Successor to Osama bin Laden and current head of terror unit Al Qaeda, Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri is calling on Al Qaeda to help the Syrian rebels, a day after Al Qaeda and Somalia's terrorists Al Shabaab announced they would join them.
The Al Shabaab also fight to impose a strict Sharia law on Somalia and are fighting two fronts: the pirates and the crumbling government; the latter two also fight each other turning this into a real life Royal Rumble.
Al Zawahiri, 62 wants to carry out Osama's dying wish of toppling the corrupt governments in Arabia and, instead of fighting for a free and democratic Arabia, wants nations of even stricter Sharia law and anti-Israeli and anti-Western governments.
Al Zawahiri has a $25 million bounty on his head and Al Qaeda was responsible for a double suicide bombing in December that killed over 44.
The death count in Syria's city of Homs has risen to over 400.
The Middle East has become a complete mess-even before the Arab Springs:
Governments in Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait,Saudi Arabia and even currently-troubled Bahrain Oman,Jordan,Lebanon,Iraq,Tunisia,Algeria,Morroco and Egypt agreed with the West on intervention in Libya and Syria.
Being Shia Muslim,Iran is against the above Sunni Muslim Arab states and is on the Assad's government side but like the above, is against Israel (albeit more openly against them than the above since Egypt and Jordan have signed a peace treaty with Israel while Saudi Arabia and Iraq want peace between Israel and Arabia).
Al-Qaeda, like Iran,Syria and Yemen are openly against Israel in an active manner compared to disapproving Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain,UAE,Somalia,Pakistan,Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda however, are not friends with Iran.
Israel is hated by many Arabs-even in countries that have made peace.
Persian (Shia) Iran hates Israel,the West, and does not like the Arabs (Sunnis).
Al Qaeda hates Israel and the West and does not like Western influenced Arabs or Shia Iran.
Syria and Yemen (and non-Arabic Somalia,Pakistan and Bangladesh) are the only countries openley against Israel and the West.
Ideally we need countries that do not hate our ally Israel and Shia and Sunnis need to get along to stop these militant groups and follow the example set by Egypt and Jordan to actively make peace with Israel and (a long shot) SHARE Jerusalem (Jewish Israel won Jerusalem and the Temple Mount where Al Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock are situated but gave it to the Muslims to stop excessive violent- since the 1800s there have been an increasing number of Jews in Palestine/Israel and they LEGALLY PURCHASED land to live there post World War II- a number of Muslims did not want this and fought against sharing the land thus culminating in this on-going conflict).
Dark Green= Have been to war with Israel
Blue= Israel
Red= Gaza and West Bank
Funnily enough, Osama bin Laden told his children before he died that they should go and live peacefully in the West and get an education there so they do not end up like him-Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister was Osama's fifth wife, said the al-Qaeda chief did not want his children and grandchildren to follow the same path of terrorism like him, the Daily Mail reported.
It seems these people repent in the face of death by non-Jihad and that they knew they were wrong- well, those high up like Bin Laden did anyway.
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