We are at war with the Taliban, yet Yale has no problem admitting a Taliban spokesman as a student. I wonder if Goebbels would have been admitted in 1943? God Bless our soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and may those who gave the ultimate sacrifice rest in peace.

Forbes:

Militants attacked a coalition forces base in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking a fierce battle that killed 32 suspected Taliban militants and two troops - one American and one Canadian, officials said.

The battle in Helmand province's Sangin district also wounded three Canadian soldiers, Canadian Brig. Gen. David Fraser told reporters at a base in southern Kandahar city. In addition, a U.S. military statement said an American soldier was hurt.

The fighting was the deadliest in months and highlights the threat rebels still pose four years after the Taliban was ousted by U.S.-led coalition forces. Direct attacks on foreign bases are unusual, and Wednesday's assault comes after the Taliban warned of a renewed offensive this year.

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I guess the only positive way to spin the story that the Afghani Parliament is demanding that Abdul Rahman remain in the country so he can receive punishment for apostasy is that at least they're our SOBs. Between the Taliban and the new fascist leaders of Afghanistan who are pro-American, I'll take the latter.

AP:

Afghanistan's parliament demanded Wednesday that the government prevent a man who faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity from being able to flee the country.

Abdul Rahman was released from prison Monday after a court dropped charges of apostasy against him because of a lack of evidence and suspicions he may be mentally ill.

"We sent a letter and called the Interior Ministry and demanded they not allow Abdul Rahman to leave the country," parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni told reporters on behalf of the entire body.

The issue was discussed in the Afghan parliament on Wednesday, with almost all MPs in agreement that "his leaving Afghanistan must be prohibited", the AFP news agency reported.

Dr Assadullah Hymatyar, an MP from Logar province, told the BBC that parliament was planning to investigate the events that led to Mr Rahman's release.

"We will ask the judge to explain to us why he was released. In the beginning they said he was mentally fit. So why is he mentally unfit now?" he asked.

"If he is really mentally unfit than that's a separate issue. But if not we will ask the judge why he allowed international pressure to influence him."

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I had to do some stuff to kill a troll this AM. If you have trouble making comments please email me or Rusty. Not you our regular trolls who just say stuff. You guys are OK....For Now!!!! muhahahaahah!!!

Update : I'm on you like stink on shit, now go away boy you bother me.

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1 Skink on shit? I was unaware of that amphibian's enormous liking for feces. Ya larn sumtin' er'ry day, huh?

Posted by: mojo at March 27, 2006 01:19 PM (ft4rL)

2 Ooops spellin err there.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 01:25 PM (D3+20)

3 A Skink is a reptile

Posted by: davec at March 27, 2006 02:46 PM (CcXvt)

4 regex() solutions invariably fail for idiots like the above --^ you should be using server side r-> variables to trap this goon. Help us PixyMisa, you're our only hope! ;|

Posted by: davec at March 27, 2006 03:50 PM (CcXvt)

5 Dave if you have code you think will work with our tool email me and we'll put our head together. I reckon that Rusty and Pixi will take care of him soon. In the mean time nothing beats a good operator. I need a string with 4 or 5 or 6 digit numeric + @ hotmail but then he will just change but I can modify that code to match his puny brain. Now if this was cobol I'd already have him beat. I have tool that converts cobol to PC but no telling what would happen if I tried that I'd rather not blow it up.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 04:12 PM (D3+20)

6 OMG...Cobol...you sound like a real whiz there, champ.

Posted by: Ancient Programmer at March 27, 2006 04:19 PM (ssa4j)

7 dinosaur that is. Yes cobol RPG Xgen pascal, some c for entertainment. Other code I just look and play with it. You end up doing what you get paid for. So screw you dipwad let me drop a 2 million lines in like a 15 pound listing in tiny type with subsystem after subsystem on your desk and see how you like it. I've been playing with machines all my life right now I'm writing code that was invented before you were born(74). The cool thing is you all live on code created as the base for all your systems 30 years ago. Can't get rid of it or the whole world falls apart. You don't like it I'll let you write the converted program and oh yeah I have about 30,000 users mission critical. Lick me. Oh I do have C C++ and Perl for linux. Played with C and should I ever have tgime away from dinosaur code I'll tech myself that. Perl I'm kind of intrested in. The machine I use is heavier that your car. A lot smaller than they used to be, now they only take up one room. A few more years and they will be just dishwasher sized. It can run nuclear simulations but those are written in Fortran

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 04:30 PM (D3+20)

8 Oh boy the troll can type letters too I'm amazed

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 04:47 PM (D3+20)

9 I spend a lot of energy to make sure machines work and jerks like this waste their talent fucking shit up. Any dork can fuck shit up making it work and work well is the hard part.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 04:54 PM (D3+20)

10 You think I'm typing out those long posts? Err..I'm using a 10-line script. Or couldn't you figure that part out? I love how you keep adding on to your 4:30pm post to try to convince yourself you're still relevant in today's world LOL.

Posted by: This One Was Typed at March 27, 2006 04:57 PM (RsMM0)

11 10 lines like I say any dipshit can break something.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 04:59 PM (D3+20)

12 And I recognized it was just a program first post dip. I dig for patterns for a living

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 05:00 PM (D3+20)

13 Relavant enough I get paid to train greenies every year who only know C C++ Visual basic because someone told him cobol was dead asking. How do you write this shit.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 05:07 PM (D3+20)

14 uninterestingly enough, I've spent most of the day patching a remote security vuln in sendmail on a large webfarm. Hopefully patching for the last time, as I plan to migrate them all to Qmail. That guy might defeat regex() and IP bans, through a proxy / SOCKS , but I'm sure there are things he can't change that are passed to the web server

Posted by: davec at March 27, 2006 05:37 PM (CcXvt)

15 Hmmm, Howie gets called ancient for knowing COBOL and I remember when it was the coolest new thing. How about punch cards? And Assembler? Whew, talk about exciting...Gack! Hell, you youngsters even have it made with DSL and Broadband. I've been on the Internet so long I remember when we had to carry the electrons one by one, to and from the machine.

Posted by: Oyster at March 27, 2006 07:28 PM (YudAC)

16 I don't know jack about any of the crap which you all discuss so ineloquently, but I can beat a man to death with my bare hands if it comes down to it, and I can improvise a weapon or tool from almost anything at hand, though not as well as McGuyver did, and I will never, ever go hungry, no matter how bad things get; ergo, I win. Nyah-nyaaah.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 27, 2006 08:12 PM (0yYS2)

17 I've moved more blips than I can possibly imagine.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 08:13 PM (D3+20)

18 IM I'm going to post a pic of the deepfreeze for ya. And yeah what are you going to throw a floppy at a deer? Ur uh it would be very hard to go hungry where I live provided you have just a minimal weapon. cheap ammo. Knife. fishin pole etc. I really like outside work better or used to. Desk work kills just not fast enough. Dave I see some thingys kind of like the script type variable thingy you described. It's a start.

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 08:48 PM (D3+20)

19 Windows has a purpose. Terminal emulation. Howie why did I write the invalid index and how do I recover the database and get it all run before daybreak? You do what on what plaform and run on this and this and this platform that I nver heard of. Get the what files and move them to where? My program has been running for five hours and used only processor and no IO. What's wrong?

Posted by: Howie at March 27, 2006 09:27 PM (D3+20)

20 If you expose TROLLS to sunlight they turn to stone

Posted by: sandpiper at March 28, 2006 02:51 PM (UwJcR)

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Thanks religion of tolerance! Compass:

During the past few days, Compass has confirmed the arrest of two other Afghan Christians elsewhere in the country. Because of the sensitive situation, local sources requested that the location of the jailed converts be withheld.

This past weekend, one young Afghan convert to Christianity was beaten severely outside his home by a group of six men, who finally knocked him unconscious with a hard blow to his temple. He woke up in the hospital two hours later but was discharged before morning.

“Our brother remains steadfast, despite the ostracism and beatings,” one of his friends said.

Several other Afghan Christians have been subjected to police raids on their homes and places of work in the past month, as well as to telephone threats.

Via Pundi and Michelle:

Rally against Islamofascism!

Noon to 1pm
Outside the Afghan Embassy
2341 Wyoming Ave NW.
Washington DC

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Clearly, Islam is the religion of peace.
CNN:

Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."...

"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001....

But three Sunni preachers and a Shiite one interviewed by The Associated Press in four of Kabul's most popular mosques said they do not believe Rahman is insane.

"He is not crazy. He went in front of the media and confessed to being a Christian," said Hamidullah, chief cleric at Haji Yacob Mosque. "The government is scared of the international community. But the people will kill him if he is freed."

Raoulf, who is a member of the country's main Islamic organization, the Afghan Ulama Council, concurred. "The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled."

"Cut off his head!" he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque. "We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there's nothing left."

He said the only way for Rahman to survive would be for him to go into exile.

But Said Mirhossain Nasri, the top cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite places of worship in Kabul, said Rahman must not be allowed to leave the country.

"If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can, too," he said. "We must set an example. ... He must be hanged."

"We are a small country and we welcome the help the outside world is giving us. But please don't interfere in this issue," Nasri said. "We are Muslims and these are our beliefs. This is much more important to us than all the aid the world has given us."

Hat tip to our good friend Mike who has hung up the blogging gloves.

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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. more...

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Why do "radical" Muslims believe that apostates ought to be given the death penalty? Because that is what Muhammed taught, that's why!

For instance, Muhammed is reported as saying:

"If someone changes his deen - strike his neck!" [Malik's Muwatta Book 36, Number 36.18.15]

"The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims." [Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 83, Number 17]

"(He was) a Jew who embraced Islam and has now turned apostate." Muadh said, "I will surely chop off his neck!" [Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 632]

Clinton Taylor catches the Yale student Sayed
Rahmatullah Hashemi justifying the imprisonment of Christian converts and missionaries back when he was working for the Taliban:

Their priority was to propagate Christianity which they were not supposed to do here

Given the example of Muhammed, does it come as any surprise that Danish Imam Ahmed Akkari has issued death threats against Naser Khader of the Social Liberals, caught on hidden camera?

If [Naser Khader] becomes the Minister of Foreigners or Integration, why donÂ’t we send out two guys to blow up him and his ministry?

It's frightening to see the intellectual and moral laziness of those who wish to equivocate religous & cultural stances on freedom. The chief culprit are journalists and editors in the MSM who either cannot see the difference between 'extremist' Buddhists and Muslims, or are just afraid to express those differences for fear of the latter.

Rob at Say Anything notices that Reuters has an article noticing the similarities between the Western reaction to the possible death of a man for expressing his inelianable right to leave a religious faith and to Islamic fascistic reaction to the Muhammed cartoons. Except, of course, the rest of the al Reuters story tells of one group standing up for human rights, and the other trying to quash them. They keep using that word similar. I do not think that word means what they think it means.

So, does this mean that we should not wage the war against radical Islam? That going in to Afghanistan was a mistake? That the Iraq war was a mistake?

No, of course not. Afghanistan is headed in the right direction and so is Iraq. Before our invasions of those two countries things were much much worse. As Clint also points out in his article, the Taliban sent Christian converts to re-education camps. There is more religious freedom in Afghanistan now than at any time.

However, we should have guarded optimism about the extent to which Muslim countries can ever achieve universal human rights. Even in moderate countries, such as Malaysia or Jordan, it is illegal to distribute Bibles to Muslims. The difference, then, between moderate Muslim nations and those in the extreme lie in the reaction to apostasy and not in whether or not apostasy is seen as a crime.

Islam is not just another religion like Christianity, Hinduism, or Buddhism. It does not recognize seperate spheres for politics and religion. Muhammed, unlike Jesus or the Buddha, was the founder of both a religion and a government ruled by religious decree.

This does not mean that Islam cannot reform itself to accept the right of an individual to choose their own faith. It just means that it will be far harder for Muslims to buy into the notion given the example of Muhammed and the ideological system founded by him.

It is good to see the White House and State Department urging a quick and favorable conclusion to the plight of Abdul Rahman. But our liberation of Afghanistan and our hopes for it must be tempered by the reality of Islam as more than just a religion as understood in the West--it is a political ideology.

Here is a good roundup of news on Abdul Rahman.

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You are in command now!

Hitchens Via Slate : Up until now, I have resisted all urges to assume the mantle of generalship and to describe how I personally would have waged a campaign to liberate IraqÂ… Â…So, now I come at last to my ideal war.

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Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa is on trial in Turkey for acts of terrorism. Did he actually kill any Americans? None that we know of. However, Saqa, like many in the Middle East, may simply equate Jews with Americans.

VOA:

As he was dragged out of court, the suspect, a Syrian national identified as Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa said, "My beliefs prevent me from standing in front of people like you." He added, "I fought a Jihad, I killed Americans.".

Al-Saqa is on trial with 72 other suspected al-Qaida operatives for alleged involvement in a string of suicide bomb attacks in November 2003. Four suicide bombers driving explosives-laden vehicles targeted two synagogues, the British consulate and the Istanbul headquarters of the British HSBC bank.

The British Consul General was among the 58 people who died in the blasts. Most of those killed were Muslim Turks.

Turkish prosecutors charge that al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden personally ordered the Syrian to organize the attacks against Jewish and British nationals in Turkey. Al-Saqa and his alleged Syrian accomplice, Hamid Obysi, were captured in Turkey last August after a failed attempt to blow up Israeli cruise ships off Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

Al-Saqa reportedly told interrogators that the plan to kill Israeli tourists was financed by a top al-Qaida militant who allegedly gave him $50,000 to organize the plot.

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One bright sunny September morning the thought ran though my head that Iraq must have a hand in this. Just a bit more complicated than blowing up Buddha donÂ’t you think? Probably they would need some support for an operation like that. Just where would an organization like Al-Qaeda get money and support besides the Taliban?

Newsmax : An Iraqi intelligence document released last week indicates that Osama bin Laden sought to conduct "joint operations" with Saddam Hussein's regime six years before the 9/11 attacks - and was given the green light by the Iraqi dictator.

The document, detailed in the March 27 issue of the Weekly Standard, describes a Feb. 1995 meeting between bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence that was personally approved by "the Honorable Presidency" - an apparent reference to Saddam.

Also see The Revolution Will be Blogged

I wonder how Democrats will react when documented proof that UBL "sought to conduct "joint operations" with Saddam Hussein's regime five years before the 9/11 attacks, and was given the green light by the Iraqi dictator." I suspect that they'll ignore it as best they can and hope that their media allies move to the next subject as quickly as possible.

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There, but for GodÂ’s grace, go I. Good job LaShawn, now neither of us have to look outside to see if our car is in the driveway.

Where the bloody hell am I indeed, Sugar!

DonÂ’t miss VonskiÂ’s weekly roundup of Good News in the GWOT. Also this week Vonski goes to the local moonbat zoo. Fascinating, little is understood about these creatures, but with enough study the hope is eventally the conflict with the much higher and more intelligent Homo Sapiens can be resolved.

Who loves ya boys? Not Hollywood.

Feisty Whore on bleeding heart liberal Aussie newspaper critic.

Feisty :The reason the newspapers mentioned the words 'Arab' and 'Muslim' in 89 percent of terrorism articles following 9/11 is because....the terrorists were Muslims bent hard on Jihad. You would have to have a major cranio-rectal inversion to think this is racist.

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I hope this is true, but don't count on it. Didn't we hear the same report from Michael Ladeen, who also got it from an Iranian source back in January, claiming bin Laden had died of kidney failure in Iran? Via Dan Riehl this from Newsmax:

Weldon made the stunning claim during an interview Wednesday with the Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported: "Weldon is making explosive new allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding."

Weldon cited as his source an Iranian exile code-named Ali, telling the paper: "Ali's told me that Osama bin Laden is dead. He died in Iran."

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Yesterday we broke the story that a new al Qaeda video was making the jihadi rounds. Today there is confirmatian. Yes, we actually break news around here sometimes.

The video features 'martyr' Fahd Farraj al-Juwair, the former Emir of Al-Qaeda in the Land of Mohammed (Saudi Arabia), who was killed 2 weeks ago in Riyadh after the failed attack on the Abqaig oil facility. Three documents, all dated with yesterday's date, accompanied the video. Video and docs will be sent out on request.

Via Gateway Pundit this from Al Jazeera:

"To Americans we tell you to leave Muhammad's peninsula [Saudi Arabia], and leave all Muslim lands. Stop aiding Jews in Palestine and stop aiding Christians in Muslim lands or else you will face killing, destruction and bombings," said al-Juweir, who was on a most-wanted list of al-Qaida suspects.

"To the Saudi government, we have come to you to slaughter you and your rule is fleeting ... If you knew what the [mujahideen] have prepared for you, you would be fleeing this Arabian peninsula."

Al-Juweir also called on Saudi security forces to join the group's holy war.

"[Prince] Nayef bin Abdul Aziz [the interior minister] told you to sell your souls to his government and kill for him in defence of Americans ... Stop defending tyrants and join the mujahideen or else you know what awaits you," he said.

In any event, there seems to have been a slight decline in the number of these videos released by the 'mujahidin' from Iraq recently--in spite of obvious pieces of propaganda such as this. In fact, a number of us who follow these things have noticed that certain 'insurgent' groups have begun recycling footage from 'operations' and trying to pass them off as new. Like a recent video from the 1920's Revolution Brigade announcing an operation which had killed American soldiers which was, in fact, some footage from some months before.

Perhaps this fact combined with other good news from Iraq is a sign? I certainly hope so.

UPDATE: A translation of the documents and part of the video can be seen by following links here.

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Notice anything odd about this picture which accompanied an AP story in which a U.N. "expert" alleges that Jewish settlers "terrorize Palestinians with impunity"? Click the image for a shocking revelation about the photo. I wonder what other information in the story has been doctored?

UPDATE: I got the same anonymous tip that Ace did, so I'll just direct you to his post for the clarification.

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10 billion fresh barrels of oil right next door!

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Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia has released a new high production value 16 minute video. An accompanying announcement in Word format is dated today, 3/15. Luckily, the 'martyr' Fahd Farraj al-Juwair, the former Emir of Al-Qaeda in the Land of Mohammed, was killed 2 weeks ago in Riyadh after the failed attack on the Abqaig oil facility. Unfortunately, this video is making its rounds rapidly on the internet. Worst yet, a lot of young men look to these videos as a source of inspiration. Thanks to Doubletap for the video. I will send it on request with accompanying announcement.

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Yes we were down there for a bit. When Rusty is in his backup blog is here for updates. When he is gone I will post updates here if we are down. All seems fine now go for it.

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This comment was posted on the Jawa Report this AM. Apparently some Muslims get it.

Asiqbal@yahoo.com.sg : u those iraqi terrosrists dont u people asham to say u are muslim. beheade people who given u the permisson.are u doing allah job. no reapect for islam whole world hate muslim people all over the world because of your brutal behave did our nabi teach u to do so. u people make shame to islam n to our nabi muhammed.

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I must say I also detected a bit political bullshit in the stories suggesting Hamas is rejecting advice from al-Qaeda. Of course Hamas must reject al-QaedaÂ’s advice publicly and the stories focus in this quote from Al-Zawahiri.

BBC : The seculars in the Palestinian Authority have sold out Palestine for crumbs... Giving them legitimacy is against Islam."
He called on Muslims in "Palestine, Iraq and everywhere else... [to] be wary of the new American game entitled the 'political process'", alluding to recent elections and democratic change.

"To this regard I have to warn the Muslim brothers in Palestine. ... We know for sure that Palestine will not be liberated by the elections, but by jihad," Al-Zawahiri said. "I would like to tell my brothers in Palestine that reaching power is needed to implement Islamic rule."

CBSNEWS : "The insults against Prophet Muhammad are not the result of freedom of opinion but because what is sacred has changed in this culture," he said. "The Prophet Mohammed, prayers be upon him, and Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, are not sacred anymore, while Semites and the Holocaust and homosexuality have become sacred."
(referencing the cartoons) They did it on purpose and they continue to do it without apologizing, even though no one dares to harm Jews or to challenge Jewish claims about the Holocaust nor even to insult homosexuals."

more...

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Oh, and al Qaeda's also not too fond of the Muhammed cartoons either. BBC:

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on the Palestinian militant group Hamas not to recognise past peace deals with Israel.

In a video message shown on Arab TV network al-Jazeera, Zawahiri urged Hamas, which won Palestinian elections in January, to fight on with arms.

Zawahiri also attacked the West for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons published in newspapers....

"No Palestinian has the right to give away a grain of the soil," he said.

"The seculars in the Palestinian Authority have sold out Palestine for crumbs... Giving them legitimacy is against Islam."

He called on Muslims in "Palestine, Iraq and everywhere else... [to] be wary of the new American game entitled the 'political process'", alluding to recent elections and democratic change.

Zawahiri urged Hamas to "continue the armed struggle" and reject agreements signed between its predecessors in government and Israel, describing them as "surrender accords".

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