Contrary to Tim's whining and screaming "Panic! Panic! Panic!" about Al-
Qaeda, (no doubt fueled by equal parts Michael Savage and Jack Daniels,)
the reality is Al-Qaeda is in a war of words against Obama.

Why?

Because he's not the fuckup George Bush. Simple as that.



Soon after the November election, al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader took stock of
America's new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting
epithet. "A house Negro," Ayman al-Zawahiri said.
That was just a warm-up. In the weeks since, the terrorist group has
unleashed a stream of verbal tirades against Barack Obama, each more
venomous than the last. Obama has been called a "hypocrite," a
"killer"
of innocents, an "enemy of Muslims." He was even blamed for the Israeli
military assault on Gaza, which began and ended before he took office.

-snip-

The torrent of hateful words is part of what terrorism experts now
believe is a deliberate, even desperate, propaganda campaign against a
president who appears to have gotten under al-Qaeda's skin. The
departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American
leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group.
With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new challenge, experts say: a
U.S. president who campaigned to end the Iraq war and to close the
military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who polls show is well
liked throughout the Muslim world.

-snip-

But for now, the change in Washington appears to have rattled al-Qaeda's
leaders, some of whom are scrambling to convince the faithful that Obama
and Bush are essentially the same.
"They're highly uncertain about what they're getting in this new
adversary," said Paul Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official who
lectures on national security at Georgetown University. "For al-Qaeda,
as a matter of image and tone, George W. Bush had been a near-perfect
foil."

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--- Xnews/5.04.25