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January 26, 2004 Al Qaeda bi-weekly Al Qaeda has a magazine. No kidding. It's a bi-weekly publication in (suprise!) Saudi Arabia and it's called "'The Voice of Jihad". The most recent edition deals largely with Osama bin Laden's most recent speech, and the ongoing debate over attacks in Saudi Arabia. A few points.... * You say the Bush administration has "run an ineffective war on terror", Senator Kerry? "Every day we grow weaker and weaker. Every day America attacks us in another country, so what is preferable? That we act now while our veins still pulse, or that we wait until we see an American solder arranging the worshipers' entrance into the mosque in Mecca...?" --- Yahyah bin Ali Al-Ghamdi* A good example of how little the extremist Muslims understand their own actions..... "Covert and open Islamic groups have been trying for decades to establish the Islamic state, and so far they have made no progress, not even a single step, in this area. [This], while Jihad for the sake of Allah has managed to establish blessed states and entities that defended the Muslims and succeeded in applying Islamic Shari'a law for certain periods. The state of Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd Al-Wahhab [Saudi Arabia] arose only by Jihad. The state of the Taliban in Afghanistan arose only by Jihad. The Islamic state in Chechnya arose only by Jihad. It is true that these attempts were not perfect and did not fill the full role required, but incremental progress is a known universal principle. Yesterday, we did not dream of a state; today we established states and they fall. Tomorrow, Allah willing, a state will arise and will not fall..."They're divorced from reality, believing the miserable and short tenures of the Taliban and Chenyan states constitute a "step forward". Unfortunately, they share very few of the same metrics for progress that are recognized by the rest of the world. Standard of living, wealth, freedom, health care....none of those seem to enter their radar. Outside of the imposition of shari'a law, they really seem to have no other standard of progress. * They are, to say the least, not accomplished writers.... "The throne of the House of Saud is on the rim of the volcano under which the pot is boiling..."I guess the Koran does not proscribe mixing metaphors. * Finally....Al Qaeda: The Jehovah's Witnesses of the Middle East. "... If you intend to make the pilgrimage, or know someone who is planning to do so, take with you issues of The Voice of Jihad, printed out on sheets of paper or copied onto CD, to distribute to all the Arab pilgrims and primarily to the people of the Gulf, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt..."Pilgrimage - it must be the Mid-East equivalent of "Road Trip!!!" |