Osama bin Laden challenged by former comrade

[babsbunny]

Osama bin Laden challenged by former comrade

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/10/bin-aden-challenge-former-comrade

Repentant ex-jihadi Noman Benotman calls for an end to al-Qaida US campaign, saying 9/11 attacks only brought suffering to ordinary Muslims


* Ian Black, Middle East editor
* guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 September 2010 12.27 BST

Is Osama bin Laden willing to listen to constructive criticism from an old friend? If so, a former al-Qaida comrade-in-arms has some advice for him to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, coinciding this year with the row over Qur'an-burning by an obscure American church that could, some fear, give the organisation a new lease of life.

Noman Benotman is a Libyan ex-jihadi who now devotes himself to combating the message of jihadi extremism. He fought with the mujahideen against the Red Army in Afghanistan but broke with Bin Laden in 2000, after urging him to stop his campaign against the United States because, he argued, it was sabotaging the prospects for change in the Arab world.

Chances are that Benotman's latest appeal calling for a unilateral six-month ceasefire will fall on deaf ears in Waziristan, or wherever Bin Laden is hiding these days. Cynics may dismiss it as a propaganda exercise. But it is worth listening to as an eloquent challenge to al-Qaida from one who once embraced its noxious world view:

[Webster Green]

1. Yawn..

Bin Laden died in 2002, and Cheney is responsible for 9/11 anyway. :boring:

[Bitwit1234]

2. I don't know about the date BUT

I do agree I think bin Laden is dead. al queada members are KEEPING HIM ALIVE to use his image.

[Webster Green]

3. The US military/industrial mutherfuckers keep him alive as well.

It benefits them to keep the hip-mo-tized populace in constant fear, and not much has changed since we elected Obama. He's almost as scared of terrorists as he is of repukes, and he wants you to be scared shitless as well.

The whole thing is a big pantload. Only the false notion of US exceptionalism can bring one to the conclusion that "9/11 changed everything". 9/11 didn't change shit. It changed the fucking neighborhood, and that's it. There is nothing new or extraordinary about crazed mutherfuckers killing lots of innocent people.


People who worship 9/11 the same as they worship the torture and execution of Christ, make me sick. They are cowards.