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2024-10-19 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Al-Qaeda adviser (!!!) calls for Hamas to free hostages, says attention overshadowing fate of Palestinian prisoners
I am speechless.
[IsraelTimes] An adviser to al-Qaeda’s likely current leader is calling for Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
 to release its Israeli hostages held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, according to an American jihadist monitoring organization, SITE.

The online declaration was made yesterday by Mustafa Hamid, also known as Abu Walid al-Masri, who is the father-in-law of Saif al-Adel
...holed up in Iran from 2002 until 2010, when he made bail and moved back to the Pak-Afghan border...
, the man widely believed to now head al-Qaeda, according to SITE.

In it, Hamid claims the attention given to recovering the Israeli hostages held by Hamas since October 7, 2023, both dead and alive, is overshadowing the fate of Paleostinian security prisoners being held by Israel.

He also hails Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the criminal mastermind of the massacre that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, who was killed by Israel this week.

Hamas must now "immediately" return the hostages and their bodies, and "this file must be closed and not opened again, as we know its consequences," according to the statement.
Indeed.
"No one cares about the Paleostinian prisoners, neither in the media, in negotiations, nor in demonstrations," it adds.
Insightful. That’s probably how he got his daughter married off to that man.
Several experts consulted by AFP say Hamid is close to higher-ups in the core al-Qaeda organization.

The group, which has spawned regional affiliates in Syria, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Somalia and Mali, has little leverage over Hamas, which is backed by Iran.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11162 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 Lets close this Shia funded chapter, and get back to old fashioned Sunni Jihadism.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert  2024-10-19 11:14||   2024-10-19 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Man, when Al-Queda is telling you to knock it off...

And a thought just occurred to me: I wonder if Al-Q is thinking that if the Israelis knew where Hezbollah was hiding, they might know perfectly well where Al-Q is. Hezbollah's leadership tiers are gone, what's left of Hamas' C-suite is hiding out in Doha praying the Qataris don't throw them out, and eventually the Israelis are going to look for other dragons to slay. Tell Hamas to knock it off, slip some cash their way, and take the heat off of everybody.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-10-19 12:03||   2024-10-19 12:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would Israel hunt down Al Qaeda, Mike? Despite Osama bin Laden’s big talk, Al Q looked at Israel as a tertiary goal at best. And Israel will probably spend a couple of years just clearing out all those who crossed the fence on 10/7, not to mention Hezbollahniks and key Mad Mullah personnel, nuclear and otherwise.

On the other hand, Israel might share technology and techniques with The Big Satan, should Donald Trump once again inhabit the White House.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-19 12:21||   2024-10-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Yazidi woman freed by IDF from Gaza reveals ISIS fed her [Yazidi] babies
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-19 13:36||   2024-10-19 13:36|| Front Page Top

#5 TW,

Well, look at it this way: the Israelis have put the fear of God into the terror community. The low and mid-level guys, yeah, always at risk, but this time it's been real Old Testament level revenge. The al-Q leadership doesn't know what the Israelis picked up, but given what they've seen over the last year they can't rule out that the Israelis (and therefore, us) know a lot more about hideouts and ops than they'd like.

Speaking up and saying 'knock it off' might, in al-Q's eyes, be a way of saying, "we don't want any part of this, and we've got no interest in keeping these idiots alive."

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-10-19 14:23||   2024-10-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#6 AQ needs to stay lo pro right now. China is counting on a land route from Iran to avoid the impact of oil embargo’s in a Taiwan invasion. If Israel kicked off a bigger war in the ME right now, it would jeaporduze that Iranian oil bypass and AQ’s rebuilding pipeline would feed into the war instead of their other immediate primary goals. For starters
Posted by Jefe101 2024-10-19 16:23||   2024-10-19 16:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you for explaining your thinking, gentlemen.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-19 18:24||   2024-10-19 18:24|| Front Page Top

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