Posted on 06/30/2006 6:25:59 AM PDT by IrishMike
The promised Osama bin Laden tribute tape to Abu Musab al Zarqawi surfaced early Friday, and it demonstrated that the al Qaeda leader can still generate headlines and dominate news cycles, at least temporarily. And he doesn’t need to say anything particularly earthshaking to do it. In the excerpts available at press time, bin Laden heaps the usual praise on Zarqawi — man of determination — lion of jihad — great knight and prince — yadda yadda. He calls the American raid that killed him “shameful,” perhaps a condemnation of it being an air attack instead of a face-to-face shootout. Or might be consistent with the Mujahedin Shura Council’s contention that the bombing was simply a random event, a chance result of routine Coalition bombing of Iraqi residential areas. On the other hand the Shura Council also said it was God’s will, so if the Coalition forces were agents of the divine power, where’s the shame in that?........................ It is interesting that bin Laden has chosen to release only audio and not video tapes; and to use websites as his medium of transmission rather than established media outlets. The latter can be explained as a response to the editorial discretion that al Jazeera and others have exercised when he has granted them exclusives. Bin Laden must have been surprised when they chose not to run his usual 45-minute or longer messages uncut and unedited. Don’t they know news? Hey, it’s me.....................
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It would be the biggest mistake to release Zarquawi's body. They should cremate, dispose etc of it... without any fanfare. Surely, our military understand this.
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