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Al Qaeda's Zawahri tells Hamas don't accept truce
Reuters ^ | Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:28am EST | Inal Ersan

Posted on 02/23/2009 1:14:48 AM PST by james500

Al Qaeda's second-in-command urged Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip not to succumb to Arab pressure for a truce with Israel and vowed to support fighting against the Jewish state.

The militant leader in a recording posted on the Internet on Monday also called on Muslims in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia to press ahead with fighting "crusaders" -- a term used to denote the West -- and their agents.

"Israel's Arab aides are trying to impose a calm (truce) on the people of Gaza to stop their jihad ... I tell our brothers and folk in Gaza that jihad to liberate Palestine and all Islamic land should not stop," Ayman al-Zawahri said.

Egypt has been negotiating a truce between Hamas, which controls Gaza, and Israel following an Israeli offensive late in December in the coastal strip to punish Hamas for firing rockets at Israeli towns. About 1,300 Palestinians were killed.

"I reaffirm to our brothers the fighters in Gaza and everywhere that the mujahideen against crusaders in various battle zones are willing to give their brothers in Gaza and everywhere training and preparation," said Zawahri.

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The Egyptian militant leader also urged Somalis not to fall for a "secular constitution" and said militants there will not drop their weapons and fight the "U.S.-made government."

Somalia's new President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed earlier this month selected the Western-educated son of a murdered former leader to be prime minister in a power-sharing government intended to end civil conflict in the Horn of Africa nation.

Zawahri praised what he described as an "increasing jihadist awakening in the Arabian Peninsula" and called on Yemeni tribes to follow the example of Afghan tribes in fighting U.S. influence in the central Asian country.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alzawahri; globaljihad; hamas; internet; jihad; jihadpropaganda; zawahri

1 posted on 02/23/2009 1:14:48 AM PST by james500
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2 posted on 02/23/2009 1:23:07 AM PST by Cindy
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finally ! good advice from old dent head !
That’s right Hamas , KEEP PUSHING your luck
Now that Netanyahu is the Israeli PM he will crush you
like the cockroaches that you are..
Better pack your lunches and get some good shoes .
You are going to need them for your long walk across the
Sinai .
Good bye Gaza ! Good riddance to bad rubbish


3 posted on 02/23/2009 1:26:36 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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i’m getting tired of this boob popping out of his rat hole uttering nonsense then scurrying back in again

yo, will somebody pop that clown


4 posted on 02/23/2009 1:29:14 AM PST by She hits a grand slam tonight
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5 posted on 02/23/2009 5:36:52 AM PST by SJackson (a tax cut is non-targetedÂ…no guaranteeÂ…theyÂ’re free to invest anywhere that they want, J Kerry)
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Thanks for this post. It is becoming clearer with each passing hour that it was never about land for Hamas - but rather a suicidal and destructive global jihad - holy war against the West.
We “crusaders” need to pass the coffee and bullets! ;>


6 posted on 02/23/2009 10:02:44 AM PST by IsraelBeach
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