Al Qaeda's Zawahiri Calls On Muslims To Make Iraq A 'Fortress Of Islam'

Al Qaeda #2 is at it again - putting up an audiotape on some jihadist internet sites where he calls on jihadists of this world to make Iraq a "fortress of Islam." Here's more from the audio message laid out in the article here at Breitbart:

"We will only get our rights back with our own hands and not through beggary or fraudulent elections," he said, according to SITE's summary on Thursday.
The monitoring service said he called on Muslims to make Iraq a "fortress of Islam" and, underscoring the Sunni Muslim orientation of Al-Qaeda, he referred to a plot against Iraq by the United States together with Shiite Iran, which he said would lead to the Mideast region exploding.

What's that? Zawahiri takes a pot shot at the Iranians? Haha. Anyway, what I'd like to point out here is that Al Qaeda's #2 continually sends out these messages about Iraq. He is repeatedly calling for the islamists to do EVERYTHING they can to take back Iraq. His boss, Osama bin Laden has in the past called Iraq the center of the islamic world. You can almost feel the panic in their messages that Iraq could embrace freedom and be a beacon in the world of exposing al Qaeda's islamofascism. And with all those indications of how dear Iraq is to al Qaeda, we STILL see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lay out how quickly they will surrender Iraq to al Qaeda. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will disgrace the sacrifice of our troops and turn the Iraqi people over to the devils of al Qaeda.

So I ask the question: What REAL American, knowing that the terrorist group that killed 3,000 of our innocent brothers and sisters wants more than anything for the U.S. to retreat from Iraq, would vote this November for a Clinton or an Obama? And if they do, how will those voters ever be able to hold their heads high again?

Zawahiri calls on Muslims to make Iraq 'fortress of Islam'

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has said that building Iraq as a "fortress of Islam" is the "most important duty" for Muslims, in an audio message according to the SITE monitoring service.
In a nearly 16 minute audio file posted on jihadist Internet forums marking the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Zawahiri, known as Al-Qaeda's ideological thinker, called on Muslims to fight for creating a greater Muslim state.
"We will only get our rights back with our own hands and not through beggary or fraudulent elections," he said, according to SITE's summary on Thursday.
Zawahiri's talk, titled "Five years after the Invasion of Iraq and Decades of Injustice by the Tyrants," contains references to US Iraqi commander General David Petraeus's April 8 testimony to the US Congress, and to a textile worker strike in Egypt on April 6 as evidence that it was a recent recording, according to SITE.
The monitoring service said he called on Muslims to make Iraq a "fortress of Islam" and, underscoring the Sunni Muslim orientation of Al-Qaeda, he referred to a plot against Iraq by the United States together with Shiite Iran, which he said would lead to the Mideast region exploding.
He also discussed the situation in Egypt, saying that Muslims there are deprived of wealth and basic necessities, according to SITE.
It was Zawahiri's second audio file released this month. In the first, posted April 2, he launched a blistering attack on the United Nations.
"The United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims: it is the one which codified and legitimized the setting up of the state of Israel and its taking over of the Muslims' lands," Zawahiri said in that recorded talk.