Sunday, November 2, 2008

Al Qaeda Websites Show Overwhelming Support For Obama


Big surprise, huh? The terrorist web sites that harbor a good deal of al Qaeda operatives are calling for the election of Barack Obama as U.S. President. Here's some of the details from World Net Daily:


A contributor to a major al-Qaida website last week said the terrorist group will "let the Democrats win the presidential elections, and Obama will take it," according to Joseph Shahda, an Arabic translator who monitors radical Islamic websites.
Obama's "goal is to withdraw from Iraq" over a period of time, but "he will be forced to withdraw his forces from Iraq at a much earlier time," said the Oct. 23 post

"Overall there are many more posters on these forums who want McCain defeated, because they want Obama to withdraw the U.S. troops from Iraq so the terrorists will claim victory," Shahda said.
The Oct. 23 post also called for launching a "crushing strike" after the election.
Let's face it, al Qaeda is going to be one of those entities that will test a President Obama, just like Joe Biden predicted. And I am convinced that al Qaeda is more than poised to launch again in Iraq as soon as American troops are withdrawn...in fact, I will go further with this in that the Iraqi government is so arrogant and so inept at times, I will predict that al Qaeda will make serious inroads in taking over Iraq at that point and with Obama as President, the Iraqi government will turn to Iran for protection.

As for a "crushing strike" by al Qaeda - I again agree with this - it will be important for al Qaeda to test the waters of an Obama presidency. I don't think this will be an attack on American soil but a major attack on some U.S. target in the world - it could be an embassy or even a U.S. troop facility. But they will test Obama, make no bones about it.


Al-Qaida sites show support for Obama

He noted that a Q&A session in January with al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was based on questions posed by contributors to the four major websites.
In the video released Thursday, an al-Qaida leader believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, Abu Yahya al-Libi, declared, "O Allah, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him."
Libi also called for the wrath of Allah to be brought against Bush, equating him with past tyrants, according to Reuters.
The title of a Washington Post story Oct. 22 suggested the forums indicated significant al-Qaida support for John McCain.
But the story, "On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain," cited only one posting declaring a Republican victory would benefit the terrorist network.
"Al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming election," the Post quoted from the website posting, which also stated an attack around the time of the election could help McCain win.
"It will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida will then succeed in exhausting America," it said.
But Shahda said many postings on the Al-Hesbah website mocked the Washington Post article.
"Members were making fun of the Washington Post for not distinguishing between a member's opinion and an al-Qaida official statement," he said.
Shahda said that in addition to the Oct. 23 post stating al-Qaida will let Democrats win, there have been previous comments on al-Qaida-linked Internet forums speaking in favor of Obama that the media has not covered.

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