SAUDI ARABIA - Apr 10 - Wahhabi Militant Threatens Regime & Americans.In a video carried on an Islamist website called Dirasat, a masked man identified as Abdel Aziz Al Muqrin, a Saudi Wahhabi militant wanted by government security forces, urges the killing of Americans and threatens all Arab regimes co-operating with the US. He says Americans are yet to feel the "real fires of battle". In an apparent reference to the guerrilla uprising in Iraq, he said Washington faces another Vietnam. The voice says: "O mujahideen mujahideen Arabic mujahidun (“those engaged in jihad”) In its broadest sense, those Muslims who proclaim themselves warriors for the faith. Its Arabic singular, mujahid, was not an uncommon personal name from the early Islamic period onward. , fight the Americans everywhere and fight the Americans with all your might and capabilities. Terrorise Verb 1. terrorise - coerce by violence or with threats terrorize coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for them as they have terrorised your brothers". The figure whose brown cloth mask obscure all but his eyes, adds: "O mujahideen this is your day, your jihad jihad: see Islam. jihad In Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qur'an and the Hadith, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, , and this is your enemy occupying your land, turning it into bases to fight Islam and Muslims, and controlling apostate agents. So fight them until...you only see blood and body parts as they have done to your brothers in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq in their battles in the Muslim peninsula". (The website has in the past carried statements purporting to be from Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. , widely believed to be behind Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US, and other officials of the militant network. The video was posted on the website as US-led forces faced growing rebellion from both Sunni and Shiite guerrillas in Iraq. Muqrin is on a Saudi wanted list of top Al-Qaeda militants, blamed for suicide bombings Noun 1. suicide bombing - a terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it bombing - the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists suicide bombing n → which killed at least 50 people in Riyadh last year). The voice says: "The mujahideen will target the crusaders at first. As for the apostate, agent rulers their day is coming soon, God willing, after we are done with their masters and the convoys of martyrs
(The man dressed in brown fatigues and holding an automatic rifle is speaking in Arabic. Abdel Aziz Al Muqrin was reported last month to have taken over leadership of the terrorist network in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. after the killing of the former top operative Khaled Ali Ali Haj. This
month, a strategy paper posted on a website and signed by Muqrin lists
Jews, Americans and Britons as main targets and calls on militant cells
worldwide to "turn the infidels' lands into hell"). The
man in the video warns Muslim rulers as well as security and
intelligence forces against confronting militants at pain of death.
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