Voice of the Caliphate

Posted on 10/9/2005 by Chirol

First it was Lonely Planet: Jihad edition and now this. Forget satellite television or short streaming clips from CNN or BBC, Voice of the Caliphate is what’s happening on the internet. What is it you ask? Terror tv at it’s best, i.e. Al Qaeda’s new weekly news show. Seems its designed to rival “western propaganda” although visually, it attempts to mimic it. The Middle Eastern Research Institute (Memri) has some of the video along with a transcript.

Following are excerpts from Sout Al-Khilafa – a new Al-Qaeda weekly news broadcast on the Internet

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

The Global Media Front presents to you: “Sout Al-Khilafa” (The Voice of the Caliphate).

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. The headlines of this news summary: Gaza has been liberated ““ a great victory, yet a weighty responsibility. In Iraq, Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi declares a war of Sunni vengeance, and Hurricane Katrina is the beginning of the divine, just punishment.

“Sout Al-Khilafa”

Welcome to the program “The Nation’s Weekly News Summary.” First, the “Sout Al-Khilafa” team sends its best wishes to the Islamic nation for the defeat of the Zionist occupation in a portion of occupied Palestine. We also congratulate ourselves on the destruction caused in America, by one of Allah’s soldiers. The Muslim multitudes in Palestine were seen thronging to the liberated lands, waving the banner of victory. Meanwhile, the mouthpieces of the so-called Palestinian Authority spoke about disarming the mujahideen under the pretext of what they called “the weapons anarchy.” But the response of the mujahideen groups on the front lines was clear. They announced their refusal to disarm as long as the occupier remains in the land of the Muslims.

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Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol (1852 - 1929) was a journalist, prolific author, world historian, and British diplomat. He began his career as a foreign correspondent and later became editor of the London Times. After two decades as a journalist he joined Her Majesty's Foreign Ministry as a diplomat and was subsequently knighted for his distinguished service as a foreign affairs advisor. Additionally, he wrote a dozen books on foreign affairs including The Far Eastern Question (1896), Serbia and the Serbs (1914), The End of the Ottoman Empire (1920) and The Egyptian Problem (1921). He is generally credited with popularizing "Middle East" in reference to the Arabian Peninsula with his book The Middle Eastern Question (1903). "Chirol" is a US citizen and graduate student studying Defense and Strategic Studies and government contractor. As with the historical Chirol, he has traveled to over two dozen countries and lived abroad for many years. Chirol speaks English and German fluently with basic knowledge of manyl of others.
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14 Responses to Voice of the Caliphate

  1. Curzon says:
    10/9/2005 at 6:45 pm

    Dude, BYZANTINE requirements to download the clip. Could you download it and post it on the site?

  2. Dan says:
    10/9/2005 at 7:10 pm

    Very, very cute. Kawaii all over. I smiled so much — such word choice

  3. Dan says:
    10/9/2005 at 7:14 pm

    PS: Any chance of getting a translated, un-edited version? Looks like good classroom fodder

  4. Chirol says:
    10/9/2005 at 7:23 pm

    I’ve sent them an email so we’ll see what they say.

  5. Dan says:
    10/9/2005 at 7:26 pm

    Thank you, good sir! I haven’t been this well treated since being rescued by that tribe of Dirvish Amazons while fleeing the Czar’s Men after the “Incident” in Samarkand, wot wot!

  6. adamu says:
    10/10/2005 at 1:31 am

    Hm that doesn’t read like any State Dept press release _I’ve_ ever read!

  7. maskull says:
    10/10/2005 at 3:11 pm

    “IHS” (Iran Hackers Sabotage), a hacker group, have been busy lately. They were in the news for defacing Novell’s OpenSUSE.org, wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com by posting a message stating that it was Iran’s right to develop nuclear power.

    http://seclists.org/lists/isn/2005/Oct/0004.html

    Here is their news homepage:

    http://www.ihsteam.com/cms/modules/news/

    Homepage, news, English version:

    http://ihsteam.net/cms/modules/news/

    Zone-H reports IHS as responsible for 3711 attacks, of which 514 are single IP and 3197 mass defacements …

    http://www.zone-h.org/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=IHS%20IRAN%20HACKERS%20SABOTAGE

  8. BillyBob says:
    10/10/2005 at 5:38 pm

    You know these crooks are failing when they have to resort to this. Who listens to this garbage.

  9. Dan says:
    10/10/2005 at 6:26 pm

    You know these crooks are failing when they have to resort to this. Who listens to this garbage.

    Probably “born again” violent Sunnis who grew up in Westernized households.

  10. Curzon says:
    10/11/2005 at 1:50 am

    “Hurricane Katrina is the beginning of the divine, just punishment.”

    I wonder what they’ll have to say about this recent earthquake in Pakistan.

    Wouldn’t it be sweet, sweet divine justice if the earth swallowed Osama Bin Ladin as he skulked in one of his caves.

  11. Dan says:
    10/11/2005 at 3:55 am

    Curzon,

    I had my class read Voice of the Caliphate today, and asked for their thoughts, especially as it relates to IR. Several students brought up the Pakistan quake. The likely answer is that bin Laden is a religious Optimistic — “God makes everything happen for the best” – so he’d recognize if he doesn’t see how a Muslim-killing earthquake in Pakistan helps Muslims, that’s his problems, not God’s.

  12. Chirol says:
    10/11/2005 at 1:12 pm

    Got a reply email asking for various information on me and why I want the clip. Haven’t heard back yet.

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