Posted on 09/22/2007 11:41:12 PM PDT by bad company
After Osama bin Laden reappeared on the world's television screens on the sixth anniversary of 9-11, commentaries focused on his newly blackened beard and his changed message. But more important was the reaction of a Saudi cleric. In an open letter, one of bin Laden's most prominent Saudi mentors, the preacher and scholar Salman al-Oadah, publicly reproached bin Laden for causing widespread mayhem and killing. "How many innocent children, elderly people, and women have been killed in the name of Al Qaeda?" asked al-Oadah in a letter on his Web site, Islamtoday.com, and in comments on an Arabic television station. "How many people have been forced to flee their homes, and how much blood has been shed in the name of Al Qaeda?" Al-Oadah is a prominent Salafi preacher with a large following in Saudi Arabia and abroad. In the 1990s, he was imprisoned by the Saudi regime along with four leading clerics for criticizing the kingdom's close relationship with the United States, particularly the stationing of American troops there after the 1991 Gulf war. It is worth noting that the decision to post American forces in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, was the catalyst for bin Laden's murderous journey. Throughout the 1990s, he frequently cited al-Oadah as a critic of the Saud royal family and fellow Salafi who shared his strict religious vision and world view.
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He’s a goner, for sure.
I pick HIM for my Islamic dead pool!!!
This is the beginning of the end for Laden IMO.
This is very big. Finally a prominent Muslim leader has said pretty much what we’ve all been thinking. Killing women and children, other innocents, does not endear people to the Islamic cause.
This guy went further and condemned the actions of the terrorists on 09/11, blaming Laden directly. He pretty much blamed everything since on him too.
Not only that, he asks Laden to consider if this is what he wants to take with him when he dies. Yikes. This guy took Laden apart.
Dang, take that democraps. The good news just keeps on rolling by.
Bush’s surge has accomplished what seems to be a sea change in Iraq, and the region. It goes to prove something else that I had been thinking for a long time (a lot of others here too). All negativism from the marxist wing of the democrat party (pretty much the whole thing these days), was causing the Iraqis to be tentative about throwing their suport behind the U.S. Once we showed resolve, they percieved it, and started coming our direction in droves.
Ried and Pelosi are going to be deeply saddened.
Even so, if they have one brain cell left, they’ll keep their mouths shut, and allow the benefits of the surge to blossom into the end of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
This is an important time, and any negativism whatsoever could blow it. Ried, Pelosi and company must zip it, now more than ever.
Spend time on other matters Ried and Pelosi. Just keep your yaps shut on the war. If you tarnish our rep in the Middle-East now, you’ll have demaged our cause more than you could ever imagine.
You could just win that sucker.
When leading Islamicists come out against Laden, it’s a green light for dedicated men to out him. We could get a tip within days.
It will be very interesting to see if other leaders come out to condemn Laden now. Wouldn’t that be great.
Sorry Dems... (LOL)
Bump, bump, bump!
4 am bump! ‘-)
Thank you txflake.
Barbara Streisand- we put US troops in Saudi Arabia in the Gulf War- al Qaeda was formed in 1988, years before... and it was simply an umbrella group composed of older organizations. [And before al-Qaeda, bin Laden belonged to another group led by Azzam - the MAK, or "office of services." Azzam himself was originally a PLO man.] The terror charity associated with al Qaeda, Benevolence International, got its start in the late 1980s.
Bin Laden's murderous journey had little to do with our posting of troops in Saudi Arabia but a lot to do with his realization that if a world power like the USSR could be defeated then the USA was also vulnerable, a view reinforced by our notorious habit of abandoning allies and running away at the first sign of setback. Bin Laden noted our retreat from Vietnam, from Tehran, from Beirut, from Iraq where we left Saddam Hussein in power, from Somalia where al Qaeda hit us early on, making Clinton pull us out tail between our legs, the USS Cole, etc. The catalyst for Bin Laden's murderous journey was simply demonstration after demonstration of American weakness.
...the catalyst for Bin Laden’s ideological demise is simply demonstration after demonstration of American resolve.
They all understand - yet Saudia Arabia, Iran, Syria do not - that it's bad business to be killing off your customers.
BIG DITTO.
I agree. And I have to say, the day we can stop pouring money into the Middle-East, will be one of the best days in our nation’s history.
It's all over but the screaming.
Of course the sudden-jihadists still have to be rounded up, but it's time to celebrate, yet nobody even knows it but us and those like us.
Don’t forget Obama would be more than happy to meet Osama and “talk”. I’ll leave any further comments to Jackie Mason.
The reason for his statement is simple.
When Al Qaida was just killing infidels they were OK. Now they are killing Moslems and that is not OK.
Anyway I have to agree that this is a sign of the end for Al Qaida. It shows they are losing support with those who have done the most to build them up. Though I imagine they will still get plenty of support from the truly radicalized Moslems and idiots in the west like George Soros, Tereza Heinz-Kerry, Babs Streisand, jerry Cohen, Stephen Bing and all the other billion/millionaires in the west.
Horses-barn door
Skillet-black
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