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Al-Qaeda No 2 al-Zawahiri slams Obama's election (Roundup)
Nov 19, 2008, 15:26 GMT
A newspaper picture dated 08 November 2001 shows Saudi-dissident Osama bin Laden\'s deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri at his hid out at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. EPA/AUSAF NEWSPAPER
Washington - The man regarded as second-in-command of terrorist group al-Qaeda condemned US president-elect Barack Obama Wednesday in the group's first audio message since his election, using racial slurs and calling his victory an 'admission of defeat' in Iraq.
Ayman al-Zawahiri said Obama was 'the direct opposite of honourable black Americans' like Malcolm X, a controversial figure who preached violence during the US civil rights movement in the 1960s.
'You have reached the position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you,' al-Zawahiri said in a direct message to Obama, according to a transcript provided by the US-based IntelCenter. 'It appears that you continue to be captive to the same criminal American mentality towards the world and towards Muslims.'
The audio tape marks al-Qaeda's first mention of Obama. The group did not release any videos ahead of the election and there has been no word from al-Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
In 2004, bin Laden released a video just days before the US election between President George W Bush and Democrat John Kerry. The message is believed by some to have swung the election in Bush's favour by turning US voters' minds back to security issues.
Obama's election was widely celebrated around the world in marked contrast to the widespread unpopularity of Bush. The president-elect promised during the campaign to restore the US' global reputation.
Obama has also vowed to renew the fight against al-Qaeda by sending more troops to Afghanistan. He regularly criticized Bush on the campaign trail for becoming distracted from the war against al- Qaeda by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Obama will be inaugurated January 20 and his ascendency to the White House will mark the first war-time transition of power in the US since Vietnam. The Obama transition team declined to comment on al-Qaeda's message Wednesday.
Al-Zawahiri said Obama is 'destined for failure' in Afghanistan and has chosen a 'stance of hostility' towards Muslims owing to his support of Israel. He said Americans' choice to elect a president who advocated a withdrawal from Iraq showed the terrorist group was winning the battle.
'You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies of the Muslims, and pray the prayer of the Jews, although you claim to be Christian, in order to climb the rungs of leadership in America,' al-Zawahiri said.
Obama was born to a Kenyan father and white mother from Kansas. He grew up mostly in Hawaii but spent some of his early years in Indonesia. Obama is of the Christian faith.
Using a racial epithet that refers to African Americans' past subsidiary role to white Americans, al-Zawahiri said Obama followed the line of 'House Negroes' that began with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor Colin Powell.
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...this should silence the libnazi argument that you can appease terrorists.
Barak...BABE!...one acronym.....JDAM....
time to step up and cap a bitch, brotha!
whatever......
This is tough.
If Omama claims to be a Muslim brother then all hell will break loose in the United States with the christian bigots. At the same time, Obama must clearly state that there is no religious preference and litmus test to political office in the U.S. Either way, he must live a lie.
And so it goes with religion in the U.S. ... The U.S. is a christian nation until one speaks of jesus bombs and then it is a secular nation.
Cap the bee hach.
america is all but buried.
This could not be better news for the people of the United States...
As the CNN analyst Peter Bergen has queried; Why hasn't bin Laden himself
responded to the recent US presidential election results now?
Here's the good news and the answer....bin Laden is not ready to die via unmanned drones just yet...He knows damn well that the Special forces are right now in his back yard and THEY ARE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT HIS SORRY ASS CARCASS. It's taken President and Commander-in-chief George Bush and the American forces a long time to get this close to the great bedouin murderer and his flunky lieutenant. The recent pin-point accuracy of the drone attacks would have ANYBODY scared shitless at even peeking out of their rat-holes now. The end-game in this war against terror is so close we can taste it and bin Laden aint got many weeks left on Earth.
In about a month or less, we'll have the good news we've all been waiting for. I guess the media's darling bin Laden will soon be a story no more. Well done Troops! Your day of victory is near. Godspeed and good hunting. I can smell you-know-who's- 'martyrdom' around the corner. : )
coonbama ungawa bongo bagandi
If the Taliban really believe they have god or Allah on their side than the solution is simple. Please step out of the shadows and stop hiding behind dresses and veils and meet the US Marines on the field of battle. You name the time and place. You send your two-hundred best and we'll send our two-hundred best and let's go at it. The last group standing gets Afghanistan. You have nothing to worry about after all you have god on your side, correct?
Beltway Greg
bush is God.
don't think so? ask sp4.
'You have nothing to worry about after all you have god on your side, correct?'
No. They have nothing to worry about because the idiot commander-in-chief of the US Marines decided to kill muslims in Iraq instead of go after the bad guys.
For now, the US is $10 trillion in debt, spread too thin and the supply chain is too wide. Typical reasons why invading forces loose a war. Too much too fast.
The Pentagon is full of redneck christians that thought jesus was on their side and could do anything and were invincible.
So, you see, the two sides are not too different afterall.
Yeah: 'The Pentagon is full of redneck christians that thought jesus was on their side and could do anything and were invincible.'
-Kinda like the faithless Nazis, no? The godless, Hitler, was on their side.
-Remember,'Better red than dead'? I would say: Better alive than red!
-There are good people of all strips, and don't you forget it, lance. Or do you prefer to berate endlessly in your self consumed bigotry?
'There are good people of all strips'
Nothing good can come from mass stealing money by taxing their children and babies and using that money to mass kill muslims.
Sorry, you are wrong.
Sure, the same people probably have a nice life and great parties, but that does not excuse them from their atrocities.
'Kinda like the faithless Nazis, no?'
Sure, sometimes atheism drives hate, and sometimes religious faith drives hate.
In the present circumstance religious faith is driving hate. Muslim faith and christian faith both are driving hate. There is nothing unique about being a christian, muslim or atheist. All of those groups mass kill people every few decades.
But, in the current situation it is redneck christians. In the future it may be wall street atheists.
The thing you do not like about me is that I am NOT bigoted. I treat christians the same as atheists.
Oh, yes lance--you treat muslims and Christians alike...wooopee. That my friend, is still irrelevant.
Murderers of innocent Americans in anyone's name is a worthless excuse for the simple fact that economics is driving the hate and , fortunately, all civilized societies have laws against murder. International crime is still international crime. Criminals must pay for their crimes. The U.S would easily have helped finance any nation in economic trouble if only they would adopt SOME form of government by the governed. Hussein laughed at that idea--now--he's gone. bin Laden feels big bucks and hate filled soldiers doin the 'suicide thing' is appropriate government. I, as an American citizen disagree. I voted for a commander-in-chief with a set of balls who would not permit that kind of crap. The President went after both types of arabian assholes and I and 50 million Americans like me agreed. Simple. The mission continues until bin Laden is dead or in chains for life. Simple, Now if only the brave and courageous new president elect will show that he has some balls, this affair will be over by Martin Luther King day, right????
That's just a failure to differentiate.
Perhaps he can have some unconditional talks with this raghead?
..God, after all, would have mercy....
you say 'innocent Americans'
There aint no such animal. As a result you're all valid targets. Die you yankee pig dogs. -A Q in Amerika.
..your best shot...you can be sure we will...
you tried. you missed. still here. -A Q in Amerika.
With the fear mongering right wing knocked down to size in this country, who cares what this mole faced idiot has to say anyway?
The mole faced idiot you are referring to wouldn't happen to be SP4, would it?
BR wrote - 'I and 50 million Americans like me agreed.'
Which means the other 250 million Americans didn't agree. Yet another case of the wild eyed fanatics over-ruling the majority.
For 8 years, Bush and his anti-peace policies has been the biggest recruiter for the terrorism factions that the World has seen
i hope you see the irony now. on how much you conservative Christians and the Taliban are so similar. you both oppress and want to kill people in the name of your religion. what makes you so different? other than the fact that more people have been killed in the name of your religion. maybe you and this guy could go out on a date, you know, have a little tug session while thinking about a perfect world were everyone who disagrees with you gets struck by lightning by you all mighty imaginary man in the clouds.
Remember when Obama said we will find Bin laden and we will kill him?
Well Al Zawierdo can be first now. Let me ask everyone this... Does anybody out there think that black people in general are wimpy?
So..he's half a whitey big deal. He is still going to go in and do what Bush baby refused to when he had the chance.
Everyone who hates Bush will have a new whipping boy ( no pun intended).
No tolerance. Think about that.
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GusNov 19th, 2008 - 15:47:13
Well, what a surprise!
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