CNN LBN: Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, in videotape on Al-Jazeera...

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com

> BREAKING NEWS Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, in videotape on Al-Jazeera, says U.S. airstrike against him in Pakistan failed.

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update:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30156689.htm

Qaeda's Zawahri says survives US strike in Pakistan-TV

DUBAI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said he had survived a U.S. air strike targeting him in Pakistan earlier this month, in a video tape aired by Al Jazeera television on Monday.

The video appeared to be recorded earlier this month, as it mentioned a call for a truce issued by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in an audio tape Al Jazeera aired in January.

[w13rd0]

1. LOOKIE --> Another Tape...

...what the f'k ever...

Go away Zawahiri, we've got other shit we're dealing with, and take Rove with you back to your hole.

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Hmmm, and right before Bush speaks on national security...

All that spy equipment turned illegally on the citizens of the US and they can't get the Flintstone Al Qaeda guy in a cave. :eyes:

[davekriss]

57. Tell me about it...

...once again, impeccable timing (how many times have we said the same, before?). Bush has got to be the luckiest guy in the universe (or we must be amongst the fooled somebody once -- fooled again crowd, or however he chopped that up).

[Lerkfish]

3. SO, I know longer know who or what to believe anymore. I suspect everythin

g is fabricated.

so, going on that assumption, how does this fabrication help the BUSHco neocons?

[sabra]

8. Zawahiri is "claiming" that the attacks failed. BushCo:"he is on the run"

we must not stop until we get the Evil Doers! In the mean time, we will torture, spy, and take away all civil liberties to save Your FREEDOM!

[endarkenment]

9. Climate of fear, Bogeyman. War president.

They have to have a bogeyman. It does nothing but help them as long as nobody asks the uncomfortable questions:
1) how come he is still free?
2) who did we kill in those houses?

And nobody will ask. Or more precisely, the whoremedia will ignore anyone asking those questions.

[Lerkfish]

17. I was being somewhat rhetorical, but you honed in on my point:

how does a free taunting terrorist show anything but abysmal incompetence in the war on terror?

this black is white rovian doublespeak is straight from Orwell

[Mr Rabble]

48. Orwell indeed, Lerk-

"how does a free taunting terrorist show anything but abysmal incompetence in the war on terror?"

That is the fucking question, isnt it?

Funny that the Bin Laden tape is just audio, huh? Im sure that he just can get his hands on a camera...

[davekriss]

59. Fear precedes perception of incompetence...

...at least that is what the Rovian Wurlitzer believes. A kind of inverted, perverted Maslovian hierarchy: As long as the masses fear, they will retreat behind the perceived security blanket of a "strong leader", allow themselves to be stripped of every civil liberty, and cover their eyes and ears to truth like a bunch of snivelling monkeys. That's what the Straussian's believe, and they clearly act on their beliefs.

'bout time for We the American public to awaken if our children are ever to live free and fair and whole.

[davekriss]

58. George Herbert Walker Bush, seeing ....

...the U.S.S.R. handwriting on the wall, began the litany "narco-terrorist" some distant time ago. You know the saying, if the devil didn't exist, our leaders would have to invent him.

[Rex]

45. Keeps the Big Lie going longer, more time for war profits to role in.

Just like telling kids that a Commie lives under their bed, this is different in one way; Commies didn't bring down the World Trade Center. Commies didn't set off IEDs in Iraq. IMHO, this is more fear for the fire!

[MADem]

4. The day before the SOTU, the dude says "HA! Ya MISSED me!"

How WILL the WH spin this????

[Mabus]

12. First, it isn't SOTU it is the annual STFU address

It helps justify their use of illegal wiretaps to John Q. Sixpack for their (on-again/off-again) war on terror.

[MADem]

13. Heh, heh!!!

STFU...so true!!!!!!!!!!

[RememberWellstone]

49. I think it was planned

Just like the Osama tape I think they are manipulating the press with this news. Bush will come out tomorrow night and say," we still have to get Zarwhari, he is daring us to get him in the latest tapes!"

thats my take on it.

[IndianaGreen]

5. So much for another US claim of killing an Al-Qaeda Number Two

And more evidence of the lack of regret on the part of our glorious military for killing innocent civilians.

[maddezmom]

6. * will be using this newest

"tape" in order to scare the living crap people in the SOTU.

[shaniqua6392]

7. Al Jazeera Airs New Zawahri Tape

Breaking news on MSNBC and CNN. No link yet. Looks like they blew up some innocent people in Pakistan for nothing. Again. What a joke. They can not even find these guys that are supposedly in a cave.

[Virginian]

10. It's a fake.

It is to try to get the base to support their leader.

reign in any of those straying republican senators.

[Virginian]

11. Crying Wolf

Didn't they ever hear that story when they were kids, If you cry wolf too many times, people won't believe you any more.

[davekriss]

60. Yea, notice how they escalated the color coded...

...terror alert? Used that one too many times to the point where it has very little impact on the general citizenry, who basically ignore it as background noise. I don't watch TV, but I betcha' Fox News covered this as if we we're on the brink of Armeggedon!

[bettyellen]

14. he calls * a butcher for the pakistan airstrike

[IndianaGreen]

16. It was a clear war crime, killing innocent civilians!

There is no difference between Bush and OBL, they both kill innocent people in the name of their false Gawd.

[IndianaGreen]

15. Al-Zawahiri calls Bush a failure, according to Al-Jazeera crawler

Wow, I find myself in agreement with that assessment of our dictator Bush.

[onager]

18. Cave, hell. He's probably living in a Riyadh palace.

And this is your intermittent report from the home of Ayman al-Zawahari, Egypt, where I'm on a long-term work assignment.

Zawahari is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which found a well-financed sanctuary in Saudi Arabia when they were driven out of neighboring countries. Some of you may remember that the MB assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981, and Zawahari served a prison sentence in Egypt for his part in the killing.

Nowadays the Egyptian MB is making soothing noises about "inclusiveness" and "joining the political process." In the recent Egyptian Parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood went from 15 seats in Parliament to 88. (cf Adolf Hitler: "We must hold our noses and enter the Reichstag.")

Though I'm certainly not an expert, I do like to keep up with the Groups Most Likely To Kidnap Or Kill Me when I'm working overseas.

AFAIK, only one Middle Eastern leader ever found an effective way to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood: Hafiz al-Asad, dictator of Syria until his death in 2000.

Unlike Our Noble Saudi Allies, that way was not by coddling them and effectively paying them huge bribes to keep their explosives away from the Saudi royal family.

When the MB tried to assassinate him in 1980, about 500 Syrian Muslim Brothers were in a Syrian prison. Asad had every single one of them shot.

Two years later the MB seized the ancient town of Hama and started cutting the throats of government officials and their families. (That is, literally cutting their throats.) On Asad's order, the Syrian Army shelled the city with heavy artillery for 2 days, killing 20,000 people.

Apparently recognizing that they had finally met their match, the MB left Syria and ran for more congenial locales...like Saudi Arabia.

[daleo]

44. These claims require links

Especially the "shelled a town and killed 20,000 people" claim.

[oblivious]

50. Yes, I remember that. Here's Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Massacre

And a Google of "hama assad"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&q=Hama+assad&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web

[The Stranger]

53. What about the rest of the claims?

[oblivious]

54. Sorry, no idea.

[davekriss]

61. You do realize...

...that that is precisely the modus operandi of the Bush Regime:

onager: "Two years later the MB seized the ancient town of Hama and started cutting the throats of government officials and their families. (That is, literally cutting their throats.) On Asad's order, the Syrian Army shelled the city with heavy artillery for 2 days, killing 20,000 people."

Horrible. By your own words all it did was shift the problem to Saudi Arabia. And how many citizens of Syria did Hafiz al-Asad have to torture and kill to keep them out? Is that what you want the U.S. to become? Whacking innocent people left and right who happen to be standing too close to people they don't control?

It is imperative that we find another way.

[varun]

19. CNN: Ayman al-Zawahiri not dead

> BREAKING NEWS Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, in videotape on Al-Jazeera, says U.S. airstrike against him in Pakistan failed.

http://www.cnn.com/

[hatrack]

20. You mean, the #2 guy ISN'T DEAD?!?!?

Shocked, shocked I tell you! :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

21. Does this mean that the "number 3" who got promoted, is now demoted

back to number 3 again.. How devastated he must be :P

[Botany]

29. No don't you understand if #2 got hurt bad enouhg he might be a #6 by now

al Qaeda depth chart rules:

If a team member is hurt and unable to preform his duties then he is demoted on the team.
Example:

If al Quid Bin Ali who is # 7 gets wounded he becomes # 8 and Anas Al-Liby becomes # 7 except if the
wound is bad enough to keep him in the cave for >6 months then he becomes # 9 and Abdullah Mohammed
moves up on the depth chart too.

The league office in Saudi Arabia sets the rules. The league office is looking into using instant
replay for their spring Jihad.

Remember the level of injury determines where anybody plays and their rank on the chart.*

Except for bin Laden who will always be #1 (even after he died in Dec. of 01.)

[Tight_rope]

34. LMBAO...Good explanation. I think I almost got it.

[Inland]

52. You don't want to be #3! the USG has killed dozens of #3!

It's the most dangerous place on the org chart.

[VegasWolf]

55. WQe all know how stupid Bush is, no one will critize Cheney's puppet

about his math. 1 + 1 = 5. Yes, sir.

[Edward Copeland]

22. Stories on the Web are coming slow

But I've got the start of the AP story from the wire up at my site: http://edwardcopeland.blogspot.com

[MADem]

27. Unlike FRANCISCO FRANCO! n/t

[Squatch]

23. How much did that little announcement cost us?

[pinniped]

24. No shit, what took them so long?

Just like stupid Jason and that Halloween buffoon Myers, these guys never die.

[varun]

25. wont see Freepers talking about this...

the way they were going apeshit over 15 innocent Pakistanis dying...

[varun]

26. In video, bin Laden aide says U.S. airstrike failed

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/30/alzawahiri.tape/index.html

Al-Zawahiri refers to the January 13 strike in the video, aired by Al-Jazeera. He talks about the Pakistani village of Damadola, the region and that 18 were killed in the attack.

Al-Zawahiri also talks about the truce offered to the United States by bin Laden, which the United States rejected....

Edited to add link

[Igel]

32. You mean the truce that UBL

offered to consider, if we asked for one?

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. You mean the little pentagon twits that control the RC planes

from cubicles in the basement missed?

[951-Riverside]

30. Bush its really gearing for Iran so here comes the Al Qaeda videos!

They really quieted down after the elections but boy they are back again just in time to save Bush's ass I'm suprised we didnt see a ton of these right after the Katrina failure.

[Tight_rope]

31. Oh boy!....Pakistanians should be ready to push the button soon!

[NYC Liberal]

33. In other news, Yasser Arafat is NOT dead.

Wait......

[killbotfactory]

35. No shit?

You think?

[NightOwwl]

36. Al-Zawahri Calls Bush a 'Butcher' in Video - AP

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida No. 2

Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape aired Monday that President Bush was a "butcher" and a "failure" because of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeting the bin Laden deputy. "Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation," he said, referring to Bush. "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses."

"My second message is to the American people, who are drowning in illusions. I tell you that Bush and his gang are shedding your blood and wasting your money in frustrated adventures," he said, speaking in a forceful and angry voice.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/zawahri_tape

uh-oh...Chimpy doesn't like being called out. Wonder if he'll say something even stupider than "Bring it On."

[Democrats_win]

37. bu$hco + Al-Qaida = 1 F'dUp world.

[NightOwwl]

38. The King does not like to be insulted.

Get his finger OFF the button NOW!

[KyndCulture]

39. if walks like a duck.... nt.

[NYC Liberal]

40. Bush'll come stumbling out of the WH, drunk as a skunk, and challenge

him to go "mano a mano" on the South Lawn.

[rodeodance]

41. "Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar,

"Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation and you have brought and will bring them only catastrophes and tragedies," he said, referring to Bush. "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses."..

[rodeodance]

42. he has learned the tactic of namecalling well.

[NightOwwl]

47. Ah...I would pay millions to see that happen. n/t

[davekriss]

62. Of course it failed

The Bush Regime take out Ayman al-Zawahiri or Osama Bin Laden? That would be like solving the abortion issue, it would totally rob the Republithugs of their levers of control and manipulation. It's ALL theater, you know.

[IndianaGreen]

43. Al-Jazeera: Zawahiri says he escaped US raid

Zawahiri says he escaped US raid

Monday 30 January 2006, 22:10 Makka Time, 19:10 GMT




Aljazeera has aired a new video in which al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls George Bush a butcher and threatens a new attack in the US.

<snip>

Al-Zawahiri, shown wearing white robes and a white turban, said the US had ignored an offer from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden for a truce.

"Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation," he said, referring to Bush. "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses," he said.

"My second message is to the American people, who are drowning in illusions. I tell you that Bush and his gang are shedding your blood and wasting your money in frustrated adventures," he said, speaking in a forceful and angry voice.

Al-Zawahiri added: "The lion of Islam, Shaikh Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, offered you a decent exit from your dilemma. But your leaders, who are keen to accumulate wealth, insist on throwing you in battles and killing your souls in Iraq and Afghanistan and - God willing - on your own land."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F667A159-57A9-4545-BA60-00895EC6A4F2.htm

[Rex]

46. The BFEE to stupid Repukes - 'booga...booga'!

It's the Boogy al-Zawahiri! (BFEE shakes doll at stupid Repuke morans) "scarrrryyy....911 911 911!!!!" (Stupid Repukes) "aahhhhh....take away more rights and privliges to keep us safe, master!" :scared:

[oblivious]

51. He sure knows how to get attention. No. 1 on Google and great headlines:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&gl=us&ncl=http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2006/01/30/ap2487765.html
Al-Zawahri Mocks Bush Over Terrorism War
Al-Zawahri Calls Bush 'Butcher' for Attack
Al Qaeda's No. 2 insults Bush on new video
Al-Zawahri calls Bush a 'failure'
Al-Zawahiri Taunts Bush in New Tape
Bin Laden Aide Taunts Bush
ZAWAHIRI TAPE CALLS BUSH 'FAILURE'
Al-Qaida No. 2 Calls Bush 'Butcher Of Washington'

[HuffleClaw]

56. their timing is a teensy bit convenient eh?

just a tad. one might call it predictable.