Zawahri urges Muslims to aid quake victims

[ECH1969]

Al-Qaida’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Muslims to help Pakistan’s earthquake victims despite the country’s close ties to the United States.

He was speaking in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Sunday in which he sat next to an assault rifle.

“I call on all Muslims and Islamic charity organizations in particular to go to Pakistan and give a lending hand to the victims there,” Zawahri said on the tape. "We all know that (President Pervez) Musharraf's government is an agent of the United States but despite that I call on all Muslims to run to the help of their brothers in Pakistan."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9793025/

[bridgit]

1. feh, better late than never to be seen trying to effect the right side...

of something :eyes:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. What do the other 185 Al-Qaida #2s have to say about this? n/t

[enigma000]

3. He responded to this later than Bush to Katrina n/t

[Coastie for Truth]

4. "A dollar short and a day late"

citing . So it looks like Al-Qaida’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri, a board certified pediatrician, is a day late and a dollar short -- coming in behind the Israelis.

Slightly off topic, but my avatar is the "Red Crystal" - not some pagan or new age thing. The International Red Cross movement has added the "Red Crystal" emblem, and here are the three emblems together---


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and I volunteer 300-400 hours/year, mostly helping the "disoriented and newly homeless" (fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes), So, I shall carry the "Red Crystal" as my avatar with pride and honor.

And I do follow the events in Pakistan on the Red Cross internal web site - "crossnet"