{"id":899,"date":"2008-10-30T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2008-10-30T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T21:08:44","slug":"al-qaeda-wants-republicans-bush-humiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/al-qaeda-wants-republicans-bush-humiliated\/","title":{"rendered":"al Qaeda Wants Republicans, Bush “humiliated”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be a slow news day if I’m linking to a story about an al Qaeda statement<\/a>…<\/p>\n

DUBAI (Reuters) – An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet.<\/p>\n

“O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,” Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Libi, one of the top al Qaeda commanders believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, called for God’s wrath to be brought against Bush equating him with past tyrants in history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translation: They’re getting are butts kicked on the battlefield and they know John McCain won’t give up the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be a slow news day if I’m linking to a story about an al Qaeda statement… DUBAI (Reuters) – An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,193],"tags":[47,122,123],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","category-war-on-terror","tag-2008-elections","tag-al-qaeda","tag-george-w-bush","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":349,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/never-assume-malice\/","url_meta":{"origin":899,"position":0},"title":"Never Assume Malice…","author":"Jeff","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Where incompetence will suffice... 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