Zawahiri: Unite With The Taliban

February 13, 2007 | By Sniper One |

More hateful rhetoric from the Al Qaeda/Taliban from Pakistan. Just warms my black little heart to see them still raging against the American machine. As long as they are raging, they are losing. When they grow silent, then we have to worry.

(CNN) — In a message released Monday, al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader called on Muslims to unite under Taliban leader Mullah Omar, stop trying to form secular governments and instead follow strict Islamic Sharia law.

The message from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the top aide to al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, appeared on an Islamist Web site.

The video contained a still picture of al-Zawahiri, the audio remarks and English subtitles.

A text translation also accompanied the tape and was provided to CNN by lauramansfield.com, a Web site that analyzes terrorism.

CNN could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the videotape.

Al-Zawahiri pledged allegiance to Mullah Omar and called on all his followers to reject animosity and differences and come together under Mullah Omar’s banner.

Yeah, because that banner was so successful before in Afghanistan…

Mullah Omar is the elusive, shadowy Taliban leader who slipped away in the early days of the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban held Afghanistan with an ultra-conservative government and sheltered al Qaeda.

Calling the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, allied with the United States, “traitors,” al-Zawahiri warned that the United States “is about to depart and abandon them, just as it abandoned their like in Vietnam.”

Note to Obama… sound familiar? Maybe like this?

Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama today introduced legislation calling for a phased redeployment of US troops in Iraq to be concluded by March 31, 2008. “The time for waiting in Iraq is over,” he said this evening on the Senate floor. “The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close. And the need to bring this war to an end is here.”

His bill, “The Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007,” also caps the number of US troops in Iraq to those there on January 10, 2007. Parts of his bill are consistent with the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group — which Obama says President Bush has “so assiduously ignored.” If the Iraqi government is successful in meeting the 13 benchmarks laid out by the Bush Administration, Obama’s plan allows for a temporary suspension of the redeployment, provided Congress agrees.

Introducing his bill on the senate floor moments ago, Obama called his legislation a responsible course of action: “Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the president on another tried and failed policy.” He concluded by saying, “It is time to give Iraqis their country back.”

If nothing else, this proves Australian Prime Minister John Howard, correct…

“I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory,” Howard said on Nine Network television.

“If I were running al Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

That wasn’t all that Zawahiri had to say…

But al-Zawahiri did not reserve his venom only for the “Crusaders” and “Zionists.” He also targeted the “charlatans” of Islam, saying their “long beards, huge turbans, majestic titles, purported lineages and popular myths are no substitute for the truth.”

He called on Palestinians to drop their secular government and instead govern themselves by Sharia (Islamic) law.

“A sovereign government will only be achieved if you liberate Palestine from the Jews and their agents, and only if you set up a government which rules by Sharia,” he said. “Otherwise, the soap opera of embargoes and pursuits and killings and denunciations will just go on and on.”

Al-Zawahiri’s latest message - like his last released January 22 — had harsh words for President Bush and the United States.

Al-Zawahiri said Bush was “addicted to drinking, lying and gambling” and that “the American people are the ones who chose him twice, out of greed for the Muslims’ treasures and in animosity to them.”

“That’s why the intelligent person does not absolve them, the British people and all peoples of the Crusader Alliance from responsibility, for they are the ones who elected Bush, Blair and their allies and supported them in their aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq,” he said.

Al-Zawahiri also took aim at Democrats, directing a part of his message to them.

“The people chose you due to your opposition to Bush’s policy in Iraq, but it appears that you are marching with him to the same abyss, and it appears that you will take part with him in the defeat and certain failure, with God’s permission,” he said.

“And the American people shall discover that you are all one side of the same coin of tyranny, criminality and failure.”

Is it just me, or was Zawahiri channeling Cindy Sheehan and KOS during that final statement?

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“7.62mm Justice” ™ » Surge Vote Weekend on February 17, 2007 5:50
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