al Qaeda web ad promises video "Big Surprise"

al Qaeda web ad promises video "Big Surprise"
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2007-08-02 10:28. World News read more

2 August 2007: A video "trailer," compiled by as Sahab, the media wing of al Qaeda was posted on various Islamic terrorist web sites yesterday, promoting an upcoming video titled "Wait for the Big Surprise." The video features a digitally altered photograph of U.S. President George Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf standing in front of a burning White House. Other images in the flash animation include images of al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri, as well as a photo of a SUV within a motorcade. Text within the trailer "Soon -- God willing," is written in Arabic across the screen and repeated several times.


Above: Still images copied from video "trailer"
Images courtesy of Archangel

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