Zawahiri's Letter to Zarqawi Proves Left Clueless

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 10/12/2005 | Rush Limbaugh

[NixonsAngryGhost]

As Rush stated, things are very surreal and we are beyond parallel universes and into multiverses

[NixonsAngryGhost]

As Rush stated, things are very surreal and we are beyond parallel universes and into multiverses

[BigSkyFreeper]

Okay, so what's old Bashar Assad think about this when he finds out he's going to be in the crosshairs? King Abdullah?

That's the first set of questions that came to my mind too after I read the letter. I don't know what either will do, but I do know this, it won't gain any ground for Al-Qaeda if either Assad or King Abdullah decide to do the right thing, and turn against Al-Qaeda.

[Kryptonite]

What? Harriet Miers is a bigger threat to the USofA than Al Qeada. Did you get the memo? /sarcasm

[carumba]

So read it and weep Couric!

[Cindy]

"Zawahiri's Letter to Zarqawi Proves Left Clueless"

I agree.

[Pro-Bush]

'More than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media,'

..The Dems and al queda have demonstrated that they surely understand this aspect of the war.

[Treader]

The silence from the DNC, will be deafening. Although, Hillary & Co will have to dance on this greased pig...publicly.

[gpapa]

This letter gives more proof that we are winning in Iraq. The MSM spins, spins & spins, right along with the DU types. They are clueless as the two Z's mentioned in the letter. You can get better information about the situation in Iraq from the Mil blogs than you can get from the likes of the twin Slime newspapers in NY and LA. There is one thing President Bush will not back down on, the WOT. I only wish he would have the same backbone about the SCOTUS. After all Senators don't shoot people, literally at least, but terrorists do.

[dynoman]

There is a very interesting analysis of this letter here on Iraqi Bloggers Central. The writer defines a lot of the terms Zawahiri uses.

If you check out the comments for that blog entry someone from CENTCOM posts CENTCOM's commentary on the letter. Again, interesting.

[sure_fine]

pinging

[jwpjr]

Well, and say this with great trepidation, my first response is to wonder about the authenticity of the memo. I remember my Mom telling me that when something sounds too good to be true it's probably not true. This is the second time in a year or so that a memo has been 'intercepted' that couldn't be better for our difficult times in the war if it had been written by the President or Carl Rove.

Don't bother sending me tin foil, I have plenty but haven't had the time to fashion it into a hat. Too busy looking for conspiracies!

Just a thought.

[Watery Tart]

Zawahiri's Letter to Zarqawi Proves Left Clueless

During my last meeting with Andropov, he said, wisely, "now all we have to do is to keep the Vietnam-era anti-Americanism alive." Andropov was a shrewd judge of human nature. He understood that in the end our original involvement would be forgotten, and our insinuations would take on a life of their own. He knew well that it was just the way human nature worked.

Author Ion Mihai Pacepa was acting chief of Romania's espionage service and national-security adviser to the country's president. He is the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc.

Follow the link and read the whole article! That old KGB boss had the system down, in the Vietnam era already. Ion wrote this article for National Review during the al-Ker'ry's Presidential campaign, early in '04, by the way.

Some things never change....

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[OldFriend]

This letter is about as credible as the recent NY subway hoax.

Nineteen bombers with briefcases. Women with baby strollers.

The hoaxers and the gullible pundits are giving media spin a bad name!

[jwpjr]

I have contended for years that if the terrorists don't think they can actually pull off an attack that their next best technique is to make us think we have discovered a plot and put us through all the hassles that accompany an increased level of security. Think about it, we think we've gotten some inside info on an upcoming attack and we go nuts. We spend money on overtime, we further inconvenience hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens with searches and just generally make life more miserable. At this point the terrorists have already scored a victory. Part of their intent is to disrupt our lives and force us to contend with them and their demands. We do exactly that every time we raise the security level and it turns out to be a false alarm, usually a hoax. And, they gain the added benefit of being able to see our response and plan the real event to get around our protections.

I am not suggesting, even remotely, that we should ignore indications of a pending attack, but I sure wouldn't give them the satisfaction of making a public spectacle of our preparations.

Face it, when they have something up their sleeve we don't get even a hint of it. No one, and I mean NO ONE, had any idea that a disaster of the scope of 9/11 was in the works. Every big attack comes as a total surprise to us, whether it's the USS Cole or Pan AM over Lockerbie. After the fact we can see all sorts of dots that should have been connected but weren't.

I don't claim to have an answer, but I sure do know there's a question.

[OldFriend]

It began early on with threats to shopping malls, etc.

You are right, they need only to create a sense of unease to get us all terrorized.

Yes the authorities need to issue alerts but giving specific details such as 19 bombers with briefcases, women with baby strollers is just ridiculous.

And then to see the police officers peering into backpacks looking for bombs?

Can you imagine anything more dangerous to the officer?

The media can praise Blooming-idiot but I don't see it quite that way.

[KateatRFM]

That was my initial thought. This reminds me of the manufactured Bin Laden (?) tape that came out right before the election, that was clearly made in a studio in North America with all of Michael Moore's talking points addressed. Where is Dan Rather when you need him?

[FairOpinion]

Actually, I don't think the left is clueless, I think they knowingly support the terrorists, becaue they have the same goal: destruction of the "imperialist US".

[wayoverontheright]

The most interesting thing about this letter is what it doesn't say. The only mention of Osama bin-Laden by Zawahiri is when he informs Zarqawi that he has read the missive sent to bin-Laden. No other mention in the entire 6000 word piece.

Here we have a letter written on July 9, two days AFTER the London bombings, and there is no reference to London. This guy is in a cave, completely incommunicado, and also reduced to begging for money from a minion.

Another attack on US soil? I don't think so, not from these guys. If you take into account that we were attacked to begin with because of a profound lack of respect, that respect has been restored by the willingness of our soldiers to stand and die in Iraq. In other words, the precondition for the attack has been eliminated. Any future attack on American soil will have to come from a different group, with an entirely different goal in mind. Note that they now hang their hat on the Vietnam model, instead of Mogadishu. Their only hope now lies with the American media.

Wars are fought both on strategic and psychological battlefields, and the psychological battle has been won. The jihad will not dare stick its hand in the same hornet's nest again, as they now know the consequences will be dire. They attacked us in order to draw us into Afghanistan, where they believed they would defeat us as they had the Russians. They never envisioned the consequence that the Great Satan would also eliminate their fall-back plan by taking out Saddam. At precisely the moment that our media was mocking the lack of "shock and awe" on the Iraqi front, shock and awe was what the al-Qaeda command structure was feeling while cowering in their cave.

There is no better justification for the Iraq war than what is revealed by our enemy in this letter.