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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:01 PM
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Al Zawahiri latest video shown tonight on ABC TV ... yet a few days ago
Al Zawahiri was being touted as having been killed. Due to tomorrow night's SOTUS by *, isn't it convenient that the terrorist johnny jump ups always appear just before a major election, speech, etc. ?


http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1504096
ABC News: Pakistani Military Sources Say Zawahiri May Be Dead

and
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/01/abc_al_qaidas_n.html

I understand the military's psyops guys can do a real good video fake nowadays.

When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing
By William M. Arkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, Feb. 1, 1999
http://www.public-action.com/911/voice-simulation/index.html

You won't be told this on tomorrow's evening news.....
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:13 PM
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1. That's Zarqawi you're thinking of
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a Jordanian Salafiist mujahid who led a murderous campaign in Iraq in 2005 and early 2006 before his death.

Ayman al-Zawahiri is an Egyptian Wahabbiist author and fundraiser who left the Muslim Brotherhood to go fight with bin Laden in Afghanistan.

al-Zawahiri and al-Zarqawi hated each other, and each thought the other one was making the wrong decision on the direction for the Iraqi war. Bin Laden came down on al-Zawahiri's side and, not very long after, Zarqawi's location was conveniently relayed to the US, at which point he became several million discrete atoms.

Zarqawi was never "the number 2 al Qaeda man" and OBL and the "official" AQ brand always kept an arm's length from him and his tactics. (One of the more revealing letters we intercepted was Zawahiri's warning to Zarqawi that the Arab world would not stand for the grisly beheadings he kept doing). Zawahiri has always been the number 2 man of al Qaeda (in fact some have compared his relationship to bin Laden with Cheney's relationship with *), and in fact Zawahiri was in the hotel room where they first talked about setting up a "base" (a "qaeda") for training mujahidiin in Afghanistan (they never called their thing "al Qaeda" until we developed that brand for it, it was more of an unspoken cosa nostra sort of thing).
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:18 PM
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2. No, they showed Ayman Al Zawahiri, OBL's righthandman
Edited on Mon Jan-22-07 10:19 PM by EVDebs
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1504096
ABC News: Pakistani Military Sources Say Zawahiri May Be Dead
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I_Will Donating Member (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:35 PM
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3. Wow! What a concise, lucid and informed reply! Thank you! n/t
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