Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda Leader, Urges Somali Al Shabab Militants To Fight In Video

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a new video in which he encourages Somali militants to fight on despite the challenges.

In the video, reported Friday by the Site Intelligence Group which monitors militant activities, al-Zawahiri urges al-Shabab militants not to be deterred by U.S. drone attacks.

It is al-Zawahiri's second video address to al-Shabab, which formally joined al-Qaida in February.

Al-Shabab has increasingly come under pressure in recent times from regional armies and government forces who are pushing it from three sides inside Somalia.

Somalia's prime minister said last month that al-Shabab militants were fleeing up north, into the semiautonomous region of Puntland.

Somalia has lacked a stable government since 1991.

Comments

[alert1]

10:06 AM on 05/12/2012

This commentator sucks

[alert1]

09:53 AM on 05/12/2012

Just a matter of time before his head is removed from his carcass

[conformist1983]

09:14 AM on 05/12/2012

our predator drones are the greatest asset in our military, i hope he gets killed by one

[mikaelam]

09:02 AM on 05/12/2012

May a cloaking drone find this human waste and send him to hell.

[smiles41]

08:55 AM on 05/12/2012

LOL....and our "carteresque" president suggests al qaeda is falling apart. Welcome to obama's liberal, clueless world.

[alert1]

09:53 AM on 05/12/2012

oh and your the expert, of what?

[Pine Island Joe]

08:46 AM on 05/12/2012

al-Zawhiri needs to be taken out.

The sooner the better. Allah Akbar, MF.

[bohikke]

08:20 AM on 05/12/2012

May Allah set a drone on his tail.

[thetoad]

09:10 AM on 05/12/2012

Al shabab. Isn't that the thing where you skewer meat and peppers on a stick, and grill it?

[midway59]

06:47 AM on 05/12/2012

Only a matter of time his days are numbered. All of these cold blooded murderers will pay the price of death for thier crimes against humanity. Plus they will learn that story they were told about all those virgins and the rest were lies.

[straight skinny]

06:14 AM on 05/12/2012

Man what a Kill it would be if we managed to take al-Zawahiri out by a Predator Drone. He is a Cold Blooded Radical Muslim Killer and Maniac! He was Bin Laden's personal physician for years and a surgeon by training, also his cohort in crimes against humanity. He makes Charles Manson look like an alter boy!!

[ectullis]

12:56 AM on 05/12/2012

Do you suppose these muslims are not as peaceloving as they claim to be?

[homer68]

01:29 AM on 05/12/2012

I wonder where that finger has been? He always has it out there as if he wants someone to smell it.

[thetoad]

09:14 AM on 05/12/2012

God, I love subtlety.

[SaveAmericaforall]

12:43 AM on 05/12/2012

This cant be true as last week Obama said al queda was history and not a threat to anyone anymore. Ohhh Thats right Obama lied AGAIN in hopes of scamming the uneducated into voting for him again

[conformist1983]

09:16 AM on 05/12/2012

you beat me to the punch, ff

[homer68]

12:23 AM on 05/12/2012

Nice clean diaper on his needle head.

[Kenz300]

12:07 AM on 05/12/2012

When will this guy be found and brought to justice?

[hard2swallovv8]

02:11 AM on 05/12/2012

Justice as in a nice warm blanket and a slow decent to the bottom? =) I'd settle for a drone sticking a rocket up his robes...

[salustianon]

11:26 PM on 05/11/2012

Hey ... Is this another excuse for the U.S. military to set-up shop in Africa ...???
I thought it was Kony ...??? I guess we're out for to Rats ...???

[altheschrod]

10:39 PM on 05/11/2012

When is someone going to "take out" this twisted, pseudo-religious troublemaker? Why should he support those murdering Somalis--just because they're Muslims killing Christians??

[homer68]

12:45 AM on 05/12/2012

If he ever decides to poke his head out of his dark hole he's forced to hide in he will be drone food.