From
a Cave in Afghanistan: It’s the al-Zarqawi Show
Kurt
Nimmo
09/28/05
"Another
Day in the Empire" -- -- Osama, finally
blessed with a donated kidney from a Pakistani religious student
(the transplant was performed in one of his better equipped caves
in Afghanistan), has launched an internet news show entitled
“the Voice of the Caliphate,” featuring an anchorman wearing a
black ski mask and an ammunition belt.
I’m not making this up. Well, I made up the
part about the donated kidney (although Pakistani religious
students have offered to donate their kidneys to their hero Osama),
but the business about the internet show and the anchorman is
true, if we can believe the Washington
Post.
“The anchorman, who said the report would
appear once a week, presented news about the Gaza Strip and Iraq
and expressed happiness about recent hurricanes in the United
States. A copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, was placed by
his right hand and a rifle affixed to a tripod was pointed at the
camera.”
Note all the pedestrian al-Qaeda stereotypes
here—a prominent copy of the Koran, a rifle, the ski mask
(brought back into vogue after Black September by that
nimble—for a guy with one leg—Abu Musab al-Zarqawi), and of
course expressions of joy over the death and misery of Americans,
especially by way of natural disaster attributable to the will of
Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.
“The lead segment recounted Israel’s
withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which the narrator proclaimed as a
‘great victory,’ while showing Palestinian Authority Prime
Minister Ahmed Qureia walking and talking among celebrating
compatriots,” reports Daniel Williams for the Post. “That was
followed by a repeat of a pledge on Sept. 14 by Abu Musab Zarqawi,
the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, to wage all-out war on Iraq’s
Shiite Muslims. An image of Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born Sunni
Muslim, remained on the screen for about half the broadcast.”
In other words, al-Qaeda wants to reaffirm its
support for the Palestinians (and these people want their own
state) and al-Zarqawi is the leader and Osama is the titular head
of al-Qaeda, if that. It is interesting this video or program
would appear so close to the airing of a 60 Minutes “Osama
who?” episode. “If he (bin Laden) is hiding in a hole, neither
the electronic nor the human intelligence can find him. Is it all
that important to find him? If he’s taken out tomorrow, his
ideology is not going to come to an end. I don’t think that
it’s important … if he is captured,” Gen. Safdar Hussain, a
top army commander supposedly responsible for anti-terrorism
operations in northwestern Pakistan, told 60
Minutes. The Pakistani military and intelligence should know
something about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda—hell, with a lot of
money and TLC from the CIA, they made Osama into what he is today
(or was before he died of kidney disease) and turned a handful of
cantankerous Islamic fanatics and goat herders into a formidable
world-class terrorist organization.
It makes absolutely no sense and is completely
counterproductive for al-Zarqawi to “wage all-out war on
Iraq’s Shiite Muslims,” but then, recall, we are assured the
guy is none too bright, even if he is billed as a logistical
mastermind. If al-Qaeda “in Iraq” is busy killing Shi’ites—and
thus perpetuating the age-old Islamic schism—there will be less
time and effort put into killing American and British occupation
troops. Obviously, al-Qaeda needs a couple net meetings to hammer
out its mission statement. I mean, it is rather muddled and
impulsive to take on the Great Satan and millions and millions of
Shi’ites at the same time.
“The masked announcer also reported that a
group called the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have launched
chemical-armed rockets at American forces in Baghdad,” the Post
continues. “A video clip showed five rockets fired in succession
from behind a sand berm as an off-screen voice yelled ‘God is
great’ in Arabic. The Islamic Army asserted responsibility last
year for the killing of Enzo Baldoni, an Italian journalist who
had been kidnapped in Iraq.”
“According to Atmane Tazaghart and Roland
Jacquard, in the French Figaro magazine, [the Islamic Army in Iraq
was] founded by Abu Abdallah Hassan Ben Mahmoud on the 29th of
September 2003, and is composed by internationalist salafist
islamists, former baasists and also former militants of the
Palestine Liberation Front of Abu Abbas,” notes Wikipedia.
Of course, it makes perfect sense the Palestine
Liberation Front would fire chemical weapons at Americans. Bush
told us as much about these evil-doers. Abu Abbas was responsible
for tossing the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer off the Achille
Lauro and into the sea (after shooting him) back in 1985. It is
said Abbas died in American captivity in Iraq—and none too soon,
since it was claimed by Ari
Ben-Menashe, a salesman for the Israel Defense Forces’
armaments business, that the Achille Lauro hijacking was a Mossad
operation designed to make Palestinians look like brutal killers
and cutthroats. It appears “internationalist salafist islamists”
and Palestinians will do whatever it takes to build their rep as
scurrilous terrorists and thus conform to our worst nightmares,
possibly with a little help from Mossad and the CIA. Even Italian
journalists are not safe these days.
“A commercial break of sorts followed, which
previewed a movie, ‘Total Jihad,’ directed by Mousslim
Mouwaheed. The ad was in English, suggesting that the target
audience might be Muslims living in Britain and the United
States.”
More likely, the “target audience” consists
of Americans and Brits, regardless of religious persuasion. The
ad—in fact, the entire program—sure the heck is not intended
for average Muslims in the Middle East because most of them
don’t have computers or broadband internet connections (many of
them, especially Iraqis, are lucky to have consistent electricity
and clean drinking water). It’s also curious how much “Total
Jihad” sounds like one of those late night infomercials. Instead
of exercising equipment or vegetable preparation tools, the al-Qaeda
infomercial sells death to infidels.
“The final segment was about Hurricane
Katrina. ‘The whole Muslim world was filled with joy’ at the
disaster, the anchorman said. He went on to say that President
Bush was ‘completely humiliated by his obvious incapacity to
face the wrath of God, who battered New Orleans, city of
homosexuals.’ Hurricane Ophelia’s brush with North Carolina
was also mentioned.”
In short, all Muslims are sadistic and want
every last American to suffer and suffocate in toxic sludge. No
wonder we declared war on them. As for the homosexual comment, it
would seem the producers of the al-Zarqawi Hour consulted with
Jerry Falwell and the Christian Zionists, many who believe the
same thing about Katrina—it was an act of God in response to our
wickedness and our inability or unwillingness to ferret out gay
people and stone them to death, as mandated in the Old Testament.
“Numerous radical Islamic organizations, some
claiming affiliation with al Qaeda, spread information, including
photos and videos, by the Internet. Some evade ongoing efforts to
shut them down by disguising their presence within innocuous Web
sites.”
Hell, you never know—there might be an al-Qaeda
QuickTime movie hidden on this website. If we are to believe the
above, al-Qaeda techs are savvy at stealing FTP login information
and passwords and uploading their propaganda to “innocuous Web
sites” all across the internet. It is truly amazing how this
dastardly organization graduated from humble beginnings in caves
to hacking websites from internet cafes in Peshawar. Obviously, we
need more controls imposed on the internet—we can follow
China’s example— to wipe out this scourge.
Sarcasm aside, the idea al-Qaeda and the
so-called “Global Islamic Media Front” would produce
internet-based videos is nothing short of preposterous, mostly
because the people they are supposedly attempting to
reach—impoverished Muslims—do not have access to the internet.
It would make more sense to distribute audio tapes, as Ayatollah
Khomeini did in Iran, or VHS tapes. But then, of course, the
“target audience” is not impoverished Muslims but gullible
Americans who need to be reminded every few weeks that al-Qaeda is
still out there and it’s going to get them if they don’t
listen to Bush and his neocon masters of forever war.
All of this makes perfect sense when the facts
are considered: al-Qaeda “was armed by the CIA and funded by the
Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of
Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally ‘the database’, was
originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who
were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the
Russians,” as the late Robin
Cook, former leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, has noted. Bush and
the neocons are reverse engineering the idea—as put forth by
Eisenhower and Nixon—that in order to end war all one need do is
eliminate fear from the national psyche. Bush and crew are shoving
as much fear down the throats of Americans as possible in order to
unleash World War IV, as the neocons fondly call it.
And that’s what the al-Zarqawi Show is all
about—instilling fear and loathing in the hearts and minds of
all Americans, or rather Americans gullible enough to take the
bait. It’s part of the process to get us to surrender our rights
and allow the state to militarize all facets of our society. Of
course, the internet is the perfect medium for this Freddy Kruger
horror show with a strange Islamic twist, since most Americans do
not really understand the internet and have been conditioned to
mistrust it—with all its spam, porno, and lurking
pedophiles—and so they are easily persuaded the United States
needs to “stay the course” in the war on terrorism, long as it
may last, maybe a decade or a generation or however long it takes
to subdue the Muslim Middle East.
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