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| Qaeda's Zawahri Says West Must End Attacks on Islam |
| 2005-02-20 |
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader said in a videotape broadcast on Sunday that governments could not stop al Qaeda attacks and that the security of the West depended on respect for Islam and an end to aggression against Muslims. respect must be earned, not demanded Ayman al-Zawahri said in the tape aired by satellite channel Al Jazeera that the "new crusader campaign" -- al Qaeda's term for the U.S.-led "war on terrorism" -- would end in defeat. didn't the last crusades end the dark ages and produce the renaissance? I don't see this being appreciably different. Maybe the arab world will finally come out of the dark ages. The Arabic television channel said the tape, which was not dated, was new. That was not immediately possible to verify. It did not mention recent events such as last month's elections in Iraq. 'course not. too many arabs actually like the idea of elections. al-z wouldn't win too many over by spewing vile against that. Osama bin Laden's right hand man, who was wearing a white turban and seated with a machinegun next to him, said his comments came three years after the first prisoners were taken from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. and 3 1/2 years after Sept 11. "If you Western nations believe that these carton governments will protect you from our responses then you are deluded. Your real security lies in cooperating with the Muslim nation on the basis of respect and ending aggression," said the bearded and bespectacled Zawahri in the broadcast excerpts. sounds desperate. if this was their position all along, explain Sept 11. "Your new crusader campaign will end, God willing, in defeat as did those that preceded it but after the deaths of tens of thousands, the destruction of your economy and exposing you in the pages of history," he added. Allah hasn't been all that "willing" to help him out, recently. don't know if he's noticed. ABUSE ALLEGATIONS In Washington, a U.S. intelligence source said it was too early to make a determination on the tape's authenticity, adding: "We will certainly be looking very closely at it." The Egyptian militant said U.S. calls for democracy in the Middle East were a farce after allegations of abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Guantanamo Bay, which holds hundreds of suspects detained during the 2001 U.S.-led war to oust al Qaeda and the ruling Taliban from Afghanistan and in other operations. it pales in comparison to what we COULD do. or what arab despots do, regularly. Anyway, even the victims of the abuse would rather have gone through that than have been beheaded on tape. go on. ask 'em. "It has been three years since the first group of Muslim prisoners were sent to Guantanamo prison ... One may ask why all this interest in Guantanamo when our countries are filled with a thousand Guantanamos under U.S. observation," he said. "It is because it exposes the truth of reform and democracy that America claims it aims to spread in our countries. "The reform which emerges from U.S. prisons like Bagram, Kandahar, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and from the launch of cluster bombs and rockets and the appointment of the likes of (Afghanistan's President Hamid) Karzai and (Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad) Allawi," he said. Zawahri and bin Laden, believed to be hiding in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, have eluded capture since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out by al Qaeda. The last videotape from Zawahri was aired in November, warning that al Qaeda would continue to attack the United States until Washington changed its policies toward the Muslim world. we will. over his dead body. |
| Posted by:PlanetDan |
| #5 Even with Afghanistan and Iraq right in front of his nose. And we're talking smackdowns. None of the 'Nam Era Russian stalemate blah blah blah. Wham! Next. If only we had such Presidents every time... |
| Posted by: .com 2005-02-20 11:03:18 PM |
| #4 Please note: "...Your new crusader campaign will end, God willing, in defeat as did those that preceded it but after the deaths of tens of thousands..." This is a critically important statement, because it says that this guy doesn't have the slightest clue who he's dealing with, here. Some years ago, I talked with some technically (electronics) educated Lebanese Arabs. They let slip that they believed that *most* of the US defense budget was spent on weapons for Israel. They had seen the Israeli military in operation and were utterly amazed and distraught by its size and power, which could *only* exist if they had a vast amount of wealth to buy it--and that if America would just stop funding Israel, then they would be on an equal footing with the Arabs who live around them. Now, despite my best efforts to convince them that any monies sent from the US are the tiniest of fractions of the money we spend on defense, they would not, could not change their beliefs. The alternative, that the Israelis were leaps and bounds ahead of them, was unacceptable. Now, concerning this luser, I would hazard to guess that, having cut off about 3" of the tip of the end of one of Cthulu's tentacles, he thinks that he is well on the way to slaughtering the destroyer of worlds. I would propose that he is in for some seriously rude awakenings. He really has no grasp that when the US involves itself in a real war, killing ten thousand of the enemy is nothing, even a hundred thousand, or hundreds of thousands. In a real knock down and drag out, the US would be prepared for the death of millions, and would come back for more, as we have done in the past. This twerp really has no clue, no clue at all. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-20 10:53:15 PM |
| #3 How come no words from OBL? He didn't have anything to say after the vote, either. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-02-20 10:25:16 PM |
| #2 Z-man doesn't have a whole lot left to say, does he? |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-02-20 9:55:31 PM |
| #1 "But we're not F*&king DONE A-hole!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-20 9:06:59 PM |