Peace at last

We can all rest a little easier now. Al Qaeda, in their infinite mercy, has offered up a truce with the US. Actually, they said the old truce they offered up is still valid. Whew! Sure the conditions are utterly vague and interspersed with new threats of attack, and it is sort of like Japan offering up a truce after the second A-Bomb was dropped on it, but any time a small, disparate group of terrorists who are badly outmatched calls you up to offer a cease fire on their terms, you have to take a look.

Osama bin-Laden's deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader's offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe remained on the table, though he ridiculed President Barack Obama as "the new face of the same old crimes."
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In 2004, bin-laden offered a truce to European countries that do not attack Muslims. Two years later, he offered the American people a "long-term truce" without specifying the conditions, though in that same audio recording he also warned that his fighters were preparing new attacks in the United States.
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"Obama is like a wolf whose fangs tear your flesh and whose paws slit your face and then he calls on you to talk about peace," he said.

I have to say, that's a pretty good insult. Lots of werewolf imagery. Better than "house negro" at least. I wonder if they poll tested it? "Hey Zawahiri, we did some polling and the people like the wolf thing. The imagery plays well with stone-throwing dads, soccer imams, weekend jihadists, and flag burners. But you lose the educated types, unclean harlots, imperialist aggressors, and the latte sipping mujaheddin crowd with the flesh ripping and paw slitting." Have AQ ever thought that instead of just conjuring up some bloody animal imagery, they just claim Obama was born in Kenya? It plays well in the South.

I do have it on good authority that Obama is going to answer the message. In fact I hear he's sending in 17,000..uh...diplomats to deliver his retort. Along with a couple thousand missiles that have notes of rejection on them. Hope one is able to be delivered to you personally, Ayman.