Flashpoint Exclusive: Video of Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad with Taliban Commander Hakimullah Mehsud

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Last Updated (Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:10) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:00

Flashpoint Global Partners has released a previously unpublished video excerpt of a meeting between confessed Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad and the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud. During the undated video clip, Hakimullah and Shahzad are shown shaking hands and hugging, as Shahzad speaks in an overlaid audio track: "Today, along with the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud and under the command of Amir al-Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar Mujahid (may Allah protect him), we are planning to wage an attack on your side, inshallah." In a statement read out in U.S. federal court on June 22, 2010, Shahzad admitted to receiving "training [in Pakistan] to wage an attack inside the United States of America... How to make a bomb, how to detonate a bomb, how to put a fuse... I asked them [the Taliban] for some cash 'cause I only had - my cash was like $4,500 that I had with me when I was leaving, and I asked for some more cash because I had to do the whole operation here."

“Taifatul Mansura” Media Representative Resigns, Reportedly on Directs Orders of Commander

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Written by Administrator Monday, 26 July 2010 23:54

In a Turkish‐language online posting, Abu Yasir al‐Turki announced his resignation as the media representative for the "Taifatul Mansura" Turkish‐speaking foreign fighter contingent active on the Afghan‐Pakistani border. A separate posting revealed that al‐Turki had been replaced by "Süraka Türki" on the direct orders of “Taifatul Mansura” commander Selahaddin Azeri.

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Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Claims Attacks on Intelligence and Security Service Headquarters

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Last Updated (Monday, 26 July 2010 00:16) Written by Administrator

On July 22, 2010, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a statement claiming responsibility for the July 14th attacks on the intelligence and security service headquarters in Zinjibar, Yemen. The simultaneous raids, launched by nearly 20 operatives, killed 3 police officers and involved the use of mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. The communiqué also includes the names of high ranking Yemeni officials AQAP claims to have  assassinated, including Colonel Salem Amsbah (“head of counterterrorism” in Abyan province) and Lieutenant Jalal Uthmani (“an instructor at the Institute of Counterterrorism in Aden”).

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AQAP’s “Inspire” Magazine: Christmas Day Bombing “In Response to the American Aggression on Yemen”

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:10) Written by Administrator

On July 11, 2010, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the first edition of its English-language magazine, “Inspire”, which featured an article lauding the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by AQAP’s Umar Abdulmutallab. The bombing, which was carried out “in response to the American aggression on Yemen,” highlighted to “American and international intelligence…how fragile they are, bringing their nose to the ground, and making them regret all that they spent on security technology.” The article also called “on every Muslim who feels any jealousy for their religious beliefs to expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula, by killing all of the crusaders working in embassies or otherwise, and to declare war against the crusaders in the land of the Prophet Muhammad…on the ground, sea and air.”

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