You realize, of course, this means war:
Recent communications between Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi indicate that bin Laden has "encouraged Zarqawi and his group to focus on attacks inside the United States," multiple U.S. officials told FOX News on Monday.
The sources would not get into detail about how the communication was made or how it was intercepted by the United States. They also said that there is nothing specific in the message, such as maps or references to particular cities or buildings. Rather, the communication simply encourages a "focus" on attacks inside U.S. borders, sources said.
Well, duh -- we've been at war with these jokers for a decade now. That's not what's interesting.
What's interesting is, the dual messages Osama is sending. Allow me to translate his reported request to Zarqawi:
Hey, pal. Peace be unto you and all that. Now listen up. The Americans have just about run my group into the ground. Most of my people are rounded up or martyred, our sanctuary is gone, and it's getting tougher and tougher to recruit new kids. Well, I don't have to tell you about that last one, do I?
Anyway, it's not like we here at al Qaeda are going to be doing anything big over in America any time soon. And let's be honest: Your gang is hurting the Movement over in Iraq. You just don't know how to get people on your side. But you are good at killing -- so why not do a little less killing of our brothers in Iraq, and concentrate on killing heathens in America?
Allow me to translate that even more: We're winning, kids.
We're winning.
UPDATE: Jeff has more, that brainwave-sucking bastard.
Man, you're on a roll today!
Boy, I'd jump right up in your face a pull a Howard Dean on you, throwing spittle and vitriol all over the place... except for one thing.
You're right.
Of course, the "take some Americans with you on the way out" phase won't be fun. But it's a hurdle we have to cross eventually.
Just so long as it's not a school or 100.
Pssst, hey Mr. Zarqawi, if you ask real nice, some of them US soldiers will let you ride with them on the plane back to the US.
Trust me.
Crank and Sandy. I worry about that "take some Americans with you on the way out" phase, and that I hope it's not "a school or 100" phase.
But better that it now while their weak. I shudder to imagine the "take some Americans with you on the way out" phase in some future where they have lots of WMDs. And that could still happen.
"they're", while they're still weak.
Joshua Scholar... Noooo, they didn't have WMD's. They had rivers of soda pop and ice-cream mountains on which they flew kites...
If it weren't sufficiently obvious on January 30, it's plenty obvious now:
This is DEFINITELY Bin Laden's "von Paulus at Stalingrad" moment.
U of Osama did not mention the Supervirgins, so it can't work.
I think this is their way of saving face as Zarqawi hauls @$$ out of Iraq in hopes of escaping. If he stays in country, he's FUBAR & Al Qeada looses their only big name terrorist who's doing more than releasing the occasional videotape. He runs without being ordered to, then the Americans have driven him out like a dog & he looses the cachet he's built up. It's more like FDR ordering MacArthur out of the Philipines, only Z-Man won't be returning.
