Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: “And Be Neither Weakened Nor Saddened”

Written by Administrator Monday, 29 August 2011 07:36

On August 15, 2011, Al-Qaida's As-Sahab Media Foundation released a message from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri titled, "And Be Neither Weakened Nor Saddened.” In the message, Al-Zawahiri highlighted the purported successes of the jihadist movement in recent years: “My Muslim brothers and beloved Mujahideen: the Islamic movements in general and the jihadist ones in particular faced huge calamities and faced austere attacks in the last decades, but in return they caused the anti-Islamic alliance great, austere disasters; as America, the leader of the Western Crusade anti-Islamic alliance was attacked in her homeland—which she had considered a protected fortress, occupying a continent, surrounded by two great oceans—and the attack arrived on its symbol of economic power and the center of its military leadership. And then it was defeated in Iraq and thus withdrew, and today it is being defeated in Afghanistan and thus will withdraw…” He added: “America today is declining because you have shown her in this decade what she has not seen in her history, so do not weaken…Seek to attack America that has killed the Imam of the Mujahideen and threw his corpse in the sea and then imprisoned his women and children. Seek to attack her so history can say that a criminal state had spread corruption on earth and Allah sent her his servants who made her a lesson [for others] and left her as a memory.”

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