Article

2006-01-21 Terror Networks

Al-Zawahiri refers to Iraq in audio message

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-21 01:21|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nothing in this tape suggests when it was made so Zawhiri's Death is still in play. It is possible that the appearance of these two tapes is a signal to other merry bands of thugs to perform their appointed tasks.

Posted by doc 2006-01-21 09:51|| 2006-01-21 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I remember another poem, read over the BBC one night in early June, 1944:

The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor.

Zawahiri reading poetry CANNOT be a good thing.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-21 10:06|| 2006-01-21 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 What concerns me about the latest OBL tape is that it is part of muslim military custom, going back to the days of Saladin, to offer a truce before striking the enemy. Taking this into account, along with this latest audio tape of "poems" from Al-Zawahiri (a possible 'go time' signal for cells to implement their missions), tells me that something is in the works for AQ. This concerns me.

That said, once a conflict has begun, one only asks for a truce when they are losing, not when they are winning.

So the most troubling thing about all of this is the fact that we are winning the war against AQ, and we are winning big. They are but a speck of the force they were back on 9/11/01. They've been beaten down hard and their capabilities significantly diminished. They are a wounded and desperate animal on the verge of death. And if there is one thing I fear more than anything else, it is what a wounded and desperate animal might do when confronted with the inescapability of it's demise.

Posted by eltoroverde 2006-01-21 10:43|| 2006-01-21 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I think it's not an accident that during the second world war, in 1944, the code message sent by the French service of the BBC to the resistance movement in France to warn them of the Normandy [D-Day] landings [of Allied troops] was two of the famous lines of [French poet Paul] Verlaine. 'The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor,'" de Villepin said.

just saving others the google time :-)

Posted by 2b 2006-01-21 10:55|| 2006-01-21 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 eltoroverde, one thing I fear more than anything else, it is what a wounded and desperate animal might do when confronted with the inescapability of it's demise

I agree with you. One thing that I think is too often underestimated is their collective desire to "bring it on" for devout religious reasons.

Posted by 2b 2006-01-21 11:00|| 2006-01-21 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Regarding the French resistance and WW2, another bit of trivia is that BBC broadcasts had as prelude, the signature notes of Beethoven's Fifth - ironic to be sure that a German composer would be heard on British radio. But looking further, the dot dot dot dash cadence had other significance in Morse - the Letter "V" ... for Victory. Quoting Paul Harvey - "And now you know the rest of the story.

Posted by doc 2006-01-21 15:00|| 2006-01-21 15:00|| Front Page Top

#7 cool Doc - did not know that...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-21 15:30|| 2006-01-21 15:30|| Front Page Top

04:28 CaziFarkus
09:34 CaziFarkus
08:59 CaziFarkus
23:59 Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom
23:54 Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom
22:42 Master of Obvious
22:37 djh_usmc
22:29 RD
22:10 Frank G
22:09 Frank G
22:07 ex-lib
22:07 RWV
22:06 RWV
22:04 Frank G
22:01 Nimble Spemble
21:59 Paul Moloney
21:50 RD
21:43 Paul Moloney
21:42 macofromoc
21:37 Brett
21:32 phil_b
21:31 Bomb-a-rama
21:28 ed
21:25 Pappy