Al-Qaida following in U.S. footsteps offering rewards
Lewis DiuguidSomeone needs to tell al-Qaida’s leadership that by offering rewards for the deaths of Americans it is following in the footsteps of the country it hates the most.
Al-Qaida nevertheless put a $160,000 bounty on the head of a U.S. ambassador and $23,000 reward for anyone who kills an American soldier inside Yemen, The Associated Press reports. That reward thing is so American.
The U.S. when George W. Bush was president had a bounty of $25 million on the head of super-terrorist Osama bin Laden for planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. President Barack Obama ended that with the death of bin Laden in 2011.
Al-Qaida needs to come up with something more original such as delivering flowers to it foes as a peace offering in the New Year.
Phil Cardarella
4 months, 3 weeks agoActually, this is GOOD news. Perhaps it means that enough young men are rejecting the nutty pseudo-religious nonsense that Al Qaida has used to get “martyrs”, and they now have to recruit and pay hitmen like the criminals they are.
Kent Mueller
4 months, 2 weeks agoWhat an example of relativism. Lewis, your comments only make sense if you start with the premise that the US and Al Qaida start off as equals. They are not.
Suzanne Conaway
4 months, 2 weeks agoThere was an episode of “Bones” that was about 9/11. The Muslim intern said, “When they hijacked those planes, they hijacked my religion, too.”
Islam is no more about killing people than Christianity is. But in any religion, those who hate can find justification for that hate. Phil, I hope your view of the bounties is correct and fewer yound Muslims are hating.