Posted on 02/12/2007 7:27:37 PM PST by james500
(CNN) -- In a message released Monday, al Qaeda's No. 2 leader called on Muslims to unite under Taliban leader Mullah Omar and stop attempting to form secular governments.
They should follow only the strict Islamic Sharia law, said Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The remarks were delivered in a message on an Islamist Web site. The video contained a still picture of Zawahiri with English subtitles over Arabic remarks in audio. CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the tape.
A text translation also accompanied the tape and was provided to CNN by lauramansfield.com, a Web site that analyzes terrorism.
Zawahiri pledged allegiance to Mullah Omar and called on all his followers to reject animosity and differences and come together under Mullah Omar's banner.
Mullah Omar is the elusive, shadowy Taliban leader who slipped away in the early days of the war in Afghanistan. Before the U.S.-led invasion, the Taliban held Afghanistan with an ultra-conservative government and sheltered al Qaeda.
Calling the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, allied with the United States, "traitors," Zawahiri warned the United States "is about to depart and abandon them, just as it abandoned their like in Vietnam."
But Zawahiri did not reserve his venom only for the "Crusaders" and "Zionists."
He also targeted the "charlatans" of Islam, saying their "long beards, huge turbans, majestic titles, purported lineages and popular myths are no substitute for the truth."
He called on Palestinians to drop their secular government and instead govern themselves by Sharia (Islamic) law.
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"The people chose you due to your opposition to Bush's policy in Iraq, but it appears that you are marching with him to the same abyss, and it appears that you will take part with him in the defeat and certain failure, with God's permission," he said. "And the American people shall discover that you are all one side of the same coin of tyranny, criminality and failure."
They tried that before. Don't think they will be anymore successful this time.
Must be running a newer version of Apache than the one I use.
If they did form up and unite, we'd get this war over a lot sooner.
It is indeed. And re-joining the taliban is a quick ticket to martyrdom courtesy of the US Army
This explains the audio and the subtitle comments on the other post.
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