{"id":42986,"date":"2012-02-12T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=42986"},"modified":"2012-02-15T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:26:42","slug":"al-qaeda-leader-urges-muslim-world-to-support-syrian-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=42986","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda leader urges Muslim world to support Syrian uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Phoebe Greenwood \u2013 Telegraph.co.uk February 12, 2012<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28455\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28455\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28455\" title=\"Ayman al-Zawahiri. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain2-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain2-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain2.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An earlier photo of Ayman al-Zawahiri. Note the motif on the backdrop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ayman al-Zawahri, global head of al-Qaeda since the death of Osama bin Laden last May, issued the call to arms in an eight-minute video posted on an Islamic website on Sunday entitled &#8220;Onwards, Lions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Syria<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dressed entirely in white, with an assault rifle displayed by his side, Egyptian born al-Zawahri urged Muslim states including Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan to come to the aid of Syrian protesters and urged Syrian protesters not to ally themselves with the Western powers, including the US and the United Nations, or the Arab League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Our people in Syria, don&#8217;t rely on the West or the United States or Arab governments and Turkey,&#8221; Mr Zawahri said.&#8221;You know better what they are planning against you. Our people in Syria don&#8217;t depend on the Arab League and its corrupt governments supporting it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Arab League is expected to meet next week to discuss forming a joint UN-Arab mission to send to Syria following the recent failure of a team of UN monitors to quell the civil violence, now entering its eleventh month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In Homs, activists say hundreds have been killed in a week of intense, renewed shelling by government forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Wounded Syria still bleeds day after day, while the butcher, son of the butcher Bashar bin Hafiz (Hafez al-Assad), is not deterred to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;But the resistance of our people in Syria despite all the pain, sacrifice and bloodshed escalates and grows,&#8221; Mr Zawahri said, in his second video message to the Syrian people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In June, the terrorist leader dismissed US support for Syria&#8217;s pro-democracy activists as insincere and asked protesters to extend their opposition to Washington and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">US officials claim the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda is responsible for two recent explosions in the Syrian capital Damascus and was almost certainly behind last Friday&#8217;s suicide blast in Aleppo, which killed 28 people. US intelligence reports suggest the bombings were carried out on the orders of Mr Zawahri, who they suspect is attempting to hijack the violent events in Syria and reassert al-Qaeda&#8217;s presence in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/9077386\/Al-Qaeda-leader-urges-Muslim-world-to-support-Syrian-uprising.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Comment \u2013 February 12, 2012<\/h2>\n<h5>As anyone who doesn\u2019t take things at face value knows, there have long been doubts about al-Qaeda\u2019s authenticity. There are indeed good reasons to believe that this so-called \u201cterrorist organsiation\u201d is in fact the creation of Western intelligence.<\/h5>\n<h5>After all\u00a0bin Laden is on record as having <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CIA_%E2%80%93_Osama_bin_Laden_controversy\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">served U.S. interests during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28460\" title=\"Ayman al-Zawahiri by Star of David motif. Click to enlarge.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain-300x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ayman-al-Zawahiri-star-of-david-curtain.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are likewise similar reasons to doubt Ayman al-Zawahri\u2019s authenticity as a genuine \u201cterrorist\u201d leader. From the fact that he\u2019s made statements standing in front of curtain emblazoned with a Star of David motif (above, click to enlarge), to Donald Rumsfeld having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/article.asp?ID=6922\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">helped the organisation establish itself in North West Pakistan<\/span><\/a>, there is every reason to believe that al-Qaeda is itself a creation of Western Intelligence.<\/h5>\n<h5>As the links below illustrate al-Qaeda has been used in the past to further western interests. All of which raise serious questions about who is really behind the ongoing unrest in Syria.<\/h5>\n<h5>Is the current violence in Syria the result of genuine dissent among ordinary Syrians? Or is it, as we suspect, being fuelled and fomented by Western Intelligence in an effort to overthrow one of Iran\u2019s key regional allies?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span id=\"_marker\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Also see:<\/h5>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Al Zawahiri Takes Over as Al Qaeda Chief\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=28452\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Al Zawahiri Takes Over as Al Qaeda Chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Al Qaeda \u2013 The Database\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=3936\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Al Qaeda \u2013 The Database<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/link.asp?ID=8478&amp;URL=http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/?p=1702\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Al-Qaeda Lifts Propaganda From Spoof News Website <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/article.asp?ID=6922\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Rumsfeld Helped Al Qaeda Establish a Stronghold in Northwestern Pakistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/article.asp?ID=9317\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Qaeda Deputy Says Iran Collaborated With U.S.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Al Qaeda says Iranian 9\/11 Claims a \u201cLie\u201d!\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=8565\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Al Qaeda says Iranian 9\/11 Claims a \u201cLie\u201d!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further underlining long-held suspicions that \u2018al-Qaeda\u2019 is largely the creation of Western intelligence, these claims also raise questions about who is behind much of the ongoing violence in Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":28455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42986"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43263,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42986\/revisions\/43263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}