Kuwaiti Pop Star Hussein al-Ahmad To Be Featured In New al-Qaeda Video
April 2, 2008
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A new al-Qaeda video will be released in three months featuring Hussein al-Ahmad [photo], the former Kuwaiti pop singer who left for Afghanistan a few weeks ago in order to join al-Qaeda fighters in the country.
Al-Ahmad’s friend, Miftaf Lughzi confirmed this in an interview with the Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera.
“I believe that a video has been produced by al-Sahab [the television production arm of al-Qaeda],” said Lughzi.
“He should have given an interview which will be released on the Internet in three months,” he said.
“This is because he wants to become a symbol for the Islamic nation. A youth who has deviated has joined a straight path. They [al-Qaeda] will take advantage of this story in order to proselytise and convince other young people to unite with them.
“I believe that they will show what he was like before as a singer, and then how he is now after having entered al-Qaeda. Al-Sahab is very good at this type of media operation,” he said.
Al-Ahmad’s conversation has caused a stir in Kuwait with concerns that his actions could be emulated by other young people who love music and not war.
The former pop singer himself announced that he had headed to Afghanistan in a posting on Ana Muslim, an Islamic forum on the Internet.
This story about al-Ahmad was also carried by a Kuwaiti newspaper, al-Rai al-Amm.
Al-Ahmad became famous two years ago after he participated in a television talent show popular in the Arab world called Star Academy.
Background Story
A retired Kuwaiti superstar singer has recently left the Gulf emirate for Afghanistan to join ranks with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in fighting foreign troops there, according to a press report published Saturday.
Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulf’s most famous pop stars, decided to join “his Mujahideen brothers in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight alongside his fellow Muslims in al-Qaeda”, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Saturday.
Al-Ahmad has previously told Kuwait’s Al-Rai TV that the reason he decided to quit singing was “a dream” where he saw his “own journey from this world into the hereafter through death”.
“I’ve seen horrors and terrors I don’t think anybody else has. I thanked Allah for being alive when I woke up and I was grateful for the fact that He has given me a second chance,” the retired singer said.
“I then informed my family and friends that I would retire from the dark world of sin (singing). Since then, my job has been to warn against arts and their sinful atmosphere.”
The retired singer will soon appear in his new military outfit in Afghanistan, in a video expected soon on a website known to be affiliated with al-Qaeda extremists, according to the paper.
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