Zawahiri Threatens America; Democratic Senator Threatens Attorney General.
It seems that our enemies have managed to come together once again to threaten us.
BERLIN, Jan. 30 — The deputy leader of al Qaeda aimed a fresh fusillade of threats and scorn at the United States in a videotape broadcast Monday, serving notice that he was alive and well despite a recent attempt by the CIA to kill him with a missile strike in Pakistan.
Ayman Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician and second in command to Osama bin Laden, called President Bush the “butcher of Washington” and “a curse” on the United States in a speech that was broadcast in excerpts on the satellite television channel al-Jazeera. Echoing recent remarks by bin Laden, Zawahiri called U.S. policy in Iraq a failure and warned of more bloodshed.
Zawahiri’s tape repeated many of the claims made on a recent bin Laden audiotaunt which leads to the conclusion drawn in this telling paragraph.
M.J. Gohel, a terrorism analyst and chief executive of the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London, said it appeared that Zawahiri and bin Laden had coordinated their recent messages. He said it was noteworthy that al Qaeda’s leaders had fashioned an effective system of communication that Western intelligence agencies have been unable to penetrate.
Today, the Congress is preparing to hold hearings into exactly why the US has been using an NSA program that penetrated al Qaeda’s effective systems of communications, especially to its friends and associates inside the US. Senator Russ Feingold, in referring to the program, has essentially called the Attorney General a liar.
I sense no trace of irony in the coverage whatsoever.
Do you think that both articles are related? I certainly do. Then again, I’m not one of those folks trying to cripple a President to score a few political points in the midst of a war. I imagine that if I were, I would see no convergence in these articles whatsoever. How could I, considering that in order to play politics with our lives I’d have to either believe that there is no war or that our lives are significantly less valuable then temporary political gain.
Both are rephrehensible, but that seems par for the anti-war course.
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