"I shall be addressed by my new name, Al-ZarKerry. Praise Allah!
Oh,by the way,did do you know that I served in Afghanistan ?"
Posted on 10/19/2004 5:39:25 PM PDT by jmc1969
It's dangerous to ask that on FR.
Osama bin Laden unable to order operations - 10/15/04
Web Site: Zarqawi Pledges Allegiance to Bin Laden - 10/17/04
Militant Site Announces Fighter's Death - 10/17/04
Threats Scuttle Jordan Ramadan Broadcast 10/16/04
Jordan indicts Zarqawi, 12 others, in terror plot 10/17/04
Saudi Arabia claims al Qaida official dead 10/16/04
Name changes?
HEAD KNIGHT: We are now... no longer the Knights Who Say 'Ni'.
KNIGHTS OF NI: Ni! Shh!
HEAD KNIGHT: Shh! We are now the Knights Who Say 'Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv'.
RANDOM: Ni!
HEAD KNIGHT: Therefore, we must give you a test.
ARTHUR: What is this test, O Knights of-- Knights Who 'Til Recently Said 'Ni'?
HEAD KNIGHT: Firstly, you must find... another shrubbery!
I think it translates into "Snakes up a creek without a paddle".
I think there is more to this than just a name change.
Think back a couple of weeks to Bret Baier's interview with Major General Gary Harrell, Commander of the joint Socom for Centcom.
This could be an indicator that Bin Laden is dead.
The Base.
So do I ArmyBratproud, see my post #42.
Can they get that on a business card?
CAIRO, Egypt - Tawhid and Jihad, the Iraqi militant group of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, apparently has changed its name two days after announcing its merger with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization.
An Internet statement released Tuesday under the purported new name, al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.S. military convoy west of the Iraqi city of Fallujah the same day. The two rivers in the new name refers to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Iraq.
Witnesses in Habaniyah, west of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, reported seeing three American Humvees burning, but the U.S. military didn't comment on the alleged attack.
"A lion from the martyrdom brigades ... plowed into an American convoy that had entered Habaniyah," said the statement. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.
"The brother, God accept him, managed to destroy five Hummer vehicles and all those inside," the statement added.
The claim was posted under the new name by Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, a pseudonym that al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group had said was its legitimate source of information.
The statement, written in similar language to previous Tawhid and Jihad statements, also was posted on a Web site known as a clearing house for Islamic militants.
Al-Zarqawi's group declared allegiance to bin Laden, citing the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam," in an Internet statement posted Sunday. That statement also could not be verified.
The group has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on American troops, Iraqi security personnel and the kidnapping and beheading of several foreigners.
It's Arbaic for Continued Short Life Expectancy.
That sounds like something the company I work for would come up with after months of focus group meetings and thousands to "management consultants."
Next thing you know, they will have a big inspirational meeting with a powerpoint presentation. Finally the CEO will say, "Now, everyone needs to get out and work on "branding our new image."
Damn I thought the name referred to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the United States.
A terrorist by any other name still smells of rotting flesh and their own impending doom.
Tue Oct 19, 4:13 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has made the capture of the most wanted man in Iraq, Islamic militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, an increasingly important part of his policy as he seeks reelection on November 2.
The Republican president recently attacked Senator John Kerry over the Democratic presidential candidate's criticism of his foreign policy.
"Here the difference between my opponent and me is very clear," Bush said at a campaign event on Monday.
"Senator Kerry believes that fighting Zarqawi and other terrorists in Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror," he said. "I believe that fighting and defeating these killers in Iraq is a central commitment in the war on terror."
In reality, Kerry stated that Bush's decision to invade Iraq was a "diversion from Al-Qaeda and from Osama bin Laden."
On Sunday, Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad group apparently pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network on an Islamic website. A US intelligence official told The Los Angeles Times authorities consider the message credible.
Bush administration officials, in arguing for the war in Iraq last year, had linked Zarqawi -- believed to be between 37 and 38 years old -- to Al-Qaeda and Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. But earlier this month, a new CIA (news - web sites) assessment found no conclusive evidence that Saddam gave safe haven to Zarqawi before the US invasion.
The Jordanian-born extremist, like bin Laden, has a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, a sum symbolizing the importance accorded to a man whom US officials consider public enemy number one in Iraq.
Zarqawi, whose real name is Fadel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, has claimed responsibility for a series of bloody car bombings and hostage takings in Iraq. Two Americans taken hostage by his group were beheaded in a grizzly fashion, sending a chill through Washington.
On Friday, the United States designated Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) as a "foreign terrorist organization."
The US military has mounted airstrikes in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, nearly every night in recent weeks in bombardments targeting Zarqawi and his followers. US and Iraqi forces believe Fallujah has provided a refuge for Zarqawi and his group.
While Zarqawi's group has admitted having contact with Al-Qaeda, the web message in which it purportedly pledges allegiance to bin Laden's network would represent the first time it officially links itself to Al-Qaeda.
Most intelligence experts have said that Zarqawi was not operating under Al-Qaeda's umbrella and may have been a rival of bin Laden's.
"He shares many of the objectives of Al-Qaeda and bin Laden," said Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA official and a security consultant.
But according to Melvin Goodman, a national security expert at the Center for International Policy, bin Laden and Zarqawi do not share the same strategy.
"Zarqawi's tactics are something that bin Laden has repudiated because Zarqawi will use extreme violence against anyone and I think even bin Laden is more discriminate than that," Goodman said. "I think Zarqawi is just totally nihilistic."
He said US intelligence services "exaggerated (Zarqawi's) strength and his capabilities."
"Obviously, he is capable of applying tremendous violence with no limitation, but I don't think his organization is as big as what the intelligence community says it is," Goodman said.
Compuglobalhypermegajihad
So, they now have a Jihadist coumn on "mergers and acquisitions"?
Muslim Children's Fund obviously a parody site,
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