Al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri has lifted his ugly ass head out of the dust and blood long enough to issue an audiotape message to the Americans. This from the abc.net report found here:
Now, considering that the U.S. and Iraqi troops have been depleting al-Masri's leadership ranks by the dozens in the past few months, I have to believe that this scum is actually talking about offering up one of the contractor victims - that's my best guess anyway.
Needless to say, al Qaeda in Iraq usually doesn't make idle threats - they threatened to go after the Awakening Council sheiks and did just that with some initial success. So the U.S. military in Iraq needs to take this seriously but at the same time, hopefully it will spur more efforts to find al-Masri and blow him off the face of the map. It's my feeling that if al-Masri is eliminated, it will be a defeating blow to al Qaeda in Iraq - I just don't think they have anyone in line to take his spot.
A leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq has announced a one-month campaign in which the group will "offer the head of an American" as a gift to US President George W Bush, according to an audiotape made public.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, better known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, made the announcement in a speech entitled, "The Paths to Victory," monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group.
In the speech to Islamist forums, he said mujahedeen, or holy warriors, would "offer the head of an American as a gift to the deceitful Mr Bush, in any manner [they] see fit."
Now, considering that the U.S. and Iraqi troops have been depleting al-Masri's leadership ranks by the dozens in the past few months, I have to believe that this scum is actually talking about offering up one of the contractor victims - that's my best guess anyway.
Needless to say, al Qaeda in Iraq usually doesn't make idle threats - they threatened to go after the Awakening Council sheiks and did just that with some initial success. So the U.S. military in Iraq needs to take this seriously but at the same time, hopefully it will spur more efforts to find al-Masri and blow him off the face of the map. It's my feeling that if al-Masri is eliminated, it will be a defeating blow to al Qaeda in Iraq - I just don't think they have anyone in line to take his spot.
Al Qaeda offers head of American as 'gift to Bush'
A leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq has announced a one-month campaign in which the group will "offer the head of an American" as a gift to US President George W Bush, according to an audiotape made public.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, better known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, made the announcement in a speech entitled, "The Paths to Victory," monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group.
In the speech to Islamist forums, he said mujahedeen, or holy warriors, would "offer the head of an American as a gift to the deceitful Mr Bush, in any manner [they] see fit."
The campaign, to be called "Attack of Righteousness," was announced in "celebration" of Mr Bush announcing that 4,000 Americans had died in the war in Iraq.
Masri is regarded by US commanders as the real leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq although the jihadist group constantly claims it is led by an Iraqi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
US commanders say Baghdadi is a "cyber invention" and that he is a straw man invented to put an Iraqi face on a terrorist group led by foreigners who infiltrated Iraq to sow chaos and undermine the US-backed Government.
Egyptian-born Masri, reportedly an expert bomb maker, was named leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in June 2006 following the death of his better-known Jordanian predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an American air strike.
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We can play whack-a-mole with them for a long, long time. A nice thing about Al qaeda employment, there is rapid advancement through the ranks. Being terminated is their last advancment.
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