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Taliban release video of German who targeted US Afghan base
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 03 - 2008


The Taliban have released a videotape of the
last statement by a German of Turkish origin who carried out a
suicide bomb attack earlier this month on a US post in eastern
Afghanistan, a Pakistan press report said Thursday, according to dpa.
German-born Cuneyt Ciftci, also known as Saad Abu Furkan, blew
himself up in a delivery truck near a US base in the Sabari district
of Khost province on March 3, killing two soldiers with the NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and two Afghan
workers. Six others were wounded.
The videotape, issued in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's
North-West Frontier Province, also contains images of the scene of
the attack, the daily News reported.
"Three of our cameramen filmed the attack when it was taking place
from three sides," Taliban sources told the English-language
newspaper The News' Peshawar bureau chief, Rahimullah Yousafzai.
In the videotape Ciftci, 28, said his attack was a sacrifice for
Islam.
"I am giving away my life for the glory of Islam," Ciftci was
cited by Yousafzai, who watched the video, as saying. Some parts of
his statement were in German, he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Ciftic also made appeal to other Muslims to join him in jihad against the infidels.
"Time has arrived to give sacrifices for Islam. Since we lack
resources to fight the enemy (Western powers), we will have to turn
our bodies into bombs. We will have to sacrifice our lives," he said.
The reports of Ciftci's involvement in the Khost bombing first
came up last week in the German press, including Der Spiegel, Focus
and Bild. He had lived near Ansbach in the southern German state of
Bavaria with a wife and two children and had been under observation
by the security services for some time, according to those reports.
Ciftci, the first German Islamist who carried out a suicide
bombing in Afghanistan, is believed to have had links with Islamist
terrorist cell broken up last September 5 in Germany.
The plotters, who included two German converts to Islam and a
Turkish Muslim, had allegedly been planning large bomb attacks on
U.S. facilities in Germany.
All have been linked to the Uzbek terrorist group Islamic Jihad
Union.
The videotape released in Peshawar also includes a message of
Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most wanted commanders in
Afghanistan.
Haqqani praised the Khost suicide bombing and eulogized the
services of Taliban and other mujahidin who laid down their lives for
the cause of Islam and Afghanistan, the report said.
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