Posted on 01/13/2007 12:19:57 PM PST by Ironfocus
Al-Qaeda predicts US defeat
Dubai - The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda predicted on Saturday the "defeat" of US military forces in Iraq, in its first reaction to US President George W Bush's new strategy to end the ongoing conflict.
In a statement posted on the internet, it said Bush's change of tack - including 21 500 troop reinforcements - "is only a prelude to news of a defeat and a flight from the hell of Iraq".
"Increasing the number of troops will not in any way change the nature of the battle," added the statement, signed by "a spokesperson of the Islamic State of Iraq" - an entity declared by al-Qaeda in Iraq in mid-October.
"Reinforcements in the past had no effect and did not swing the battle in favour of the Crusaders."
The statement was seen by AFP on Islamist websites, but there was no way to firmly establish its authenticity.
Al-Qaeda is the global Islamist militant network led by Osama bin Laden.
It is held responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 that prompted the Bush administration to launch its transnational "war on terror".
In a recording posted on the internet in mid-December, the head of an al-Qaeda-dominated group in Iraq offered to give US troops a month to withdraw without fear of attack.
Saturday's statement said the Islamic State of Iraq was "at its best and in good control of the situation".
It continued: "The media frenzy surrounding the security plan for Baghdad and the new Bush strategy will change nothing..."
"The enemy is trying to save face at least in Baghdad; the security plans for Iraq from now on are limited to Baghdad."
Bush's new Iraq strategy, announced on Wednesday in Washington, centres on putting more US troops in Baghdad to wrestle control of the capital from a stubborn insurgency.
It also calls for the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government to assume control of all Iraqi provinces by November or risk losing US support.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has separately announced a security plan for Baghdad, which is expected to be implemented in the coming days.
Well they better hurry because I suspect they only have two years of democrat control of congress to work with.
I don't know what these carpet kissers are huffing in their hookah.
As if anything that comes out of Al Qaeda has any credibility.
Well both Al Qaeda AND the Democratic party can't be wrong can they? They seem to have the same public relations firms anyway. Heh, heh, heh ;-)
This just proves that the Dems were right all along. /s
So does the media.
we don't get it and we never will.
We could annihilate all but one...and he'll declare victory.
forget all the yappin and let's get busy...
Heard that same crap from Tojo, Hitler, Kruschev(sp.), and the Chia Pet's Daddy too.
Defeated? I think not. When the hammer finally drops on the middle east there won't be a hole deep enough for these bitches to hide in. It's coming and I think the time is short. When we go after Iran and everybody's attention is focused on that, lets see you declare "victory" then. That's if you can run fast enough.
That was my first thought too. If you note carefully, they started with this kind of rhetoric right after the Dummies won the elections, and not after the president announced more troops.
It's clear who they prefer as an enemy.
The Democrat Party and Al-Qaeda talking points look and sound so similiar because they both have the same source point: Satan aka "Allah."
Isn't it funny. Don't the democrats ever gt embarrassed that there is no distinction between what they say and what AQ says? Hillary and Obama (oops, I mean Osama) are saying the exact same thing. Who woulda thunk it? HA HA.
If the last election is a sign that we're going to turn Spanish in '08, then yes, Al Qaeda could defeat us.
A pretty sound prediction - based on two givens:
The Surrender at any Cost Democrats control Congress.
President Bush squandered years and bodies, by conducting a "P.C." police action under ROE designed to make targets of our warriors and protect the illegal combatants they faced.
We should NEVER have given more concern for the loss of "innocent" life among the Muslims that we showed the Germans in Dresden or the Japanese in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Our enemy was allowed to dictate the ROE and MSM was their willing ally.
Until this is changed -- we will face the same outcome in this engagement as in Vietnam, Somalia and Serbia, which was more a victory for our enemy and a defeat for ourselves.
Semper Fi
there, acccurate and truthful.
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