Al-Zawahiri : ASK YOUR q

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Columnist: Al-Qaeda Online Media Initiative "Open Meeting with Al-Zawahiri" Is Nothing but "A Recruiting Campaign For Al-Qaeda"

On December 16, 2007, Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Sahab and the Al-Qaeda affiliated Media Center Al-Fajr announced a joint media initiative called "Open Meeting with Al-Zawahiri," in which Osama bin Laden's deputy would answer questions from the public. [1]

Theinitiative aroused interest as well as criticism in the Arab media. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat columnist Hussein Shobokshi wrote that it was a recruiting campaign aimed at luring young men to join Al-Qaeda, and condemned the media for giving Al-Qaeda's media activities too much publicity.

Following are some details about the initiative, and excerpts from Shobokshi's article in the English edition of Al-Sharq Al-Aswat (the text has been edited for clarity). [2]

The Al-Sahab announcement, which was published in the most recent Al-Zawahiri video, dated December 16, 2007, [3] asked that questions for Al-Zawahiri be kept "brief and focused" and that they be posted on four specific Islamist forums - Al-Ikhlass (www.ek-ls.org ), Al-Hesbah (http://al-hesbah.com ), Al-Boraq (http://al-boraq.org ) and Al-Firdaws (http://210.193.49.35/vb ); [4] the administrators of these sites were instructed to forward the questions to Al-Qaeda. This strengthens the supposition that these Islamist forums have direct ties to high-ranking figures in Al-Qaeda.

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Al-Zawahiri Threatens Iran, Iraq and USA.

Even al Qaeda knows the value of an American in their leadership.

Al-Zawahiri Threatens Iran, Iraq and USA.

Al-Zawahiri called "the rise of the avant-garde of the mujahideen of the Islamic nation, ( Sorry al Qaeda has already gone through first, second and third levels of the Islamic avant-garde, like small candles. G) " the the most important development in the Islamic world, saying that it had "become a fact in the world as a result of the growing Islamic awakening" across the Muslim world. He said that Iraq was the most important jihad front today, and that the jihad fighters' strength was on the rise ( Is that why you say there is no al Qaeda left in Iraq today? Yes it is the most important Front today and al Qaeda has lost. G) while the Americans were weakening, and added that their exit from Iraq was only a matter of time - and proof of this is was U.K.'s decision to flee.

Al-Zawahiri called on the jihad fighters to fight the Iraqi government and security apparatuses, which he termed murtadoun (i.e. those who renounce their religion). ( Who has renounced ISLAM? Killing Muslims,women and children, bombing Mosques and Market places? G) With regard to the Iraqi tribes' collaboration with the Americans, he stated that these tribes were mere riffraff that the Americans had bought and paid for in order to sow civil war among the Muslims, and stressed that the honorable tribes supported jihad and that many of their sons were fighting in its ranks. He called on the tribes to purge themselves of this riffraff, and threatened that their day would come; the Americans would soon leave and would not be able to protect them forever.

Al-Zawahiri noted that there was now nothing called Al-Qaeda in Iraq, since the Al-Qaeda organization in Iraq would be merging with the other jihad groups in the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which has become a shari'a Imara (a shari'a-based Imara, i.e. under an Amir) and had received a vow of allegiance from most of the jihad fighters and tribes in Iraq. He rejected accusations that the ISI was killing innocent people, and claimed that in any case, when Muslims fought with the enemy against jihad fighters it was a very grave crime.

Al-Zawahiri accused the global media of manipulating Osama bin Laden's most recent recording, by omitting its most important parts and by misinterpreting bin Laden's statements. Al-Zawahiri said that bin Laden's criticism was not directed against the ISI alone, but against all jihad fighters in Iraq, and that the jihad had shattered the monopoly held by the government and media that pretended to be independent, such as the BBC, and that the jihad was today directing "the most important media battle against the Crusader-Zionist enemy" and exposing the world to facts to which it had not previously been exposed. He added that the jihad had triumphed in this ideological battle just as it had triumphed in the battle over the Internet websites.( The JHIDDIE WEB SITES ARE CLOSED DOWN AT WILL. G )
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al Qaeda now has no FRIENDS, except for the Taliban, that saya a lot.


Gerald


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Al-Zawahiri Tape, 9.20.07

Al-Zawahiri called on the Muslims in the Maghreb to bring Andalusia back into the fold of Islam, and stated that this could only be done by "purging the Islamic Maghreb of the French and the Spanish who have returned there."

The PURGE BEGINS:?
Islam?

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