Jihadists post Net video urging Obama to abandon resistance to their efforts

[eve_anne_gelical]

As many stateside wish him to do as well. "Islamists Post Internet Video Urging Obama to Abandon War on Terror," from AP



BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on President-elect Barack Obama to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan and abandon the war on terror, an Internet monitoring service reported Friday.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, self-styled head of the Al Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq, said in a speech posted on an extremist Web site that it would be better "for you and us" to "withdraw your forces" and "return to your homes," according to the SITE Intelligence Group that monitors militant Web sites.

Al-Baghdadi blamed the global financial crisis on the wars "launched in Muslim countries" and said he was issuing the call on behalf of "my brothers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya," SITE said.

The U.S. military says al-Baghdadi is an actor who provides a voice for Al Qaeda in Iraq propaganda.

In a separate statement, the Mujahedeen Army, a Sunni insurgent group, urged Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq or face "days that will be more difficult than the nightmare experienced by his predecessor."...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448904,00.html

[Biblenuggetlady]

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, aka Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, aka Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi ... is a fictional character the mujahedeen made up to give a face to their organization, so they would have their own Osama bin Ladin type spokesman, except Osama is "real", though possibly dead and propped up in a cold cave. The US was thought to have captured him once, and killed him another time, before they learned he's a fictional character-kind of like a school mascot. :tsk

[JY11]

"days that will be more difficult than the nightmare experienced by his predecessor."...


Yes, that is a safe bet.

[gratefulberean]

More than EVER before, I have a sense we are in the 'calm before the storm'.