BIn Laden and Zawahiri Special 9/11 Celebration So, both Bin Laden and Zawahiri released their own 9/11 commemoration video's, although I'm sill a little confused. Now, they're calling for jihad in the Gulf States and Israel. Awhile back, Bin Lan wanted everybody to pack up and go to Sudan, while Zawahiri though it'd be cool to do jihad in Pakistan.

Zawahiri may be right about one thing. If the Democrats take control of Congress in the fall, there may well be a looming defeat for our troops in Iraq. It won't be expulsion -- it'll be "redeployment." If you'd really like to read how the fifth column in the US is playing to Al Quada propaganda, click here to Richard Cohen's simpering column in the WashingtonPost today.

Douglas Farah in the CounterTerrorismBlog talks about a steep learning curve in the past five years. He makes five clear points.

1) The wahhabis and other radical Islamists of both Sunni and Shi’ite beliefs have a long-terms strategy for dealing with us (U.S., Israel, Europe-the Big Satans), as well as the each other (Little Satans-apostate regimes, and the other sects of Islam).

2) One of the traditional backbones of these plans has been the international Muslim Brotherhood, whose leaders provide vision, money, strategic thinking and tactical advise to the Islamist groups across the board. The role and nature of the Ikwan is still rarely understood in intelligence, diplomatic and law enforcement circles. The role is to establish a Muslim caliphate by whatever means necessary.

3) After an initial shock, things tend to go back to the way they were. In the U.S., this has meant an unhealthy return to a lack of intelligence sharing, a creation of larger and less responsive bureaucracies, a return to dealing with “moderate” Muslim groups often tied to the Ikwan who we do not know or properly identify, and a continued inability to understand and develop a strategy for dealing with stateless areas and non-state actors ...

4) Tactical alliances that seem highly improbable, often occur ...Because these trends were not seen before they tend to be dismissed as impossible or unimportant.

5) Our dislike of reading and the inability to take seriously what our enemy says, from the days of al Qaeda’s founding in Afghanistan, through Bosnia to the present, is a crippling weakness. The enemy-holy warriors doing what they believe Allah has called them to do-write extensively and explicitly about what they want to do and how they will do it....

Here's a great answer to both Bin Laden and Zawahiri -- and any other tin horn, Anti-American, medieval warlord wanna be out there:

According to Michelle Malkin's translators it means I will not submit.

We have a traditional olde English phrase that's a good answer as well -- not as pretty to look at, but gets the job done. Starts with an "F."

Crossposted at RightWingThinking  ¶ 7:50 AM