Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a new tape proclaimed President Barack Obama powerless to stop the war in Afghanistan and even threatened to strengthen guerrilla warfare there. Continue Reading
13 September 2009
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a new tape proclaimed President Barack Obama powerless to stop the war in Afghanistan and even threatened to strengthen guerrilla warfare there. Continue Reading
19 July 2009
The Turkistan Islamic Part, a group linked to al-Qaida that threatened to disrupt last year’s Beijing Olympics, is vowing to avenge Muslim Uighurs who died in ethnic violence with the Chinese earlier this month.
The Turkistan Islamic Party condemned the violence between Chinese and Uighurs in the northwestern Xinjiang region which stemmed from a brawl between the two sides in southern China in June.
Seyfullah, military commander of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), said in a video issued on jihadist Web forums this week that the two incidents were examples of “genocide” perpetrated by the Chinese government. An excerpt of the translated video:
“Know that this Muslim people have men who will take revenge for them. Soon, the horsemen of Allah will attack you, Allah willing. So lie in wait; indeed, we lie in wait with you.”
For a group so powerful it can threaten the safety of the Beijing Olympics, what will this mean for China and for the rest of the world?