And the result is (among others) a lengthy report in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and in Australia's national news outlet, the ABC.

it is very telling.  The soldier's statement couldn't be plainer: he shot the soldiers because he is a Muslim.  (This point is a little obscured by the repetition of the word  'foreigners', because it doesn't really explain things: there are plenty of non-Afghani foreign Muslims - Arabs and suchlike - running around in Afghanistan, busily waging jihad and pushing sharia, without getting much of a reaction beyond some resentment of the Arab Muslim habit of viewing other kinds of Muslims as inferior.).  Fortunately the second paragraph of the SMH coverage also includes, in quotes, the word "heathen".  In this video, 'foreigner' seems to be interchangeable with 'kuffar'.

But the most important thing about this report, at least as it appears in the ABC and in the SMH (which is the paper read by Sydney intellectuals, as its sister The Age is read by Melbourne intellectuals) is this: that it mentions MEMRI by name as the indispensable translators of that oh-so-revealing Afghan Muslim video boast.   Someone - or more than one - at the SMH, and perhaps elsewhere, has discovered MEMRI.  Which is good to know.  And given that MEMRI gets mentioned by name in the report, I suspect that the number of Australians deciding to acquaint themselves, for the first time, with what's on offer at the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, is about to increase perceptibly.  One hopes that some of those new Aussie visitors will be friends and family of Aussie diggers serving in Afghanistan, and officers in the Australian Defence Forces, and Australian politicians, and all those journalists who haven't yet discovered what a extraordinary treasure-trove of specimens of The Mohammedan Mind 'in the raw' are to be found handily translated and on display in the MEMRI archives.

And so to the Sydney Morning Herald, Rory Callinan reporting.  

http://www.smh.com.au/national/video-boast--how-i-shot-the-diggers-20120210-1sl3e.html Video boast - how I shot the Diggers

'Video boast - how I shot the Diggers'

'The Afghan soldier who gunned down three Australian Diggers last year has gloated about his attacks and told how his unit comrades fantasised (sic: dear Mr Callinan, 'plotted' might have been a better word here - CM) about launching similar jihad operations.

'Mohammed Roozi has appeared in a Taliban video, telling how he ambushed the "heathen" Australian troops with a machine-gun and rocket launcher before joining Taliban and hiding with Kuchi nomads.

'Heathen' is the all-important word.  It means, in this context, someone who is not a Muslim; who is an unbeliever. - CM

'A manhunt has been under way for Roozi - then an Afghan National Army member serving alongside Australians - who vanished after firing on his Australian mentors on November 8, seriously injuring three of them and two Afghan soldiers at the remote Nasir patrol base in Oruzgan province.  His escape and the video raise doubts about whether the shifting of most Australian troops into training roles would lower the risk of casualties.

You can say that again. - CM

'The video, linked through a recognised Taliban website, provides a disturbing (no - a revealing and very educational - CM) look inside the insurgency (sic: the Jihad - CM) and the mindset of the Afghan troops (the Afghan Muslim troops - CM) serving with Australians.  In one five-month period last year, Afghan soldiers shot 14 Australians, four of whom died (sic: 'Afghan Muslim soldiers attacked 14 Australian non-Muslims, four of whom were killed - CM),

'One expert said the video would be used to inspire recruits, especially in Pakistan's tribal areas, where madrasa students have access to cyber cafes.

The cognitive dissonance in that final clause is massive.  Primitive minds, who spend most if not all of their time memorising the deadly anti-thought gibberish of the Quran, Sira and Hadith, strolling down the road to make malevolent use of an advanced technology that, had Islam succeeded in conquering Europe in the 8th or in the 17th century, would never have come into existence. - CM

'Released by the al-Emarah Taliban studios, the 47-minute clip shows a masked interviewer in a turban in a studio, appearing to ask questions of a relaxed Roozi. 

"I had one mission on my mind - to kill foreigners and teach them a lesson.  We are Muslims.  We cannot accept foreigners", he says.   

'Foreigners'.  Non-Muslim foreigners, he means.  The Muslim variety, not such a big deal.  - CM

"I prepared the grenade launcher and my gun with 200 bullets.  Foreigners were sitting in a room. They were fire worshippers around a big fire.  (And that's the Muslim mind in all its glory...Aussie non-Muslim soldiers round a fire are 'fire worshippers'...!!! I never knew our Aussie troops were Zoroastrians.... - CM)

"There were 12 of them.  A soldier ran to me and asked me what I was doing.  He suspected my motives.  I told him that it was none of his business...I opened fire.  when the bullets ran out it was time to use the rocket launcher".

'The account appears heavily embellished, with Roozi claiming he killed 12 Australians. Three Australians and two Afghans were wounded.

'Despite its blatant propaganda content, the video reveals some telling insights (I should say it does, and then some!  though nothing that would surprise any intelligent non-Muslim who has read the Koran and one or two other little items from the Islamic corpus. - CM) about attitudes of Afghan soldiers in the lower ranks (why assume that it is only those in the lower ranks who think like this, Mr Callinan? there is nothing to say that those higher-up do not harbour exactly the same Quran-Sira-Hadith inspired hatred of and contempt for the dirty kuffar, even if for the moment they may think it prudent not to reveal their feelings nor to translate them into action in the way that Mr Roozi did. - CM)  and their impression of their foreign (that is, their non-Muslim - CM) counterparts.

'Roozi says he spent years in a religious school (that is, a madrasa, where he would have been soaked in orthodox traditional Islam - CM) before joining the Afghan army, where he found other soldiers did not accept the foreigners.

'He says he attacked the Australians because he was a Muslim and did not accept foreigners (that is, non-Muslim foreigners - CM) working alongside him.

No red-blooded orthodox Muslim can be expected to endure the presence of unsubdued non-Muslims, non-Muslims who are not only on a par with him but are even, some of them, in authority over him, giving him orders and expecting him to obey. - CM

'His friends in the army regularly thought of attacking.  "We used to sit there and they were telling these things [attacking foreigners] and whenever it was possible we will do this", he says.

Every Aussie, or Canadian, or American, or (insert name of country here) soldier who is about to be deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, should be made to watch this video (so helpfully and informatively translated by MEMRI) not once but several times; and he should be told to take it absolutely seriously. - CM

'On another occasion he says: "For 24 hours we were discussing and our first discussion point was jihad and killing".

Memo to the Australian Defence Minister and our top brass: do you hear this man? Believe him. This is the way many Mohammedans are taught to think, from the moment they can walk. - CM

'The interview reveals the Taliban's focus on the departure of US troops in 2014.

'The interviewer asks Roozi whether he is aware of the foreigners leaving in 2014.  "I know the American soldiers as well as other soldiers from other foreign (sic; non-Muslim - CM) countries will leave Afghanistan and that too many soldiers have been killed...And German and Australian troops and others they always claim that they want to leave Afghanistan."

Of course they do.  Because Islam makes Afghanistan a ghastly, desolate, miserable and fiendishly violent hell-pit where no decent and sane human being would wish to remain for even two seconds together.  You can have your hell-pit, Mr Roozi - the hell-pit that Islam has made of the land that once created the Bamiyan Buddhas and the glorious paintings that filled the caves in the mountains behind them.  Just do not dare to follow us to our lands with a view to dragging them, too, down into Hell. - CM

'the content of the video was being widely disseminated on websites, said Tufail Ahmad, the director of the South Asia Studies project at the Middle East Media Research Institute. 

'Mr Ahmad, who has translated and viewed the video, has "no doubt" that it is genuine.  "It is posted on the official Taliban website and it is not hacked", he said.

'Mr Ahmad suspects Roozi is still in Afghanistan.

'The Australian Defence Force yesterday confirmed it was aware of the Taliban video, which contained "unfounded and false" allegations.

Go right ahead, stick your head in the sand, O Top Brass, pretend that Mr Roozi is not a perfectly orthodox Muslim expressing the classical Muslim hostility toward the Infidel; and more soldiers will be killed by pious Muslims within the Afghan army. - CM

'"Mohammed Roozi is clearly relying on the insurgency (sic: other jihad-minded Muslims - CM) for support following his cowardly attack", the ADF said.  "His statements are designed to support an insurgent propaganda campaign and are designed to justify his illegal act."

He spent years being programmed in a madrasa - a Muslim religious (cult) school.  I think there would be Mohammedan scholars who would regard what Mr Roozi did, as perfectly legal, that is, sharia-compliant. - CM

'The Defence Minister, Stephen Smith, said the video was aimed "among other things, at sowing mistrust between Australian and Afghan troops".

ROFLMAO.  The very first time an Aussie digger was bushwhacked by his Afghan Muslim army 'colleague' or 'trainee' should have been sufficient to render all survival-minded fellow diggers deeply suspicious of any Mohammedan carrying a gun, whether in Afghan Army uniform or out of it. - CM

'He said he had spoken to the Afghan Defence Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, about the issue of Afghan troops attacking Australians.

And I'll bet you got a splendid pile of fresh steaming taqiyya, Mr Smith. Because Mr Wardak subscribes to exactly the same malevolent creed as Mr Roozi, with its division of the world into Us (Mohammedans, born to rule) and Them (the najis kuffar, who if they will not submit to Islam, must be either subjugated or killed). - CM

'Mr Smith said he had met Defence chiefs at home and abroad.  Adjustments had been made to the Australian troops' protection to reduce the risk, but no protection could comprehensively guard against a person intending to commit a crime."

Oh good god, Mr Smith.  Do some homework on Islam and get a clue, before you get more of our soldiers bushwhacked by murderous Mohammedans who are merely obeying their religious obligation to wage jihad against the Infidel.  Start with Quran 9: 29 and 9: 5. - CM

And now for the ABC report which contains a few very telling additional snippets from the video.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-11/afghan-soldier-boasts-about-shooting-australians/3824494

'Aghan soldier boasts of shooting Australians'.

Translation: Afghan Muslim soldier boasts of shooting Australian infidels - CM

'A former member of the Afghan army who seriously wounded three Australian troops last year has boasted about the attack in a video posted online.

'Muhammad Rozi shot the diggers along with two (deemed insufficiently Islamic, because cooperating with Infidels - CM) Afghans at a patrol base in Uruzgan province in November.

'He opened fire on his mentors from a watchtower at the base, using an automatic weapon and grenade launcher to inflict maximum damage.

'It was the third attack by an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier on Australian troops in 2011, and came 10 days after three Australians were killed and seven were wounded when another Afghan soldier turned his weapon on his trainers.  

When another Afghan Muslim soldier turned his weapon on his Infidel trainers. - CM

'In May, one Australian soldier was killed when a member of the ANA opened fire.

'Rozi's whereabouts have been a mystery since then, but this week an interview with the former soldier appeared on a jihadi website.

'During the interview Rozi said he had one thing on his mind that day: killing foreigners and teaching them a lesson.

'He claimed many of his colleagues in the Afghan National Army dreamed of committing (sic: not 'dreamed of committing', intended to commit would be a better way to describe what is going on - CM) similar attacks.

'A translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (and there is the all-important information that one hopes will send curious Australians off in droves to check out a fascinating website - CM) reveals the attack was carefully premeditated, with Rozi taking the time to watch his targets through binoculars before opening fire.

'"I had been with the ANA for one and a half years. During this time I had one mission in my mind - to kill foreigners and teach them a lesson", he said.

'He says he had initially been working alone, but that he was quickly taken in by the Taliban after fleeing the scene in a stolen humvee.

"I asked, is there a Muslim who can save me, I have gunned down 12 foreigners.  Then a white-bearded old man held my hand and said, "Here it's Taliban and mujahedeen territory, we will help you", Rozi said, according to the MEMRI translation.

Way to go, Auntie ABC, slily casting doubt on the accuracy of MEMRI.  A baseless doubt.  The people at MEMRI are scrupulous about their translation work. - CM

'Rozi said he wanted to teach the troops a lesson that Muslims in Afghanistan would not accept the presence of foreigners.

They don't seem to mind Muslim foreigners, there are plenty of those from all kinds of ethno-linguistic backgrounds tooling around the place,  all that much.  It's the non-Muslim foreigners they object to - because they are non-Muslim, that's all. - CM

'The Defence Departmment has described the video as one of many released in an ongoing insurgent propaganda campaign.

'In a statement released overnight, a defence spokesperson said Rozi was clearly relying on the insurgency (nah, just fellow members of the Ummah who think he done good - CM)  for support following his cowardly attack.

'The Defence Department says the ADF is working closely with local Afghan authorities to find Rozi.

In which case, he is perfectly safe. No way will his fellow Muslims rat on him to the Infidels.  Look at how Pakistan sheltered Osama Bin Laden for all those years, whilst pretending to assist in the pursuit. - CM

'Experts believe the Taliban-produced video provides an important clue to his whereabouts.

'Tufail Ahmad from the Middle East Media Research Institute says Rozi could still be in Afghanistan, or the tribal regions of Pakistan.

Or, for that matter, in Karachi or Lahore or Islamabad or Abbottabad...-CM

"It's often the case that someone from outside, someone from Al Qaeda's media arm, goes to that region and interviews them on the front.  So many of the big Taliban leaders are interviewed in that region," he said.

But do they live there? bin Laden didn't. - CM

'Thirty-three Australians have been killed while serving in Afghanistan: 32 with the Australian Defence Force and one with the British Armed Forces."

All I can say, to any fellow Australian who happens to come across this article, and is new to the subject, is this: go to MEMRI.  Read around in their archives.  Allow yourself to absorb the fact that these people - from many different parts of the dar al Islam, and within Muslim colonies in the non-Muslim lands - think just like Mohammed Rozi, and given the opportunity, would act as he did.  And read the Quran, and a good English translation of the Life of Mohammed.  And take seriously the fact that many, many Muslims, not only in Afghanistan but all around the world - including young Afghan Muslim men of military age who are now in Australia as 'refugees' and 'asylum seekers' - believe everything in those texts, and think exactly the same way about us dirty kuffar, as Mr Roozi thought about the Australian soldiers whom he killed with a machine-gun, that day in Afghanistan.  Just google a few phrases - 'dar al Islam' 'dar al Harb', 'al walaa wa al baraa - loyalty and enmity' (check out Quran surah 48 verse 29 - and have a good long think about it. - CM