Letter from al-Qaida's Leaders To their most difficult employee: YOU SUCK!

[kpete]

You’ve Gotta Read This

AP: “After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida’s North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn’t answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense reports, ignored meetings and refused time and again to carry out orders. Most of all, they claimed he had failed to carry out a single spectacular operation, despite the resources at his disposal.”

Read the rest here.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/idiosyncratic-terrorist-breaks-out-on-his-own-in-sahara-bloodbath.php?ref=fpblg



Rukmini Callimachi, AP’s West Africa bureau chief, reported this article in Dakar, Senegal and Timbuktu, Mali. Lee Keath, AP’s Mideast enterprise editor in Cairo, translated the Arabic letter into English. The letter can be found in Arabic and English at:

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_international/_pdfs/al-qaida-belmoktar-letter-english.pdf

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_international/_pdfs/al-qaida-belmoktar-letter.pdf

[el_bryanto]

1. It's an interesting article

the part i found kind of troubling was this bit.

The letter also confirms for the first time that payments from European governments went directly toward buying arms to carry out attacks against Western targets, as long speculated by experts.

That's a troubling tidbit in the middle of a generally blackly amusing story.

Bryant

[L0oniX]

4. We will be doing the same thing when we arm the Syrian rebels.

Got to keep the war on terrorism going ...so give them arms.

[EC]

2. So Al Qaida is a business?

I wonder if countries could get them for tax evasion?

[backscatter712]

3. Al Qaeda meets Office Space!

"Hello Mohammed, what's happening. I'm gonna need to ask you to work on Saturday, mmm-kay? Yeah, if you could be here at 9, that'd be great."

"Oh, and I need you to come in on Sunday too, mmm-kay? We're trying to blow up Chicago, and we need to play catchup. Thanks."

[Takket]

5. expensive reports? really? there's plenty of insensitive comedic material there i will ignore -nt-

[Pragdem]

6. Don't tell people that al-Qaida is a business...

The doves will demand we arrest them for tax evasion, rather than send the drones.