2005-10-12

saavedra77: Back to the byte mines ... (sunspot)
2005-10-12 05:26 pm

No, No--You're Doing Your Terrorism All Wrong!

According to The BBC, The New York Times, and NPR, a U.S. official has been briefing journalists "on background" about the contents of a captured letter from senior Al Qaeda figure Ayman al-Zawahiri to Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  The text of the letter itself has not yet been released to the public, but its themes could be (without stretching things very much) satirically paraphrased as follows:

(I don't really need to warn you that it's utterly repellent crap, do I?)

Take ten pounds of rampant megalomania, five pounds of depraved indifference to human life, one teaspoon of crude poltical calculation, shake vigorously )

[Edit: [livejournal.com profile] feyandstrange points out that the text of the letter actually has been released. See her response for the link.]