Al Qaeda chief urges Westerner kidnappings
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Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, particularly Americans, who could then be exchanged for jailed jihadists including a blind Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack the United Nations and other New York landmarks.
In a wide ranging audio interview, the al Qaeda leader expressed solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood which is facing a violent crackdown by the army-backed government in Egypt and urged unity among rebels in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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"I ask Allah the Glorious to help us set free Dr. Omar Abdel-Rahman and the rest of the captive Muslims, and I ask Allah to help us capture from among the Americans and the Westerners to enable us to exchange them for our captives," said Zawahiri, according to the SITE website monitoring service. Abdel-Rahman is serving a life term in the United States for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Center.
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Asked about the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Zawahiri answered: "the duty on every Muslims is to deter the aggressor by any means, and especially the oppressed Muslims."
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/26/us-qaeda-zawahiri-idUSBREA3P0AY20140426
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)I still hope al Zawahiri gets nailed the same way the smirking Saudi Buckaroo Bush couldn't find before Inauguration Day 2017.
Call me a militarist for thinking such thoughts, but I have zero sympathy for the misogynistic, bigoted, obscuritanism al Zawahiri and his buddies are pushing.
Archae
(46,325 posts)If that nutcase would get a Hellfire missile enema.
Unfortunately, we have no shortage of people like him here in the US, only they call themselves "Patriots" and "Good Christians."
There's a big NRA shindig going on this weekend.