Zarqawi denounces Saudi "tyrants"
theaustralian: Iraq's al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denounced Saudi Arabia's rulers as despots allowing Westerners to loot the riches of Islam's birthplace, according to an internet audio tape attributed to him today.
"The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption," said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist web site.
"From what we have seen of these tyrants, their rule has no legitimacy," said the speaker on the tape, presented as the first of a series of lectures by the Jordanian militant to be issued on the internet by al Qaeda's wing in Iraq.
In the undated tape, which was more than an hour long, the speaker referred to the death of the leader of al Qaeda's Saudi wing, Saleh al-Awfi, who was killed by Saudi security forces on August 18 in a shootout in the holy city of Medina.
The tape was posted on an Islamist web site that often carries messages from al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in Iraq.
The speaker blasted education reforms in Muslim countries as un-Islamic, in apparent reference to changes brought about after US criticism after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The education system in Saudi Arabia and other countries has come under attack in the West for promoting hatred of non-Muslims and violence against Westerners.
Many Arabs and Muslims see US policy in the Middle East as against Islam and infringing on their independence. Link
db: Zarqawi is half man half vapor and any reference to him is best accompanied with rigid disbelief. But whoever did actually say the words above, to disagree with them all as a matter of principle is foolish - for instance the Saudi royal family really are tyrants. There is no reason to assume that everything all the terrorists say is wrong all the time. I tend to agree with them only infrequently at the most, about the same rate I agree with George Bush. One thing I would admit though, I believe the terrorists are more honest than our leaders. They do not value our lives as individuals; but they are up front about that.
"The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption," said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist web site.
"From what we have seen of these tyrants, their rule has no legitimacy," said the speaker on the tape, presented as the first of a series of lectures by the Jordanian militant to be issued on the internet by al Qaeda's wing in Iraq.
In the undated tape, which was more than an hour long, the speaker referred to the death of the leader of al Qaeda's Saudi wing, Saleh al-Awfi, who was killed by Saudi security forces on August 18 in a shootout in the holy city of Medina.
The tape was posted on an Islamist web site that often carries messages from al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in Iraq.
The speaker blasted education reforms in Muslim countries as un-Islamic, in apparent reference to changes brought about after US criticism after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The education system in Saudi Arabia and other countries has come under attack in the West for promoting hatred of non-Muslims and violence against Westerners.
Many Arabs and Muslims see US policy in the Middle East as against Islam and infringing on their independence. Link
db: Zarqawi is half man half vapor and any reference to him is best accompanied with rigid disbelief. But whoever did actually say the words above, to disagree with them all as a matter of principle is foolish - for instance the Saudi royal family really are tyrants. There is no reason to assume that everything all the terrorists say is wrong all the time. I tend to agree with them only infrequently at the most, about the same rate I agree with George Bush. One thing I would admit though, I believe the terrorists are more honest than our leaders. They do not value our lives as individuals; but they are up front about that.
posted by exoplanet at 2:55 AM
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