Verum Serum (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Apparently US intelligence is none to happy about it: Late last year, Al-Zawahiri - who has a £13million bounty on his head - posted a message on an extremist website run by Al Qaeda saying he would answer questions on any topic. US intelligence tracked all the email replies and among them were messages from Abu Hamza. [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Since December, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second in command, has received almost 2,000 communications, The Washington Post reports....
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave the author Salman Rushdie the knighthood which caused protests by Muslims around the world when it was announced last year. A Pakistani government minister said last year the award justified suicide bombings. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said the terror network was preparing a "precise response" to Britain's decision.
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
One of the most transparent and persistent lies of the Iraq War is that Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri sent a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June 2005, telling Zarqawi to chill out with the sectarian warfare against Shi'ites and also stressing how great the American war effort was going. You can read an alleged transcript of this letter at Global Security.org. When you open the...
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Two noted conservative bloggers are reporting a story from a Kurdish newspaper that purports to show a document from Saddam's Iraq seeking a meeting with Ayman al-Zawahiri after 9/11. Gateway Pundit and Strata Sphere Both, including Regime of Terror, point out Saddam's previous ties to the Egyptian terror apparatus that featured not only Zawahiri but Mohammed Atta, the current leader of AQ in
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
In 2002 Saddam Hussein's intelligence organization wrote a letter to Al Qaeda chieftain Ayman al-Zawahiri requesting a meeting regarding the launch of terrorist operations. The invaluable MEMRI translation service reports The Kurdish daily Kurdistani Nwe has published a 2002 letter from the Iraqi presidency that it says proves that there was cooperation between the regime of Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda....
Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Psyche! The Iraqi newspaper Kurdistani Nwe published a letter today on the front page from Saddam Hussein requesting a meeting with Al-Qaeda second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri. ... MEMRI reported on this letter from 2002: The Kurdish daily Kurdistani Nwe...
Hyscience (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
... proof in writing, as in letters to al-Qaeda's Ayman Al-Zawahiri - from Saddam himself .
cold fury (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Andrew McCarthy slanders members of our newest hyphenated victim class, Terrorist-Americans: After the embassy bombings, the aforementioned bin Laden was indicted along with his top henchman Ayman al-Zawahiri and nearly two dozen others. Exactly six of those men have been prosecuted as a result. And of those, the top-ranking al-Qaeda figure, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, has never [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
LEADERLESS JIHAD Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century By Marc Sageman Univ. of Pennsylvania. 200 pp. $24.95 THE CONFRONTATION Winning the War Against Future Jihad By Walid Phares Palgrave Macmillan. 296 pp. $24.95 Al-Qaeda is synonymous with Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
There is rumor and speculation that a U.S. fired missile in Pakistan earlier this week was more than a response to a clash on the Afghan border. Several blogs and other sources are speculating that it may have been a surgical strike against an al Qaeda high value target (HVT), and the target may have been al Qaeda #2 man, Ayman al Zawahiri. Full Article ...
Pajamas Media (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Some argue that the notion of Muslims reconquering Spain is just right-wing fear-mongering. Meanwhile, al-Zawahiri and his minions sharpen their swords.
Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of an audio recording of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri released by Al-Qaida’s official As-Sahab Media Wing on June 4, titled “On the Anniversary of the Disaster - A Call to Help Our People in Gaza.” During the recording, al-Zawahiri once again called upon “the sons of the Islamic nation [to] break the chains of the treacherous regimes and the impotent...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Whereas once Al Qaeda held the lofty goal of restoring the caliphate and imposing it on the whole world, the school of hard knocks (especially Profs. Drone, Hellfire, and JDAM) has taught them to aim a little lower: Al-Zawahiri states that the Arabs’ defeat in 1967 reflected the corruption of their regimes “whose armies… scattered in [...]
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
On June 5, 2008, the Islamist website Al-Ikhlas posted an audio message by Al-Zawahiri titled "In Remembrance of the [1967] Defeat... Break the Siege on Gaza." In the message, produced by Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Sahab, Al-Zawahiri states ... June 6, 2008, 12:12 pm
