This guy is, like, so 2002. Revive al-Qaeda? Come on, man! Everyone knows that the real terror threat now is Trump supporters!
“Al Qaeda has a new leader called ‘the Sword of Revenge’: Egyptian former general who is now in hiding in Iran is ‘set to make terror group as dangerous as they were under Osama Bin Laden,'” by Tom Pyman, MailOnline, February 25, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Al Qaeda has a new leader, called ‘the Sword of Revenge’ who is reportedly set to make the terror group as dangerous as they were under Osama Bin Laden.
Egyptian former general Saif al-Adel is in hiding in Iran and the ‘brilliant and ruthless strategist’ has now taken the reins from Ayman Zawahiri, according to reports….
Now Saif, who has long been tracked by intelligence agencies both in the UK and the US, has taken the top job, and is preparing a ‘rebrand’.
A senior British terrorism expert told the Mirror: ‘Compared to Zawahiri he is likely to be a much more effective leader, at least so or more so even than bin Laden.’
Saif has been heavily involved in Al Qaeda activities for some 30 years, and already has a £7.5 million US bounty on his head, after the US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, which left 224 dead.
The veteran fighter was a leading member of bin Laden’s close protection unit in Afghanistan, named ‘Black Guard’ after the colour of their scarves.
A source described Saif as someone who was always ‘the least affected by the deaths of innocent civilians.’
Reports suggest the dangerous new leader is looking to build ties with ISIS, Iran and the Afghanistan Taliban….
Infidel says
Hiding in Iran? That’s stupid: he should have picked Turkey instead, where he could have been in plain sight, since nobody questions Turkey despite them having policies very similar to Iran’s. Just like the ISIS guy who hid in Ankara w/ his Yazidi slave
purpleslog says
He’s not hiding from the Iranians in Iran.
gregbeetham says
I don’t get the hiding in Iran part if he has ties to ISIS because they are a Sunni-Wahhabi-Salafist mixture and Egypt is Sunni and Al-Qaeda is a Sunni-Wahhabi-Salafist outfit all of whom regard Shiites as apostate and the majority of Muslims in Iran are Shiite so I don’t see how it would be possible to get shelter in Iran for a Wahhabi.
Walter Sieruk says
This new al Qaeda jihadist chief with his vicious murderous intentions to scheme to make his jihad terror net work just dangerous ,and deadly, as in was under Osama Bin Laden shows this new al Qaeda as the epitome of an evil man.
Therefore ,he many serve as an example of violent , savage and manacling man. So much so that he’s a reflection of such an evil person in the Bible .
For Proverbs 16:26. reads “The thoughts of the wicked are and abomination to the Lord…” [N.K.J.V.]
mortimer says
His real name is thought to be Mohammed Salah al-Din Zaidan. The Egyptian military has yet to release his files, but it is believed that Saif al-Adel (which translates to “Sword of Justice”) is a nom de guerre.
Former Colonel Mohammed Salah al-Din Zaidan was born around 1959 – 1960 according to the FBI. He joined the Egyptian military around 1976, and possibly became a colonel in the Special Forces as an explosives expert, possibly being trained in the Soviet Union. He fled Egypt in 1988 and reportedly made his way to Afghanistan, joining the relatively small but well funded (and mainly Egyptian and Saudi) Maktab al-Khidamat, which was the forerunner to al-Qaeda.
He became a trainer in explosives to new recruits, and would stay in Afghanistan after the war to train members of the newly formed Taliban. The leader of the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabaab, Moktar Ali Zubeyr, has said that Saif al-Adel and Yusef al-Ayeri played an important role in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu by providing training and participating in the battle directly. Adel would later join Bin Laden in Sudan after 1994.
He has lived on the run for the last 30 years.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Mortimer.
Terry Gain says
Would-be terrorist leaders will be more common under the reign of President “Where Am I”.
mortimer says
John Brennan (a secret Muslim) told Sleepy Creepy Joe that Christians men in the US are terrorists to be marginalized or arrested. That might even include Sleepy Joe himself.
Walter Sieruk says
This new al Qaeda “top dog” who has as part of his jihadist scheme to linkup connections with that murderous jihad terror entity , ISIS as well as those ruthless Muslims deadly ruffian savages ,the Taliban.
All this jihad confederacy of Islamic terrorist groups is not only fated to fail in their Islamic agenda in the end but such an alliance of will only come back down to their own disaster.
As the Bible informs its reader “Though they join forces ,the wicked will not go unpunished…”
Proverbs 11:21. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That former Egyptian who now heads al Qaeda and wants to link up with other like minded jihadists of other entities that are just a bloodthirsty deadly and destruction with their malicious jihad to achieve their Islamic goals.
They may all be ,well described in the Bible by being compared to other villains who were just as violent bloodthirsty and heinous as them. As it is written in Romans 4:15-17 “Their feet are swift to shed blood ; destruction and misery mark their ways ; and the way of peace they have not known.” [N.K.J.V.]
Nevertheless, they will have all the hideous horrors they inflect on other people come back on them in the end . For as it’s said “What goes around comes around.”
The reason the we may be sure that this saying is true is because it’s upheld by the Bible.
Which informs its reader “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7.
Walter Sieruk says
That new al Qaeda leader, Saif al Adel, might feel great and grand about himself now since he’s had just became the head ofthe Islamic terror murder network . Nevertheless. the time o his downfall will come ,sooner or later, and it will be nothing less than a complete calamity to that evil man. .
For it is written in the Bible “The Lord has made all things for Himself. Yes even the wicked for the day of doom.” Proverbs 16 ;4. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore. in time that even the name of this new al Qaeda chief will be forgotten. For the Bible reads
“The name of the wicked will rot.” Proverbs 10 :7.
JimJFox says
Walter, Walter… Please stop with the biblical claptrap; if God could do anything he / she would have done it by now. nyway, Allah could be god!!
Walter Sieruk says
To Jim J Fox , one of the reasons that I do quote Bible passages that apply to this “War of ideas ” is because one way to describe this “conflict” is that this a “War of Ideas is ,in part, an intense dispute between the Christian West verse the Islamic East. Very intense.
Furthermore Muslims aren’t sly about quoting from the Qu ‘ran . Therefore Christians shouldn’t be shy about quoting from the Bible. This is also called “fighting fire with fire”
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
New al-Qaeda top dog is former Egyptian general who wants to make the group as dangerous as it was under Osama
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And note that the US often aids in the training of Egyptian militaery officers–possibly including this Jihadist.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2011/02/04/egyptian-army
More suicidal insanity.
James Lincoln says
Graven image,
To your point, an interesting 2013 article from Foreign Policy website, likely still largely pertinent:
“Is America Training Too Many Foreign Armies?”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/01/28/is-america-training-too-many-foreign-armies/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, James. Very salient.
Walter Sieruk says
Next to the last sentence of the Mail-on-line article quote it reads “A source described Saif as someone who was always ‘the least affected by the n-deaths of innocent civilians.”
The reason that Saif is so very callous as not to be affected, as in feel bad, by “the death of innocent civilians is because his callous and heartless no active or functional conscience .
As the Bible reveals to its reader that their are some men completely heartless and callous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.]
In the specfic case of that al Qaeda ,jihadist chief ,Saif , that “hot iron” is Islam.
John Forbes says
BUT TRUMP supporters are a DANGER? AL QAEDA & ISIS are the real face of ISLAM against the KAFIRS( US)
JimJFox says
Pity there’s not a foolproof way of taking out these loons.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Dead man walking. Another tool of evil Islam.
dusty says
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.