Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
called on the world’s Moslems to reject the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
myrmidon group (ISIS) and throw their weight behind the Afghan Taliban, in a new video released on Sunday.
The leader of one of the world’s largest jihadi groups said that ISIS and his rival leader of the group, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, was only intent on trying to "split the ranks of the mujahideen," or jihadis.
In the video entitled ’Be Not Divided Among Yourselves,’ Zawahiri continues to say that the world’s Moslems should "rally around the emirate" in what is a reference to the Afghan Taliban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, according to The Long War Journal.
ISIS frequently attempts to paint Al-Qaeda as lesser Moslems, than its own followers. The two titans of the global jihad fell foul of one another when ISIS was on the rise. The Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), the radical group’s previous incarnation, had attempted to capitalize on the instability amid the two-year civil war in Syria in 2013.