Zarqawi denounces Saudi "tyrants" in tape -Web

[ECH1969]

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denounced Saudi Arabia's rulers as despots allowing Westerners to loot the riches of Islam's birthplace, according to an Internet audio tape attributed to him on Tuesday.

"The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption," said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist Web site.

In the undated tape, which was more than an hour long, the speaker referred to the death of the leader of al Qaeda's Saudi wing, Saleh al-Awfi, who was killed by Saudi security forces on August 18 in a shootout in the holy city of Medina.

The speaker blasted education reforms in Muslim countries as un-Islamic, in apparent reference to changes brought about after U.S. criticism after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-09-06T202556Z_01_SPI673491_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRAQ-ZARQAWI-SAUDI-DC.XML

[StrafingMoose]

1. What a moron...or undercover asset..

""The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption," said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist Web site. "

Actually, on every dollar the CIA was spending on the Mujahidins, the Saudi were adding theirs back in the 80s.

[Supersedeas]

2. mmmm....the smell of propoganda in the morning

[Zodiak]

4. notice

how the article says that the tape "sounded" like Zarquawi, but the title of the article leaves no rom for doubt?

[ECH1969]

3. Bin Laden also rants and raves at the Kingdom

in audiotapes. I think the last on bashing the Saudis was back in December.

And, yet the Kingdom does nothing to cut the funding that is going to terrorism.

[AlCzervik]

5. He has a pretty high profile for a one legged dead guy.

[bassman79]

6. This dude doesn't even exist.