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Please don't get me wrong...I kind of like our new President and our first lady, but Al-Qaeda is..well..Al-Qaeda; ie: America's sworn enemy and terrorist organization. You cannot reason and make friends with such people...Did our President or anyone else really expect them to welcome him with open arms?!?

Al-Qaeda deputy denounces Obama


Ayman al-Zawahiri said Barack Obama was not welcome in Egypt

A message attributed to the deputy leader of al-Qaeda has denounced Barack Obama as a "criminal" on the eve of the US president's Middle East trip.

Ayman al-Zawahiri said Mr Obama's "bloody messages" would not be concealed by "polished words".

The US president is due to make a major speech on relations with the Muslim world in Egypt later this week.

The authenticity of the audio message, posted on a website linked to al-Qaeda, could not immediately be confirmed.

The Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri is often referred to as Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man and al-Qaeda's chief ideologue.

Cairo speech

The al-Qaeda number two said Mr Obama would not be welcome in Egypt, and referred to US campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr Obama's "bloody messages have been received and are still being received and they will not be covered by public relations campaigns or theatrical visits or polished words", he said.

He called Mr Obama "that criminal who came seeking, with deception, to obtain what he failed to achieve on the ground after the mujahideen ruined the project of the Crusader America in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia".

He also said the Egyptian officials who will welcome the American leader are "slaves" who have turned Egypt into an "international station of torture in America's war on Islam".

Ahead of his trip to the Middle East and Europe, Mr Obama told the BBC that he wanted to "open a dialogue" between the West and the Muslim world to overcome what he said were "misapprehensions" on both sides.

He will travel to Egypt on Thursday, where he will make a speech at Cairo University.

In the audience will be 10 senior figures from the banned Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Cairo.

They welcome the president's visit to Egypt as long as he takes a firm stance on the Israel-Palestinian issue and works to build ties with the Muslim world, our correspondent adds.

www.bbcnews.com [bbcnews.com]

What does the red lightning bolt at the beginning of the article signify? Is this an article to which no one can safely respond?

CDL

I thought it was an exclamation mark.

If Obama could spread peace through the world through the force of his will, then his effigy would not have been burned by Iranians at the beginning of the year. (Last time I remember it being reported.)

Obama has told Israel that it better not build in settlements, but he fails to explain the consequences. That is the biggest issue for him as he arrives in the Near East.

One thing that does bother me is that the Queen of England was not initially invited for the 60th D-Day anniversary ceremony in France (which will be on the upswing of this trip). I figure that the Obama Administration, being full of whippersnappers, failed to recall their history and remember that England did play a role in the invasion.

Carson, my friend...they say that people see what they will see according to their individual personalities.

Where you see a lightning bolt, I saw an exclamation point!!! LOL!! (and now I know what you really think of me!!)

However, that may not have been the right emoticon, so thanks for the chuckle...

How is my new one?!?

Alice

P.S. Please feel free to respond to the thread.

The last couple of times I responded to a post was one with the red exclamation mark attached. Before the message was posted there was a message that said that all of the messages are monitored. So, I wondered if the red mark signified something. I have an opinion but I'm still not sure I ought to post it. I'm trying to stay on this board so I can advertise our upcoming Iraqi event.

CDL

Dan,

The reason being why you are seeing that is that you have been moved to full-moderation status due to your posting history and style as per the administrators. You may contact the admin directly at forums@byzcath.org regarding this.

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+
Administrator

What red lighting bolt or exclamation point?

Was Pres. Obama responsible for ERII nor being invited? IIRC when the Obamas visited the UK thier meeting with her was quite cordial.

Not to worry. I'll only post giving announcements about the upcoming Iraqi Christian relief thread. Others, I presume, can reach me through pms should they so choose.

CDL

"Was Pres. Obama responsible for ERII nor being invited?"

Perhaps not personally, but the Queen is said to be quite miffed about it.

I do not know what an IIRC is.

"Was Pres. Obama responsible for ERII nor being invited? IIRC when the Obamas visited the UK thier meeting with her was quite cordial."

Ultimately, the President is responsible for everything his administration does. It is most telling that such a high-level chief-of-state visit was handled so badly: Obama's gift to the Queen was chintzy in the extreme--an iPod (at least it works, unlike Gordon Brown's DVDs), and apparently the State Department Protocol Office did not brief either the President or the First Lady on proper behavior when meeting with HMQ. In short, like almost every other foreign venture Obama has made since taking office, it was Amateur Hour--and were it not for the Blessed O's almost hagiographical treatment by the Washington press corps, it would have been a public relations disaster. One shudders to think how the press would have responded had Bush's administration behaved in this manner.

IIRC= "if I recall correctly"

YRC

OIC

The other thing that I wonder about is why one of his first diplomatic moves was to return a bust of Churchill. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...hurchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

Churchill was a great statesman and one of the finest orators in modern history. One would think that the President's jealousy could be more restrained.

Terry