Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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Ayman Al-Zawahiri has sent his friends at Al Jazz his latest peanut, a tape of Himself calling President Bush a butcher and a McChimpHitler. The GWOT must be bearing fruit, because the last time I checked, real terrorists did more than surreptitiously send video tapes braying "nyah nyah nyah." But let's get into the messages behind the message with this analyisis by The Counter Terrorism Blog's Walid Pahares:
Zawahiri said the raid that targeted a village in Waziristan was in coordination with Pakistan's President Musharraf. Hitting the latter while attacking the US intervention aims at mobilizing against The Pakistani leader and forcing his Government to take further distance from Washington. Zawahiri stated that 18 people, including children and women were killed in the raid while aiming at eliminating him and four of his companions. He then stated that only Allah will decide of the time of his death. Therefore, he said "the US and its allies cannot change anything in the plan."
Comment:
That Zawahiri would first take aim at Musharraf is expected. That's just Z playing to his local constituency.
The alleged eighteen "innocents" (and there is no confirmation of any such thing) supposedly killed in the attack are on Z's conscience and no-one else's. He chose to gather people around him, and as far as I am concerned, in this guy's case, if they are within the blast radius, they are the enemy. People have to know that about the guys we want to kill. They have to know that if they are within splattering range of these assholes and they get hooked up by a Predator, they are dead. That way, only people who should be killed anyway will help them. That's what is known in war as a tactic. It's not as if Zawahiri's company on that day had no clue that he was an internationally known terrorist mastermind second only to Osama bin Laden, so my leftist brothers can cut the whining.
And it all worked. It got Z's top four assholes, and now all he has is a video camera, some rhetoric borrowed from the Koskids and the DUmmies, and a middle finger waving at Bush. Big deal.
Zawahiri names his demented version of Allah as the only force who will determine the circumstances of his death. Seems to me and I'm sure the thousands of Bin Laden's and Zawahiri's "jihadis" who met their ends for nothing that these days Allah is working through the Office Of The President Of The United States. Let's see how it goes for Z these next few months.
I don't like his chances.
HT: The Eeeevil Michelle Malkin
Zawahiri said the raid that targeted a village in Waziristan was in coordination with Pakistan's President Musharraf. Hitting the latter while attacking the US intervention aims at mobilizing against The Pakistani leader and forcing his Government to take further distance from Washington. Zawahiri stated that 18 people, including children and women were killed in the raid while aiming at eliminating him and four of his companions. He then stated that only Allah will decide of the time of his death. Therefore, he said "the US and its allies cannot change anything in the plan."
Comment:
That Zawahiri would first take aim at Musharraf is expected. That's just Z playing to his local constituency.
The alleged eighteen "innocents" (and there is no confirmation of any such thing) supposedly killed in the attack are on Z's conscience and no-one else's. He chose to gather people around him, and as far as I am concerned, in this guy's case, if they are within the blast radius, they are the enemy. People have to know that about the guys we want to kill. They have to know that if they are within splattering range of these assholes and they get hooked up by a Predator, they are dead. That way, only people who should be killed anyway will help them. That's what is known in war as a tactic. It's not as if Zawahiri's company on that day had no clue that he was an internationally known terrorist mastermind second only to Osama bin Laden, so my leftist brothers can cut the whining.
And it all worked. It got Z's top four assholes, and now all he has is a video camera, some rhetoric borrowed from the Koskids and the DUmmies, and a middle finger waving at Bush. Big deal.
Zawahiri names his demented version of Allah as the only force who will determine the circumstances of his death. Seems to me and I'm sure the thousands of Bin Laden's and Zawahiri's "jihadis" who met their ends for nothing that these days Allah is working through the Office Of The President Of The United States. Let's see how it goes for Z these next few months.
I don't like his chances.
HT: The Eeeevil Michelle Malkin
