Al-Qaeda Iraq Leader Calls For Kidnapping, Bio/Rad Weapon Attacks on US Bases in Iraq

By Jeffrey Imm

Update to previous blog: Al-Qaeda's Iraq leader issued a message today calling for kidnapping of Christians during Ramadan and for scientists to join the Jihadists in using radioactive or biological weapons against USA bases in Iraq. (Audio can be downloaded here.)

Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (aka Abu Ayyub al-Masri) issued a 20-minute long audio message today "Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You," which is taken from the Qur'an, Surah al-Imran, verse 64 that was posted on Jihadist web sites by the Mujahadeen Council, an umbrella group of eight Iraqi armed Salafite formations, including al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The message is dated from the first day of Ramadan (September 23) and calls for kidnapping of Christians: "I call on every holy fighter in Iraq to strive during this holy month (Ramadan)... to capture some dogs of the Christians so that we can liberate our imprisoned sheikh" referring to sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. Omar Abdul Ramhan has been in prison in the US since 1995 for the attack two years earlier on World Trade Center.

The audio message also called for experts in "chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences -- especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts" to join the Jihadists. "We are in dire need of you," he said. "The field of jihad (holy war) can satisfy your scientific ambitions, and the large American bases (in Iraq) are good places to test your unconventional weapons, whether biological or dirty, as they call them."

The audio message also claimed that "The blood has been spilled in Iraq of more than 4,000 foreigners who came to fight" in Iraq.

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