<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of CBS News at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-shabab-terror-group-uses-donald-trump-soundbite-in-purported-propaganda-video/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-shabab-terror-group-uses-donald-trump-soundbite-in-purported-propaganda-video/</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="font-size: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34); line-height: 0.9; text-rendering: auto; letter-spacing: -0.07em; word-spacing: -0.04em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Terror group uses Donald Trump soundbite in purported propaganda video</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Terror group al-Shabab, al-Qaeda's Somalia-based affiliate, is using a clip from Donald Trump in a purported Islamist propaganda video -- and it's gaining traction among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) online channels.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The nearly hour-long video, produced by al-Shabab's media arm al-Kataib, uses a soundbite from the Republican front-runner's <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-u-s/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">speech in December</a> calling for the "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the country. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Preceding the Trump clip, a bite from the now-deceased al-Qaeda leader <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-was-anwar-al-awlaki/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Anwar al-Awlaki</a>, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011, warns "Muslims of the West" to be cautious and "learn from the lessons of history."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon," al-Awlaki says in English. "Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching, and Ku Klux Klan. And tomorrow it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video then cuts to a clip from Trump's South Carolina rally, where the GOP contender's comments are met with loud applause: "And so remember this. So listen. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the --- is going on." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump's expletive is bleeped out. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video returns to Al-Awlaki, who adds, "The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also posted to the website of SITE Intelligence Group, the 51-minute, 44-second video is a larger call to black youths in the U.S. to convert to Islam. The video also cites other examples of perceived racial injustice, including recent police shootings, including the cases of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/ferguson-missouri-police-shooting-protests/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri</a> and <a href="http://michael-slager-indicted-shooting-walter-scott-south-carolina/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Walter Scott in South Carolina</a>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to SITE, the video -- the second in a series on American jihadi fighters produced by al-Shabab -- was widely distributed via Twitter and the encrypted messaging app Telegram on January 1. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In December, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called Trump "ISIS' best recruiter" <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-hillary-clinton-calls-donald-trump-isis-best-recruiter/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">during a primary debate</a>, saying that "they are going to people, showing them videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump vehemently refuted the charge the next day, calling it "just another Hillary lie" in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press."</span></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>