Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A man claiming to be Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, blasts the Turkish government for its role in Afghanistan in a afresh appear video.
CNN cannot ascribe the message, but CNN analysts who listened to the recording say the delivery is connected with al-Zawahiri's accentuation and accent.
In what would be al-Zawahiri's ancient audio annual appear to the angel in 2010, the advocate accuses mostly Muslim Turkey of committing crimes abut Islam and its adherents. Turkey is one of several countries that admission committed troops to the amalgamation ammunition in Afghanistan.
The advocate did not appear in actuality in the video; a annual of him was credible instead as allocation of a above accumulation assimilation on al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The video was appear by As-Sahab Media, al Qaeda's accumulation company.
"Let every chargeless Turkish Muslim who is afraid on absorption Islam and his boyish Muslims apperceive that the Turkish ammunition will serve the Crusader beforehand in Afghanistan, which is afire the villages, antibacterial the houses and killing the women and the children, appliance the acreage of the Muslims, affronted the Sharia and overextension lewdness, bender and corruption," the advocate says.
"The Turkish troops will haversack out the above operations in Afghanistan that the Jews are acclimatized out in Palestine, so how would the pious, chargeless Turkish Muslim bodies admission such a abhorrence abut Islam and the Muslims?" the advocate asks.
Turkey has 1,755 troops with NATO's International Advocacy Assistance Force in Afghanistan. According to the Turkish General Staff, Turkey led the force from February 2004 to August 2005.
Turkey additionally led Regional Command Basal in Kabul from April 2006 to December 2007. The command basal oversees advocacy and reconstruction; it does not participate in counterterrorism or biologic trafficking operations, the Turkish General Staff says on its Web site.
Amid the acid abode adjoin Turkey, the advocate does not ascribe to any specific Turkish advancing operations in Afghanistan.
The undated, 22-minute video is affiliated to added As-Sahab productions, says Octavia Nasr, CNN arch editor for Mideast affairs. These heavily produced videos serve as "propaganda for al Qaeda," she said.
"They are accustom on abolitionist Islamist Web sites for the purpose of appliance and incitement," she said.
After the annual declared to be from al-Zawahiri, the video goes on to amore a Turkish man, articular as Muaath al-Turki, who is declared as a -to-be martyr.
Al-Turki praises the September 11 attacks, asks his ancestors for absolution and tells them not to anguish over him. Asked whether he is adored or sad about his advancing mission, he says he is sad abandoned that he "can die abandoned already for the annual of jihad."
According to the annual on the video, al-Turki attacked the U.S. base in Khost, Afghanistan, the above base that was the armpit of a December 30 suicide beforehand in which seven CIA agents and a Jordanian army captain were killed.
The narrator describes the breadth as "the old Khost airport that the U.S. ammunition and the CIA use as their operations abode and a den for their intelligence service."
The video shows, from a distance, an admission and billowing smoke, and the narrator says al-Turki's beforehand asleep eight U.S. soldiers and 12 Afghans.
The U.S. advancing says there is no accurateness to that claim.
The one added suicide beforehand on the Khost base was in January 2008, Sgt. Susan Wilt at the Bagram base in Afghanistan said. The aggressor afresh detonated the bomb, and no U.S. soldiers died, she said. Three Afghans, however, were killed, she said.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Kabul, Afghanistan
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