Jan 25, 2009 -
To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults
Effort Hints at Group's Consternation
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 25, 2009; A01
Soon after the November election, al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader took stock of America's new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting epithet. "A house Negro," Ayman al-Zawahiri said.
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Oct 31, 2008 -
al Qaeda’s expectations: “Americans will be suppressed by their leaders”
By Walid Phares
AL QAEDA’S MILITARY LEADER
“May Bush’s Party be humiliated
http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=2104640428749904397&hl=en
Abu Yahya Al-Libi
Washington DC, October 30, 2008
In a Jihadi speech delivered in an undisclosed location and aired on internet, al Qaeda’s highest military commander Abu Yahya al Libi called on Allah to take revenge on America by “humiliating Bush’s Party” and by “having Americans suppressing Americans and by having leaders oppressing them.”
This powerful statement, made public during a sensitive period of US election deserves high attention in terms of al Qaeda’s strategic aims regarding the outcome of American vote next week. Thanks to Laura Mansfield’s monitoring of the Jihadi web sites, a video tape of al Libi was made available to viewers in Arabic. The Mansfield bulletin said (with permission):
“Al Qaeda has finally made an official statement of policy regarding the 2008 US elections, and it is a ringing “anti-endorsement” for the Republican Party.
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Feb 24, 2009 -
Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden
One of al-Qaeda's founding leaders, Dr Fadl, has begun an ideological revolt against Osama bin Laden, blaming him for "every drop" of blood spilt in Afghanistan and Iraq.
By David Blair in Cairo
Last Updated: 10:36PM GMT 20 Feb 2009
Sayyid Imam al-Sharif: The terrorist attacks on September 11 were both immoral and counterproductive, he writes
Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s.
But in a book written from inside an Egyptian prison, he has launched a frontal attack on al-Qaeda's ideology and the personal failings of bin Laden and particularly his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Jun 03, 2009 -
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
The London Times
A British man being held hostage in Mali has been executed, his captors said Wednesday, prompting strong condemnation from Britain of a "barbaric" act.
Edwin Dyer was one of four European tourists kidnapped on Jan. 22 as they returned from a music festival.
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Oct 22, 2008 -
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.
The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate Sen.
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Oct 22, 2008 -
Ok, so the title is a tad bit misleading, it's actually the supporters who endorse him. READ ON...
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S.
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Oct 30, 2008 -
"The endorsement of John McCain by an al Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn't a surprise to security specialists Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Both have suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain. Why?
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Mar 11, 2009 -
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDQyYjEzMTg3ZDBjZTA4MzExNjU1MTE2MzkwYTRiMTc=&w=MA==
This is a long article, but it is worth reading the whole thing.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
The war is over.
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Jan 18, 2009 -
ANTI-TERROR bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the BLACK DEATH. (London Sun)
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa.
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Jul 10, 2009 -
Egypt arrests 25 in 'Suez plot'
The Suez Canal is a vital maritime transport link
Egyptian officials say 25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks on ships in the Suez Canal.
The interior ministry said the alleged militant cell was led by a Palestinian and the other members were Egyptians.
The group planned to use explosives fitted with mobile phone-activated detonators against shipping in the canal, the statement said.
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