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| Former mentor badmouths Al Qaeda number 2 |
| 2008-11-22 |
| Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri is a plagiarist who worked for Sudanese intelligence before his handlers grew tired of his jokes, his former spiritual mentor has claimed in a newspaper article. The accusations are the latest in an increasingly bitter war of words between Zawahiri and Sayed Imam, the former spiritual guide of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement to which Osama bin Laden's deputy once belonged. The feud began in 2007, after Imam penned a book from his Egyptian prison cell denouncing Al Qaeda for killing innocent people and being responsible for the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Zawahiri responded with his own book, The Exoneration, saying Imam's book was written with the help of the "Crusaders and Jews." This nettled Imam, who countered with a broadside against his former student in an essay on The Shaming of the Exoneration, published this week by the independent Egyptian daily Al-Masry al-Yom. In the essay, which is replete with insults, Imam invites Zawahiri to partake in an ancient custom of invoking God's wrath on the liar in a dispute. He accused Zawahiri of promising Sudanese intelligence that he would conduct operations in Egypt, saying Zawahiri had told him the Sudanese paid him $US 100,000. "While the six were on their way to the execution room, Zawahiri was sitting with his friends in Sudanese intelligence telling them funny jokes, although they were expecting a discussion on important and dangerous matters," Imam wrote. "Zawahiri had nothing to tell them, and he continued until the Sudanese got bored of his jokes and complained to his friends: 'Find us another man to talk to; all he knows is 'Abu Lama' jokes'." Abu Lama was a character in an Egyptian radio comedy who was a lying fantasist. Imam also wrote that Zawahiri took credit for a book Imam had written. The exchanges between the two have left some former Islamist militants in Egypt rolling their eyes. "This is embarrassing for Imam," Kamal Habib, a former Jihad member, said. "I don't think he realises what it does to his image." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #8 yeah, took it from Geraldo's ass |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-11-22 18:58 |
| #7 It's silicone. There's a doctor in Peshawar who specializes in it. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-22 18:54 |
| #6 OMG JohnQC, OH NO! NO! NO! Ayman has a fake forehead knob!! ALL that is sacred is blaspheemed....booo..hooo! |
| Posted by: RD 2008-11-22 18:51 |
| #5 Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri is a plagiarist... To say nothing of the prayer bump that has addled his pea brain. He also sleeps with donkeys and fleas and buggers the local goats when he can catch them. You don't frighten us, pig dog. Go and boil your bottom, you son of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called leader of a dung heap. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-11-22 16:22 |
| #4 Horsefeathers? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-11-22 10:05 |
| #3 *rimshot* and a *head bonk* /Ayman the Entertainer |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-11-22 10:05 |
| #2 ...and said,"Ouch." |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-11-22 10:00 |
| #1 grew tired of his jokes A headless Jooooo, a legless American, and an eviserated Hinjooo walked into a bar.... |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-11-22 08:23 |