Posted on 09/30/2006 2:19:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Al-Zawahri: Bush a liar in war on terror
By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago
Osama bin Laden's deputy described President Bush as a "deceitful liar" in a new video statement and called a U.N. resolution to send peacekeepers into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region a "Crusader plan," imploring the Muslims of Darfur to defend themselves.
"Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq?" al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri said.
Al-Zawahri also criticized Bush for continuing to imprison al-Qaida leaders including one-time al-Qaida No. 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind who was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.
"Bush, you deceitful charlatan, 3 1/2 years have passed since your capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, so how have you found us during this time? Losing and surrendering? Or are we launching attacks with God's help and becoming martyrs?" he said.
"What you have perpetrated against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other Muslim captives in your prisons and the prisons of your slaves in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and elsewhere is not hidden from anyone," he said. "We are a people who do not sleep under oppression and who do not abandon our revenge."
After conducting a technical analysis of the videotape, the CIA concluded "with confidence" that the speaker is in fact Ayman al-Zawahri, said a CIA official who was not authorized to discuss the tape on the record and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The nearly 18-minute statement, titled "Bush, the Pope, Darfur and the Crusades," was produced by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab, and made available by the Virginia-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications.
Al-Qaida has released a string of videos to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, showing increasingly sophisticated production techniques in a likely effort to demonstrate that it remains a powerful force despite the U.S.-led effort against the group.
Al-Zawahri criticized the U.N. resolution to send peacekeepers into Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died and some 2 million have been displaced since the start of a 2003 revolt by rebels from the region's ethnic African population.
"There is a Crusader plan to send Crusader forces to Darfur that is about to become a new field of the Crusades war," he said.
Al-Zawahri compared Pope Benedict XVI to Pope Urban II, who in 1095 ordered the First Crusade to establish Christian control in the Holy Land.
The remarks about Benedict were an apparent response to the pontiff's comments this month that sparked outrage across the Muslim world. Benedict cited a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."
"If Benedict attacked us, we will respond to his insults with good things. We will call upon him and all of the Christians to become Muslims who do not recognize the Trinity or the crucifixion," al-Zawahri said.
The IntelCenter said Friday's video was the 48th released by the al-Qaida Web site this year, three times more than last year's number — which had been the highest. It said al-Zawahri has appeared in 14 of the 2006 videos.
bttt
As if we needed more proof that the Democrats are providing talking points to terrorists.
Exactly. That's why I find it humorous that Rangel and Pelosi took umbrage when Chavez said something about Bush.
It would be great to show clips of these idiots side by side with the democrats saying THE EXACT SAME THINGS.
Might make a point with some voters.
(Where is Lee Atwater when you need him?)
Al-Zawahri: Vote democrat
Al Zawahiri fails consider this war from our perspective.
What have we found... really?
We've found that it is far better to make martyrs out of terrorists over there, than to have them martyr themselves over here.
I guess Zawahiri has Internet access.:) Must be an avid reader of NYT and British Independent.:)
"Al-Zawahri: Bush a liar in war on terror"
IT'S A FACT that Zawahiri (Al-Zawahiri) is a terrorist, a jihadi, a liar, a propagandist and he's a WANTED man.
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=Zawahiri
"WANTED
Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Up to $25 Million Reward"
(where is Lee Atwater when you need him ?)
channeling thru Karl Rove..........hehehehe
Zawahiri and Howard Dean must be sharing the same speech writer.
Pope Urban II, who in 1095 ordered the First Crusade...
Yeah...finally after several hundred years of Muslims putting Jews and Christian Pilgrims to Holy Land to the sword. Puh-leeze!
If they share a room together for a night, I am sure that Dean's head will part with his body in the morning, sitting on the platter in front of Zawahiri.
Then Zawahiri would announce that he just finished a self-made video on how to behead an infidel.
And Democrats lose no sleep when moral corpses like Zawahri repeat Democrat talking points as propaganda.
You should have heard Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group last night. Unbelievable. Absolutely demoralizing, ghastly woman -- she can't wait until the last American in the Middle East is bayoneted to death so she can crow, "I told you so! I told you so! It's all George Bush's fault!"
It's official ... al-Zawahri is a moonbat!
Or the Jihadi Moonbeam of Pamir.:)
OH yeah, we're "martyring" your sorry trash by the thousands......so why not join 'em, a**hole?
What is worse is that, as Tony Blankely was pointing out on The McLaughlin Group last night, and Michael Issikoff was making the same point on Charlie Rose's show about leaks actually beginning right after the Iraq invasion, Clintonista holdovers in the intelligence community are funneling classified info to the 'Rats as talking-point material. Meanwhile, the 'Rats on the extremely trusted intelligence oversight committees in the Congress are dumping classified material from a National Intelligence Estimate on the table, on the eve of the election.
Much more than merely walking away from "bipartisanship" in the making of foreign and intelligence policy, the 'Rats are acutely abusing bipartisanship to rabbit-punch the Republicans right before the election, divulging material they'd never have been trusted with if anyone thought they were going to use it like this.
Keep in mind that Tony Blair's political career was effectively ended by partisan dissenters who dumped the Rycroft Minute on Fleet Street in similar fashion, in an action unprecedented in British politics -- a new low for the Left. Blair's successor will inherit a thoroughly maimed and demoralized British foreign and defense policy and antiterrorism effort. American Leftists are now repeating that play over here.
And it's the Deaniacs, the old Stalinist wing of the 'Rat Party, who are behind this, cranking up the moderate Dems by threatening their appointments, etc., to get them to string along with this stuff and lend their credibility to an orgy of pre-election backstabbing.
If they get power, they won't be able to do anything with it. They're destroying the foreign policy of the United States.
Much as it has been revealed that Jimmy Carter wrote the speeches for Arafat and was his political advisor, we will learn that some of our own elected officials are advising the terrorists.
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