Posted on 06/11/2015 9:18:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two of Al Qaeda's spiritual leaders have said that the terror organization is barely functioning after losing money and manpower to the rapidly rising Islamic State group, according to a report.
Abu Qatada and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi have described Al Qaeda as being without "organizational structure," the Guardian reports. Maqdisi said Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri is isolated from his top lieutenants and "operates solely based on the allegiance.
"There is no organizational structure. There is only communication channels, and loyalty," he reportedly said.
Qatada, who was deported to Jordan from Britain in 2013 to face terrorism charges, also acknowledges that ISIS has gotten the better of Al Qaeda in the propaganda wars as well as those fought on the battlefield.
The Guardian report traces the beginning of Al Qaeda's downfall to the ascension of Zawahiri as Al Qaeda's leader following the death of Usama bin Laden in May 2011. While Zawahiri has been forced to move in secret in the remote mountain regions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, hundreds of thousands of militants have flocked to the new battlefields in Syria and Iraq.
"What is leadership," asked Dr. Munif Samara, an Al Qaeda associate quoted in the report, "if your leader is in Afghanistan and your soldiers are in Iraq?"
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How sad. Al Qaeda’s day has passed it by because it was not violent and extreme enough.
I guess you just have to stay innovative to be at the top of the mohammedan terrorist heap.
I say arm the crap outta them...all sides. Then send in the CIA to foment propaganda against one another.
Let’em duke it out. Less of them, the better off we are.
So it would appear...
Al Qaeda and ISIS are the same group.
Saudi Arabia just changed their Proxy army name. It’s all a bunch of B.S.
They were the same new black uniforms, the same black flag oh and don’t forget those clean brand new orange jump suits. They new run out of uniforms...
Gee what other country do we see the same orange jump suits???
you know he or his minions will go around saying Obama defeated Al Q.
Like saying Marxism is collapsing due to the rise of communism, fascism, and the democratic party.
Hey, Obama said he will get rid of Al Queada.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
What difference does it make?
Al Qaeda=The Gambino’
IS=The Genovese’s
Al Shabaab= The Bonanno’s
Understand? If Al Qaeda goes away the underlying ideology remains.
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