More threats from al Qaeda

CNN:

U.S. Embassies and American interests "at home and abroad" are prime targets for terrorist attacks, American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn said in a newly released al Qaeda-produced video.

"We shall continue to target you at home and abroad just as you target us at home and abroad ... ," Gadahn -- also known as Azzam the American -- says in the video provided to CNN by www.LauraMansfield.com, a Web site that analyzes terrorism.

Later in the video, which is about an hour long and takes the form of a documentary, the self-proclaimed American jihadist makes explicit threats against the United States and U.S. interests, singling out embassies and consulates. Watch a silent excerpt of the video »

"These spy dens and military command and control centers -- from which you plotted your aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq and which still provide vital moral, military, material and logistical support to the crusade -- shall continue to be legitimate targets for brave Muslims ... until and unless you heed our demands: Stop the crusade and leave the Muslims alone," he said.

CNN's senior editor for Arab affairs, Octavia Nasr, said Gadahn's threats are focused, making them one of his strongest messages to date.

"With this message he is serving as an al Qaeda propaganda tool and the terror group's mouthpiece and instigator," Nasr said.

Gadahn was indicted in October on charges of treason and offering material support for terrorism, the first American charged with treason since World War II.

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As more of their plots are discovered and thwarted, the al Qaeda propaganda arm seems to be getting louder. What this guy is doing is stating what are already recognized as al Qaeda targets. their ambitions to attack these areas have not been a secret since the mid '90s.

The CNN article does remind of something he said in a previous tape.

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In late May this year Gadahn appeared in another al Qaeda-produced video.

In that video he issued President Bush a series of "legitimate demands" that he said must be met to avoid continuing jihad against Americans everywhere.

Those demands ranged from pulling out all soldiers from "every Muslim land," to halting support of the "enemies of Islam" and of Israel, to freeing all Muslims held in detention centers and prisons.

Failure to take any one of the steps, he said, would be "considered sufficient justification" for continuing the fighting and killing.

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For some reason Democrats refuse to take al Qaeda at its word on this statement. the democrats pretend that "redeployment" out of Iraq to Kuwait or other Arab states would stop their attacks on our troops, but the reality is that it would just give them another battle field and greater resources with which to fight us.

The willful blindness of Democrats to this reality is something that they need to be confronted on, but so far they have never been confronted with this question in any of their debates. Perhaps Wolf Blitzer can play the tape for them and ask them the next time they appear in a CNN forum.

The Jawa Report has more on the latest video from our enemies information operations department.