Posted on 09/11/2006 6:49:10 AM PDT by Valin
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri has condemned United Nations forces in Lebanon as "enemies of Islam", the first implicit threat against the peacekeeping detachment.
Zawahri, speaking in a video tape aired on Arabic Al Jazeera television on Monday, also blasted a U.N. resolution that governs a ceasefire that ended 34-days of fighting between Israel and Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah.
"The biggest problem with resolution 1701 and similiar resolutions designed to humiliate Muslims is...its declaration of the existence of the Jewish state," Zawahri said in the video, aired on the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
"(The resolution) also isolates the mujahideen in Palestine from the Muslims in Lebanon by the presence of international forces that are the enemies of Islam."
The U.N. force, known as UNIFIL II, is being deployed in the south of Lebanon after the August 14 truce. It will contain troops from Muslim as well as Western countries.
Israel's war on Lebanon was sparked by Hizbollah's abduction of two Israel soldiers in a cross-border raid in July.
The U.N. Security Council resolution that led to the truce called for 15,000 U.N. troops to join a similar number of Lebanese army troops deploying in the south of the country.
You forgot the "Religion of Perpetual Outrage" alert.
then al qaeda should get its tail out from in between its legs and do something (listening.....crickets)
They will. After all we are talking about the UN, and AQ knows the UN will retreat if attacked.
even mortal enemies can agree on the UN.
I really think this Al zawhirri dude is the editor in chief of Al Jazeera.
You're asuming that there's a whole lot of thinking going on there.
Of course they do.
Oh, really? I thought he was the freaking anchor at CNN, he gets so much face time there.
"Oh, really? I thought he was the freaking anchor at CNN, he gets so much face time there."
You mean Al Jazeera and CNN aren't owned and operated by the same people?
Valin: Thanks for the posting.
John
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