al-Qaida Leader: U.S. ‘Broken’ in Iraq
That’s what Ayman al-Zawahri is claiming in his latest video. Chalk it up to more wishful thinking on Zawahiri’s part because it isn’t rooted in reality.
Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian militant believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan, also denounced the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq as “traitors” and called on Muslims to rise up to “confront them.”
He said that U.S. and British forces in Iraq had bogged down in Iraq and “have achieved nothing but loss, disaster and misfortune.”
Calling on jihadists to confront an entire region of Muslim nations isn’t too bright. In fact, it’s rather stupid. Coupled with his comments about “U.S. and British forces in Iraq” being “bogged down in Iraq”, it’s pretty obvious that he’s a desparate man who isn’t having much recruiting success.
“Every soldier and officer in the Pakistani military should know that Musharraf is throwing them into the burner of civil war in return for the bribes he is getting from the United States,” al-Zawahri said. “For this reason I call on every soldier and officer in the Pakistani army to disobey the orders of his commanders to kill Muslims in Pakistan or Afghanistan or otherwise he will be confronted by the mujahedeen,” he said.
He isn’t going to have much success if he’s threatening soldiers if they don’t obey him. You don’t inspire loyalty through threats.
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Cross-post at LetFreedomRingBlog
April 29th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
My guess is that the nearly-simultaneous calls from al-Zawahiri, bin Laden and Zarqawi are indications they are very close to capture or death, and these calls are for the troops to distract our troops while they slip away like the thieves-in-the-night they are.
The hell they are living in now is not dissimilar to the hell they want the rest of the world to live in. Like a friend used to say, “Kiss off on that!”