Zawahiri: No Such Thing As Innocent Victims of Our Attacks

Yes folks, all those photos of people jumping to their death deserved their fates. The mass carnage of 9/11. Every single terrorist attack perpetrated by al Qaeda. Whether ti was the bombings of embassies, the USS Cole, or the thousands of attacks in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.

By Zawahiri's way of thinking, they got what was coming to them, as has every single person slaughtered by al Qaeda before and since then. Nearly 3,000 people snuffed out in an instant because they were carrying out jihad. Billions of dollars of damage inflicted on the US and world economy, and the costs are still being tallied as I write.

No one is an innocent - and this is their way of trying to rationalize the mass slaughter perpetrated by al Qaeda thugs around the world - that they are not innocent civilians, but rather an enemy that is fair game for their jihad against the West.

Zawahiri flips around the argument of human shields:

Al-Zawahiri, who led an Egyptian Islamic militant group that joined forces with bin Laden in the 1990s, said innocents who have been killed in attacks by al Qaeda or affiliated groups died as a result of "unintentional error" or because they were used as "human shields" by "the enemy."

Governments worldwide have blamed al Qaeda for attacks that have killed several thousand people, including about 3,000 who died in the attacks on Washington and New York on September 11, 2001.

Al-Zawahiri defended a December attack in Algeria -- hospital sources said it killed 60 people -- because one of its targets was a United Nations building and the "United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims," according to the transcript.

Yes, that's right folks, the people working at the WTC, those rescue workers, and everyone else murdered by al Qaeda at the WTC, were human shields used by the government. I'm sure that argument will go over well with the Troofer movement. Zawahiri also has time to mention that Osama bin Laden is still well, though he hasn't been actually seen in a video in years:

He said "bin Laden is healthy and well," the transcript said, but that even if he "doesn't become ill, he must die one day."

Well, that certainly clears things up, doesn't it [ed: that's sarcasm folks].

UPDATE:
Meryl Yourish points out something that got buried in its coverage of Zawahiri's latest rantings - that he again calls for the genocide of all Jews. She also points to the original transcript - without the bowdlerization by the media outlets.