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Al Qaeda’s PR Campaign
Al Qaeda is coming after Obama hard, not with missiles or rockets, but with a PR campaign designed to turn moderate Muslims against the new President. I predicted this when al-Zawahri released a tape calling Obama a house negro. Before he even took office Al Qaeda was blaming him for the violence in Gaza and calling him a “hypocrite,” a “killer” of innocents, an “enemy of Muslims.”
The torrent of hateful words is part of what terrorism experts now believe is a deliberate, even desperate, propaganda campaign against a president who appears to have gotten under al-Qaeda’s skin. The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group.
With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new challenge, experts say: a U.S. president who campaigned to end the Iraq war and to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who polls show is well liked throughout the Muslim world.
Simply put, they’re scared of this guy. Their very existence depends on a widespread animosity toward the United States—it helps recruitment from the fringes, and it causes moderates who may not exactly condone their actions to at least pause in ambivalence. A U.S. President that actually engages the Muslim world can marginalize groups like Al Qaeda, and irrelevance is probably their greatest fear.
There are rumors that Obama plans a major address in an Islamic capital in his first year. That may be one of the boldest and most effective actions he can take when it comes to foreign policy.
One Response to “Al Qaeda’s PR Campaign”
Whoa Whoa…easy there Hoss…
It isn't that simple. What it simply is are more very convenient rabbits popping out of convenient holes to keep the justification for staying in Iraq (and hopefully Iran!) alive and kicking.
Isn't it funny how the completely elusive Osama Bin Laden popped up when the Gaza ruse to invade Iran was in full gear…slinging insults at Obama even though Obama is the one who said he'd have a dialogue with arab about US withdrawel? And isn't it totally convenient how that “terrorist guy” popped up on cue..the same day that Obama announced Gitmo would be closed, to “prove” we still needed to keep it open. And now that the writing is on the wall…how very convenient that Al Qaida steps up to inflammatory language who's ultimate goal is to keep the US war machine in the oil-rich countries?
Weird eh?
I submit the following again, for a quick reminder of the Bushco regime and the company it keeps..
“If you do business with terrorists, if you support or succor them, you will not do business with the United States,” said President Bush.
He didn't say anything about doing business with a terrorist's brother – or his wealthy financier.
When President George W. Bush froze assets connected to Osama bin Laden, he didn't tell the American people that the terrorist mastermind's late brother was an investor in the president's former oil business in Texas. He also hasn't leveled with the American public about his financial connections to a host of shady Saudi characters involved in drug cartels, gun smuggling, and terrorist networks.
Doing business with the enemy is nothing new to the Bush family. Much of the Bush family wealth came from supplying needed raw materials and credit to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Several business operations managed by Prescott Bush – the president's grandfather – were seized by the US government during World War II under the Trading with the Enemy Act…
..Doing business with the bin Laden empire, therefore, is only the latest extension of the Bush family's financial ties to unsavory individuals and organizations. Now that thousands of American citizens have died in terrorist attacks and the nation is going to war, the American people should know about George W. Bush's relationship with the family of Osama bin Laden. [the Al Qaida leader]..
..Fresh out of Harvard Business School, young George W. Bush returned to Midland, TX, in the late 1970s to follow his father's footsteps in the oil business. Beginning in 1978, he set up a series of limited partnerships – Arbusto '78, Arbusto '79, and so on – to drill for oil.
One of President Bush's earliest financial backers was James Bath, a Houston aircraft broker. Bath served with President Bush in the Texas Air National Guard. Bath has a mysterious connection to the Central Intelligence Agency.
According to a 1976 trust agreement, Salem bin Laden appointed James Bath as his business representative in Houston. Revelation about Bath's relationship with the bin Laden financial empire and the CIA was made public in 1992 by Bill White, a former real estate business partner with Bath. White informed federal investigators in 1992 that Bath told him that he had assisted the CIA in a liaison role since 1976 – the same year former President George Herbert Walker Bush served as director of the CIA. ..
..The BCCI scandal implicated some of the biggest political names in Washington – both Democrats and Republicans – during the first Bush White House. The bank was accused of laundering money for drug cartels, smuggling weapons to terrorists, and using Middle Eastern oil money to influence American politicians. ..
..The BCCI connection, therefore, linked George W. Bush with Saudi banker Khaled bin Mahfouz. Known in Arab circles as the “king's treasurer,” Mahfouz held a 20 percent take in BCCI between 1986 and 1990. Mahfouz is no stranger to the Bush family. He was a big investor in the Carlyle Group, a defense-industry investment group with deep connections to the Republican Party establishment. Former President Bush is a former member of the company's board of directors. George W. Bush also held shares in Caterair, a Carlyle subsidiary. Sami Baarma, a powerful player in the Mahfouz-owned Prime Commercial Bank of Pakistan, is a member of the Carlyle Group's international advisory board.
President Bush certainly is aware of that his former Saudi sugar daddy is still financing Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. USA Today newspaper reported in 1999 that a year after bin Laden's attacks on US embassies in Africa, Khaled bin Mahfouz and other wealthy Saudis were funneling tens of millions of dollars each year into bin Laden's bank accounts. Five top Saudi businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank to transfer personal funds and $3 million pilfered from a Saudi pension fund to the Capitol Trust Bank in New York City. The money was deposited into the Islamic Relief and Bless Relief – Islamic charities operating in the US and Great Britain as fronts for Osama bin Laden….
Source: http://www.rense.com/general14/bushsformer.htm
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There's just so much more in the article… it's a must-read. It's only one page long and takes about 10 minutes total to really absorb.
Once again, the convenience of “arab terrorists” popping up as if on cue is more than a little disturbing. Add it to the article above and…well….you do the math…