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April 08, 2008
Al Qaeda on Iraq
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaedas’s second in command.
I've just been listening to Barack Obama question General Petraeus about Iraq. Obama says that if America were to withdraw from Iraq, things might get “messy.”
Really?
I would think that the word genocidal would be more appropriate.
The contrast between Obama and General David Patraeus is stark. General Patraeus has spent his entire adult life honorably serving and defending this country. Barack Obama is the slick creature of George Soros and his vile moveon.org and their legion of Jew-haters.
Let's keep in mind that Barack Obama has been in the Senate less time than the five-and-a-half years John McCain was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton being tortured by the North Viet Namese Communists.
The thought of Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief of General David Patraeus and men of his ilk is, to say the least, frightening.
But listen, don't take my word for how disastrous an American withdrawal from Iraq would be, let's hear from the jihadists themselves—who are salivating at the idea of an American surrender.
No wonder the Arabs in Gaza are all for Obama.
This from that fine blogger Wolf Howling.
Ayman al Zawahiri is al Qaedas’s second in command. He gave an interview to al Sahab in December, 2007, and, most recently, answered written questions in a kind of jihadi talk radio show. Both provide a wealth of information and insight into the mind of a man who is in equal measure a religious fanatic and psychopath.
I've been going through Zawahiri's most recent communiques as time has allowed over the past week. They are worthwhile for spelling out the goals and intentions of al Qaeda, as well as for giving a window into the logic of a true Salafist:
1. Iraq remains al Qaeda’s central front:
As-Sahab: And what is the most important field in which this Mujahid vanguard is wrestling with the enemies of Islam?
Zawahiri: Iraq is the most important of these fields.
2. One of the points I have repeatedly made is that pulling out of Iraq would have dire long term consequences for our ability to conduct foreign policy and gather allies, particularly among nations threatened by radicals. Zawahiri thinks so too. He fully expects the U.S. to retreat from Iraq, repeatedly referring to Vietnam. He later explains that he forsees al Qaeda reasserting itself after America leaves Iraq and that the Anbar Awakening cannot keep al Qaeda out of Iraq without American support:
Zawahiri: And I also call on all Muslims to stop supporting the armed groups which have cooperated with the Americans against the Muslims and mujahideen. And I warn those individuals from among the armed factions who have been involved in cooperating with the occupation against the mujahideen that history is recording everything, and that they will lose both their religion and life, and that the Americans will soon be departing - Allah permitting - and won't keep defending them forever. And let them look at the fate of America's agents in Vietnam and the fate of the Shah of Iran, and intelligent is he who learns from other's mistakes.
That is why those who conspire against the Jihad and Mujahideen in Lebanon with American weapons, Zionist collusion and Saudi money must know that they are digging their graves with their own hands, and that the Americans and Jews will not defend them, because they are looking for those who will defend them, and whoever doubts this should remember Vietnam and look at Iraq and Afghanistan."
I expect the Jihadi influence to spread after the Americans’ exit from Iraq, and to move towards Jerusalem (with Allah’s permission). As for the militias mentioned, they have failed to eliminate the Jihad with the help of what is called the strongest power in the history of mankind, so will they succeed by themselves or with the help of Iran?
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at April 8, 2008 04:57 PM
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