Thursday, September 01, 2005
Al-Qaeda RhetIraq: al-Zawahiri
Who: Ayman al-Zawahiri (Al-Qaeda's #2 in Command)
Source: Al-Jazeera
Quotes:
"I talk to you today about the blessed London battle which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, Crusader British arrogance," al-Zawahiri said. "It's a sip from the glass that the Muslims have been drinking from."
"This blessed battle has transferred - like its glorious predecessors in New York, Washington and Madrid - the fight to the enemies' land, after many centuries of the battle being on our (Muslim) land and after (Western) troops have occupied our land in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine."
In a clear bid to turn Britons against the government, al-Zawahiri said: "Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as he sends you to the inferno in Iraq and exposes you to death in your land because of his Crusader war against Islam."
"We have alerted and warned you, people of Crusade allies, but it appears that you want us to make you taste death in all its horribleness.
"So, taste some of what we have been made to taste.
"Did not the Lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaikh Osama bin Laden, offer you a truce so that you might depart from Islamic lands?
"But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crimes and your Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that these proposals "deserve to be met with our contempt".
Al-Zawahiri continued to address Britons: "Rejoice the outcome of your governments' arrogance.
"Blair brought upon you disasters in the centre of your capital and we will bring upon you more.
"He is still fooling his people and insisting in his obstinacy to treat them as if they are idiots incapable of understanding."
Source: Al-Jazeera
Quotes:
"I talk to you today about the blessed London battle which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, Crusader British arrogance," al-Zawahiri said. "It's a sip from the glass that the Muslims have been drinking from."
"This blessed battle has transferred - like its glorious predecessors in New York, Washington and Madrid - the fight to the enemies' land, after many centuries of the battle being on our (Muslim) land and after (Western) troops have occupied our land in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine."
In a clear bid to turn Britons against the government, al-Zawahiri said: "Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as he sends you to the inferno in Iraq and exposes you to death in your land because of his Crusader war against Islam."
"We have alerted and warned you, people of Crusade allies, but it appears that you want us to make you taste death in all its horribleness.
"So, taste some of what we have been made to taste.
"Did not the Lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaikh Osama bin Laden, offer you a truce so that you might depart from Islamic lands?
"But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crimes and your Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that these proposals "deserve to be met with our contempt".
Al-Zawahiri continued to address Britons: "Rejoice the outcome of your governments' arrogance.
"Blair brought upon you disasters in the centre of your capital and we will bring upon you more.
"He is still fooling his people and insisting in his obstinacy to treat them as if they are idiots incapable of understanding."
