Don't parade your childlike ignorance for the public to ridicule. There was no such warning prior to 9/11/2001. None before the USS Cole was bombed. None before our embassies in Africa were bombed. None before the Khobar Towers were bombed.
None before our troops were attacked in their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. None before Blackhawk Down in Somalia. And none before our embassy was seized in Tehran, either.
Good points. I'm no expert on Iranian rhetoric, but this letter just looks like some retaliatory psyops and IMO people are making way too much out of it.
Oooohh thats harsh!
I thought that UBL had a similar warning go out? Anyways, could it be that this Iranian Kook-Nut, uses a slightly different playbook than UBL & Co.?
Rather full of yourself aren't you? Go peddle your incivility somewhere else, OK? If you want to have a civil discourse on agreements and disagreements regarding this topic, I'll be happy to oblige, but when you start out with drivel like your statement above, don't bother me OK. I don't stoop to your level.
Those were attacks carried out by stateless groups on individual vulnerable targets, and the Muslims have never bothered to "warn" about those, any more than they warned about piracy or raids or their numerous other violent activities. This was because they weren't dealing with a leader and weren't interested in surrender, but simply in attacking something either for profit or as a form of terrorism.
Warnings were issued by a legitimate Islamic leader for an attack by upon another king, city or state. An "official" attack, so to speak. People are upset because this is probably the first occasion in modern times that an Islamic leader of a state has been nutty enough to do this (well, leaving aside their constant raving about Israel).
We are discussing a letter that gives one of the traditional Islamic warnings, and the source is a non-Al-Qaida source. It doesn't matter if A-Q didn't warn us before those attacks, this one is almost certainly a declaration of war.
Supposedly, Clinton received such a letter (though it MAY have been a public one) by OBL, which would have allowed OBL to do all of the mentioned...
Text of Osama's 1998 Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans
We -- with God's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.