Reply #9: Reuters: Zawahri calls Bush a failure over war on terror

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Zawahri calls Bush a failure over war on terror

Fri Sep 29, 2006 03:36 PM ET


Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a video released September 2, 2006.
Zawahri called President Bush a "lying failure" for
saying progress had been made in the war on terrorism,
according to a video posted on the Internet on Friday. REUTERS/Reuters TV

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called President Bush a "lying failure" for saying progress had been made in the war on terror, according to a video posted on the Internet on Friday.

"Bush you are a lying failure and a charlatan. It has been three and-a-half years (since the arrests) ... What happened to us? We have gained more strength and we are more insistent on martyrdom," the Egyptian militant leader said.

Zawahri was referring to the arrest of al Qaeda figures such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States.

"Bush, oh failure and liar, why don't you be courageous for once and confront your people and tell them the truth about your losses in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said....

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