Al-Qaeda leader comments on U.S. and Middle East upheaval

When Libya’s upheaval began in February, Moammar Gaddafi had indicated that al-Qaeda was responsible for destabilizing his country. This turned out to be factual after the Muslim Brotherhood crippled Egypt and removed Hosni Mubarak and the Brotherhood’s clerical leader called for an assassination of Gaddafi.

A piece on News24.com says that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is presumed to be the new leader of al-Qaeda and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, posted an audio sound byte on the Libya situation a few days before Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The audio was posted on militant forms in which al-Zawahiri claims that NATO’s intervention in Libya is meant to remove Gaddafi and the United States will set up a ‘puppet government’ to control the country’s rich oil resources.

No surprise there. After all, the U.S. did the same thing in Iraq and Kosovo.

In this recording, Zawahiri gave high praise to Egyptians that were successful in toppling Mubarak in Egypt and that the Gaza Strip border should be opened. And what happened? The post-Mubarak Egypt supported Hamas and vowed to open up the Gaza Strip.

Zawahiri also called on Syria to remove its president, Bashar al-Assad. Interestingly, while al-Qaeda harbors resentment against countries in the Middle East like Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia which are associated with the United States, in the same aspect, al-Qaeda is indirectly supporting the U.S. because President Obama wants to see these dictators removed from power.

Of course that is exactly what al-Qaeda wants, as does the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah. In this unprecedented move, you have Sunni and Shiite Muslims actually working together to bring down the Middle East and remove Israel.

In another unbelievable move, President Obama said that the United States forgave Egypt’s $1 billion debt, while the rest of us in America continue to suffer. Maybe the President believes that once the U.S. controls Libya and seizes its oil rights, they’ll cross collateralize the loss of Egypt’s debt?

As usual, the ignorance by President Obama shows that this danger will continue to escalate. Why does this President continue to embrace terrorists and destabilization?

The beginnings of an Islamic Caliphate?

There is an old saying “better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t know.”

It has been three months since the start of the Arab world protests, which has rippled throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Now, many leaders in the world are apparently more concerned than ever, with the growing possibility of an Islamic Caliphate taking form. This of course means the introduction of Shariah Law.

Many of course will argue that the protests are nothing more than pure Democratic revolutions and that the citizens in these countries, seemingly fed up with dictatorships, want a free and open society. This is true to some extent, by example, the man that fatally set himself on fire in Tunisia, eventually erupted in protests resulting in the ouster of President Zine Ben Ali.

But now, Al-Jazerra reported earlier last week, that political Islam may be on the rise in Tunisia.

The same can be said for Egypt. Despite being a dictator and whatever some may think of now former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under his regime, this country remained the United States most loyal ally in the Middle East region, and the only country that kept the peace with Israel. When the protests began in Egypt, many people in the news media suggested that they had successfully arranged this by promoting a pro-Democratic movement via Facebook and Twitter.

After Mubarak’s departure, the Clerical Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a man who was banned from Egypt, is allowed to re-enter the country and spoke before the crowd protesters in Cairo encouraging the unification of Muslims and promoting the death of Israel.  

The Quran teaches Muslims to not find against fellow Muslims, another reason as to why the Muslim Brotherhood has had very close ties with Hamas and al-Qaeda, which is predominately Sunni and Hezbollah, which is Shiite.

Qaradawi also issued a Fatwa against Moammar Gaddafi and what happened in Libya? More protests that has resulted in an armed conflict with Gaddafi’s forces and military intervention from the United States and NATO, and is becoming nothing more than a disaster.

It also took President Obama 10 full days to finally condemn the actions in Libya, and refused to even mentioning Gaddafi by name. Yet when the protests were continuing in Egypt, Obama went on for days “Mubarak must go!”

If President Obama is really that brain dead on the Middle East, you really have to ask yourself what is the reason NATO intervened in Libya? Well, we know France and Italy want those oil contracts.

Gaddafi also alluded to the fact that al-Qaeda was involved in his country’s uprising, yet Senator John McCain visited Libya over this last weekend and insisted al-Qaeda does not have a presence in Libya at all. Oh really Senator? Did the so called ‘rebels’ really tell you that? You think that they would have admitted the truth to someone representing in the United States?

Now the Middle East has been experiencing major uprisings in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, among other nations.

Syria has reported the deaths of at least 100 people and Yemen’s long time president Ali Abdullah Saleh has stated he will give up power by the end of May. Interesting how the military in Syria is combating its people and yet the United Nations is not declaring a ‘No-Fly Zone’ like what took place in Libya.

Perhaps the most significant of all is Iran. The Hitler-wannabe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated for years that the end of Israel will happen and they have spent so much money in trade with Russia to get a nuclear program going.

Press TV has been reporting on new developing relations between Egypt and Iran for the first time in since 1980. Isn’t it interesting that in 1981 was when Mubarak assumed the Presidency in Egypt, and right after he is thrown out of office, Iran and Egypt want to form a new alliance? Is all of this some bizarre coincidence? Not for a moment.

Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims have two primary goals. Obey Allah and destroy Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to unite Muslims to form the Caliphate that existed during the time of the Prophet Mohammed and introduce Shariah Law.

If Egypt and Iran’s developing relations continue to go unchecked and if the governments of Yemen, Syria and Saudi Arabia are eventually overthrown, then we will see a radical increase of continuing threats and possibly wars against Israel and the United States.

Again, whatever you may think of ruthless dictators like Gaddafi or Mubarak, I think I would rather live in a world where they are still in power, than to live in a world that may very well be conquered by radical Islam, resulting in a Caliphate.

  

President Obama tonight

Tonight, President Obama will be speaking to the nation and offering some clarification as to why he sent troops into Libya, following the United Nations authorized "No-Fly Zone".

Since his decision to sent troops without the approval of Congress, the President has generated overwhelming heat from both Democrats and Republicans in Washington as to why he violated the U.S. Constitution.

This is the same President Obama who was quoted in the Boston Globe from December 2007 that "The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

Apparently, then Senator Obama had knowledge about the Constitution. Obama as President? Not so much.

So tonight, the President should offer some answers to the American people as pertaining to his decision in doing so. Isn't it interesting that no U.S. military was needed in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and now Syria? Some of these countries have used force against their people as well, but a "No Fly Zone" was never called upon by the United Nations.

Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich made a valid point. We have spent far too much money in the Middle East with Afghanistan and Iraq. Now funding a war against another Middle East nation like Libya is something this country simply cannot afford. Kucinich is proposing a resolution to cease funding military action in Libya. Good!

But I'd take it that the real reason we're in Libya is to "protect European energy" since Italy and France want oil contracts. Interesting that President Obama's vacation in Brazil, he was promoting off shore oil drilling, but he won't promote that here in the United States.

While military action was taken on Libya, this President spent last week hopping all over South America for a pre-Spring Break vacation, and here at home we still have no federal budget because Republicans and Democrats have nothing to do and the country has for the most part, gone broke.

So tonight when the President speaks, you're going to hear a bunch of blathering as to the "real reasons" on Libya and it will not make any difference. From my viewpoint, whenever this President speaks, it is the equivalent of Charlie Brown's school teacher.