The trilogy is complete.
First, the latest Osama bin Laden audio surfaced on Sunday.
Second, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi put out his video on Tuesday.
Now, another terrorist mover and shaker has released a video. Al Qaeda's number 2 man Ayman al-Zawahri has rounded out the week's terrorist trilogy.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)
-- Hundreds of suicide bombings in Iraq have "broken the back" of the U.S. military, al-Qaida's No. 2 said in a video posted Saturday _ the latest in a series of messages from the terror network.
...Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian militant believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan, also denounced the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq as "traitors" and called on Muslims to rise up to "confront them."
He said that U.S. and British forces in Iraq had bogged down in Iraq and "have achieved nothing but loss, disaster and misfortune."
I think that al-Zawahri is a plagiarist. I'm almost positive that I heard John Murtha say on Meet the Press that the U.S. mission has only brought "loss, disaster and misfortune." Or maybe it was John Kerry on This Week. It could have been Ted Kennedy on Meet the Press. I'm not really sure.
In any event, I'm certain that al-Zawahri is stealing the intellectual property of the Democrats.
Al-Qaida in Iraq "alone has carried out 800 martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) in three years, besides the sacrifices of the other mujahedeen, and this is what has broken the back of American in Iraq," al-Zawahri said.
Al-Zawahri is the third terrorist this week to join the Dems in their assessment that the U.S. is in a quagmire in Iraq.
That's not as many as the number of retired generals calling for Rumsfeld to resign, but I think it's still worth mentioning.
...Al-Zawahri's 16-minute video posted Saturday, entitled "A Message to the People of Pakistan," was mainly dedicated to criticism of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, accusing him of undermining his own country to help the United States, Israel and India.
There was no date in the video, but al-Zawahri mentioned a "recent" visit in early March by President Bush to India and Pakistan. During the visit, Bush "gave a great push to India's nuclear program while handing out orders and instructions in Pakistan," al-Zawahri said.
"Every soldier and officer in the Pakistani military should know that Musharraf is throwing them into the burner of civil war in return for the bribes he is getting from the United States," al-Zawahri said
"For this reason I call on every soldier and officer in the Pakistani army to disobey the orders of his commanders to kill Muslims in Pakistan or Afghanistan or otherwise he will be confronted by the mujahedeen," he said.
Although this installment of the trilogy criticizes Musharraf and threatens the Pakistani military, its message is just as anti-American and anti-Israeli as the first two installments. It has all the necessary elements to make it a crowd-pleaser among supporters of terrorism.
I wonder if the terrorists' releases of audio and video will be compiled into a boxed set.
If so, will it be available in time for Ramadan gift-giving?
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