Second Al Qaeda 9/11 Video Coming Soon (UPDATED, 9/11 - Video Released)

By Andrew Cochran

On the heels of the now-released 9/11 commemorative video with Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda figures, the As-Sahab media site has announced yet another tape "soon, God willing," this time from #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri. Laura Mansfield had the scoop on that announcement and sent us the banner below from As-Sahab. More as the video this news develops.

UPDATE, 9/11: The video is out - see a picture of al-Zawahiri below from that video. Al-Zawahiri warns us of more attacks in the future: "I tell them your leaders are hiding from you the true extent of the disaster which will shick you. And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events with Allah's permission and guidance." You can see an excerpt with highlights courtesy of Rita Katz's SITE Institute.

Rita Katz also has a partial transcript (Acrobat file), and here is part of her analysis: "The topics covered during the course of the interview range from jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent conflict between Lebanon and Israel, Muslims who collaborate with Western governments, the denial of leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Group (al-Gama’a al-Islamiya) about the joining of an “important section” of the group with al-Qaeda, in addition to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) in Algeria joining al-Qaeda. Zawahiri also reiterates words made by Usama bin Laden regarding jihad in Somalia, calling upon the Muslim Somali people to “reject the American Crusader presence in Somalia to strike with strength America’s underlings in Somalia, and to see help from Allah”."

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