Zawahri speaks

The Associated Press writes about the much awaited softball questions to be answered by Osama bin Laden’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahri. Probably the most amazing part of the article is AP’s reference to al Qaida as a “terror network”. Usually they refer to it as a some sort of benign non-governmental activist organization.

Zawahri, however, displays the worst case of projection recorded in modern history;

“We haven’t killed the innocents, not in Baghdad, nor in Morocco, nor in Algeria, nor anywhere else,” al-Zawahri said, according to a 46-page English transcript that accompanied the audio message posted on Web sites linked to al-Qaida.

The answer was in response to the question: “Excuse me, Mr. Zawahri, but who is it who is killing with Your Excellency’s blessing the innocents in Baghdad, Morocco and Algeria?”

Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington in 2001, while its affiliates in Iraq, Afghanistan and Algeria regularly set off bombs in crowded urban areas that have taken thousands of lives.

“If there is any innocent who was killed in the mujahedeen’s operations, then it was either an unintentional error or out of necessity,” al-Zawahri said.

He went on to accuse al-Qaida’s opponents of being the ones who kill innocent people. He also charged that “the enemy intentionally takes up positions in the midst of the Muslims for them to be human shields for him.”

Yep, it’s our fault for sending out troops wearing distinctive uniforms in distinctive vehicles for al Qaida’s bombing of hotels, marketplaces, weddings, etc….

Once, just once, I’d like to see al Qaida face our troops in a force-on-force engagement instead of their hiding in mosques, traveling about in burkas and bombing children in outdoor markets. But that would probably require some measure of testicular fortitude not normally found among those cowards.

More at Atlas Shrugs.

Category: Media, Terror War