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 ...
That is the problem. They should have listened to it. Looking at it again will likely yield the same result......
;)
Are you suggesting he might belong to the dead poets society?
That was the first thing I thought of!
he's dead Jim :0)
Its moarning in America :-)
Nice play on words...:-)
He's a decomposing composer.
"Kandahari's works were initially written to mourn people who had died in the war in Afghanistan."
Is this no more complicated than Zawahari paying tribute to his recently dead buddies? Speculation sucks...
I was trying out some of this jihad poetry. I really enjoy writing it.
There once was a surgeon from Egypt;
He lived in caves as dark as a crypt.
He died with a bang
And the rest of his gang
By the Americans, too, got whipped.
Zawahiri was living in Pakistan
When the missiles came he got up and ran
But he tripped on his turban
Fell flat like Dick Durbin
And now the dumb a$$ fits in a can
Poetic license. The Jihad Poet probably works for ABC.
LOL
Yes. A trigger of some sort.
President Bush won't let them use the telephone anymore, even though the Democrats want him to let them.
'e's not dead. 'e's jus' pinin' for th' fjords.
}:-)4
In the 18-minute tape from the old moss bucket, the now deceased speaker praises Islamic fighters in Afghanistan for getting their butts whipped by the Americans- but obviously does not mention the strike on a Pakistani village on the Afghan border which killed him.
I had the same thought.
If you communications were disrupted, yet wanted to get the "code words" out, what would be the best way to do it?
Release a tape that makes no sense to anyone, other then the one waiting to recieve the message.
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