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Speaker in Newly Released Tape Discusses 'Jihad Poet,' Reads Verses(Updated INFO)
ABC News ^ | Jan. 20, 2006

Posted on 01/20/2006 12:54:03 PM PST by Dog

An audio recording appeared today on a radical Islamist Web site, featuring what appeared to be Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al Zawahari, discussing the writings of a Muslim poet.

The tape surfaced a week after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that killed a top al Qaeda bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, but the speaker does not mention the incident. Analysts say that's potentially revealing because it calls into question Al Qaeda's ability to respond quickly in its propaganda war.

The tape appears to be an old recording, as it refers to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in October 2001, and moarns members of al Qaeda who were killed during that operation.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alarabiya; alqaeda; audiotape; aymanalzawahiri; zawahiri
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To: LSUfan

OK you guys, when you hear an old poetry video, that's your cue. Light the fuse.


101 posted on 01/20/2006 8:55:08 PM PST by Sender (I and my house will side with Jerusalem.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The message picked up from a BBC broadcast to the French underground was the second line of the Verlaine poem: "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone [Wound my heart with a monotonous languor]."

Meyer burst into the dining room where General Hans Von Salmuth, the Fifteenth Army's commanding officer, was playing bridge with his chief of staff and two others. "General!" Meyer said breathlessly. "The message, the second part -- it's here!"


102 posted on 01/20/2006 9:27:46 PM PST by njpa (http://www.csus.edu/hornet/archive/fall98/number12/news04.html)
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To: njpa

On this Monday evening, the eve of D Day, the first message was broadcast by the BBC at 6:30 P.M. "It is hot in Suez....It is hot in Suez," said the voice of the announcer solemnly.

There was a pause. Then came the second message that Mercader had been waiting for. "The dice are on the table," said the announcer. "The dice are on the table." This was immediately followed by a long string of messages, each one repeated' "Napoleon's hat is in the ring....John loves Mary....The Arrow will not pass...." Mercader switched off the radio. He had heard the only two messages that concerned him. The others were specific alerts for groups elsewhere in France.


103 posted on 01/20/2006 9:28:15 PM PST by njpa (http://www.csus.edu/hornet/archive/fall98/number12/news04.html)
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To: njpa

http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?isbn=0671890913&sid=33&agid=2
WWII radio codes BBC


104 posted on 01/20/2006 9:30:42 PM PST by njpa (http://www.csus.edu/hornet/archive/fall98/number12/news04.html)
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To: Constitution Day

Good Moarning Pakistan


105 posted on 01/20/2006 9:31:23 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: Mountain Dewd
Are you suggesting he might belong to the dead poets society? -----

****

LOL

106 posted on 01/20/2006 9:33:37 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: Mo1
It's a crime to deny the terrorists their rights .. so says Jonathan Turley at John Conyers Basement Hearing today

There has been a huge change in Turley in the past year or so. He has become quite the slimeball.

I see photos.

;-)

107 posted on 01/20/2006 9:44:13 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: cake_crumb

Interesting....doesn't quite fit into the haiku form though.


108 posted on 01/20/2006 9:54:42 PM PST by Busywhiskers ("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
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To: Mountain Dewd

Dead Parrots Society.


109 posted on 01/20/2006 10:44:26 PM PST by weegee
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To: flaglady47
All this sending code in these tapes smacks too much of the types that are conspiracy theorists also.

And all this dancing on the enemy's grave without a shred of actual evidence pointing to their deaths smacks of wishful thinking.

110 posted on 01/20/2006 11:55:23 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: Dog

what is it,Frank? Is he daid?


111 posted on 01/20/2006 11:58:55 PM PST by woofie
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

And all this dancing on the enemy's grave without a shred of actual evidence pointing to their deaths smacks of wishful thinking.

There is a shred now. Why do you think they put out a two-year old audio tape of Zawahiri reciting poetry, with no visuals and no dates or current day events mentioned. Could it be because he is dead? Just maybe? Wanna bet he's dead?


112 posted on 01/21/2006 12:04:28 AM PST by flaglady47
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To: CIB-173RDABN; flaglady47
Al Qaeda Video is "Green Light" for Attack (January 11)

Two Zawahiri tapes and one OBL tape in less than ten days. Of course this should be taken seriously. Especially in conjunction with Iran's actions this week.

It's not tin-foil. It's not conspiracy theory nonsense. It's simple common sense. After all, we are still at war.

113 posted on 01/21/2006 12:16:10 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: flaglady47
Why do you think they put out a two-year old audio tape of Zawahiri reciting poetry, with no visuals and no dates or current day events mentioned.

I don't know. But I sure as hell don't believe they released this obviously dated tape to convince anyone that Zawahiri was still alive.

They're evil, not stupid. Looking at the gaping hole in the NYC skyline reminds me to never underestimate these bastards.

114 posted on 01/21/2006 12:19:57 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I don't know. But I sure as hell don't believe they released this obviously dated tape to convince anyone that Zawahiri was still alive.

Yes they did. What, do you think they released Zawahiri's poetry reading right now just for the halibut?


115 posted on 01/21/2006 1:15:12 AM PST by flaglady47
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To: flaglady47
What, do you think they released Zawahiri's poetry reading right now just for the halibut?

I don't know why they released it. Nor do you. And presenting your opinion as fact doesn't change the fact that it's just an opinion.

Personally, I find your theory to be the least likely and most implausible. I believe it's more likely these recent tapes -- three in all from Zawahiri, dating back to September -- were released for the purpose of triggering a large-scale attack. Just as the last three series' of Zawahiri recordered messages were... and did.

Just my opinion. We'll find out soon enough.

116 posted on 01/21/2006 1:56:50 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I wouldn't say they were particularly bright.

Arab culture is to deny the obvious. It's been that way for a long time.

Just look at Baghdad Bob...
117 posted on 01/21/2006 2:54:03 AM PST by DB (©)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well that explains it! I should have taken my LSD first.


118 posted on 01/21/2006 4:23:48 AM PST by gotribe (Hillary: Accessory to Rape)
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To: DB
I wouldn't say they were particularly bright.

I would say that men such as OBL, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Mohammed Atta, etc. are/were particularly bright. Evil and monstrous, of course. But highly intelligent, also.

I just don't believe we do ourselves any good in assuming they're all morons.

Baghdad Bob is a different animal.

119 posted on 01/21/2006 10:08:05 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

"Just my opinion. We'll find out soon enough."

Yes we will. One of us will be right. I will be prepared to eat crow if I am wrong, and I'm sure you will too. Undoubtedly a tasty little morsel. LOL.


120 posted on 01/21/2006 10:39:02 AM PST by flaglady47
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