By Nibras Kazimi
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the jihadists have seized on the word ‘victory’—their own victory, that is—to describe the outcome of the Iraq War, especially since official Washington is so keen on avoiding it.
In this vein, the head of the self-styled ‘Islamic State of Iraq’, the pseudonymous Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who considers himself America’s Public Enemy No. 1 in that theatre of war, issued a proclamation on Tuesday that a new era of jihad has started now that “the black [man] of Washington” had delivered his “implicit admission of defeat.”
Al-Baghdadi is referring to Obama’s recent speech about withdrawing from Iraq. He doesn’t refer to Obama by name, but rather by epithets such as “black negro”, “house slave”, “new criminal” and the standard “ruler of the Crusader state and ally of the Jews.” Clearly, al-Baghdadi is not impressed or even mildly intimidated by Obama, who began his first act as a wartime president by calling it quits in Iraq. By contrast, al-Baghdadi used to refer to President Bush by name in past speeches, despite the vitriol. Read more ...
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the jihadists have seized on the word ‘victory’—their own victory, that is—to describe the outcome of the Iraq War, especially since official Washington is so keen on avoiding it.
In this vein, the head of the self-styled ‘Islamic State of Iraq’, the pseudonymous Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who considers himself America’s Public Enemy No. 1 in that theatre of war, issued a proclamation on Tuesday that a new era of jihad has started now that “the black [man] of Washington” had delivered his “implicit admission of defeat.”
Al-Baghdadi is referring to Obama’s recent speech about withdrawing from Iraq. He doesn’t refer to Obama by name, but rather by epithets such as “black negro”, “house slave”, “new criminal” and the standard “ruler of the Crusader state and ally of the Jews.” Clearly, al-Baghdadi is not impressed or even mildly intimidated by Obama, who began his first act as a wartime president by calling it quits in Iraq. By contrast, al-Baghdadi used to refer to President Bush by name in past speeches, despite the vitriol. Read more ...
Source: Hudson Institute
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