Apr 03 2008
Zawahiri Admits To al-Qaeda’s War On Islam
al-Qaeda’s number two leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has admitted publicly that al-Qaeda is at war with Islam and has no regrets for all the Muslims the group has been killing, torturing and maiming:
Al-Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al- Zawahiri defended insurgent attacks in Iraq, Algeria and Morocco that killed Muslims and blamed the West for using them as human shields, according to a U.S.-based intelligence group.
Zawahiri was responding to questions posed to him over the Internet after announcing the online interview in December, according to IntelCenter, based in Alexandria, Virginia.
“If there was any innocent who was killed in the Mujahedeen’s operations, then it was either an unintentional error, or out of necessity,” Zawahiri said in the 103-minute audio file released today by al-Qaeda’s media production unit, as-Sahab. “We don’t kill innocents, in fact, we fight those who kill innocents.”
While the western media may be duped into buying this BS, the Muslims who have lived through the atrocities of al-Qaeda are surely of a different mind, and now have been put on notice that they are nothing but useless pawns to al-Qaeda’s desires for world domination. Let’s recap a few of the atrocities Zawahiri thinks are justified.
I would ask Zawahiri how do innocents get carved up in al-Qaeda torture rooms?
Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor — the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were too intimidated by extremists to tell authorities until now.
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Scrawled in white paint above a bed in the torture area was a Quranic phrase in Arabic normally used to welcome a guest. But the context suggested only sadistic mockery: “Come in, you are safe.â€
Clearly Zawahiri must know that the targeting of Sunni Muslim leaders and security patrols is not because they were accidental collateral damage from attacks on Americans. Yet he lies to the families and clans who they attacked saying these Muslims deserved to die? And how is al-Qaeda on a holy war when it kills defenseless women and children and dumps them in mass graves?
Remains of possibly dozens of people believed killed in sectarian violence have been unearthed from a mass grave in a former al-Qaeda stronghold in southern Baghdad.
It was the third such find in Iraq this month.
The remains included those of women and children.
Mass graves are all over Iraq, the product of Zawahiri’s and Bin Laden’s madness. Maybe he can explain how 20 students found in a mass grave was an act for the good of Allah and not the act of vicious animals? How many mass graves filled with women and children will appease these thugs? How many suicide bombs against local Muslims will appease the blood lust of al-Qaeda?
Attackers killed a prominent member of an Iraqi tribe that had taken a stand against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and in other violence today more than 53 people were killed in gunfire and bomb attacks.
Among the attacks were two suicide bombs in the northern city of Tal Afar and the murder of two elderly Chaldean nuns in Kirkuk.
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Insurgents with two chlorine truck bombs attacked a local government building in Fallujah, western Iraq, on Wednesday and 15 Iraqi and United States security forces were injured, the US military said.
The best example of al-Qaeda’s holy war I saw was back when “The Awakening” took root, and it was no surprise why Iraqi Muslims had decided to take the dramatic move and turn on their one time allies:
“AQI is both feared and hated,†Capt Broekhuizen said, referring to Al Qaeda in Iraq. “They’ve been running a brutal terror campaign. No city leaders are left here who will take a leadership role.†Marines from Golf Company said they recently fished two bodies out of the local river: a man had been decapitated, and his 4-year old tied to his leg before both were thrown into the river and the little boy drowned. The killings were a product of Al Qaeda terror.
There are thousands of stories about al-Qaeda’s sick brutality against Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere. They don’t get play here in the West, but they are etched into the psyche of Muslims who have had a taste of al-Qaeda close up. Zawahiri can try and defend these acts as necessary, but he is kidding no one. Oppression is only necessary to those who plan to enslave people for their own purposes. Zawahiri has put Islam on notice: al-Qaeda is at war with Islam until it bows to down to them. And they will inflict any kind of atrocity they can dream up to ensure Islam is enslaved to their sick wishes. Hitler had nothing on these animals.
Like it or not, Iraqis blame American occupiers for far more loss of innocent life than they pin on foreign jihadists.
hard2take,
That is so ignorant I would expect it from a 2 year old. Iraqis are fighting with us side by side and asking us to stay until they are ready to stand on their own. Clearly not the sign of what you have made up in that silly head of yours. And if you look at polls in Iraq they see AQ as the enemy.
Damn, how can you go through life so naive??? Amazing.
Yes TRUTHY, the Iraqi’s are so stupid that they think that it is the Americans who cut off heads, drown children, steal money from populations, pile people in mass graves. Who was it who thanked George Bush for our help, then got killed? PLEEEEEEASE.
Trigger-happy shootings at intersections and bombings from the air
along have killed more innocents. Iraqis say so in polls and have access to the Lancet Report and others, of course.
I didn’t say Iraqis consider foreign jihadists their friends, AJ and they blame America for allowing them in thru a botched invasion. Since more than half approve of insurgent attacks on occupiers, Iraqis
regard both as enemies it is safe to say.
hard2take,
Nice try at a recovery there ace. But we did not allow in al-Qaeda, the Sunni did and were their allies. They know better now.
When will you catch up?
LOL!
Really, revisionist? Or should I say self-revisionist? At one point in your ever-adjusting reality, within the past few months, you claimed Bush and co foresaw foreign jihadists coming in numbers to Iraq if America invaded, and you claimed it was a great gambit to lure them in to exhaust their power!
A position incidentially exceed in its error only by its immoral violation of international law.
hard2take,
Nice dodge kid. Maybe you should address your mistakes instead of trying to make up stuff about my views? Did we let AQ in Iraq or did the Sunnis?
LOL! Too funny.
http://eldib.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/general-william-odom-tells-senate-rapid-withdrawal-is-only-solution/
You did, that is to say you as a supporter of any Congressman who
voted to sanction the war. Meanwhile, take counsel from a non-liberal officer who unlike you has been right about the war since before the war which he warned against partaking thereof.
The Lancet Report? It’s been rehashed/debunked so many times but of course once Truth hears something he so wants to believe he doesn’t question anything and the lie becomes his truth.
I think “It” needs a job to keep “itself” busy…
Actually it has been bolstered and verified by others and even superseded recently by worse totals.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-iraq-deaths-study-was-valid-and-correct/2006/10/20/1160851135985.html
More recently
The same week that the WHO paper was published, the British polling firm ORB released a revised estimate of 1.03 million Iraqi deaths from all causes, \”as a result of the conflict,\” from March 2003 to August 2007.
There was a BBC poll (PDF) that was done at the end of four years of occupation,\” he told me. \”In that poll, 17 percent of households said someone in their household had been killed or injured from the violence of the war.\” The ORB poll covered an additional six months and found that 20 percent of Iraqi households reported at least one death. Since \”every data set … suggests more people have been killed in this war than injured,\” Roberts feels that the BBC and ORB polls are \”quite consistent.\”
1.03 million? I see the Insane-O’s are back. Or did they never leave?
75,
Truth has been very busy here lately. I think he needs some serious rest as he has frantically been linking every radical article he can find to try and prove Strata wrong. Morning, noon and night…
He longs to prove America’s defeat and sympathizes with the jihadists, palestinians, etc. Oh yeah, and he hates Israel. As laughable as all of this is that’s not even the funniest part!
He claims to not have bought into the liberal lies because he’s leaning towards….wait for it……………….Nader!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7327926.stm
kill five innocents to get one and you wonder why the total and why Iraqis believe the occupiers have killed more innocents than “AQ?”
Truth,
You are such a useful idiot…
“civilians said”, “they said”, “a neighbor said”. Gee I wonder who those people are? Of course, why believe our military leaders when you can have the BBC quote unnamed or unidentified “people.”
Someday you’re going to realize what a fool you have been…
Useful idiot? Pet rocks and thigh masters had more uses.
For those interested, this is the latest DOD report to Congress (Mar08) …note the civlian deaths graph.
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/Master%20%20Mar08%20-%20final%20signed.pdf
“The same week that the WHO paper was published, the British polling firm ORB released a revised estimate of 1.03 million Iraqi deaths from all causes, “as a result of the conflict,†from March 2003 to August 2007”
Bit dubious, do the math. 1.03 million divided by 1410 days. Let’s see if truther believes the study after he comes up with the answer.
Essay question, where are all the bodies? 25 words or less.
missy1,
I love it when people use math to understand the numbers! Good job.
AJStrata