dual warnings by Iran/AQ (”side by side” . . .”five by five”)
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-203/0704192609003402.htm
Ahmadinejad advises oppressors to heed prophets’ teachings
April 19, IRNA (excerpt)
” . . . He added, “I wish to send a message to these oppressive powers on behalf of you, and the entire Iranian nation, asking them to get back to the path put before them by the prophets, that is the path of divine guidance, justice, friendship, and being faithful to the covenants they have vowed with their nations.” Ahmadinejad warned the oppressive powers, “Beware! If you do not get back to this path; if you do not end your oppressive methods; if you do not keep on looting the other nations and try to keep on imposing your illegitimate hegemony over other nations, you will face the destiny of the past tyrants in history, that is none but death, and downfall for yourselves, and wretched lives for your nations.”
http://public.cq.com/public/20060908_homeland.html
(excerpt)
Convert or Die
The key: an offer from al Qaeda to Americans to convert to Islam. Most analysts had dismissed it as “conciliatory,” Scheuer says, but they missed the point. A key prescription of the Koran says Muslims must offer their enemies a chance at conversion — before killing them.
The videotaped message was delivered in unaccented English by “Azzam the American” (Azzam al-Amriki), the U.S. citizen formerly known as Adam Gadahn, who grew up Jewish in the suburbs of Southern California. Gadahn was introduced on the tape by bin Laden’s Egyptian deputy, the portly surgeon-turned-holy warrior Ayman al-Zawahiri. Gadahn’s plea to convert was accompanied by the phrase, “before it is too late,” Scheuer pointed out on the Web site of the Jamestown Foundation, a nonpartisan forum favored by former military and intelligence officials.
It signalled the last signal before an attack.
“There are three such actions: multiple, clear warnings of an intention to attack; offers of a truce; and public calls on the foe to convert to Islam,” Scheuer wrote.
“The September 2 video is in no way an isolated occurrence, but rather part of an al-Qaeda effort that began early in 2002 in which bin Laden and al-Zawahiri have more than adequately fulfilled the Prophet Muhammad’s requirements for actions that must be taken vis-vis an enemy before attacking him militarily.” All have been met now, Scheuer wrote, through a series of messages from bin Laden’s lair in the caves of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Taken in context with other al Qaeda taped messages, as well as bin Laden’s discomfort at the dramatic ascendancy of his rival Hezbollah, who fought Israel to a draw in Lebanon — the latest statement is particularly worrisome, he said. The message is that “there is a dark, pitiable fate awaiting Americans because of their policies and actions toward Muslims.” The California-raised jihadist looks into the camera and says, “Time is running out, so make the right choice before it is too late and you meet the death [that was] the most dismal fate of thousands before you.”
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=410&issue_id=3251&article_id=2369367