Oh, goody. Al-Qaida's new 'NUMBER 2 ' announces a branch in EGYPT!

[Bluebear]

Booga booga booga.

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.

It was the first time that al-Qaida has announced a branch in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation. The Egyptian group, Gamaa Islamiya, is apparently a revived version of a militant group of the same name that waged a campaign of violence in Egypt during the 1990s but was crushed in 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-Qaida group," Ayman al-Zawahri said in the videotape aired on the Al-Jazeera news network.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060806/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_al_qaida

[xultar]

1. Franchise, Outsourcing or merger...Righties like that sorta thing...

[Bluebear]

3. It's like a big Amway or MaryKay pyramid!

You too can be a number two! (Exactly how many number two's does this organization have, anyhow?)

[nealmhughes]

2. Hosni don't want no al Qaeda cotton growing in Egypt.

Puns aside, I don't see the Egyptian government allowing that for a second. They are ruthless with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt is too important a country to the world to start getting a radical virus...100 million peeps there, ya know, this ain't Iraq or Jordan or even Iran.

[Kagemusha]

4. Al Qaeda's #2 comes from Egypt, if you didn't know.

This isn't any big thing - that particular group hasn't done much in years. Calling it a great faction is a bit much.

[cynatnite]

5. Is that kind of like when Sears bought KMart?

Egyption terrorist group will continue to go by the same name, but still be owned by Al Qaeda.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Given number two was the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood

the question to be asked is... is this official or what took them so long?

Oh boy... there are days...

[Erika]

7. So are we going to declare war on Egypt or what?

Iraq didn't even have Al Qaeda, so what now?

W is going to recruit the young republicans for a new battle? Oops, the young republicans just disbanded.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

8. We will have to give them a lot of money for a new crackdown

The more I have been reading about the Middle East this is something that always comes up. To keep pro-American leaders in power is very expensive for America. And it seems like the tighter the crackdowns, the more anti-American groups keep springing up, and we have to pay for another even tighter crackdown, and it just goes in a cycle!

[MercutioATC]

9. But....but....we KILLED "#2"..........

Oh yeah, that's right. Every time we kill "Al-Qaeda's #2 leader" there are about 30,000 people ready to pick up where he left off.

Hmmm...maybe fighting terrorists isn't like fighting a regular army...

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