Briton stars in Somali terror videos

November 20th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, is also thought
to be with al-Shabaab in Somalia.

In the first 32-minute video released by al-Shabaab’s media arm, al-Kataib,
last November, called “The Burundian Bloodbath” the reporter, dressed in
army fatigues, visits the scene of a battle in which he claims 101 soldiers
died.

Carrying a microphone, he compares the battle at Dayniile with the “glorious
battles that took place in the early days of Islam between truth and
falsehood” and interviews al-Shabaab fighters who took part.

Another 23-minute video called “Battlefront el-Wak – repelling the Kenyan
proxies” was released in February.

The film shows a battle on September 16 last year between al-Shabaab and the
Kenyan backed Azania Militia in the border town of el-Wak before the
full-scale invasion by Kenyan troops in October.

The video is dedicated to the “martyr” Anwar al-Awlaki, one of the leaders of
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP) who was killed in a drone attack
in Yemen last September.

In the latest 43-minute video, “In the Shade of the Shariah”, first released
in May, the same reporter visits Baidoa, a city taken by al-Shabaab
militants from Ethiopian soldiers in 2009 before its recapture in February.

The video features a clip of a suicide bomber called Abu Ayoub from “Europe”
who speaks in English.

The reporter praises him as one of “dozens of young men who had left behind
the comfort of their homes and families in Europe and the United States in
order to take part in the jihad against the Ethiopian invaders.”

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s
College London is to publish a report this week on al-Shabaab’s Western
media strategy which highlights al-Kataib’s use of slick and professional
production values to appeal to young men in the West and provide an
alternative to mainstream media.

The report says the videos “aim to present the group’s version of events,
motivate recruits and establish an alternative narrative – where the
mainstream media might report losses, al-Shabaab records victories.”

The authors say that a “combination of fortuity and ingenuity has allowed
al-Shabaab to cultivate a highly potent message which has succeeded in
helping to seduce scores of Western Muslims into supporting its cause.”

Two shorter videos have featured young British men – a suicide video from 2007
featuring Ahmed Hussein Ahmed, and a video called ‘Inspire the Believers’ in
2010 which featured Abu Dujana calling for more recruits.

A number of Americans have also traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabaab and one
of their most powerful media assets has been a rapping propagandist called
Omar Shafik Hammami, known as Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, who has appeared in a
series of videos including a lengthy sermon last year called “Lessons
learned.”

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