AQ Satellite Office Sends A Memo
Head office still not heard from. AQ tends to operate a little behind al-Qurve on qommunications, still on a 14th-century newscycle and hampered by the need to eschew direct contact with 2ist century technology in favor of a donkey relay or two.
Word has now trickled out though from the better-wired satellite office, AQ in Iraq, which wants us to surrender.
Here’s AQ in Iraq’s “al-Baghdadi” with a message ”for the new Governors of the White House.” MEMRI:
Islamist Forums Post an Audio Message by the Emir of Al-Qaeda’s ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ (ISI) Abu ‘Omar Al-Baghdadi to ‘the New Rulers of the White House and Their Allies in Other Christian Countries’: ‘…The Warriors of Jihad Hope that, in the Distant Future, They Will Dwell Under the Roofs of the White House…’
On November 7, 2008, the Islamist forum Al-Hesbah posted a 25-minute audio message by ISI Emir Abu ‘Omar Al-Baghdadi, produced by ISI media company Al-Furqan.
Following is the summary of the audio message:
Al-Baghdadi stated that the message was not meant to threaten the Western countries, but only to urge them to “[act] fairly,” and expressed hope that it would be conveyed to the Western rulers “by their intelligence agencies and satellite channels [in the Arab world], which profess neutrality.”
Al-Baghdadi called on the “new rulers of the White House and their allies in other Christian countries” to “embrace Islam,” and explained that “[Christians] are the closest religion [to Islam] from among [all world] nations.”
To read the full report, visit http://www.memriiwmp.org/content/en/report.htm?report=2900.
Sounds like they want Obama to get on with the surrender. I’m awaiting the transcript for MEMRI. Meanwhile, Schippert links to the full audio if that’s helpful.
Back to Al Qaeda proper, mission control, in Waziristan, which in addition to videos and audiotape, enjoys send its messages by bomb-o-gram, and prefers to deliver those messages cold.
Al Qaeda, I suspect, will want to assure International Jihad that the war is still on, the Great Satan is still the Great Satan. All the hope for change means nothing to Osama bin Laden, or any of our other adversaries in the world, except to the extent it provides any opportunities or advantages. When al-Qaeda does speak, there may be some disparaging racial references, putdowns that suggest a black man has not actually taken power, that he is only a front for manipulative white masters. Something along those lines, which we’ve already seen hints of from Islamic extremists. Don’t forget that Osama bin Laden is a racist. You’ll remember the report back in the summer of 2006, that Osama was willing to cross his own color barrier for Whitney Houston … which suggests a potential role for Whitney Houston in the Obama adminsitration as a goodwill ambassador … OK, never mind that.
There are also likely to be more admonishments such as we’ve seen before, when al-Zawahri chided the newly elected Democratic congressional leadership in 2007 for its ineffectiveness, told Pelosi and Reid to get on with the surrender.
In addition to AQI, that message is already being pushed by some other al Qaeda hangers on and fellow travelers. NY Daily News:
The first major statement aimed at Obama came yesterday from a nationalist insurgent group in Iraq, who demanded the release of detainees – but also extended a barbed olive branch to the man who promises to extract U.S. troops from Iraq.
“We will be flexible in dealing with your withdrawal, on the basis that it will not be according to a security agreement with agent parties and an artificial government,” the Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance said, according to a SITE Intelligence Group translation.
Pulling out won’t be a retreat but a “victory for reason and logic,” the group added.
Other terrorists were divided.
“Now is the time for a truce,” an Iraqi jihadi in an Al Qaeda-linked chatroom said.
“Now the fight has begun!” a more prominent jihadi responded on the same site, al-Hesbah.
“Obama, McCain, Bush, Clinton, and, and, and,” mocked another fanatic. “All of them are enemies of Islam and Muslims, and fighting them is a jihadi duty.”
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Throughout the campaign Obama waged against Republican John McCain, Al Qaeda released messages about events like the Wall Street meltdown.
But not about the U.S. election.
Since Tuesday, only jihadis on the outer fringes have reacted.
“We Want Change,” wrote Al Qaeda financier Hamed bin Abdullah al-Ali, mimicking Obama’s slogan, “Change We Need.”
“The era of Bush and his gang is over,” Al-Ali declared, and then called for similar regime change to be repeated around the world.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:09 am Comments (0) on Friday, November 7, 2008
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