'Bin Laden ordered [Lebanon to Israel] rocket attacks'

[oblivious]

Who writes this stuff? Some comic-book writer? They never give the website address of this popular Al-qaeda website in these AP/AFP reports, but I'm wondering if it's the one I read about registered in Texas or the one registered in Virginia.

"The rocket firing at the ancestors of monkeys and pigs from the south of Lebanon was only the start of a blessed in-depth strike against the Zionist enemy... "This commendable feat came in application by the mujahidin of the oath by fighter Shaikh Osama bin Laden, emir of the al-Qaida network, may God preserve him," al-Zarqawi said...

...The Iraqi al-Qaida leader then laid down two conditions for giving up the jihad: "First, chase out the invaders from our territory in Palestine, in Iraq and everywhere in Islamic land.

"Second, install sharia Islamic law on the entire Earth and spread Islamic justice there ... The attacks will not cease until after the victory of Islam and the setting up of sharia.

"O young Muslims everywhere in the world, and in particular in the neighbouring countries and in Yemen, I recommend jihad to you ... O nation of Islam, America is today drawing its last breath."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F2ACCFD1-E24C-4670-87F0-A00EB4412595.htm

[punpirate]

1. I'd be much less suspicious of this...

... if there weren't an active propaganda program in place and that this didn't pretty much cover all the fear-mongering talking points of the administration and the wingnuts on the far right.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Al Jazeera?

I'd hardly call Al Jazeera a Bush propoganda tool.

[rman]

6. Associate Press is the source of the article,

not Al Jazeera.

[oblivious]

8. Almost all of alJazeera.net's news articles are from western agencies.

I've checked Al-jazeera.net's home page for many days and 95 to 100% of news stories are from the western news agencies AP, Reuters or AFP. Only the opinion pieces and special reports are not.

From a news perspective, I consider it a Western propaganda tool.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

2. I'd be much less suspicious of this

if it didn't read like it was translated by one of those Arabic translators the U.S. had to hustle through training because of the firing of the gay Arabic scholars.

:shrug:

[oblivious]

3. I'd be much less suspicious of this...

...if the two charaters quoted weren't long dead.

[rman]

4. Israeli security source debunks this:

12/29/2005 Iraq al Qaeda claims missile attack on Israel: Web - Reuters - news.yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/ts_nm/israel_qaeda_dc;_ylt=AosL4_7vwIzrYFIIVyliaRWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq said it had launched missiles at Israel from Lebanon as part of a "new attack" on the Jewish state, a statement posted on the Web said on Thursday.

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29168347.htm
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The Israeli security source said: "For this to be true, it would mean that al Qaeda, a virulently anti-Shi'ite group, has penetrated the heartland of Hizbollah, a virulent Shi'ite group, on such a scale that it can mount a rocket salvo independently.
"This claim should be regarded with extreme scepticism."


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Around the same time of the missile attack piece there was another weird AP piece about Valery Plame being outed by her son supposedly bragging about his famous parents.

[oblivious]

7. "This claim should be regarded with extreme scepticism."

There's the understatement of the day.

Thank goodness we're a sceptical lot here on DU.