Bin Laden planned to change the name Al Qaeda because of image problem

[bijou]

As Osama bin Laden watched his terrorist organisation get picked apart, he lamented in his final writings that Al Qaeda was getting a bad reputation and needed a name change.

His group was killing too many Muslims and the West was winning the public relations fight.

Faced with this challenge, Bin Laden, who hated the United States and decried capitalism, considered a very American business strategy.

Like Blackwater, ValuJet and Philip Morris, Al Qaeda would start afresh under a new name.

The problem with the name Al Qaeda, he wrote in a letter recovered from his compound in Pakistan, was that it lacked a religious element, something to convince Muslims worldwide that they are in a holy war with America.

Maybe something like Taifat al-Tawhed Wal-Jihad, meaning Monotheism and Jihad Group, would do the trick, he wrote.

Or Jama'at I'Adat al-Khilafat al-Rashida, meaning Restoration of the Caliphate Group.

As Bin Laden saw it, the problem was that the group's full name, Al Qaeda al-Jihad, for The Base of Holy War, had become the short-hand Al Qaeda.

Lopping off the word 'jihad,' Bin Laden wrote, allowed the West to 'claim deceptively that they are not at war with Islam'.

Maybe it was time for Al Qaeda to bring back its original name.

The letter, which was undated, was discovered among Bin Laden's recent writings.

Navy SEALs stormed his compound and killed him before any name change could be made. ...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007675/Osama-Bin-Laden-planned-change-Al-Qaeda-image-problem.html#ixzz1QCi0KBDD

[DefiantSix]

Navy SEALs stormed his compound and killed him before any name change could be made. ...

Ahhh; the ugly consequences of dithering rears their verdant heads yet again... 

[Bodadh]

A uptight homicidal maniac was worried about the image of this death cult and was spit balling new friendlier names cause his target audience kept getting killed by his jr maniacs ?


I swear I thought that was a Onion piece when I started to read it.


( You can start calling a turd angelfood cake but it still a turd. )

[NHSparky]

Imagine Hitler in 1943 undertaking a PR campaign to appeal to the Jews as he shuffles them off to the ovens.  Kinda similar.

Or Obama in 2011 trying to remake the "hopey changey" bullshit message to whatever it will be for 2012.

[DefiantSix]

Imagine Hitler in 1943 undertaking a PR campaign to appeal to the Jews as he shuffles them off to the ovens.  Kinda similar.

Or Obama in 2011 trying to remake the "hopey changey" bullshit message to whatever it will be for 2012.

Yeah, it's kinda like that.