Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Al-Zawahiri says U.S. troop surge is bound to fail
Insurgency
(Al Jazeera) Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has described the US plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq as a gamble that is bound to fail. In an audio tape posted on the internet on Tuesday, Ayman al-Zawahiri also criticised the Democratic Party for not changing US policies.
"[Bush's] addiction to gambling ... motivates him to continue to place losing bets until he goes completely bankrupt," he said. "Were the Americans to leave [Bush] alone, he would continue to send their forces to Iraq until the Mujahideen kill the last one of their soldiers." Al-Zawahiri's statement was transcribed on the website of the SITE Institute, a US private organisation that tracks Islamists' use of the internet. It was not immediately possible to authenticate the statement.
Labels: Al-Qaeda, al-Zawahiri, troop surge, U.S.
