Admit defeat; Pullout win for Islam, Zawahiri tells Bush (The Mouse continues to roar)

The Bahrain Times / AFP ^ | January 8, 2006

[Stoat]

Admit defeat
Pullout win for Islam, Zawahiri tells Bush

DUBAI (AFP)
Al Qaeda number two Ayman Al Zawahiri called on US President George W. Bush to “admit defeat in Iraq” and  said any future US troop withdrawal would be a “victory” for Islam, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera yesterday.
“Bush, you must admit that you have been defeated in Iraq and that you are being defeated in Afghanistan and that you will soon be  defeated in Palestine, with the help and strength of God,” said  Zawahiri, sitting with an assault rifle at his side.
“I congratulate the Muslims on Islam’s victory in Iraq. I said more than a year ago that the Americans departure from Iraq is only a matter of time,” said the bespectacled Zawahiri, who wore a white turban.
Jazeera said the video, which had English subtitles, carried the date of the Muslim lunar month which ended in December.
Zawahiri said elections in his home country were a “US game ... designed to mislead the Muslim public”. “America tells Islamists: every time your behaviour improves, we’ll give you more (seats), until you become secularists with only a false affiliation to Islam.” “My Muslim nation, you will never enjoy free elections ... and governments answerable to their people ... unless you are liberated from the Crusader-Zionist occupation and corrupt governments, and that can only be achieved through jihad (holy war).”

[VeniVidiVici]

I bet Galloway gets punched out at some point. He certainly gets on my nerves just watching him on TV!

[MplsSteve]

I agree.

I can hoping that one of these a Predator drone sends a Hellfire missile right up his _ _ _.

[TheCrusader]

"“I congratulate the Muslims on Islam’s victory in Iraq....".....

.....says al Zawahiri from his dark, damp cave, as the U.S. installed Democracy replaces an islamic dictator in Iraq.

But this statement is understandable. To a man whose lost all of his freedom and power, and gets sh!t upon daily by the cave bats, even the rain falling on Bush must look like a victory.

[Stoat]

Thanks, Stoat. I had missed the link you placed above the pic of the DVD. I had thought it was a phoney!

You're quite welcome, and I apologize that my poor page layout made it unclear.  Although I thought that it was a worthwhile DVD to see just because it filled in a few blanks for me, it is a couple of years old and is not going to contain the very most up to date information.  I believe that I recall hearing about the talk show as Bush Gal is mentioning, but in recent days Syria's appeal for many may be waning.....the former VP is advocating a popular revolt

Khaddam calls for Syrian revolt (Former VP urges popular uprising)

and so I'm not so sure that Baghdad Bob would be terribly eager to jump from one losing hardline regime into another. 

According to the DVD, many Iraqis are incredibly angry with him, because he kept going on TV and telling them that everything was okay and that there was nothing to worry about, and the next thing they knew they were in the middle of a major battle.  Many feel that they could have gotten out of Iraq and clear of the area if it wasn't for him and so he's not exactly well-liked.  I was left with the impression of him as a pathetic figure who was placed into an impossible situation.

[Cheburashka]

he is viewed as just another Iraqi who would have been tortured to death if he hadn't done what he was told.
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He could make the case that everything he said was so over the top that you had to be an idiot to give it any credence. Of course Al-Jazeera ate it up, but doesn't that just prove the point?

[SevenMinusOne]

Zawahiri needs a .308 boattail driven thru that cute little indent on his forehead....

Without a doubt. This SOB needs to be put in the ground. Along with UBL and Mullah Omar.

Some very ugly type actions which no one eagerly likes to see done....might very well need to start being done in order for these HVTs to be outed! (along with a few others in the Stan border region).

They are all past due to have been put in the ground.

[Stoat]

He could make the case that everything he said was so over the top that you had to be an idiot to give it any credence.

Are you meaning to say that this would be the way he should make his case to the Iraqi people, to help them understand his position and to help him justify what he did?   This would be a fine option if the Iraqi people, during the time leading up to the war, had the choice of media sources that we do and had the luxury of our perspective.  Under Hussein the media was all state-controlled and alternate news sources were routinely blocked and jammed.  The average Iraqi had no other source for news than the State sources.  Furthermore, Baghdad Bob's local broadcasts were far different from his outrageous press conferences designed for the international audience and Al Jazeera.  For the local broadcasts he didn't have to speak in English, which was a big factor in amplifying the ludicrous nature of many of his statements.....he simply was never very fluent in English and so he tended to sound even more over-the-top than he would have otherwise.  Many of the Iraqi people simply didn't have any means of knowing anything other than what he said.....and even if they suspected that he was exaggerating, they didn't have any means of knowing that the Coalition forces were right on their doorstep.

Of course Al-Jazeera ate it up, but doesn't that just prove the point?

Well, it proves that Al Jazeera was, is, and always has been The Voice Of Terrorism and they did anything and everything they could to support Hussein and his terrorist buddies.

[Mike Darancette]

He's pulling a Vien Nam strategy, declare victory and get out of Dodge.

As more unidentified, blindfolded, tortured and shot through the head bodies are starting to appear in Iraq's rivers and countryside Zawahiri realizes that the people of Iraq are starting to fight back.

[injin]

may the powers that be do so with all haste
enough with the spook dances

[SevenMinusOne]

enough with the spook dances

Agreed.