The recording suggests a greater unanimity between Al Qaeda, headed by al-Zawahiri since the death of Osama bin Laden, and Daesh or ISIL, the self-proclaimed 'Islamic State' in Syria and Iraq. Up to now, the two terrorist organizations have been repeatedly competing in the recruitment of supporters.
Al-Qaida's as-Sahab Media released via unofficial channels a new audio by top leader Al-#Zawahiri, titled Let's Unite to Liberate #Jerusalem
โ Laith Alkhouri (@MENAanalyst) November 1, 2015
In the recording released Sunday on the Internet, Al-Zawahiri lists Russians, Iranians, Alawites Hezbollah and Americans as coordinating a war against them together and asks if the joint forces of the various Islamists are not capable of stopping the fighting among themselves so that the main effort could be directed against those common enemies.
The leader of al-Qaeda specified that the fighting against Islamists is ongoing from East Turkestan to Morocco.
#terrorism Satellite Map for Funding, Supports, Recruitment and Threat levels for #AlQaeda
http://t.co/5HTWvCiDFm pic.twitter.com/6QKSiFbNun
โ Doucet Camille (@doucetc) June 26, 2015
Neither the location - for obvious security reasons - nor the exact time of the recording has been specified, although the reference to Russia indicates it was made no earlier than September 30, when Russian Aerospace Defense Forces started an aerial campaign against Islamist terrorists in Syria.
In a September audio recording, al-Zawahiri called Daesh and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi illegitimate. He refuted al-Baghdadi's claims that he is the leader of all Muslims and the militant jihad as "caliph" of the so-called 'Islamic State'. In the recording, al-Zawahiri, who is in hiding with a $25 million US bounty on his head, complained that Baghdadi had ignored the Muslims suffering in Gaza and in Pakistan.
Nevertheless, al-Zawahiri said in this earlier tape his fighters will join Daesh fighting against the American-led coalition in Iraq and Syria whenever possible.
#Russia hit positions of #alqaeda affiliates Jabhat an-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham north of #Homs #Syria.
Useful map pic.twitter.com/Gn9B4bly6l
โ Alexey Khlebnikov (@AleksKhlebnikov) September 30, 2015
Al-#Zawahiri praises the stabbing attacks in #Jerusalem and urges attacks on the U.S. similar to 9/11, 7/7 and 3/11 and praises lone wolves.
โ Laith Alkhouri (@MENAanalyst) November 1, 2015
This fantasy from the corrupted West cannot succeed because every concept within
the construct being proposed is doomed to failure before it can be 'formed'.
Safe Areas on the ground or in the air in Syria for those attacking Syria will never be permitted
by Russia, regardless of this attempt to retrieve a victory for the supporters and or the mercenaries
currently operating illegally in Syria.
Rather this amounts to the last gasp of the totally disconnected think=tanks that have never
included realities in their supposed 'thinking - anywhere across the world of today.
Be certain to watch the 4 minute video embedded in the link...
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