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Bin Laden Declares War On Musharraf

Iqbal Latif - 10/6/2007

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new recording released on Thursday, saying his military's siege of a militant mosque stronghold makes him an infidel. Bashing Musharraf is a global past time of ‘much ado about nothing liberal media.’ The authoritarian is a great ‘democrat,’ a day does not pass by where three dedicated 24 hours new services run the most libellous and scandalous news about the ‘tyrant.’ Disparaging Musharraf the tyrant and admiring Mulla Omar and OBL the benevolent democrats is a national Pakistani past time. Shivers go down my spine when I think of a Pakistan where Omar/OBL liberals rule the country.

After this statement the lines are clearly drawn between the ‘drawing room pundits’ and the so called ‘soft liberals’ who in garb of ‘freedom and democracy’ want to install a new kind of despotism that will permit the rightists a new liberty to install a fundamentalist Zia kind of totalitarian general. Bringing Musharraf down will fetch a new spring for dying Al-Qaida in north of the hinterlands. Sides have to be taken.

Bin Laden's ultimate twin towers, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced Thursday. A banner posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Thursday advertised that another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin Laden would appear in video or speak in an audiotape. Bin Laden says it is now the duty of Muslims to rebel against what he calls the "apostate leader".

"Soon, God willing: 'Come to Jihad (holy war)', from sheik Osama bin Laden, God protect him" the banner read.

"Urgent, al-Qaida declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his apostate army, in the words of Osama bin Laden," it read.

Such advertisements usually precede the release of the video by one to three days, according to IntelCenter, a U.S. counterterrorism group that monitors militant messages.

The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts. The sophisticated 80-minute video released Thursday on the same Web site was in the style of a documentary, intersplicing the speech by al-Zawahri with footage from the Sept. 11 attacks, interviews with experts and officials taken from Western and Arab television stations, and old footage and audiotapes of bin Laden.

Al-Zawahri began by condemning the Pakistani military's July assault on Islamic militants who took over the Red Mosque in Islamabad, and he paid tribute to one of the militants' leaders, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in the fighting.

The siege "revealed the extent of the despicableness, lowliness and treason of Musharraf and his forces, who don't deserve the honor of defending Pakistan, because Pakistan is a Muslim land, whereas the forces of Musharraf are hunting dogs under (President) Bush's crucifix," al-Zawahri said.

It is people like Musharraf who stand between 'Global intifida' led by Laden. Imagine a dilly-dallying Musharraf in Waziristan that would invite the 'shock and awe' of US, leading to a fragmented Pakistan in the North of India! Chaos brings great satisfaction to OBL and Co. For the objectives of these bloodthirsty tyrants, universal 'Caliphate' is only possible by waging a war against their own moderate brethren. Bin Laden's ultimate twin towers, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, for his vision of 'Global caliphate' moderate regimes, have to be taken down and replaced by single minded religious tyrants who are ready to take on wars with the west.

He is an ideological demagogue who is now working hard to take the mantle of a 'philosopher caliph' on the lines of Socrates's suggestions; someone should really learn from OBL cohorts on how to bastardize the nobility of clear philosophical thinking of the masters. His recent ramblings are to launch himself as a new intense strategist. This 'philosopher caliph' regrettably has no beneficial schema, his dreams can only become realistic through a new 'unleashing of mass terror.' As the doors in the west have been closed, the best bet is to destroy the lynch pin of stability within the nations of Islam; going after Musharraf is to go after the stability of northern India. As if chaos in Iraq, Afghanistan is not big enough mayhem, US invoked destruction of 'Pakistan army' offers the richest of the booty to the ideological warlords. The road to Mecca passes through the organized secular institutions of armed forces in countries like Turkey and Pakistan. The road map of self destruction is cleverly designed in this statement, by asking Pakistanis to 'rebel' he wants to force Musharraf to transform into a 'reluctant ally' from a 'reliable ally' hence inviting the wrath of the west. Reluctant secular Saddam led to the destruction of Iraqi Army, a reluctant Musharraf will face a similar fate. Pakistan is not a single nation, it is a weak federation created in 1947, take the cementing institution out like Iraq and a new hotspot will be created that will offer OBL and Co an unsupervised role in the hinterland, the fangs of this instability are today checked at the borders of Attock River, he plans to shift that arc of instability to the Wagah, right at the door steps of India..

Peace and stability is anaemic to his global goals of mass intifada in the Islamic lands. Radicals are the greatest proponents of Islamic unity and caliphate. The unique method to reach this unison is mesmerising. The formula is simple: first, eliminate any opposing thought and then impose spiritual unity from top down. Definitely unity can only be achieved by force. The last time a universal Islamic Ottoman Caliphate existed under Selim the grim, Mamluks and Saffvids lost their dynasties. Might and conquest was an integral part of previous ideological unity. In an environment where state craft has become part and parcel of the new world, the radicals are selling a dream of nirvana where 'great Islamic unity' will under a caliph achieve the dominance that Islam is missing today. To achieve that, elimination of dissent is the primary object; nothing can be resolved peacefully hence bloodshed is a convenient tool of statecraft. Elimination of Musharraf is the finale of ‘global bedlam hypothesis’ that most extremists pursue with passion.