Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden

telegraph.co.uk ^ | Feb. 20, 2009 | David Blair

[Free ThinkerNY]

One of al-Qaeda's founding leaders, Dr Fadl, has begun an ideological revolt against Osama bin Laden, blaming him for "every drop" of blood spilt in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s.

But in a book written from inside an Egyptian prison, he has launched a frontal attack on al-Qaeda's ideology and the personal failings of bin Laden and particularly his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Twenty years ago, Dr Fadl became al-Qaeda's intellectual figurehead with a crucial book setting out the rationale for global jihad against the West.

Today, however, he believes the murder of innocent people is both contrary to Islam and a strategic error. "Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers," writes Dr Fadl.

The terrorist attacks on September 11 were both immoral and counterproductive, he writes. "Ramming America has become the shortest road to fame and leadership among the Arabs and Muslims. But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy's buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?" asks Dr Fadl. "That, in short, is my evaluation of 9/11."

[pogo101]

Catfight!

[baltodog]

Yeah, right.

[I see my hands]

al-Qaeda: "Osama bin Laden is so George Bush."

[1curiousmind]

See what happens when you don’t have Bush to kick around.

[mylife]

Oh Fiddle Fadl, Cant islam make up its mind?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy's buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?"

Ironically, it's the Chicago Way, dealt beautifully by a Cowboy from Texas and about to be abandoned by a crooked Chicago politician.

[2banana]

"Ramming America has become the shortest road to fame and leadership among the Arabs and Muslims. But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy's buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?" asks Dr Fadl. "That, in short, is my evaluation of 9/11."

TRANSLATION: Bush kicked our ass...

[marron]

"He is equally unsparing about Muslims who move to the West and then take up terrorism. "If they gave you permission to enter their homes and live with them, and if they gave you security for yourself and your money, and if they gave you the opportunity to work or study, or they granted you political asylum," writes Dr Fadl, then it is "not honourable" to "betray them, through killing and destruction".

[jennyjenny]

Yeah Fadl, you were a way better terrorist than Obama and don’t let anyone try to tell you any different.

[truthandlife]

BINGO!!!

[peace with honor]

WTF????????????

[skeeter]

Maybe Al Queda ought to inform the American media & democrat party as to who’s responsible for bloodshed in Iraq.

[jennyjenny]

Yeah Fadl, you were a way better terrorist than Obama and don’t let anyone try to tell you any different.

Oops, that was suppose to be Osama, really.

[jveritas]

This has been happening for a long time so I do not think it has any effect.Look at it as terrorist Fadhl being Trotsky and terrorist Bin Laden as Stalin. Fadhl has no power what so over Al Qaeda terrorists. Bin Laden, Zawahiri and and handful of other have total control of Al Qaeda terrorists.

[Tarpon]

dittos ... easy to see who won now.

[Joan Kerrey]

I guess one could call this man a moderate

[jveritas]

That is 100% Correct.

God bless President Bush and our brave troops.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Thank you PRESIDENT Bush!

And our troops.

[I see my hands]

"That, in short, is my evaluation of 9/11"

My evaluation is the destruction wreaked on 9/11/01 continues apace to this day.

The USA hasn't destroyed any Muslim nations, it has built and is building Muslim nations. OBL has destroyed the mightiest nation on the planet. There is no stopping Islam now, they have carte blanche. All they have to do is live, breathe, and breed. The West chose submission followed by conversion and eventual death.