Al Qaeda offers head of American as 'gift to Bush'

Uh, which Presidentia candidates believes we should be talking to our enemies?

Al Qaeda offers head of American as 'gift to Bush' ABC News hat tip Rut

A leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq has announced a one-month campaign in which the group will "offer the head of an American" as a gift to US President George W Bush, according to an audiotape made public.

Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, better known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, made the announcement in a speech entitled, "The Paths to Victory," monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group.

In the speech to Islamist forums, he said mujahedeen, or holy warriors, would "offer the head of an American as a gift to the deceitful Mr Bush, in any manner [they] see fit."

The campaign, to be called "Attack of Righteousness," was announced in "celebration" of Mr Bush announcing that 4,000 Americans had died in the war in Iraq.

Kill em all.

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Comments

[Francis W. Porretto]

It's time to cordon off the entire Islamic world and enforce a strict quarantine on it: no one comes out. The alternative, which will be upon us eventually if we're too weak of stomach to fence them in, is genocide.

If we want to live without undue fear, there are no other options.

[Miluimnik]

Why not? I [really do]consider the 1,300 + Israelis murdered by the PLO since 1994 to be a "gift" to the Clinton Co-Presidency, in recognition of their Tunis airlift and the creation of the "Palestinian Authority".

Islam is big on gifts.