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EDITORIAL: Al Qaeda to Obama: Thanks--Toppling Arab governments feeds Islamist revolution
The Washington Times ^ | March 30, 2011 | Editorial

Posted on 03/30/2011 4:58:12 PM PDT by jazusamo

President Obama’s advisers give him credit for energizing the Arab revolts and saving the Libyan rebels. For al Qaeda’s leadership, this is all a gift from Allah.

Al Qaeda central’s views are detailed in the latest issue of their English-language propaganda magazine Inspire, which features a special section on “The Revolution.” American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki writes in an essay entitled “The Tsunami of Change” that, “Our mujahideen brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and the rest of the Muslim world will get a chance to breathe again after three decades of suffocation. For the scholars and activists of Egypt to be able to speak again freely, it would represent a great leap forward for the mujahideen.”

Al Qaeda has always recognized that the greatest obstacles to jihadist progress in the Middle East were what they call the “apostate regimes,” the generally pro-Western kings and authoritarian rulers who have kept a lid on violent extremists like al Qaeda and other groups. As these regimes totter and fall, the conditions are being created for the kind of radical change the Islamists have been working towards for decades.

Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri, in several pieces, exults in the various opportunities being presented by the chaos in the Mideast, and like Mr. Obama, he does not want to be tied down to a “cookie-cutter” doctrine. “I am unable here to offer a single prescription for change in every country,” he writes, “because every country has its own circumstances and conditions.”...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; clinton; democrats; globaljihad; hillary; hillaryclinton; impeachobama; libya; mujahideen; obama

1 posted on 03/30/2011 4:58:14 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

They forgot to thank 0 for the rising food prices that started the unrest.


2 posted on 03/30/2011 5:00:43 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: jazusamo
Obama - the gift that keeps on giving - to al Qaeda
3 posted on 03/30/2011 5:00:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: jazusamo

Obama working harder than ever to improver Carter’s image.


4 posted on 03/30/2011 5:05:28 PM PDT by MulberryDraw
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To: smoothsailing

Absolutely. No one can convince me our military intel didn’t know about a heavy influence from al Qaeda in Libya. It had to be presented to Obama and he flat out ignored it.


5 posted on 03/30/2011 5:07:03 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

I wonder ~ how their yute would respond if the west shut down their net? Is there a large enough base to make a difference?


6 posted on 03/30/2011 5:12:26 PM PDT by himno hero ("armageddon is well seeded, America will pay"...Barrack Obama)
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To: himno hero

Have no idea but it should be shut down and worry about it 10 or 20 years from now. :)


7 posted on 03/30/2011 5:20:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Obama is getting what he wants. He is the Master of Disaster. The Black Cloud. Chaos is his Game. He sees himself as Obama of Arabia.


8 posted on 03/30/2011 5:35:26 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: jazusamo

Education and awareness are the weapons of choice for their young adults. Do you have any idea of net penetration and participation?

The sheer presence and awareness that is a western device is GREAT by itself and should almost be enough to make the elder illiterate fockers quiver.

I am sure they love the net, cars, ideas, communication and music... thus its one hell of a weapon.


9 posted on 03/30/2011 6:53:32 PM PDT by himno hero ("armageddon is well seeded, America will pay"...Barrack Obama)
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To: jazusamo

Is there anyone that didn’t expect this? Every person with their head outside of their ass saw this coming. Of course that still leaves the problem of the current Obama regime now arming these people.

And two years left still.


10 posted on 03/30/2011 7:02:05 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: jazusamo
Al Qaeda to Obama: Thanks--Toppling Arab governments feeds Islamist revolution

Now, now - give credit where credit is due. Obama was on the golf course when this was being set up, and on vacation when it was carried out. It's just so frustrating when a woman's work isn't acknowledged:


11 posted on 03/30/2011 9:25:27 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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