Al-Qaeda gloats over demise of Rumsfeld

The Scotsman ^ | November 11, 2006 | NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD

[MadIvan]

AL-QAEDA in Iraq yesterday claimed to be winning the war in Iraq and gloated over the resignation of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Amid mounting speculation that the American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, would become the latest casualty following criticism over US policy in Iraq, al-Qaeda issued a statement clearly designed to take advantage of President George Bush's current plight.

Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, said: "The American people have put their feet on the right path by ... realising their president's betrayal in supporting Israel. So they voted for something reasonable in the last elections," he said.

He called on Mr Bush to remain "steadfast in the battlefield" so al-Qaeda would have more opportunities to fight his soldiers. "They are getting ready to leave, because they are no longer capable of staying. Remain steadfast in the battlefield you coward."

The US yesterday announced the deaths of three soldiers and one Marine in Iraq, bringing the number of US troops killed this month to 24.

[mkjessup]

I did say that a victory by the Democrats would be perceived thus.

Indeed you did Ivan.

I might add that even as Nazi Germany was coming down around his ears, that Hitler deluded himself into thinking that the death of FDR somehow meant that Germany would yet prevail.

It is the same mental state we see in the members of the Islamic death cult and their high priests running al Qaeda, they see a resignation by Rumsfeld, and they want to rattle their tongues in their mouths and shoot AK-47s into the sky.

And their fate is still sealed:

They're all going to die, hopefully a brutal, humiliating, painful death, and then they're all going home to Hell where their moon-good 'allah' will reveal itself as just one more of Satan's many dedicated demons of deception.

That's the bottom line.

[MadIvan]

I don't worry that much about propaganda. I worry about quantifiable effectiveness.

I'll explain this as patiently as I can - this kind of propaganda helps Al Qaeda in its goals: it helps in recruitment, because they can appear to be a winning side. It also makes America look weak among people who you don't want to look weak to. So appearances and propaganda do have a direct effect on quantifiable effectiveness - I don't make these rules, it's just how it is.

Regards, Ivan

[Coldwater Creek]

The title of this article speaks VOLUMNS!

[MadIvan]

I sincerely hope you're right.

Regards, Ivan

[durasell]

So, we change tactics/strategy, become more effective and the propaganda effort was for nothing.

The President did what he felt he felt he had to do. Now let's see if it works.

[MadIvan]

I hope it works. The only things that cheer me is when Al Qaeda starts sweating and offers phony "truces". Then you know they're in big trouble.

Regards, Ivan

[durasell]

Uh, offering a "truce" or chance to surrender is Islamic law and required prior to an attack.

[Right_in_Virginia]

You don't want to hand them any propaganda victories. If Bush had waited a few weeks, that would have been better. After Christmas would have been preferable.

Agree.

[nativist]

These morons still don't get us. They think if a leader is removed its a sign of weakness, but it actually is a sign that we need to adjust our tactics. This move could be devastating for Al Qaeda for all they know and thats why we will win.

They have lost 2 countries, most of their leadership on the ground and tens of thousands of men. Maybe they need to think about changing leadership.

In the west, if you aren't meeting expectations you get let go and someone who will meet expectations will be put in your place.

[FarRightFanatic]

"I 'be been watching liberal reaction to the terrorist tape. Liberals are doing exactly as I expected and ignoring it. Typical children who can't cope so they pretend it doesn't exist. "


On Fox & Friends this morning, they were talking about it and I can't count the number of times Kiran Chetry said "alleged." Alisyn Camerota said something to the effect of "Terrorists are happy with these election results" and Kiran then said, "Well, terrorists would say they were happy even if the Republicans were to keep control of the House and Senate." Yeah right, Kiran. They were so happy in the last election.

You are right. They simply cannot and will not look at what our enemies are saying (AQ, Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad) about the election and say to themselves, "Oh my God, what have we done???" They have handed a victory to them.

[hnj_00]

if this article substituted the word democrap for al-queda...it would read exactly the same!!!!

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes, the gloating by America's enemies is to be expected. And it is quite revealing actually about the eventual consequences of the nation's having failed itself in this election.

[durasell]

Yes, the gloating by America's enemies is to be expected.





They'd be gloating if Gilmore Girls got canceled. Anything can be turned into a reason to gloat.

[LibLieSlayer]

pelosi's fault!

LLS

[hinckley buzzard]

Of course they can't win. I don't think them ever "winning" was in question.

They certainly can win. Just as the "farmers in black pajamas" won in VietNam. Not militarily of course, but it is the end result that matters. They can win through their greatest strength--implacable aggression dressed up as religious zeal. Once the islamic totalitarian ideology was accepted as a "religion," trembling American officials from NY to LA have gone supine and spread their legs. Islam being taught in the schools of the nation founded by Christians who are barred by law from having a Merry Christmas sign in the schoool cafeteria.

You bet we can lose everything to these savage bastards with the willing collusion of the leftwing filth currently in the ascendancy.

[durasell]

I think you underestimate the American people.

[claptrap]

What is interesting and revealing is The gloating is
not just radical Islamist gloating.

Gloaters include RHINOs (MaCain included),Democrats (may they rot in hell),Europe (more precisely Eurabia),UN delegates (who should be shipped back to their respective countries in coffins),our supposed friends China and Russia.
The MSM is the bulwark of Al Queada here in the US.

May all their bowels be shredded.

[Gosh I love this neighborhood]

So appearances and propaganda do have a direct effect on quantifiable effectiveness -

That's for sure. Just look at our last election.

[tobyhill]

Regardless of this clown's empty rhetoric, are we going to be in Iraq to win the war or play tinker-toys trying to win "hearts and minds"? I very seriously doubt they have 12,000 Al-Qaeda members in Iraq, maybe a quarter of that, regardless are we going to require the citizens to help us get rid of them or are we going to continue to allow the citizens to harbor them?

[BenLurkin]

bttt