Oldskool Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 So basically Al Queda now wants to turn Muslim Arabs against Muslim Persians. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D932N1J82&show_article=1 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with an hour and a half video message Monday summarizing the state of jihad, or holy war, around the world and slamming Iran for collaborating with the United States. Short excerpts of the message were aired on the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera. In them, al-Qaida Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahri accused Iran of working with U.S. forces. Al-Zawahri said Tehran was "cooperating with the Americans in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan" and slammed Iran for recognizing the two governments. He also criticized the Shiites for not calling for a jihad in Iraq against the "Crusader occupier." In militant postings, "crusaders" is shorthand for U.S. troops in Iraq. "The guardian of Muslims in Tehran is cooperating with the Americans in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and recognizes the two hireling governments there," al-Zawahri said. Zawahri has been increasingly singling out Iran and Shiites in his messages, most recently in April, describing the "Persians" as the enemy of Arabs and complicit in the occupation of Iraq. Monday's video featured clips of al-Qaida operations on various fronts, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, with prominent figures from the movement discoursing on their accomplishments over the year, Al-Jazeera said. The pan-Arab network did not disclose how it obtained the recording. By late Monday, the video had not surfaced on militant Web sites commonly used as clearing houses for the terror networks' messages. In contrast to reports that al-Qaida has been weakened in Iraq, Monday's message claimed that jihad was alive and well. According to Al-Jazeera's Web site, it showed an Iraqi scholar decrying the U.S.-allied awakening councils that have turned against al-Qaida as "treacherous" and "doomed." The tape also celebrated former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's resignation, saying he had "swallowed the fruit of his betrayal," according to Al-Jazeera. The U.S.-allied government in Kabul was also described as weaker. Al-Zawahri also ridiculed Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group for describing their 2006 summer war with Israel as a victory. "What victory?" he said, according to Al-Jazeera. "Retreating 30 miles backwards?" Al-Qaida leader, Abu Yahia al-Libi, the movement's commander in Afghanistan, also appeared praising the exploits of Islamist insurgents in Somalia, claiming their numbers were growing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 In other words.. "We're losing". yak yak yak. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Judges Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Kind of hard to project strength when you're in hiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Not surprising. Al Qaeda has always been a Sunni-based extremist operation with the goal of reestablishing their perveted view of a fundamentalist Sunni Caliphate. They wanted their group: Al Qaeda in Iraq, to take over in the new Iraq, but the Shiites are the ones taking over due to their greater population. So, Iran is Shiite and is going to pull the strings in the new Iraq, not Al Qaeda in Iraq. That pisses off Al Qaeda. This conflict has been going on for a thousand years, and it ain't ending soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Didn't McCain say that Al-Qaeda and Iran are working together? So how does that fit in with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldskool Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 Didn't McCain say that Al-Qaeda and Iran are working together? So how does that fit in with this? It doesn't. Not everything that Al-Qaeda puts out on their videos has even a grain of truth to it. Trying to find truth within a propaganda piece like this can be hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Didn't McCain say that Al-Qaeda and Iran are working together? So how does that fit in with this? McCain was wrong, and it was widely recognized as one of his many gaffes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZRagone Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Am I only only one that read his first line and just imagined one of the terrorists from Team America going "PERSIANS?!" all 300 style... I'm odd I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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