Al-Qaida No. 2 Mocks American ‘Failure’
CAIRO, Egypt – A new video of al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader released on Saturday mocks President Bush and U.S. legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group’s fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.
Osama bin Laden’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahri derided the new U.S.-backed Baghdad security plan, recounting an April 12 suicide bombing in Baghdad’s heavily protected Green Zone when an attacker slipped through security and killed a Sunni legislator in the Iraqi parliament’s cafeteria. An al-Qaida-led amalgam of Sunni insurgents in Iraq claimed responsibility.
“And lest Bush worry, I congratulate him on the success of his security plan, and I invite him on the occasion for a glass of juice, but in the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament in the middle of the Green Zone,” al-Zawahri said.
The video was obtained Saturday by U.S.-based monitoring groups who released a transcript to media.
“This bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap,” al-Zawahri said, according to a transcript released by the monitoring group SITE. The bill is evidence of American “failure and frustration,” he added.
“We ask Allah that they (U.S. troops) only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson,” he said.
He made no mention of Bush vetoing the bill on Thursday _ an indication the video may have been made beforehand.
Al-Zawahri encouraged minorities around the world to join the holy war, or jihad.
“Al-Qaida is not merely for the benefit of Muslims,” he said. “That’s why I want blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world.”
Al-Zawahri claimed al-Qaida fighters in Iraq were “nearing closer to victory over their enemy, despite this sectarian fighting” that has convulsed the country.
He discussed other topics as well in the 67-minute video, including fighting in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Algeria, and Somalia. He made references to Saudi Arabia, Egyptian constitutional changes meant to cement the government’s hold on power, and the Pentagon’s release of the confessions of al-Qaida No. 3, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed _ the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind who was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.
Saturday’s video was the fifth message _ including posted video and audio tapes _ by al-Zawahri this year.
Wild Thing’s comment……
Besides being a terrorist, this guy is the typical liar that Muslims have been taught to be. He is so full of it and himself. He can take his Allah the moon god and himself and put everything to do with his cult where the sun does not shine.
Al-Zawari must have learned to emphasize his lies with a finger wave from America’s premier liar, Bill Clinton. These two clowns could put on quit a show on a stage together. They could probably relate.
What can you say about a culture that produces “military” leaders who hide in caves, run off to other countries and abandon their fighters, and produce videos from unknown locations. This chickenshit clown hasn’t the guts to show his face on the field of battle or anywhere else. His followers deserve him.
The West doesn’t fight this way; never has and never will. When you have to screw your courage down and sacrifice yourself alone to some bearded sleazebag on a video screen, you’re fighting for cowards. Good luck. You get what you deserve.
Is that a birth mark in the center of his forehead ? That’s almost as good as a target on his face.
Too bad he is hiding all the time, one of our snipers could have already punched his ticket.
I see that face and I see Harry Reid, al-Zawahri’s talking points are taken from our very own leftist media who are reenforcing his rhetoric with the defeatist statements like those of Reid, Pelosi and Biden. That mark on his forhead is where he had the horn removed so as a baby he could suckle without getting kicked to death. It looks just like the dehorning scar found on goats and cattle. Target wise, it’s well placed. Maybe that is what is meant by the biblical mark of the beast, Islam?
Tom, oh my gosh your right. That awful finger they wave as they lie!!
Rhod I agree his followers deserve him.
Mark, LMAO it does look like a target, and a good one.
I read someplace that they get that bump callous on the forehead from hours of praying over time, as they hit bang their head on the ground when they pray.
Jack, LOL hahahahhaa
good one love the thing about the horn being removed.
I would love to aim at that target on his forehead.
A new PAMPERS spokesperson? Like Carnac Johnny Carson used to say, “May a diseased vulture mistake your turban for a nest.”
My finger smell pretty fine and I ain’t go-na
wash it eder!!!