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New Al Qaeda Tape: Don't Stop Rebelling Until Islamic Regimes Created
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Calls for More Bloodshed To Topple Arab Dictators
By MATTHEW COLE
March 1, 2011
A new audio message released by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee calls for the uprisings in the Middle East to continue until Islamic states are established.
The 10-minute audio message, newly released on the web but recorded after the Tunisian government fell in January, is the first major communiqué from al Qaeda recorded after the tumult in the Middle East began, and has been seen by some analysts as the terror group's attempt to stay relevant.
The message, purportedly from Saudi national Ibrahim Sulayman al Robaysh, an al Qaeda operative released from Guantanamo in 2006, warns Tunisians that the removal of long-time president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was laudable, but likely to result in another "tyrant" taking his place if Tunisians don't create a state based on Islamic law, or sharia.
"I am happy, like the others, that this tyrant has fallen," al Robaysh said. "But I don't think that these events will be beneficial to the plight of Muslims. For it could be that they have replaced a horrible situation with a not so bad one. Or replaced one tyrant with another."
The release of the message coincides with the recent resignation of Tunisia's prime minister, who was a holdover from the previous regime.
Al Qaeda's long silence amid revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, and now Libya has been seen by U.S. government officials as a possible sign of the terror organization's waning influence in Arab world. The revolutions have been largely secular and non-violent .
'Al Qaeda Has Lost Currency'
"Al Qaeda has lost currency simply from the fact that there has been a major political change in the region, in which the extremists didn't play a role," said Paul Pillar, a former top analyst for the CIA and now a professor at Georgetown University. "It's something the U.S. should be happy about."
Pillar cautioned that al Qaeda's silence during the revolts was not necessarily the end of violent Islamic extremism. He warned that if the new governments were not proactive enough in responding to popular demands, al Qaeda and other groups could find an audience calling for violence and fundamentalism.
Al Robaysh, who is believed to be operating from Yemen, also encouraged Saudis to rise up against the Saudi royal family.
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ABC:
New Al Qaeda Tape: Don't Stop Rebelling Until Islamic Regimes Created
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Calls for More Bloodshed To Topple Arab Dictators
By MATTHEW COLE
March 1, 2011
A new audio message released by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee calls for the uprisings in the Middle East to continue until Islamic states are established.
The 10-minute audio message, newly released on the web but recorded after the Tunisian government fell in January, is the first major communiqué from al Qaeda recorded after the tumult in the Middle East began, and has been seen by some analysts as the terror group's attempt to stay relevant.
The message, purportedly from Saudi national Ibrahim Sulayman al Robaysh, an al Qaeda operative released from Guantanamo in 2006, warns Tunisians that the removal of long-time president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was laudable, but likely to result in another "tyrant" taking his place if Tunisians don't create a state based on Islamic law, or sharia.
"I am happy, like the others, that this tyrant has fallen," al Robaysh said. "But I don't think that these events will be beneficial to the plight of Muslims. For it could be that they have replaced a horrible situation with a not so bad one. Or replaced one tyrant with another."
The release of the message coincides with the recent resignation of Tunisia's prime minister, who was a holdover from the previous regime.
Al Qaeda's long silence amid revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, and now Libya has been seen by U.S. government officials as a possible sign of the terror organization's waning influence in Arab world. The revolutions have been largely secular and non-violent .
'Al Qaeda Has Lost Currency'
"Al Qaeda has lost currency simply from the fact that there has been a major political change in the region, in which the extremists didn't play a role," said Paul Pillar, a former top analyst for the CIA and now a professor at Georgetown University. "It's something the U.S. should be happy about."
Pillar cautioned that al Qaeda's silence during the revolts was not necessarily the end of violent Islamic extremism. He warned that if the new governments were not proactive enough in responding to popular demands, al Qaeda and other groups could find an audience calling for violence and fundamentalism.
Al Robaysh, who is believed to be operating from Yemen, also encouraged Saudis to rise up against the Saudi royal family.
- The "arab Spring" Smells Like A Pile Of Camel Crap
From Yahoo News: Al Qaeda: Arab revolts herald "great leap forward" LONDON (Reuters) – Al Qaeda's most influential English-language preacher said revolts sweeping the Arab world would help rather than harm its cause by giving Islamists freed from...
-
Newsmax: Al-Qaida's No. 2 Incites Tunisians, Egyptians Monday, 28 Feb 2011 CAIRO — Osama bin Laden's deputy sought to co-opt the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia in a new message, urging the countries' peoples to create Islamic states and...
- Bin Laden Wording 'indicator' Of Upcoming Attack: Monitor
From AFP: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Osama bin Laden's word choice in the latest audio message attributed to him is seen as a "possible indicator" of an upcoming attack by his Al-Qaeda network, a US monitoring group warned Sunday. IntelCenter,...
- Bin Laden Claims Responsibility For Airline Bomb Attempt On Christmas Day
Gateway Pundit: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 9:16 AM Jim Hoft Osama Bin Laden took responsibility for the Christmas bomb attempt in a new tape released by Al-Qaeda. The Al-Qaeda leader said the attacks would continue as long as America continues its relationship...
- The Art Therapy Didn't Work, Huh?
From this article at ABC News:Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.S. Former Guantanamo Prisoners Believed Behind Northwest Airlines Bomb Plot; Sent to Saudi Arabia in 2007 By BRIAN ROSS, JOSEPH RHEE and REHAB...