It's been no surprise that al Qaeda has had Turkey in its sites for many, many years - the fact that Turkey, up until the last couple of years, has held to its rules of a secular government has inflamed al Qaeda and nearly all jihadis across the world. Well, with the recent events where the now ruling political party in Turkey is moving away from secularism and approaching that of an islamic regime, similar to Iran, we now see al Qaeda upping the public rhetoric.
Al Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has now released an audio tape where he is pushing the Turks to cut all ties with Israel and also, withdraw their NATO forces from Afghanistan...from the report at Israel National News:
The international Al-Qaeda terrorist organization slammed the Turkish government Sunday for cooperating with the Israel Defense Forces and killing Muslims in Afghanistan. Turkey is a member of NATO, which has sent forces to the area.
“The Turkish government issues statements against Israel, but at the same time commits the same Jewish crimes but against the Muslim mujahedeen in Afghanistan, burning their houses, demolishing their villages and even assuming the leadership of the NATO there,” said Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda second-in-command.
Al-Zawahiri urged Turks in a 20-minute audio message posted on a Muslim extremist website to force their government to break ties with the Jewish State and stop killing Muslims. He also offered his condolences on the deaths of nine Turkish terrorists who clashed with Israeli Navy commandos in May.
Al Qaeda's audio tape is trying to capitalize on the momentum in Turkey for that country to basically abandon its Constitution and move head long into a theological political system - this is a new form of jihad for al Qaeda to use in Turkey. Previously, al Qaeda has taken the typical approach of terror attacks to try and unsettle Turkey but with a political shift apparent at the very highest levels, al Qaeda is now trying to highlight Turkey's supposed conflicts with islam itself.
We saw al Qaeda use the train bombings in Madrid, Spain to help force the Spanish to withdraw their troops from Iraq years ago and what we see now is al Qaeda trying to wade into the political turmoil of Turkey to accomplish the same thing in Afghanistan.
This is classic al Qaeda in that they will try to bring even more pressure on Turkey from outside the country to change behavior - we all know how al Qaeda will bomb a Shia mosque in a country to try and bring about retaliatory strikes by Shias against Sunnis, but this is a case where al Qaeda is hoping its message of Turkey assisting the "infidels" and "zionists" in Afghanistan and Israel will bring an outcry against Turkey. This is islamic propaganda at its best.
Al Qaeda to Turkey: Break Ties with Israel, Stop Killing Muslims
The international Al-Qaeda terrorist organization slammed the Turkish government Sunday for cooperating with the Israel Defense Forces and killing Muslims in Afghanistan. Turkey is a member of NATO, which has sent forces to the area.
“The Turkish government issues statements against Israel, but at the same time commits the same Jewish crimes but against the Muslim mujahedeen in Afghanistan, burning their houses, demolishing their villages and even assuming the leadership of the NATO there,” said Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda second-in-command.
Al-Zawahiri urged Turks in a 20-minute audio message posted on a Muslim extremist website to force their government to break ties with the Jewish State and stop killing Muslims. He also offered his condolences on the deaths of nine Turkish terrorists who clashed with Israeli Navy commandos in May.
The message was intended to reach Muslims outside the Arab world, generally the group's traditional circle of influence.
The Egyptian-born 59-year-old deputy to Osama Bin Laden accused the Turkish government of betraying Palestinian Authority Arabs by showing sympathy through humanitarian aid shipments on one hand, yet cooperating with the IDF on the other, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a translation of the audio tape.
“The Turkish government shows sympathy with the Palestinians through statements or sending some relief aid, but actually it recognizes Israel, engages in trade, carries out military training and shares information with it,” Al-Zawahiri charged.
He also expressed deep regret for the deaths of the nine armed IHH terror activists who attacked Israeli Navy commandos when they boarded a Turkish vessel sent to break Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza. The flotilla clash occurred May 31 on the Mavi Marmara, one of six vessels that purported to bring humanitarian aid to the Hamas terrorist-controlled region. The Mavi Marmara was subsequently found to be carrying no aid at all.
Al-Zawahiri added in his audio message that he blames the United States, Israel and “treacherous Muslim governments” for the “siege” of Gaza.
The Al-Qaeda leader is allegedly a qualified surgeon and was the second and last “emir” of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, before formally merging the group into Al-Qaeda in 1998.
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