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In an attempt to spread fear and propaganda, AQ no. 2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri is saying that fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq is a waste of coalition’s forces. Here’s the money quote:

“You should not waste your time in reinforcing your troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because they are doomed to defeat and are already all but defeated. Instead, you have to reinforce your troops in two regions. First is the Gulf, where you will be thrown out after you are defeated in Iraq, at which point your economic ruin will be achieved,” he said. “The second is Israel, because the jihad reinforcements are getting closer to it.”

Dr. Zawahiri, forgive me if I don’t take your threats seriously. I thought that the goal behind 9/11 was to destroy our economic, political and military infrastructures. Your supposedly fearless leader said:

“The Twin Towers were legitimate targets, they were supporting US economic power. These events were great by all measurement. What was destroyed were not only the towers, but the towers of morale in that country.”

Dr. Zawahiri, forgive me but I don’t think that the twin “towers of morale in that country” have crumbled. Quite the opposite. In fact, in the days immediately following 9/11, people bought so many flags that people couldn’t find them on the store shelves. Frankly, al-Zawahiri’s speech is mostly bluster.

Zawahiri also condemned the U.N. peacekeeping forces being deployed in Lebanon:

“What is so terrible in this resolution…is that it approves the existence of the Jewish state and isolates our Mujahideen in Palestine from Muslims in Lebanon,” he said in excerpts of the video aired on Al-Jazeera television. “This is consecrated by the presence of international troops who are hostile to Islam,” he said. “Anyone who accepts this resolution means that he accepts all these catastrophes.”

If the past is an indicator, then the countries who comprise the UN peacekeeping forces should think of this as a threat.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 7:16 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Middle East, Technology, U.N.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.