Bin Laden favors genocide in Darfur

AP/CBS:

Osama Bin Laden renewed his call for a holy war against a proposed peacekeeping force in Sudan's wartorn region of Darfur in a message that appeared on Web sites Tuesday.

The audio recording was accompanied by a still picture of the al Qaeda leader, and excerpts were aired Monday by Al-Jazeera television.

Bin Laden called for foreign forces to be driven from Darfur.

"It is the duty of the people of Islam in the Sudan and its environs, especially the Arabian Peninsula, to perform jihad against the Crusader invaders and wage armed rebellion to remove those who let them in," he said, according to a transcript provided by IntelCenter, which monitors extremist Web sites.

Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawhiri, made a similar call for jihad in Darfur in a Sept. 20 video message, and bin Laden issued an audiotape in 2006 calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force there.

In Tuesday's message, bin Laden referred to talks between Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, and Saudi officials who pressed him to agree to a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur. Those meetings took place in March and April.

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Al Qaeda has become genocides R us. This is just an acknowledgment of what has followed this group wherever they have tried to impose their will be it Somalia or Afghanistan and now Darfur, Sudan. In the parts released earlier he acknowledged that al Qaeda made mistakes in Iraq with their mass murder of non combatants, but, hey, everybody makes mistakes.

The fact is that the al Qaeda brand is in steep decline throughout the Muslim world and his audience is shrinking among those who think he has some ideas worth pursuing. He and the Democrats are on the wrong side of history right now and both are scrambling to recover.

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  1. tk11:04 AM

    Great work making a decent point and then ruining it with a completely unnecessary, entirely unrelated dig at Democrats.

    If you're going to make a point about terrorist extremists, make it and be done with it. Your inability to separate for even a moment from your counterproductive envelopment in bipartisan mudslinging renders you incapable of being taken seriously on any level. Have some integrity and insight and quit mimicking Fox News pundit talking points. Judging from your "about me" you could be quite capable at intelligent discourse, you just choose not to exhibit it.

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