Iraqi security forces report the capture of Abu Ayyab al-Masri, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
Update: The Iraqis now admit that they were mistaken. They have not captured the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
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This AP article reports that the chief of Hamas, the terrorist organization currently controlling the Palestinian territories, told Al-Jazeera that its proposed cease-fire with Israel is a tactic in its resistance movement. This is no surprise, but it does demonstrate how Hamas cannot be trusted to negotiate peace in good faith. Its negotiations are merely tactics to gain time to replenish, resupply, and regroup, so that it can re-initiate attacks on Israel at a time of its convenience.
Abu Ubaida al Masri
Apr 9
Another al Qaeda leader, Abu Ubaida al Masri, is dead. He was assassinated by the hepatitis C virus. Unconventional war fighting is proving more effective.
Al Qaeda’s Ayman Zawahiri has released his latest video. He is calling for Muslims to join fighters in “open jihad fields such as Somalia, Iraq, Algeria and Afghanistan”.
Obama’s The World Beyond Iraq speech asserts that the war in Iraq is lacking a strategy. Perhaps he should consider the following facts.
- There has not been another terrorist attack by al Qaeda on American soil since 9/11.
- There have been numerous terrorist attacks by al Qaeda in Iraq.
- Al Qaeda has issued calls for Islamic fighters to converge on Iraq for jihad.
- After Iraq was invaded, Libya renounced its WMD program and sought to repent for its past terrorist activities.
What if the war in Iraq as a component of the War on Terror is actually pivotal to the strategy. What if the criteria for success are actually being achieved, but it is more effective to portray ineptitude to keep the focus on the chaos in Iraq, rather than to celebrate our successes to place al Qaeda’s focus on attacking America? What if it is more effective to keep the strategy unspoken, so that the enemy who is distracted will not be alerted to our true goals? Maybe our goals are modest and fully met by the fact that terrorist attacks are concentrated on Iraqi soil and not Manhattan or Washington DC.
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Osama bin Laden sends Europe an ultimatum to cease and desist from publishing cartoons. One man with a pen was capable of inciting the hordes to riot. Meanwhile, what was altered by those 50 murders? I guess, the pen is truly mightier.
