Al-Qaida No. 2 urges attacks on oil plants (Zawahri )

[Barrett808]

Al-Qaida No. 2 urges attacks on oil plants
MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader called for attacks against Gulf oil facilities and urged insurgent groups in Iraq to unite to drive out American forces, according to a videotape posted on the Internet Wednesday.

The posting was a full version of a video by al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri that was issued on Sept. 19, excerpts of which were broadcast by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera at the time. The network aired more excerpts Wednesday, originally presenting all of the footage as new. A newscaster later told viewers some of the excerpts had previously been broadcast.

"I call on the holy warriors to concentrate their campaigns on the stolen oil of the Muslims, most of the revenues of which go to the enemies of Islam," al-Zawahri, the Egyptian deputy of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, said in a portion of the tape not previously broadcast.

Al-Zawahri also said that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was alive and well and leading the holy war against the West.

"Thanks be to God, (al-Qaida's) prince, Sheik Osama bin Laden, is still, God protect him, leading the holy war," al-Zawahri said in the September footage.

(more)

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/13346463.htm

[coyote]

1. I thought Al-Qaida No. 2

has died 5 times already. They just can´t put this man down.

[dapper]

2. I was going to say....

Number 2 has died, has been captured, died again, captured again.

Maybe everyone is #2.

Dap

[CanOfWhoopAss]

4. Al-Qaida #2 has so many lives even cats shake their heads in admiration.

[Lori Price CLG]

16. LOL! Yes, but there are even more '#3s' and 'top lieutenants.' n/t

[Karmageddon]

6. This guy must be some kind of superhuman being.

[marmar]

7. Exactly....

Al-Qaeda has more No. 2s than the Papermate factory.

[dapper]

3. Bush's ratings

another scare to make Bush's poll numbers rise?

Dap

[nickgutierrez]

5. I don't see why they would rise...

...except as a Pavlovian sort of reaction to new terror threats. Anyone who believes that this guy:



has a chance in hell of ridding the world of terrorism needs to have their heads examined. :)

[Newsjock]

8. I'll say this again

I'm getting really tired of all these mysterious "Internet videos" that seem to show up at the most conveeeeenient moments. Demand that the media tell us the URLs, so we can judge for ourselves, so we can check domain registrations, so we can see where this information just might happen to lead.

Unless, of course, there's something to hide.

[dapper]

9. Price of Oil

and the price of oil is up now based on the SEPTEMBER video tape.

good lord...

Dap

[Lori Price CLG]

10. Al-Zawahri was killed a long time ago.

See: Cleric says al-Zarqawi died long ago
Saturday 17 September 2005, 8:12 Makka Time, 5:12 GMT

Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric says in an interview.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/73570F02-EA07-492F-9E04-C080950DF180.htm

Lori Price

[ECH1969]

11. al-Zawahiri and al-Zarqawi are two different men

[Lori Price CLG]

14. You're right... I missed that, thanks! n/t

[twaddler01]

12. why

doesn't this surprise me.

The article i believe is correct, citing al-Zarqawi but it was mispelled in your heading LP just so you know :p

[Danieljay]

13. anyone remember when Al Qaida WASN'T in Iraq?

We had one dictator and not an insurgency? Over 2100 American families celebrated Christmas with ALL of their family members? American troops had ALL of their limbs and weren't battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Gas was under $2 per gallon? We had a budget surplus? We were respected around the world and "We were all Americans, now" in a unified fight against terrorism?

Wow, we've come a long way, baby! Thanks George.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

15. the IRAQI Citizens BEAT THEM TO IT-They not AL CIAduh blow up oil fields

To defend their own natural resources from being looted by the invaders.

They want us to THINK it's foreign fighters--is it?----lemme think.....NAAAAAAAHHH
it's Iraqi homeboys.




ALL American troops home now and let's end this nightmare.