Not that winter in Afghanistan is generally a barrel of laughs. "Al-Qaida prison escapee warns of more attacks in Afghanistan," from the Associated Press, July 12:
An Internet audiotape purported to be from an al-Qaida commander who escaped from a US prison warns that this winter will be "hell" for international forces in Afghanistan.
The message from Abu Yahia al-Libi, who escaped from Afghanistan's Bagram prison in 2005, appeared Friday on an Islamic militant Web site. Its authenticity could not be verified, but it was posted on a Web site that carries militant statements.
Al-Libi, whose nom de guerre means "the Libyan" in Arabic, said he also had a message to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In the seven-minute recording, he assures bin Laden that the mujahideen in Afghanistan have gotten stronger, praising fighters with poetry and calling them a "shining star in this dark age and a luminous moon in its dark sky."
The mujahideen, or Islamic fighters, in Afghanistan "are going through continuous triumphs ... and are in a better shape compared with what they had been before ... attacking the Christian and apostate enemies in their own bases with suicide operations and sudden attacks and wide sweeps and tight raids and intensive bombing," he said.
He said militants are "determined to turn the upcoming winter to hell for the infidels."
Al-Libi also appealed to religious scholars to offer guidance to fighters. "The mujahideen trust you ... and you might not know how much you have influence on them," he said.
Again, they frame their war in religious terms, you know, those terms which MSM says has nothing to do with the supremacist nonsense they throw up contantly.
What is MSM?
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attacking the Christian and apostate enemies in their own bases with suicide operations and sudden attacks and wide sweeps and tight raids and intensive bombing," he said.
And then leaving behind hundreds of their dead comrades.
Honestly, you have to be nuts to join these guys in the first place.
They're not nuts, from their point of view. Those hundreds of dead comrades just got to join Allah in Paradise, raping virgins and drinking wine for eternity. Allahu Akbar!
"What is MSM?"
anti freedom
anti individual achievement
anti free thinking
anti oil drilling
anti new nuclear power plants
anti military
anti Patriot Act
anti Immigration control
anti deportation for illegal aliens and terrorists
anti spending for military research and developement
anti government support for big business
anti education reform for Americas children
anti investigation for Muslim doctored school books
anti action against Muslim training camps in America...google Islamberg
anti actual truth in reporting
anti talk radio
anti internet websites
anti anti terrorism activities
anti tax cuts
anti medical research using new methods
anti treating enemy combatants as enemy combatants
anti enemy interrogation
anti American efforts to promote more American exports as opposed to imports.
anti rewarding American students who show ingenuity, creativity, and logical thinking.
anti promotion of freedom of speech security
well, the list goes on and on , but you get the idea..
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Poor little jihadi's. They have to make big boom-booms in the al-AP news to get themselves noticed. If this media source had any shred of credibility, I'm sure the world would notice, ... But alas!
When has winter in Afghanistan NOT been "hell"?
One thing to be said for all that snow: the enemy's movements are hard to conceal.
I thought the Muslim idea of hell was a place burning with fire and skin melting etc etc. Is this some sort of global warming/terrorist segue?
This dipwad said:
Surely that's not some sort of Freudian slip?
Jackholes! Every last one of them.
pulsar182:
You can say THAT again!
The Mujahideen-Supporting Media are REVOLTING !!
blah blah blah, the flowery language continues. Same ole same ole.
And why would this winter be the winter they pick? Maybe they're buying into global warming and expecting summer to continue?
Idiots.
Nothing new here. Winter has been hell for Christians and apostates in Afghanistan for centuries. As have spring, summer, and fall.
I remember that Song being played last year. It received a lot of airtime but the Music was bad.
The US has a long history of running Tribes to ground in the dead of winter. Airborne systems just love that contrast between their Heat and the grounds Cold.
They watch where they come from, they watch where they are going. When the time comes, Boom, Boom, Boom.
There is a great book called Inside the Jihad by Omar Nasiri that gives in great detail the reality of how these mujahideen are being trained in Afganistan, where their dedication and even sophistication comes from, etc. I could not put the book down. Incredible and scary. Take a look.