Al-Qaida Speaks

DUBAI Al Jazeera television — Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al-Qaida in Afghanistan, speaks about Pakistani nukes in an interview with Al Jazeera television. “When al-Qaida is in a position to do so, it will use Pakistan's nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States”, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said in remarks aired on Sunday.

By de Andréa

I have been warning for the past four years about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal falling into the wrong hands, and trust me al-Qaida is the wrong hands.

Pakistan has been battling al-Qaida Taliban allies in earnest in the Swat Valley since April 09 after their thrust into a district 60 miles northwest of the capital raised fears the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.

"god willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans, but the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al-Qaida's in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.

Abu al-Yazid was responding to a question about U.S. safeguards to seize control over Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case Islamist fighters came close to doing so. "We expect that the Pakistani army would be defeated (in Swat) . . . and that would be its end everywhere, god willing."

Asked about the group's plans, the Egyptian militant leader said: "The strategy of the (al-Qaida ) organization in the coming period is the same as in the previous period: to hit the head of the snake, the head of tyranny: the United States. That can be achieved through continued work on the open fronts and also by opening new fronts in a manner that achieves the interests of Islam and Muslims and by increasing military operations that drain the enemy financially."

The militant leader suggested that naming a new leader for the group's unit in the Arabian Peninsula, Abu Basir al-Wahayshi, could revive its campaign in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter. "Our goals have been the Americans . . . and the oil targets which they are stealing to gain power to strike the mujahideen and Muslims. There was a setback in work there for reasons that there is no room to state now, but as of late, efforts have been united and there is unity around a single leader."

Abu al-Yazid, also known as Abu Saeed al-Masri, said “al-Qaida will continue with large scale operations against the enemy" — by which he meant the United States.

"We have demanded and we demand that all branches of al-Qaida carry out such operations," he said, referring to attacks against U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The militant leader said “al-Qaida would be willing to accept a truce of about 10 years' duration with the United States if Washington agreed to withdraw its troops from Muslim countries and stopped backing Israel and the pro-Western governments of Muslim nations”.

Asked about the whereabouts of al-Qaida's top leaders, he said: "Praise god, sheikh Osama (bin Laden) and sheikh Ayman al-Zawahri are safe from the reach of the enemies, but we would not say where they are; moreover, we do not know where they are, but we're in continuous contact with them."

THE BOTTOM LINE: Straight from the horse’s mouth or in this case the ‘Pigs Mouth’, I wouldn’t want to insult horse lovers, pigs after all at least wallow in filth.

Four years ago when everyone was saying that the Pakistani government was stable and there was no chance of their nukes falling into ‘Terrorists Hands’, I said “every Middle Eastern country that exists, has fallen into terrorists hands”.

Here we are four years later nearly looking down the launch tube of a Muslim terrorist nuclear weapon. Moreover our eyes have been on Iran, who doesn’t yet have nuclear capability. If any one of these Muslim controlled countries achieves nuclear capability the west better head for the bomb shelters.

But there is an even more frightening message in this interview than ‘Nukes” and that is ‘Muslim Unity’. …”There was a setback in work there for reasons that there is no room to state now, but as of late, efforts have been united and there is unity around a single leader.” A single leader… Until now Islam has been mostly splintered, with out unity. If Islam actually unites behind a “single leader”, well… you haven’t seen anything yet in the way of Islamic terrorism. A ‘United Islam’ is an extremely dangerous force to all living things.

The West represents the Judeao-Christian World, while the East represents the enemy of all Gods creation…

de Andréa