Comments on: What we learned from Sami al-Uraydi’s testimony concerning Abu Abdullah al-Shami

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By: dave2

dave2 — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:58:55 +0000

And that should have been blindingly obvious to anyone who listened to Zawahiri himself, he said as clear as day:

“I would like to clarify that there isn’t anything today in Iraq named “al-Qaeda”, instead, Qaedat al-Jihad Organization in Mesopotamia has merged, by the grace of Allah, with other Jihadi groups in the Islamic State of Iraq, may Allah protect it, which is a legitimate emirate based on a proper legal Manhaj and which was founded through Shura and received the pledge of allegiance of most of al-Mujahideen and tribes in Iraq.”

“A Review of Events”, the fourth as-Sahab interview, December 16, 2007.

By: dave2

dave2 — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:29:33 +0000

A tweet by the author on October 5 is enlightening: “I start to slowly become more convinced that AQI cut its ties to AQ in October 06, but simply played it very strategically afterwards”.

Nice to see he has finally caught on after a couple of years. To answer al-Uraydi’s question: “What is the difference between what you have done and that which Baghdadi did, which we all rejected and denounced?”

The difference is Baghdadi is not a liar!