November 07, 2008

ISI Leader Omar al-Baghdadi: Congratulations Barack Obama

Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) are "over joyed" with Obama's election. How nice, maybe they read his plans for Iraq on his new website Change.gov.

NYSlimes

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The leader of a jihadi group in Iraq argued Friday that the election of Barack Obama as president represented a victory for radical Islamic groups that had battled American forces since the invasion of Iraq.

The statement, which experts said was part of the psychological duel with the United States, was included in a 25-minute audiotaped speech[ed..what, not video?] by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization that claims ties to Al Qaeda. Mr. Baghdadi’s statement was posted on a password-protected Web site called Al Hesbah, used to disseminate information to Islamic radicals.

In his address, Mr. Baghdadi also said that the election of Mr. Obama — and the rejection of the Republican candidate, Senator John McCain — was a victory for his movement, a claim that has already begun to resonate among the radical faithful. In so doing Mr. Baghdadi highlighted the challenge the new president would face as he weighed how to remove troops from Iraq without also giving movements like Al Qaeda a powerful propaganda tool to use for recruiting.

“And the other truth that politicians are embarrassed to admit,” Mr. Baghdadi said, “is that their unjust war on the houses of Islam, with its heavy and successive losses and the continuous operations of exhaustion of your power and your economy, were the principal cause of the collapse of the economic giant.”

"Heavy and successive losses"? Ummm Mr Baghdadi, do you mean your losses? Crap you can't even make a decent video tape. HAHAHAHAHA

The audio tape is in arabic, no translation yet. The slimes has excerpts. To read more use the above link.