Al Qaeda Deputy Defends Iraqi Insurgents

Ayman Al-Zawahiri Urges Muslims To Support Islamic State Of Iraq's War Against U.S. Military

(CBS/AP) 
At the same time, increased U.S. forces sent to Iraq this year are waging a number of offensives in suspected al Qaeda strongholds north and south of Baghdad and in western Anbar province, claiming to have captured and killed a number of significant figures in the group.

The offensives have caused an increase in American casualties, but insurgent and militia attacks appear to have fallen in the past week. On Thursday, Baghdad was relatively quiet, with police reports of a policeman and a civilian killed in a shooting and bombing. A roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing a civilian and wounding three police.

The U.S. military said a helicopter crash on Wednesday that killed an American soldier in western Iraq was caused when the craft hit electrical wires, adding that ground fire was not a cause. The Islamic State of Iraq said in a statement Wednesday the crash happened during a battle, and that "God blinded" the pilot, causing him to hit the wires.

Al-Zawahiri spent much of the unusually long video — at an hour and 35 minutes — defending the Islamic State, criticizing those who refuse to recognize it "because it lacks the necessary qualifications" even while he acknowledged it had made unspecified mistakes.

"The Islamic State of Iraq is set up in Iraq, the mujahedeen (holy warriors) celebrate it in the streets of Iraq, the people demonstrate in support of it," al-Zawahiri said, "pledges of allegiance to it are declared in the mosques of Baghdad."

He said Muslims around the world should "support this blessed fledgling mujahid garrison state with funds, manpower, opinion, information and expertise," saying its founding brought the Islamic world closer to "establishment of the caliphate, with God's permission."

He urged critics to work with the Islamic State "even if we see in it shortcomings," and said Islamic State leaders should "open their hearts" to consultations. "The mujahedeen are not innocent of deficiency, error and slips," he said. "The mujahedeen must solve their problems among themselves."

Al-Zawahiri appeared in the video — first reported by IntelCenter and SITE, two U.S.-based groups that monitor militant messages — wearing a white robe and turban and, as he often does, took a professorial tone, making points by citing Islamic history and by showing clips of experts speaking on Western and Arabic media.

He denounced Egypt, Jordan and Saudi at length. He warned Iraq's Sunni minority against seeing them as allies, saying they pretend to support the Sunni cause while allying themselves with the United States.

If Saudi Arabia controls Iraq or Sunni regions of Iraq, "the Iraqis would then suffer the same repression and humiliation which the people suffer under Saudi rule under the pretext of combating terrorism — i.e., combating jihad and preserving American security," al-Zawahiri said.

The al Qaeda deputy also laid out an al Qaeda strategy, saying in the near-term militant should target U.S. and Israeli interests "everywhere" in retaliation for "attacks on the Islamic nation" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.

The long-term strategy calls for "diligent work to change these corrupt and corrupting (Arab) regimes." He said Muslims should "rush to the fields of jihad" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia "to defeat the enemies of the Islamic nation" and for "training to prepare for the next jihad."

He urged Hamas not to compromise and bend under Arab and international pressure to end its rule in the Gaza Strip and make way for a unified Palestinian government that could pursue peace with Israel.

"As for the leadership of Hamas, I tell it: return to the truth, for you will only get something worse than what (late Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat got" from the Israelis in negotiations, he said. The peace process, he said, is a U.S. attempt to "deceive the Islamic nation and say that America solved the issue of Palestine, so what need is there to fight it and wage jihad against it?"

In an earlier message after its seizure of Gaza, al-Zawahiri urged Hamas to form an alliance with al Qaeda, a call the Palestinian militant group shunned.

[usadvisor101]

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.

[prinzowhales]

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.

[starleo146]

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.

[prinzowhales]

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.

[usadvisor101]

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 !!!

[secundus2]

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!

[notblue]

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.

[prinzowhales]

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'.

[hungry1968]

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!!

[mbcsmith]

-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.

[lars008-2009]

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

[lars008-2009]

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.

[lars008-2009]

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

[lars008-2009]

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

[brianbwb-2009]

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"...

[brianbwb-2009]

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...

[brianbwb-2009]

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.

[brianbwb-2009]

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...

[lars008-2009]

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

[lars008-2009]

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