So...It Seems Al Qaeda Didn't Want Obama After All

[Me.]

The old guessing game began when the latest video was released. Were, or were they not, trying to get Obama elected by playing mind games? I believe they took Obama seriously when he said he would get Bin-Laden.


Al Qaeda No. 2 Calls Obama Racial Epithet

“CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect _ along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice _ "house negroes."

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."

The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/al-qaeda-no-2-calls-obama_n_144827.html

[Amonester]

1. bin laden is dead, but...

his criminal followers KNOW the Obama-Biden Administration WILL get their rotten a**es

they're 'trying' the bush-cheney-rove failed tactic: 'divide and conquer' and they will fail too

it's obvious they're scared sh*tless (and with 'good' reasons... I wouldn't want to be in their shoes :puke: this time...).

[jenmito]

3. With the world loving our NEW president. Zawahiri's going to have a hard time turning people against

us! More Muslims will probably turn against al Qaeda instead of us and our great new president Obama!

[Amonester]

4. X-zackly :-D

:thumbsup: :hi:

[Clio the Leo]

8. Yep and this tape confirms it .....

.... if Bin Laden was alive and any statement was worthy of his voice it would have been THAT one.

[jenmito]

2. Poor Hannity! How's he gonna spin THIS one? Zawahiri is calling Obama the opposite of Malcom X!

And he's not PRAISING Obama! Maybe Faux will ignore this story altogether?

[EFerrari]

5. LOL! I almost want to see that. n/t

[jenmito]

6. I DO want to see that! I think I'll tune in to his show tonight just to see his head getting a

little closer to exploding! :D

[Clio the Leo]

7. Tape comes out one day after this article....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7892853

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday the Pentagon is developing plans to get troops quickly out of
Iraq and into Afghanistan to battle a more confident and successful Taliban."


Al Qaeda is more afraid than Joe Lieberman was yesterday morning.

[LynnTheDem]

9. Gee...just as al Qaeda had said. "On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102477.html