With setbacks in his fight with America in Afghanistan and Iraq, he has called on the old reliable standby for terrorists everywhere--solidarity with the Palestinians:
A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties "mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy" and to rely on armed might.
"Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron," he said.
So far, so good. Standard boilerplate for any rousing jihadi audio sermon that any self-respecting Leftist in America can agree is surely a good reason for jihadis to slaughter infidels.
But then bin Laden went and spoiled the happy progressive party line:
Bin Laden added that Palestinians who are unable to fight in the "land of Al-Quds" — a Muslim reference to Jerusalem — should join the al-Qaida fight in Iraq.
"The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field," he said.
You mean al Qaeda is fighting in Iraq? Say it ain't so, Osama! Am I to understand that the group of terrorists we are fighting in Iraq--called Al Qaeda in Iraq--is actually al Qaeda in Iraq?
Who'd of thunk it?
Not that we aren't also fighting Baathists and Sunni Arab chauvinists, and Iranian-sponsored Shia terrorists, too. But our enemy that struck us on 9/11 really is fighting us in Iraq.
Despite the bizarre denials of our Left, the real fight against al Qaeda is taking place right now in Iraq where we are crushing Osama's grand dreams of slaughtering infidels on his way to restoring the caliphate and moving out of that stinking cave he's lived in the last six years.
But the reality-resistant community will cover their ears and ignore this basic fact of the war in Iraq.
