Sheik: 'America's nose will be rubbed in the mud'

Al-Qaida operative delivers message
in speech posted on Internet
Posted: December 24, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

An al-Qaida sheik who escaped earlier this year from Bagram prison in Afghanistan vowed in a sermon posted online that "America's nose will be rubbed in the mud" and declared "Palestine is occupied by the offspring of apes and pigs."

An excerpt of the video, featuring Sheikh Abu Yahya Al-Libbi, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

It includes footage of young boys, one appearing to be as young as 8 years old, training with weapons.

MEMRI points out that, according to alarabiya.net, Sheikh Yahya Al-Libbi is one of the aliases used by Muhammad Hassan Qayed.

Qayed, who studied religious law in Mauritania, sent a letter last month that was published on the Internet to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq.

In the video, the title on screen says: "In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate. We are the army of Allah."

Referring to the Holy Land, the sheik said in a sermon marking the Eid Al-Fitr holiday: "Who are those who desecrate it? Who have taken control over it? Who are those who torment its people so severely? Those who were 'smitten with humiliation and misery,' and 'incurred the wrath of Allah.' They are the offspring of the apes and the pigs. They are the ones who are tormenting our brothers there."

In Afghanistan, he says, "the infidel Crusader forces have brought their cavalry and infantry. They are destroying their homes, killing their sons, and arresting their elderly and their women, with whom they are filling their prisons in Abu Ghreib, Bagram, Qandahar, and Guantanamo."

The sheik claims, however, "the first signs of victory have begun to appear on the horizon, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Chechnya."

"Indeed, the price of victory is steep, and we pay it with our blood, and with our body parts, with our homes, our fields, and our crops," he said.

In the future, he said, "there will be glory for those who want it. There will be victory for those who seek it. There will be freedom for those who desire it."

Victory is "inevitable," he said, "in spite of the infidels, the apostates and the hypocrites."

"America's nose will be rubbed in the mud. America will be humiliated just like the empires before it," the sheik declared.

"This is the religion of Allah, of the one and only. When he desires something, he says 'become' and it comes into being. So what reason do we have to despair or be afraid? We have only two options: either we live a life of pride and strength in our religion and on our land, doing whatever we want, and worshipping our God as he ordered us, or else we are destined to Paradise."