The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 49 Issue: 13 - Thursday, October 13, 2005
Losing By Winning
The recently-released communications intercept between Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaeda No. 2 leader Ayman al Zawahiri, is filled with evidences that suggest they are losing the war.
The most telling admission contained in the message was a plea from Zawahiri for money. On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden's personal fortune was estimated to be in excess of $300 million. al-Qaeda had become a far-flung economic enterprise, with al-Qaeda investments funding hundreds of legitimate companies via dummy corporations.
Using all that money, al-Qaeda was able to assemble a fleet of ships, creating a kind of terrorist 'navy' capable of transporting troops, smuggling drugs, and shipping weapons from one part of the world to another.
Many intelligence analysts believe that al-Qaeda has used their vast worldwide financial investments to purchase weapons of mass destruction, and possibly even nuclear weapons.
It takes money to run an international jihad -- lots of it. Plane tickets for jihadists are expensive, so are training camps and accommodations. It takes money to bribe one's way across borders. It takes money to buy the silence of the communities in which they hide.
Osama was reputed to have buried boxes of cash in dozens of locations in the Afghani mountains.
Saddam's sons emptied Iraq's central bank of several billion dollars in US currency, much of which was unrecovered and thought to be buried in various locations around Iraq.
In light of all this, it is nothing short of amazing that the mainstream media has missed the most significant phrase in the entire communique.
"So, if you're capable of sending a payment of approximately one hundred thousand, we'll be very grateful to you," wrote Ayman al Zawahiri, the Number Two Supreme Leader of All al-Qaeda Forces Worldwide.
One hundred thousand dollars? The amount reveals three major pieces of intelligence that fairly scream al-Qaeda's impending defeat. They practically demand we increase the pressure on al-Qaeda, rather than discuss pulling out.
Yet the mainstream media, with all their analysts and intelligence resources, seem to have missed them.
First, al-Qaeda's vast economic empire is [or was] al Zawahiri's piggy bank. If he needs a hundred grand, then al-Qaeda's global headquarters is in serious financial trouble.
One hundred thousand dollars isn't operational money for a global terror network, it's eating and bribe money for two guys on the run. It also reveals that those boxes of money buried in the mountains have either been captured, lost or stolen by the locals.
Secondly, the amount says that Zarqawi's money supply is drying up, as well. Those boxes of US cash stolen by Uday and Qusay have also been exhausted, or nearly exhausted. As in the case in Afghanistan, most of Zarqawi's money has probably been stolen, captured or exhausted through other means.
Only a few years ago, such a transfer would be numbered in the millions. And if Zawahiri is so broke that a hundred thousand sounds like a lot, then the fact that is all he asked for is significant in that it reveals he knows Zarqawi's almost as broke as he is. "If you're capable" of sending "approximately" one hundred thousand dollars, the communique says.
Third, it reveals how important the elimination of al-Qaeda's top financial wizard, Abdallah Najim Abdallah Muhammad al-Juwairi, actually was to the war effort. It shows that Osama is so broke that he has been relying on Zarqawi for support for some period of time.
(al-Juwairi was killed by US forces in a gunfight in Baghdad).
The communique also contains another major piece of intelligence that the mainstream media is loathe to discuss in public. It reveals just how useful the Useful Idiots in America are to the al-Qaeda war effort.
Zawahiri writes; "Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy."
Assessment:
One of al-Qaeda's most useful idiots came within a hair's breadth of having been the President of the United States on September 11th.
Having been unsuccessful in defeating George Bush politically, Al Gore has made it his mission to punish Bush for his victory, no matter what it may cost America strategically.
Al Gore was among the first to declare Iraq 'another Vietnam' -- a cry that has been echoed throughout the liberal mainstream media and included in every Democratic talking points papers since the March, 2003 invasion.
In Sweden yesterday, before an international economic forum, Al Gore proved again how close America came to political catastrophe in 2000. Blustering about how bad things are under Bush and how good they would have been, if only Al had won, he told the group;
"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."
"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be ROUTINELY TORTURING people," said the man who almost won the White House.
Tracey Schmitt, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Gore's comments "fictitious rants that border on dangerous."
"To accuse Americans of participating in 'routine torture' is absurd and reveals that while Al Gore may no longer be a leader in his party, he still embodies the maniacal anger that guides Democrat leaders in Washington today," Schmitt wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
'Maniacal' is an excellent adjective when describing post-Election Al Gore. Right now, America has several hundred thousand troops in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And Al Gore, Almost President of the USA, is confirming to their enemy that, if they are captured by the Americans, they will be 'tortured' by American troops, who conduct such 'torture' on a 'routine' basis.
Think about what the phrase 'routinely tortured' means to someone who lived under the regimes of Saddam Hussien or the Taliban.
How many additional fighters will ignore their instinct for self-preservation, fighting to the death to avoid being captured and tortured by American forces? How many more Americans will die as a consequence of the enemy's increased resistance?
Zawahiri is counting on guys like Al Gore to fulfill al-Qaeda's goal of winning the war by convincing the American public to withdraw, 'run and leave their agents', as Zarqawi put it, like we did in Vietnam.
What is chilling about this is the fact that the major pieces of intelligence that indicate al-Qaeda is losing were largely ignored by the mainstream media.
The liberals share Al Gore's contempt for George Bush and Red State America, a contempt so deep that it overshadows all else, including the best interests of America at large.
If America is winning, then the Left is losing. It is in their political interests that the war in Iraq fail, even at the cost of American lives and possibly, the loss of Iraq to the Islamic jihad.
You needn't take my word for it. Just monitor the liberal mainstream news media. Any news that points toward American successes in the war are ignored, while the Useful Idiots like Al Gore grab all the headlines.
Since I live between two Marine Corps bases, I talk with Marines returning from Iraq on an almost daily basis. To a man, they are astonished at how the war is reflected by the mainstream American media. I've yet to speak to a single Iraq veteran who thinks the war is portrayed accurately.
The epithet being voiced most often by the liberals is the label 'right wing'. If a liberal wanted to throw the worst insult he could think of at another liberal, it would be to accuse him of being a 'right winger'.
But 'right wing' is an incomplete label. It is off balance, like the old 'shave and a haircut' knock, without the following knocks for 'two bits'.
The complete phrase is 'right wing Christian.' When you knock off the word 'Christian' you haven't changed the meaning, just the phrase.
It still identifies a member of the 'right wing' as anti abortion, anti euthanasia, anti-gay, "pro-gun and pro-God," as Howard Dean described Southern voters in the last election.
"Right wing' doesn't mean 'Christian' but to a liberal, it means someone of faith who shares the deepest values of the Christian right.
And to the liberals, 'getting' the 'right-wing' is even more important than 'getting' al-Qaeda. To them, Christianity is as dangerous as Islam. Maybe even more so.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Matthew 10:36)
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