Outrage of the Day
Agence France Presse really hits a disgusting new low with this one, reporting vile Arab propaganda as fact: Zawahiri hijacks US concept of ‘pre-emptive strike’. (Hat tip: Allah.)
Dubai: Al-Qaeda’s number two leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has hijacked the US concept of a pre-emptive strike — used to try to justify the invasion of Iraq — to urge young Muslims to attack countries backing Washington and Israel, analysts said on Saturday.
In an audiotape broadcast on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television on Friday, Zawahiri effectively called on Muslim youth to “take the initiative and wage a preventive war, a concept championed by the United States,” Abdelbari Atwan, editor of the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, told AFP.
The twisted agenda of AFP could not be more clear. If Al Qaeda is only now catching on to the concept of a pre-emptive attack, inspired by the evil policies of the United States … then what the hell was this?
Here’s the same AFP release at Pakistan’s Daily Times, with the reporter’s name: Habib Trabelsi.