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Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:54 AM Apr 2013

The Black Banners of Khurasan ..... background on the Chechen bombing suspects (mother jones)

Boston Bombing Suspect Posted Video on Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube
—By Adam Serwer| Fri Apr. 19, 2013 5:45 AM PDT

The deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more
than 170, appears to have posted a video extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with
Al Qaeda to his YouTube page.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26 year-old brother of the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
had a YouTube page where he posted religious videos, including a video of Feiz Mohammad, a
fundamentalist Australian Muslim preacher who rails against the evils of Harry Potter. Among those
videos is one dedicated to the prophecy of the Black Banners of Khurasan which is embraced by Islamic
extremists—particularly Al Qaeda. The videos posted on what appears to be Tsarnaev's YouTube page may
shed light on the motivations for the attack on the Boston Marathon. The prophecy states that an invincible
army will come from the region of "Khurasan," a large portion of territory in central Asia.

"This is a major hadith (reported saying of the prophet Muhammad) that jihadis use, it is essentially an
end-time prophecy," says Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy "This is
definitely important in Al Qaeda's ideology." In The Black Banners, former FBI agent Ali Soufan's book
about his pursuit of Al Qaeda that is named after this prophecy, Soufan describes the prophecy this way:

Khurasan is a term for a historical region spanning northeastern and eastern Iran and parts of Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and northwestern Pakistan. Because of the hadith, jihadists believe that
this is the region from which they will inflict a major defeat against their enemies—in the Islamic version
of Armageddon.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/boston-bombing-suspect-posted-video-al-qaeda-prophecy-youtube

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The Black Banners of Khurasan ..... background on the Chechen bombing suspects (mother jones) (Original Post) Botany Apr 2013 OP
More 'End of Days' religious insanity... haikugal Apr 2013 #1
Khurasan Botany Apr 2013 #2
Blah blah BLAH blah BLAHBLAH blah blah BLAH prophecy blah BLAH mystic blood blah BLAH blah hatrack Apr 2013 #5
Sparking the revolution Mopar151 Apr 2013 #3
Mother Jones....ANOTHER ARM OF FAUX NEWS AND MURDOCH!!! ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2013 #4

hatrack

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5. Blah blah BLAH blah BLAHBLAH blah blah BLAH prophecy blah BLAH mystic blood blah BLAH blah
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:26 AM
Apr 2013

Fuck, I am tired of this shit.

Come to think of it, the whole thing makes me think of "Strange Brew" with Bob & Doug McKenzie. The brothers are trapped in a brewery vat as it slowly fills with suds.

One of them notes that "I always thought drowning in beer would be Heaven. This isn't Heaven - this sucks!"

Mopar151

(9,965 posts)
3. Sparking the revolution
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:23 AM
Apr 2013

Same as McVeigh, Manson, Tom Metezeger, "The Order", and thousands of other dead-end losers, who think that somebody just needs to start the holy war off, and then we;ll all join in on their side. As if.

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