Cogburn
08-05-2009, 02:57 AM
[offsite=http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102460§ionid=3510203:237u1ird]Al-Qaeda has offered the US President Barack Obama a truce in exchange for a complete withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan.
Ayman al Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, offered the conditional truce in a 90-minute video released on Monday.
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"If Obama wants to [reach] an understanding then he should respond to Sheikh Osama [bin Laden's] two offers," Zawahiri noted, referring to the militants' commander-in-chief's suggestions for a ceasefire.
Bin Laden had put forward the notion of a peace treaty with the US in 2006 which would entail "just conditions that we will stand by ... a truce which offers security and stability and the rebuilding of Iraq and Afghanistan which war has destroyed."
The quid pro quo armistice was originally proposed to the administration of the former US president George W. Bush.
Zawahiri reiterated Bin Laden's conditions for a peace, saying, "The minimum that the mujahideen (al-Qaeda) would accept [includes] ... the exit of infidel troops from all of the land of Islam and an end to stealing Muslims' wealth under the threat of military power," The Washington Post quoted him on Monday.
He went on to warn the US of more attacks unless the conditions were met.
Speaking on Obama's approach to the Muslim world, Zawahiri accused him of hypocrisy, noting, "Obama is trying to sell illusions to the ... weak," adding elsewhere, "He is trying to say do not hate us .... but we will continue to kill you ..."
So far the United States has maintained its non-negotiable stance with 'terrorists.'
The US launched a full-fledged war on the al-Qaeda in 2001 after the group admitted to the execution of aerial attacks on America's financial, political and defense centers in September of the same year.[/offsite:237u1ird]
Ayman al Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, offered the conditional truce in a 90-minute video released on Monday.
[inmg=left:237u1ird]http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20090804/A.Rezaqolinejad20090804044345484.jpg[/inmg:237u1ird]
"If Obama wants to [reach] an understanding then he should respond to Sheikh Osama [bin Laden's] two offers," Zawahiri noted, referring to the militants' commander-in-chief's suggestions for a ceasefire.
Bin Laden had put forward the notion of a peace treaty with the US in 2006 which would entail "just conditions that we will stand by ... a truce which offers security and stability and the rebuilding of Iraq and Afghanistan which war has destroyed."
The quid pro quo armistice was originally proposed to the administration of the former US president George W. Bush.
Zawahiri reiterated Bin Laden's conditions for a peace, saying, "The minimum that the mujahideen (al-Qaeda) would accept [includes] ... the exit of infidel troops from all of the land of Islam and an end to stealing Muslims' wealth under the threat of military power," The Washington Post quoted him on Monday.
He went on to warn the US of more attacks unless the conditions were met.
Speaking on Obama's approach to the Muslim world, Zawahiri accused him of hypocrisy, noting, "Obama is trying to sell illusions to the ... weak," adding elsewhere, "He is trying to say do not hate us .... but we will continue to kill you ..."
So far the United States has maintained its non-negotiable stance with 'terrorists.'
The US launched a full-fledged war on the al-Qaeda in 2001 after the group admitted to the execution of aerial attacks on America's financial, political and defense centers in September of the same year.[/offsite:237u1ird]