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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Dead
- Thread starter hcour
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Current state of Afghanistan:
Drug trade unchecked, with those drugs ending up in America leading to crime, death, etc...
The Taliban are still in Afghanistan, people forget that the war there goes on.
Oh, and this:
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed that the killing in Iraq of al Qaeda militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not weaken Muslim efforts against "crusader forces", a Pakistan-based news agency said on Friday.
In one of the most significant developments in Iraq since the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Jordanian-born Zarqawi was killed on Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike on a "safe house" north of Baghdad.
"I give good news to Muslims around the world, the resistance against the crusader forces in Afghanistan and other parts of the Islamic world will not be weakened," the Afghan Islamic Press cited Omar as saying in a statement.
The news agency did not say how it had obtained the purported statement from the fugitive Omar who, like al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is believed to be hiding out somewhere along the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border.
Zarqawi's killing will inevitably focus attention on the hunt for bin Laden, nearly five years after the September 11 attacks on the United States and the subsequent overthrew of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have been fighting U.S. and other foreign troops and the Western-backed Afghan government ever since.
Bin Laden called Zarqawi, who was in his late 30s, the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq, and he came to symbolise the radical Islamist insurgency against U.S. occupation.
Omar said he and "all the brothers of the sacred resistance movement in Afghanistan" express deep sorrow over the death.
MANY TO FOLLOW
"Zarqawi's martyrdom will not weaken the resistance movement in Iraq. Many, many more young men can become Zarqawi," Omar said. "The successors ... can be even stronger than him."
Zarqawi inspired a flood of militants from across the Arab world to blow themselves up in suicide missions in Iraq.
Afghanistan's Taliban have copied the tactic, launching a wave of suicide attacks against foreign and Afghan government troops, and helping push the level of violence in Afghanistan in recent months to its worst levels since they were ousted.
"As long as crusader forces continue their attacks on the Islamic world, every young man of the Ummah (Muslim world) will fight to defend the faith," Omar said.
A Pakistani security analyst said Zarqawi's death would not weaken the Taliban insurgency, and could incite more violence.
"I fear revenge killings, not only in Iraq but maybe in Afghanistan or Pakistan," said author Ahmed Rashid.
"Zarqawi had following all around the world, there may be action taken by sympathisers anywhere.
CALL FOR PRAYERS
In Pakistan on Friday, where militants such as Zarqawi and bin Laden have considerable support, a member of an opposition alliance of Islamist parties asked the speaker of the lower house of parliament for permission to say prayers for Zarqawi.
Zarqawi had been fighting for his rights, said the politician, Farid Ahmed Piracha.
But the speaker, Chaudhry Amir Hussain, declined the request, switching off Piracha's microphone.
Another member of the alliance of conservative religious parties asked the speaker to allow prayers for Zarqawi's spiritual adviser, Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, and others killed in the airstrike on Zarqawi. Hussain ruled that out.
"There are a number of people who are martyred around the world and I don't want to create controversy by allowing prayers," Hussain said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that 10 people, including Zarqawi, had been killed in the strike on a "safe house" near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.
Drug trade unchecked, with those drugs ending up in America leading to crime, death, etc...
The Taliban are still in Afghanistan, people forget that the war there goes on.
Oh, and this:
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed that the killing in Iraq of al Qaeda militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not weaken Muslim efforts against "crusader forces", a Pakistan-based news agency said on Friday.
In one of the most significant developments in Iraq since the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Jordanian-born Zarqawi was killed on Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike on a "safe house" north of Baghdad.
"I give good news to Muslims around the world, the resistance against the crusader forces in Afghanistan and other parts of the Islamic world will not be weakened," the Afghan Islamic Press cited Omar as saying in a statement.
The news agency did not say how it had obtained the purported statement from the fugitive Omar who, like al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is believed to be hiding out somewhere along the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border.
Zarqawi's killing will inevitably focus attention on the hunt for bin Laden, nearly five years after the September 11 attacks on the United States and the subsequent overthrew of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have been fighting U.S. and other foreign troops and the Western-backed Afghan government ever since.
Bin Laden called Zarqawi, who was in his late 30s, the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq, and he came to symbolise the radical Islamist insurgency against U.S. occupation.
Omar said he and "all the brothers of the sacred resistance movement in Afghanistan" express deep sorrow over the death.
MANY TO FOLLOW
"Zarqawi's martyrdom will not weaken the resistance movement in Iraq. Many, many more young men can become Zarqawi," Omar said. "The successors ... can be even stronger than him."
Zarqawi inspired a flood of militants from across the Arab world to blow themselves up in suicide missions in Iraq.
Afghanistan's Taliban have copied the tactic, launching a wave of suicide attacks against foreign and Afghan government troops, and helping push the level of violence in Afghanistan in recent months to its worst levels since they were ousted.
"As long as crusader forces continue their attacks on the Islamic world, every young man of the Ummah (Muslim world) will fight to defend the faith," Omar said.
A Pakistani security analyst said Zarqawi's death would not weaken the Taliban insurgency, and could incite more violence.
"I fear revenge killings, not only in Iraq but maybe in Afghanistan or Pakistan," said author Ahmed Rashid.
"Zarqawi had following all around the world, there may be action taken by sympathisers anywhere.
CALL FOR PRAYERS
In Pakistan on Friday, where militants such as Zarqawi and bin Laden have considerable support, a member of an opposition alliance of Islamist parties asked the speaker of the lower house of parliament for permission to say prayers for Zarqawi.
Zarqawi had been fighting for his rights, said the politician, Farid Ahmed Piracha.
But the speaker, Chaudhry Amir Hussain, declined the request, switching off Piracha's microphone.
Another member of the alliance of conservative religious parties asked the speaker to allow prayers for Zarqawi's spiritual adviser, Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, and others killed in the airstrike on Zarqawi. Hussain ruled that out.
"There are a number of people who are martyred around the world and I don't want to create controversy by allowing prayers," Hussain said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that 10 people, including Zarqawi, had been killed in the strike on a "safe house" near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.
Quote from ElCubano:
this is funny..another hypothetical scenerio.
are you emplying that BUSH can be trusted with doing the right thing?? I know hindsight is 20/20 but im betting you dont see what i see
Everyone knows about the resolution. Iâm just saying that if we had a Democratic President and a Republican majority or minority, I think the Republicans could still lead the persuasion of a majority vote in Congress and a Democrat president to pass the same legislation back in 2002.
And I think you know that if we had a Democrat majority throughout all of this, a cut and run would have happened by now, leaving the Iraqis in pools of blood from civil war.
And I think you know that if we had a Democrat majority throughout all of this, a cut and run would have happened by now, leaving the Iraqis in pools of blood from civil war.
Quote from dddooo:
Dean, Feingold, Gore, 21 democratic senators, 133 democratic congresmen voted against the resolution. Once again you've demonstrated your ignorance.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/iraq.us/
There wouldn't have been a cut and run, because there wouldn't have been a stupid unnecessary war in the first place.
Doh!
Doh!
Quote from Sam123:
Everyone knows about the resolution. Iâm just saying that if we had a Democratic President and a Republican majority or minority, I think the Republicans could still lead the persuasion of a majority vote in Congress and a Democrat president to pass the same legislation back in 2002.
And I think you know that if we had a Democrat majority throughout all of this, a cut and run would have happened by now, leaving the Iraqis in pools of blood from civil war.
No you dimwit, that is not correct....
Oh, and OBL was untouched by your frearless leader....
Oh, and OBL was untouched by your frearless leader....
Quote from jem:
So we can see the following.
zzz and el cubano both think we would be better off having left al queda and OBL untouched in an afghanistan. An afghanistan led by a Taliban govt related to OBL by marriage.
Is that correct?