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Bin Laden Sounds the Call of Defeat in Iraq

Counterterrorism Blog states what I’ve thought through the last couple of Bin Laden videos and audios; He sounds like a desperate man.

Counterterrorism Blog: Bin Laden Sounds the Call of Defeat in Iraq

This new message from OBL is the second signal since early September that OBL smells and fears strategic defeat in Iraq. Look at Walid Phare’s September 10 post about the September 8 video, in which he noted “unease among wider circles of the usually sympathetic commentators” and “a chaos unseen before” on jihadist websites, in reaction to his 9/11 commemoration video. Quoting Walid: “So the first reason behind the tape was a pressing need to show The Commander in command, to underline that the struggle continues.” The quotes released thus far from this new audio include no boasts about America’s weakness, as were made by his henchman Zawahiri in his tape on January 5 of this year. Instead, OBL whines about laziness and division in the ranks. Leaders on the road to victory never issue such demoralizing warnings.

This tape is the best confirmation of the crack-up on al-Qaida in Iraq, as reported here over the past month by Evan Kohlmann, and of the strategic turn of events in the Sunni triangle since the increase in U.S. troops and change in tactics. It’s a desperate warning of defeat by a hidden, scared leader who senses that the basket into which he put many of his eggs has almost slipped irretrievably from his fingers.

Evidently Osama doesn’t watch CSPAN enough, or he’d know that the President’s strategy in Iraq has created an inescapable quagmire where our soldiers get their heads blown off for the amusement of our President. Stark, you make me want to vomit.

If our fortunes continue to improve in Iraq, the Democrats will be looking even worse by 2008 election. And they look pretty damn bad already.

UPDATE: It seems others are noticing this trend as well..

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