Posted on 11/10/2006 5:29:44 AM PST by jmc1969
A purported audio recording by the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda wing said outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quit to flee the Iraqi battlefield.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, said in the recording posted on the Internet that the group has 12,000 armed fighters and 10,000 others waiting to be equipped to fight U.S. troops in Iraq.
"I tell the lame duck (U.S. administration) do not rush to escape as did your defence minister ... stay on the battleground."
Stung by a "thumping" defeat at Tuesday's Congressional elections, U.S. President George W. Bush said Rumsfeld had resigned because there was need for "fresh perspective in Iraq."
Bush said he was open to any idea for a new approach and publicly reaffirmed a belief that "victory" was possible in Iraq. The change of guard raised speculation it was meant to pave the way for a swift U.S. troop withdrawal.
The speaker vowed allegiance to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of a Sunni Islamic state comprising Iraq's mostly Sunni Arab provinces which was announced in October by al Qaeda and groups affiliated to it.
"I say to ... the ruler of believers (Baghdadi) I vow allegiance to you," he said. "I put under your command 12,000 fighters who are the army of the al Qaeda," he said.
The speaker called on fellow Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq to join ranks under the Islamic state.
All predictable too.
Is al Qaeda a terrorist group? What are they doing in Iraq. I thought Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terror.
when will the bleeding stop?
From the link:
"The vote shows the Iraqi and American people are of one mind about withdrawing U.S. troops," said Falah Hassan Shanshal, who leads the parliamentary bloc of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
"We hope the Democrats don't forget their campaign promises. If they don't, we will deal with them in a brotherly way once the last American Soldier pulls out from Iraq," he said.
From the link:
"The vote shows the Iraqi and American people are of one mind about withdrawing U.S. troops," said Falah Hassan Shanshal, who leads the parliamentary bloc of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
"We hope the Democrats don't forget their campaign promises. If they don't, we will deal with them in a brotherly way once the last American Soldier pulls out from Iraq," he said.
Well that didn't take long. Have they given terms for our surrender yet?
No question but this has shown Americas unwillingness to fight the tough battles. In the next 25-35 years America will be no more than the Soviet Union. This will lead to our demise and it may even be sooner. America can no longer be trusted and foreign countries now realize it.
Guess this is just another lesson of many we are soon to learn
Still no word from Zawahiri or Bin laden
Well that didn't take long. Have they given terms for our surrender yet?
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Don't worry about it; McGovern will be all over it this coming week.
FYI
This is true. Pretty much every rogue country out there know they do as they wish, and if we threaten war it doesn't matter. They now know that as a country we will turn back and run home as soon as we begin to take casualties. All they have to do is last long enough to kill a couple thousand or so soldiers. :(
The Democrats knew too
Will someone ask Pelosi what her timetable is for capturing Bin Ladin?
Taking out Zarqawi was a feel good thing. But, it changed nothing on the ground in Western Iraq because we didn't put in large numbers of troops to Anbar to finally deal with al-Qaeda in Iraq.
With Zarqawi's death we also lost the number one political tool to convince the US public we are fighting terrorists in Iraq. After Zarqawi died the US public with help from the DNC and the MSM became convinced it is a civil war in Iraq and we have no reason to be there.
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