Zawahiri: Egyptian Militant Group has Joined Al Qaeda

[ECH1969]

Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader announced in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.

The Egyptian group, Gamaa Islamiya, is apparently a revived version of a militant group that waged a campaign of violence in Egypt during the 1990s but had largely been suppressed by a government crackdown.

"We announce to the Islamic nation the good news of the unification of a great faction of the knights of the Gamaa Islamiya ... with the al Qaeda group," Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of al Qaeda, said in the videotape aired on the Al-Jazeera news network.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207183,00.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. Bush wants to overthrow foreign governments too

"It has long been the hope of the United States to have a free, independent and democratic Cuba as a close friend and neighbor," Bush said. ...


the language is slightly different, that's all.

[nam78_two]

2. Oh Jesus.....

Terrorist orgs are growing in numbers and strength thanks to the incompetents ruling the world :scared:
This administration is "Strong on terror"...yeah sure...keep telling yourself that freepers :sarcasm:

[Nickster]

3. Something doesn't seem right. This group has most of it's leaders in

jail and they denounced violence back in 1997 I believe. The group as a whole is basically pacifist from my understanding.

If Al-Qaeda is aligning with them, I think it must be a splinter group. Zawahiri is most likely blowing up a small group joining with them as being something more significant than it is.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. Thought Zawahiri was dead a few weeks ago?

[htuttle]

5. Was this a press release from Al Queda's Mergers & Acquisitions Dept.?

Hmmm...wonder if this will make it past the SEC?

[jayfish]

6. I'm Gonna Be The First Person To Say...

"I'm a uniter, not a divider"? DU's losing a step.

Jay

[mdelaguna2000]

7. Another sign that Bush is a uniter...