Zawarhi Urges Gaza Holy War, Declines Obama Endorsement

Another missive from a remote cave. This impotent sack of shit whines about Arabs, seethes over Gaza, and lashes out at the Egyptians. He does everything but toss out some preconditions for meeting with President Obama. Guess that's off the table.

For now.

Al-Qaida's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to launch holy war to break the siege of Gaza, in a new audio recording posted Wednesday on a militant Web site.

In the 11-minute recording, a voice purportedly by Osama bin Laden's deputy spoke in Arabic and said the "salvation of the Muslim nation is through the march of its sons on the path of jihad."

An accompanying banner said the message was issued to mark the 41st anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, when over a period of six days from June 5, Israeli warplanes destroyed 400 aircraft belonging to Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq — most of them sitting on airport tarmacs.

Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip; Syria lost the Golan Heights and Jordan lost the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Trying to minimize the shock and pain of the defeat, Arabs have long called the Six Day War the "naksa" — or "setback" in Arabic — but its impact remains a deep wound.

In al-Zawahri's recording, entitled "In Memory of the Naksa... Break the Siege of Gaza," the al-Qaida deputy blamed Arab regimes for Arabs' 1967 debacle. Al-Zawahri said the Arab governments were "impotent and unable to protect the Muslim nation, its sanctuaries and its wealth."

"The sons of the nation should break the shackles of the treacherous regimes and move to wage jihad which has become a duty," al-Zawahri said, referring to holy war.

His message seemed especially directed at the militant Hamas Palestinian group which last June seized power in the coastal strip of Gaza from the more moderate supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who were left in control of the West Bank as bloody inter-Palestinian clashes effectively split Palestinian territories in two.

Speaking of Hamas, it appears they've rescinded their endorsement of The Wizard of Uhhhs. Probably doesn't matter. John McCain would've been too high-minded to use that bash his opponent. Doesn't want to get the media mad at him.