BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 5, 2007
Al Qaeda Deputy Defends Iraqi Insurgents
Ayman Al-Zawahiri Urges Muslims To Support Islamic State Of Iraq's War Against U.S. Military
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Play CBS Video Video Hezbollah Cells Seen In Iraq The U.S. military has accused the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah of conspiring with Iran to kill American and Iraqi troops. Lara Logan reports from Iraq.
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Video Al Qaeda On The Defensive? The recent U.S. troop surge in Iraq may be starting to have an effect, as a new video calls for Muslims around the world to join al Qaeda against the U.S. and Israel. Stacy Case reports.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri did not mention last week's failed car bombing attempts in Britain, which British authorities are investigating for al Qaeda links. (CBS)
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Iraqi women line up to buy petrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians and a powerful Shiite party said Wednesday they had not agreed to a draft bill to regulate the country's oil industry, raising the possibility of new delays in a major piece of benchmark legislation sought for months by the U.S. (AP Photo/Mahmoud al-Badri)
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A U.S. soldier looks from a roof top during a mission in Baqouba, Iraq, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces are trying to take control of the town from militant and terrorist groups. (AP Photo/Talal Mohammed)
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Newly naturalized U.S. Marines raise their hands during a ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, at which they reenlisted and some were naturalized as United States citizens. Around 160 troops from 52 countries were given U.S. citizenship during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Ali al-Saadi)
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Photo Essay Iraq In Pictures A daily diary with scenes of the latest attacks and snapshots from the effort to rebuild a nation.
Ayman al-Zawahiri defended the Islamic State of Iraq — the insurgent umbrella group headed by al Qaeda — against critics among Islamic militant groups, saying it was a vanguard for fighting off the U.S. military and eventually establishing a "caliphate" of Islamic rule across the region.
Al-Zawahiri, the top deputy of Osama bin Laden, called on Muslims to follow a two-pronged strategy: work at home to topple "corrupt" Arab regimes and join al Qaeda's "jihad," or holy war, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to fight and train "to prepare for the next jihad."
The Egyptian militant did not mention last week's failed car bombing attempts in Britain, which British authorities are investigating for al Qaeda links. That suggested the video, posted Thursday on an Islamic militant Web site, was made before the events in London and Glasgow.
Al Qaeda's declaration of the Islamic State of Iraq last year was a dramatic move aimed at staking out its leadership of Iraq's insurgency. Allying itself with several smaller Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, it presented the Islamic State as an alternative government within Iraq, claiming to hold territory.
The move quickly met resistance. Some Islamic extremist clerics in the Arab world said it was too soon to declare an Islamic state because the Islamic law qualifications were not yet met and argued that a true Islamic state is not viable while there are still U.S. forces in Iraq.
Several large Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups publicly denounced al Qaeda, saying its fighters were killing theirs and pressuring them to join the Islamic State. One group, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, has begun overtly cooperating with U.S. forces and Sunni tribal leaders to attack al Qaeda.
In other recent developments:
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- And CBS is helping them giving them publicity and helping spread the word. Way to go - you bunch of losers!
Posted by infidel_us at 09:07 AM : Jul 05, 2007
-AMEN brother. Amen.
Posted by singinrick at 05:36 PM : Jul 06, 2007
yeah, and you two idiots are guilty of lying and supporting a complete moron in the whitehouse. whom created a huge mess in iraq ,that only caused iraqis to join various terrorist groups, AND NOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS THAT HATE THE USA, when they did not before.
why dont you two jackazzes go to iraq where you belong, quit flappin your lips here and go and fight . whats stopping you???
but in reality, you two are just cowards, that ignore the hard work it takes to fight over there and dont even respect or ever thank our armed forces. you are whinners that have big yellow streak down your backs. nothing worse than someone supporting an idiot, when hes been proven to be completely incompetent. atleast lugar finally admitted it, no one cares if you two bozos do. matter in fact we are glad you keep flappin your lips off, just reminds us how stupid some of you coward neocons are. - Reply to this comment
- We've squandered $19 billion without any appreciable results in training the Iraqi army and police. Viceroy Bremer dismissed the Army and the Police in the most important move to date in the fueling of the insurgency. Lynch is wagering his future advance within the military heirarchy on the continued preeminence of the Neo-scum within the Washington Regime. If the Democrats are any indication--its a good bet--the continued fighting of the 'Long War'...the Stupid Peoples' War for the enrichment of Halliburton and friends, the control of Iraq's oil and propping up of the Israelis as regional hegemon.
General Odum has said, if you want to support the troops--support withdrawing them from Iraq.
al-Zawahiri is the new 'face' that our psy-ops people have given to the enemy...the Iraqi insurgency. It seems like only yesterday that Cheney and friends were telling us that getting Osama was not important...Obviously, this was before the Neo-scum decided to re-brand the insurgency as 'al Qaeda' in Iraq and brand every man, woman and child as a terrorist.
Soldiers! Come home! The enemy is in Washington! The border is open and the Constitution betrayed. - Reply to this comment
- I would like to ask a question? This General today said,"Pull the troops out we got a mess, the Iraque troops are not ready". How long have we heard the Iraque troops are not ready. We have been there going on 6 years I think, and who is training these Iraqaue military. How long after one of our American recruits are trained go to Iraq. Pleeze the real reason is so many Iraq military have alliances to the group they belong to i.e. Sunni, Sheia, Kurds they can't think country so what are we to do fight for them? For how long forever or till the last soldier is gone. BRING THEM HOME. Maliki is putting Iraq troops into Basra in 3 months that is where the English troops are and southern Iraq is Shia And so is Maliki.I hope all those troops will be Shia.
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- notblue--Do you deny that many of the accused hijackers listed by the FBI as the culprits are still alive? There is nothing "imaginary" about that...Google it...its mainstream media...
If you think that these Arabs could fly a Boeing, then why did their instructors maintain that they had trouble with a small prop job... one of the accused couldn't even qualify to rent one! 'Fantasy'? Common, very common, knowledge...again, it was even in the mainstream media...
Again, which fantasy? The bombs of this great terrorist threat didn't amount to squat...yet they've had years to practice their art and it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to blow up a car...and it shouldn't take two to pilot a suicide car.
If radical Islam is the danger you make it out to be, why did Israel support Hamas against the PLO (see HA'ARETZ) and the CIA/ISI support and finance radical Wahabis? Its not a "fantasy" to state that the head of ISI, who had $100,000 wired to M. Atta, the alleged ringleader of 9-11, was in Washington breakfasting on 9-11.
The fantasy is in you notblue, nottrue world of denial. - Reply to this comment
- actually neoclowns and radical islamic nutcases are more alike than libs. they both are brainwashed religous mutants. bush...god told me to end tyranny. the muzzies....the hand of god blinded them...... they both lie to the public and make up propaganda. they both like beating and telling women what to wear and do. they both are against alcohol, marijuanna and ***. neoclown faint and pass out in church, the muzzies beat themselves with chains and pass out.
both believe in man made,man contrived books and fairy tales.
maybe all you clowns need to go and hang out in iraq for good, since you all think that god listens to you !!!
go on, god wants you to go to iraq and fight each other, now run off chicken hawk and spare us all your fairy tales and bu11shit !!! - Reply to this comment
- for Bare Emperor,
You say that ordinary Americans will never meet a terrorist, but I've met the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, their chief fundraiser in the US and one of their flunkies. Of course, not one of them identified himself as anything else other than a teacher at the time. If I can meet three, then guess what! - Reply to this comment
- Hungry1968, your comparison of the savage 6th century ideology known as radical Islam to pro-abortion demonstrations and christains fist fighting does not even require a reply, that sort of ignorant blather speaks for itself.
Prinzowhales, fools like you wouldn't believe the truth about radical Islam even if a bomb was shoved up your asss. If concocting fantasies in order to midigate the threat posed by the militants is what you need to do in order to make sense of your imaginary world then so be it the rest of us will remain vigilante and fight if neccessary. - Reply to this comment
- We're asked to believe that this great world-wide terrorist threat-- 'al Qaeda'--can't even master a car bomb, can't cook an effective explosive and evidently never acquired a copy of the ANARCHIST'S COOK BOOK...yet, its accused operatives can magically operate massive Boeing passenger jets, yet fail to master the intricacies of a small prop plane...Magically, they shut down NORAD and even survive their supposed suicide crashes.
No word from Osama...but his 'second' appears in a studio setting that is a big step up from the cave and hut settings of 'The Best of Osama'.
Al Qaeda is like a bad TV serial...it appears episodicly with little continuity between the episodes save the cast of characters. Its actions fit the needs of the Bush Regime--not of an organization that is really fighting because they 'hate our freedom'. - Reply to this comment
- I don't know where you worship (you probably don't which is why you have no problem spreading lies) but I have been to MANY houses of worship and have yet to hear these "evil" teachings. Of course I have yet to attend a middle eastern modrassa.
You obviously have no clue.
Posted by mbcsmith at 08:35 AM : Jul 06, 2007
Oh please!! Have you ever seen an anti-abortion rally? How about a protest at city hall for gay marriage? I've seen several alleged "Christians" start throwing punches to get their message across. One pro-abortion protester was stabbed! Many preachers and reverends used these as hot bed issues to get their mindless zombie parishioners to the polls to vote for George Bush AFTER he started the war. So it's okay that Bush started a needless war that leading to the death of hundreds of thousands of people - he's against abortion and gay marriage so they'll vote for him. Fri*ggin' hypocrites is what they are!! - Reply to this comment
- -Same Evil, one can say, then the one taught by beautiful and peaceful Christians and Jewish preachers in our peaceful respective churches and synagogs. Yep! Preachings we gobble as stupidly and agreably as drinking a big glass of Kool-Aid. Yep!
Posted by grazinggoat at 02:08 AM : Jul 06, 2007
I don't know where you worship (you probably don't which is why you have no problem spreading lies) but I have been to MANY houses of worship and have yet to hear these "evil" teachings. Of course I have yet to attend a middle eastern modrassa.
You obviously have no clue. - Reply to this comment
- NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!!!
WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???
FASCIST NAZI ISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.
http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/
But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).
http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm
this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....
are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???
apartheid fascist nazi islamic style
Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm - Reply to this comment
- non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry
USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill
Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Reply to this comment
- IT IS TIME TO DEFEAT FASCIST NAZI ISLAM ONCE AND FOR ALL%u2026
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
%u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.
Sound familiar?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison defeated the fascist nazi muslims 200 years ago
And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7 - Reply to this comment
- what do you call an ideology that:
kills you if you don't join it...
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=82201&ln=eng&txt=islam%20law%20kill%20kaafir
kills you if you leave it...
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=696&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill
kills you if you don't do what they tell you to do..
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=6035&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill
kills you if you speak against it%u2026.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng
kills anybody that is not a member of it...
http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html
still practices slavery
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=12562&ln=eng&txt=slavery
still practices pagan rituals...
http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm
allows the r a p e of babies and animals...
http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445
a. satanic cult???
b. islam???
c. all the above???
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan - Reply to this comment
- to lars008,
Another word used in Islam is "munafiq" literally translated to "hypocrite".
Sort of like those who preach that "thou shalt not kill, except for when you are killing Muslims"... - Reply to this comment
- to lars008
"Sentencing them, Judge Charles Openshaw said the men had engaged in "cyber jihad", encouraging others to kill "kuffars" or non-believers.
http://www.breitbart.com" (from your own post)
If you had any willingness to know truth, you could easily find that the word is "kaffir" meaning literally a "man without a soul", and usually refers to those who hide behind Islam as a pretext to spread hatred, and violence, and thusly insult the Prophet and his message.
By the way, I am not a Muslim and even I know this...
Pat Robertson, Billy Graham Jr., and the late, fat Jerry Falwell fall easily into such a category, too bad there is no equivalent English word... - Reply to this comment
- to lars008,
The official reasons given to make war against Afghanistan and Iraq have nothing whatsoever to do with the misquotes and mistaken suppositions in your post, in fact, your reasons do not amount to any justification to lie and cause the deaths of innocents on both sides of your imaginary battle.
Being stupid is not a crime meriting war against Iraq and Afghanistan, their own "stupidity" is their own problem, not ours.
In fact if stupidity were punishable by death, Bush, Cheney, and all of their supporters would be lined up against a wall for continuing to believe proven false information. - Reply to this comment
- How many of you noticed that Ayman al-Zawahiri is an "Egyptian militant", and not an Iraqi?
How many of you noticed that Usama Bin Laden is a Saudi, and not an Iraqi?
How many of you remember that both worked for the CIA during Afghanistan's war against Russia?
How many of you think that the CIA would let someone knowing their dirty secrets about the war with Russia actually live to quit?
How many of you understand how revealing those dirty little secrets could cause serious harm to Bush?
How many of you have thought to ask why, if Ayman and Usama really hate Bush and the US so much, to date they have not done so?...
(sounds of crickets on the right) chirp, chirp... - Reply to this comment
- non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
thank you demonic-rats%u2026
New Video From Al Qaeda Number Two
"You must be patient and steadfast," he says. "Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/new-video-from-.html
Sentencing them, Judge Charles Openshaw said the men had engaged in "cyber jihad", encouraging others to kill "kuffars" or non-believers.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070705142313.zr9n5g5g&show_article=1
45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/05/nterror405.xml - Reply to this comment
- non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
IS THIS CHILD ABUSE?
Death Cult Family Moments from Hamas TV
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24792&only&rss
Hamas TV shows daughter telling suicide bomber mother she will follow her path
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17803/hamas-tv-shows-daughter-telling-suicide-bomber-mother-she-will-follow-her-path
Hamas TV Glorifies Family Suicide
http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/03/hamas-tv-glorifies-family-suicide.html
Hamas TV Shows 4-Year-Old Girl Vowing Suicide Bombing
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200703/INT20070322a.html
Daughter of suicide terrorist sings to her mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHUdwePfbM
Horrific video of a child sending her suicide bomber mother to her death
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=444058&in_page_id=1811
HAMAS TV: Four-year-old girl vows to be suicide terrorist like Mommy
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/HAMASTV032207 - Reply to this comment
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
