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Al-Qaeda leader issues new orders to jihadists in Iraq and Syria employ guerilla warfare tactics

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Damascus, Syria — The al-Qaeda central command leader and successor to Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued new orders in a new audio recording Sunday calling on the group’s fighters to be prepared for a long battle with the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria. He also told them to fight the Iranian-backed Shi’ites fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s government.

In an audio recording posted online on Sunday, Zawahri called for the rebels to be patient, saying they should be prepared for a long battle with the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria and Iranian-backed Shi’ites fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s government. Zawahiri made this statement in the audio recording saying that “Our people (al-Qaeda affiliated terror groups) in Sham (Syria) prepare yourselves for a long battle with the Crusaders and their allies the Shi’ites and Alawites.” Muslim Sunni militants consider Shi’ites and Alawites heretics.

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  • LPD256

    He needs to swirl the bowl and flush away.....

  • Ron M

    I've pocked too much fun at pictures lately, but seriously, it's like his eyebrows didn't age after 20.

  • EternalChampion

    How is this turd still floating around?

  • Pat G

    Wow, the factions and the fighting gets ever more complicated in Syria. So now Osama's Al-Qaeda replacement calls on his group to use guerilla warfare against the Western coalition AND the Islamic backed fighters who aren't Sunnis. Who are they NOT supposed to attack - maybe each other? The "Islamic wave" that al-Zawahiri says the West wants to stop is nothing but radical Islamic domination and oppression, here's hoping he and his tyranny can be wiped out of the area, which has quite enough problems and could do without Al-Qaeda. May God help the suffering people of Syria! Thanks, Derek