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...
has said the network's fighters would possibly join 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in fighting the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria despite calling the Islamic State, its leader 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...
and its self-declared caliphate as illegitimate.
Al-Zawahiri made the statement through an audiotape placed on the internet with the date of the recording yet to be confirmed.
Without disclosing further information regarding his intentions al-Zawahiri hinted at cooperation between the two Sunni Moslem Lion of Islam movements despite their rivalry, Rooters reported Wednesday.
He said "We don't recognize this caliphate. Despite the big mistakes [of Islamic State], if I were in Iraq or Syria I would cooperate with them in killing the Crusaders and secularists and Shi'ites even though I don't recognize the legitimacy of their state, because the matter is bigger than that."
According to Rooters references to events suggest it is at least eight months old.
Al-Zawahiri became the leader of al-Qaeda terrorist network following the killing of the network's leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
by US forces in May 2011.
He has previously denounced the Islamic State group with the U.S. counterterrorism officials have long worried about a "potential competitive dynamic" between Lion of Islam factions in attacking the United States as al Qaeda splits and morphs into various affiliates and branches.
According to a report by Washington Post, the splintering among al Qaeda created ISIS, which has seized swaths of Iraq and Syria since 2013 and is vying for recruits among young bully boy Moslems with Zawahri's core al Qaeda group.