March 17, 2004

Al Qaeda Calls Truce With Spain, Endorses Bush

Posted by tomo at 06:15 PM in politics . | 7 Comments

The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades who claimed M-11 and are linked with the al Qaeda network are calling for a truce with the new Spanish government for deciding to pull out of Iraq. So they won that battle. At the same time, the group is endorsing Bush in the November election for giving terrorists more reason to exist.

"Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization. Because of this we desire you (Bush) to be elected."

 

Comments

Kerry took a bullet for a guy in 'Nam...

Posted by: hagi at March 17, 2004 6:57 PM

What's interesting is that the Spanish newspapers report:

Dirigen insultos contra el presidente George W. Bush y le amenazan con atacar a Estados Unidos para "conseguir que pierda las próximas elecciones".

[They level insults against president George W Bush and threaten to attack the United States to "cause him to lose the upcoming elections." ]

which is pretty different from what Yahoo reports, about wanting Bush to win the election. I'd be interested in seeing a link to the full text of the letter, if anybody has it, to reconcile the two different messages

Posted by: Micah at March 17, 2004 10:40 PM

Ahh, the associated press says that "The group's latest statement, dated March 15, will be published in Thursday's editions of Al Hayat. The paper did not provide a text Wednesday."

They also emphasize in their articles that the group responsible for the claim has very little credibility with int'l law enforcement.

Posted by: Micah at March 17, 2004 11:44 PM

Here is the problem: everytime a bomb goes off somewhere, every two bit "terrorist group" writes in to the papers with their demands to the world.

Posted by: ryan at March 18, 2004 12:04 AM

Two bit terrorist group. That would be a good band name.

Posted by: villageidiot at March 18, 2004 10:41 AM

Shame on Spain for not delaying the election. What would the harm be in that? Maybe give the government a couple weeks to deal with the immediate concerns of the country and then...oh well too late now.

Two bit terrorist group, opening for Anthrax ?

Posted by: hagi at March 18, 2004 4:05 PM

Our first album is going to be, "Yeah.... that was our bomb."

Posted by: ryan at March 19, 2004 12:31 AM