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Along with Al Qaeda in Iraq and Al Qaeda in Maghreb, another off-shoot of the parent corporation:
The latest three messages from al-Qaeda addressing the Sunni community uncover the depth of the crisis that al-Qaeda is facing in its former host community.
The threatening tone of the missives from the alleged Abu Omar Baghdadi and Aby Ayyub, and the insulting tone of the second by Zawahiri, reflect mistrust, anxiety and a dire need to retrieve what was lost.
Death threats do not represent a serious call for cooperation on an achievable objective. This “work-for-me-or-I-kill-you” tone is completely different from the usual recruiting slogans that have focused on the ideology of fighting for absolute truth against absolute evil.
Those slogans have failed, which is why they have been discarded and replaced by threats…
I’m all for opening up a branch office in Hell, and populating it with as many staffers as we can dispatch there as quickly we can dispatch them. One way or another, that’s where they’re going to end up anyway.