Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden

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Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s.

But in a book written from inside an Egyptian prison, he has launched a frontal attack on al-Qaeda's ideology and the personal failings of bin Laden and particularly his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Twenty years ago, Dr Fadl became al-Qaeda's intellectual figurehead with a crucial book setting out the rationale for global jihad against the West.

Today, however, he believes the murder of innocent people is both contrary to Islam and a strategic error. "Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers," writes Dr Fadl.

The terrorist attacks on September 11 were both immoral and counterproductive, he writes. "Ramming America has become the shortest road to fame and leadership among the Arabs and Muslims. But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy's buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?" asks Dr Fadl. "That, in short, is my evaluation of 9/11."

He is equally unsparing about Muslims who move to the West and then take up terrorism. "If they gave you permission to enter their homes and live with them, and if they gave you security for yourself and your money, and if they gave you the opportunity to work or study, or they granted you political asylum," writes Dr Fadl, then it is "not honourable" to "betray them, through killing and destruction".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4736358/Al-Qaeda-founder-launches-fierce-attack-on-Osama-bin-Laden.html

Interesting!

[CJCRANE]

1. Very good points

and something I've said for a long time - mainly that al-Qaeda only benefits the neocons, to the point that anyone who commits a terrorist act for al-Qaeda might as well be on the Bushco payroll.

(Also it's common sense that you shouldn't betray a country that has been your host and given you sanctuary).

[BeGoodDoGood]

2. Dunno about that.........

OBL wants to do to the USA what he did to the USSR. He saw the collapse of the USSR tied to defeat in Afghanistan. Us invading Iraq was a Allah-send to him, because it is bankrupting us and destryoing our position in the world.

So this writer is wrong. We wrecked Iraq, sure. But the USA is also being wrecked - is wrecked.

That is why a 9/11 type attack was necessary for OBL. And it has worked like a charm for him.

Walt

[CJCRANE]

3. I'm not sure that OBL

single-handedly destroyed the US economy...

However, you're right in that it has turned out well for OBL but you need to take into account the motives of the neocons too who have achieved far more.

[BeGoodDoGood]

7. Well, that's true to a degree.......

If just borrowing from China the money to fight in Iraq would bankrupt us, then OBL would be wrecking us single-handed. And that is not the case, so I see your point.

Walt

[Stanchetalarooni]

4. Was this fellow tortured?

Does Egypt torture its' political prisoners?

[CJCRANE]

5. That's the same thing Zawahiri said (Al-Qaeda's #2)

"Zawahiri has alleged that his former comrade was tortured into recanting. But the al-Qaeda leader still felt the need to compose a detailed, 200-page rebuttal of his antagonist.

The fact that Zawahiri went to this trouble could prove the credibility of Dr Fadl and the fact that his criticisms have stung their target".

[elleng]

6. WAS the Pope Polish?

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