Posts Tagged ‘al-Qaeda’

Repugnicans aren’t the only people too stupid to keep their racist mouths shut, apparently. Al-Qaeda honcho Ayman Al-Zawahri has now insulted Barack Obama by referring to him as a “house-slave.” From the BBC:
In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Muslim roots.
He likened him to [...]

From Reuters India:

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain said on
Wednesday that if elected president, he will capture al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden.

"President Clinton had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden.
President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how to
do it and I’ll do it," he told ABC’s "World News" in an interview.

"I understand and I have the knowledge and the background and the
experience to make the right judgments. Senator Obama does not," McCain
said in a reference to his Democratic rival for the White House, Barack
Obama.

McCain, who was a Navy fighter pilot and spent five years as a
prisoner of war in Vietnam, said Obama "doesn’t know how — how the
world works nor how the military works."

Well, Jesus, what the fuck are you waiting for McCain? If you know how to capture bin Laden, you need to do it now! That’s a $25 million injection for your dying campaign! Get your cardboard box, your stick tied to string, and 72 virgins and go set the trap!

If only you can catch him, then why the heck do we need to wait until after the election for you to do it?

That’s right. According to the counterterrorism blog:

For the record: there is no indication whatsoever that Al-Qaida’s
As-Sahab Media Foundation is preparing to release anything in the next
24 hours. There has been no notification posted on the usual channels,
there are no glitzy advertisements, and there is no credible electronic
chatter, period. Rather, the intel community appears to have (once
again) fallen victim to poorly researched open source news reporting.
In recent days, several fringe media organizations have published
stories about a video recording posted by anonymous Al-Qaida miscreants
on extremist Internet chat forums. The video consisted of a remarkably
amateurish mash-up of Discovery Channel documentaries, widely published
sermons by radical clerics, and stolen propaganda footage. While it is
perhaps true that the video offered subtle encouragement for nuclear
attacks on the United States, it featured no original content and could
have been clumsily strung together with little more than two VCRs. The
video was meandering, boring, and difficult to follow–and it certainly
was not the product of Al-Qaida.

I win.

From ABC News via the Drudge Report:

Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is "jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West."

A completely vague, undefined threat from anonymous sources relating to a ridiculous trifecta of Weapons of Mass Destruction™ that will be released in video format in the next day. I’m sure it’s already on rapidshare.

"There have been several reports that al Qaeda will release a new message calling for the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against civilians," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told ABC News in an e-mail.

Who is this group, al Qaeda anyways? How come they just looove killing innocent people so much? I understand that there were terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and London, but nobody has ever conclusively proven or implied to have proven that any of them were committed by a rag-tag band of oil billionaire fundamentalist muslims called ‘al Qaeda.’

"Although there have been similar messages in the past, the FBI and [Department of Homeland Security] have no intelligence of any specific plot or indication of a threat to the U.S.," the e-mail said. "The FBI and U.S. intelligence community will review the message for any intelligence value."

Again, we have no intelligence of any credible threat to the United States. So what the in the hell are we paying for? Who in the world did the email come from? Why is there never any conclusive evidence of anything when these are released?