Posted on 10/17/2004 11:04:39 AM PDT by TexKat
DUBAI (Reuters) - A group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and said it was in contact with al Qaeda over operations in Iraq, according to an Internet statement posted Sunday.
"We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its prince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen Osama bin Laden," said the statement, dated Sunday and posted on several Web sites often used by militants.
Washington says Zarqawi is al Qaeda's link to Iraq but the statement was the first by the group to announce its allegiance to bin Laden's group, which carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Image grab from Jordan's official TV shows Jordanian al-Qaeda leader Ahmad Fadel al-Khalayleh, nicknamed Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Jordan charged Iraq's most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and 12 other suspects of plotting attacks in the kingdom, including a plan to blow up the intelligence headquarters with a chemical bomb.(AFP/Jordanian TV/File
......... allegiance to dusty DNA.
Lost...lost...lost.
I am astonished that Reuters would permit themselves to
report this.
Perhaps they think it advances the Reuters agenda
by providing evidence that bin Laden is still alive.
Do they not realize that it:
a. cements the Irag-al Qaeda connection, and
b. proves that attracting the alQ flies to Iraq is brilliant
Technically this may be breaking news, but I think we all assumed this anyway.
Translation: Bin Laden is dead, and Zawahiri and I are fighting over control of al-Qaeda. He controls the old operational network, but all of the new recruits come to me in Iraq. So, in order to legitimize myself, I'm going to claim that I'm the one who really is the inheritor of Osama's legacy.
http://www.globalterroralert.com/zarqawi-bayat.pdf
Globalterroralert.com (10/17/04):
Abu Maysarah al-Iraqi, official media representative of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement in Iraq has released a new statement on behalf of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. According to the document, after 8 months of tense and prolonged negotiations, Zarqawi and his loyal fighters in central Iraq have sworn an oath and officially joined "under the banner" of Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida. Speculation has been rampant since Zarqawi first emerged in media reports over his relationship with Bin Laden and Al-Qaida. It is significant to note that many of Zarqawi's top lieutenants have been trained in Al-Qaida military camps in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the Caucasus, and elsewhere.
Do they not realize that it:
a. cements the Irag-al Qaeda connection, and
b. proves that attracting the alQ flies to Iraq is brilliant
I imagine that Reuters will be receiving a phone call from the DNC for making such a costly strategic blunder. What a nuisance.
Does that mean Zarqawi now worships the dead, as opposed to Allah?
Nice analysis. If true, it emphasizes the need to whack this clown before we aggrandize him to the same boogeyman status we accorded Ossama.
Also makes one hopeful that infighting among the boys may solve at least a few of our problems.
Zarqawi: "I pledge allegiance to the Fag Bin Laden's attack on America, and to the Al Quaeda for which we stand with tyranny and terror for all".
Good one dc-zoo.
FoxNews just reported it as well.
May the best terrorist loose!!!
bingo
Behead that muthaphucker with a butter knife!
Thanks
2.BinLaden claims to be a prophet, and Mo said he was the last prophet.
3.Binny babe is buried in Bora Bora surrounded by the Afghan warlord's troops to whom the job was outsourced.
fwiw, I agree that this is a ploy to attract support both from overseas and locally, because he's just about to become something requiring a wet-vac cleanup.
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