escape from the unbelieving army and join the winning side. <b>Time is running out so make the right choice before it's too late," he said.</b>
Al-Zawahri gave only a brief introduction to the video, calling on Americans to convert to Islam.
"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->More in the news article itself.