I just love this CNN interview with the son of Hamas founder Abdullah Azzam explaining the division that erupted in the late 1980s between Azzam and Osama bin Laden. Apparently Azzam's "kill all the Jews" policy was a little too moderate for bin Laden. The Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Egyptian organization which bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri once belonged to, is believed to be behind Azzam's murder. The family feud continues today when the adopted heir to the al Qaeda legacy, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, recently delivered a personal threat to the son of the Hamas founder, Huthaifa Azzam.

What would have been really interesting is if, instead of a slipping a CD with a personal message under the door, Zarqawi would have left a bloody decapitated horse's head on Azzam's pillow. Never go against the family Azzam. CNN:

Huthaifa Azzam found the CD slipped under the front door of his Amman house a few weeks ago.

He thought it might have been left there by one of his brothers. But when he put it into his computer and heard the voice, Azzam realized it was a message from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist who is leader of al Qaeda in neighboring Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi was issuing a death threat personally to Azzam, who had criticized him for ordering the hotel bombings in Amman last November.

"He was very angry. He was telling me ... 'You have changed your way. Now you are serving the policy of the enemy,'" said Azzam.....

Make no mistake, Huthaifa Azzam believes the following are legitimate targets: "The American troops fighting against our brothers in Iraq or the Israelis fighting against our brothers in Palestine."

And he is quick to cite the notorious forgeries "The Protocols of the Elder of Zion" as fact when he starts talking about how Zionism is a threat.

But he says al-Zarqawi's ideology is worse than either the Americans in Iraq or Israelis because of how it twists the meaning of jihad.

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