Video calls for 'sea of blood'
From: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Paris

May 12, 2006

A VIDEO by an al-Qaeda member posted on the Internet overnight 
calls on Muslims to attack Denmark, Norway and France for publishing
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

"Muslims avenge your Prophet .... We deeply desire that the small
state of Denmark, Norway and France ... are struck hard and
destroyed," said Libyan Mohammed Hassan, who escaped from US 
custody at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan last July.

"Destroy their buildings, make their ground shake and transform them
into a sea of blood," said Hassan, dressed in military fatigues and a
black turban, and holding an assault rifle.

Hassan, also known as Sheikh Abu Yahia al-Libi, was one of four Arab
terror suspects who broke out of the high-security detention facility
at Bagram, the main US military base in Afghanistan.

It was unclear when the 35-minute video, produced by al-Sahab, a media
organisation close to Al-Qaeda, was recorded.

[...]

Earlier this year, the cartoons, including one showing the prophet
with a bomb-shaped turban, sparked violent protests by Muslims
worldwide after they appeared in Danish and other European newspapers.

Muslims consider any image of the prophet to be blasphemous. 

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Full article at "News"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19110195-401,00.html


Cheers, Steve..

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