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Al Qaeda Top Leader Won't Use Phones, Internet
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Wary of Western intelligence tehnologies, bin Laden's deputy Ayman al Zawahri has not used a telephone or accessed the Internet for four years, according to a report in today's Asharq al Awsat, a London-based Arabic-language daily.
The paper cites a statement it received from the media-savvy Egyptian militant Mohammed Khalil al Hakayma, saying that for security reasons al Qaeda's No. 2 man has not touched a phone or surfed the Web since 2003. Al Hakayma is listed as wanted on the U.S. Rewards for Justice program with a reward of up to $1 million on his head. The newspaper did not disclose how it received Hakayma's statement.
Last year, Hakayma claimed that the Egyptian Islamist group al Gamaa al Islamiya had joined al Qaeda. The group, which has publicly renounced violence as part of a deal with the Egyptian government, however, issued a strong denial. Al Hakayma later appeared in a jihadi video criticizing the group and called on its members to join al Qaeda as he says he has.
Hani El Sebai, a London-based Islamist activist, told the paper that the phone is "the mujaheddin's worst enemy." He said al Zawahri only communicates with the outside world via al Sahab Media, al Qaeda's production group, and a handful of Egyptian jihad members.
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In Al Hakayma's statement to the paper, the Egyptian also denied any connection between al Qaeda and an Egyptian Islamist lawyer arrested a few days ago in Egypt on charges he was connected to the terrorist group and receiving directions from al Zawahri to carry out attacks in the country. Mamdouh Ismail has denied all charges.
If al Qaeda decides to operate, Al Hakayma wrote, it won't choose to cooperate with any known Islamist like the arrested lawyer.
April 5, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)
We should let our representatives know that we care about such issues as global poverty. According to the non-profit organization, the Borgen Project, annually it costs $19 billion to feed the world while the United States spends $420 billion on the military alone with $340 billion of that being spent on the Iraq War.
Posted by: marie2 | Apr 5, 2007 1:54:45 PM
R.I.P. Anwar Sadat
Posted by: Jazz | Apr 5, 2007 2:06:48 PM
Won't use cell phones or the web??
With a million dolar bounty on your head, would you?
Posted by: Zach | Apr 5, 2007 3:31:46 PM
This article is not about global poverty. In fact, we have poverty in this very country that we should worry about first. If you want to see poverty, leave the comfort of your middle class home and check out the southern rural areas, or inner city life. This article is regarding Al Qeada #1 or #2 not using technology to avoid detection and capture. As one of the architects of the multiple attacks on our soil, he knows his time on earth is limited and values his own life much more than the life of his very own people and servants. We need to keep the fight with them & their twisted values over there. Yeh....we shouldn't have done this, and we shouldn't have done that.
Posted by: Dave | Apr 6, 2007 12:36:12 PM
Yeah....I don't use the phone, internet or a credit card. I have a great life.
Posted by: David | Apr 9, 2007 1:35:31 PM
I pray that you will read this to the public,when I read all the stories and see the destruction that man has brought on by greed know that God above is not pleased and the fact remains as the media made fromm of Pat from the 700 club this is an season for Gods people and if you understand what he said no man knows the timing of God but God,so for the media to make front of him was not only wrong but it show the power of the media,you say what you want and the people who are real you make jokes of them,so When the movement of God takes place then you will know that God alone is real I pray much for the media,of this country,Will anyone be so truth that the paycheck is better than the truth,meaning can we as the people kow the real truth of whats going on in the world,the media has that power instead the stories get twisted and people are more confuse than ever,The media is responsible for bad and untruth news please I ask you please start reporting the truth about your stories
Posted by: regina blanchard | Apr 10, 2007 4:40:06 PM
Regina:
Did you know that the "700 Club" refers to the 700 total viewers that watch that News show.
(699 not including you.)
Posted by: Sam | Apr 11, 2007 1:24:42 PM
Regina, what does the tactical communication methods of an ultra-conservative murderer have to do with your distaste for the American media? And from what I can grasp of what you wrote, it seems that you believe the good doctor there is a true man of god, who is being good and channeling the violent will of god. Yup, the righteous Doctor Z is one of the very few who realizes the "truth" in the world as it relates to the higher power. Watcha!
Believe it or not, you too are dependent on petroleum, which is, as you know, at the very core of this whole situation...
Posted by: Jazz | Apr 11, 2007 5:57:43 PM
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