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Times are Tough All Over
Al Qaeda to Cut at Least 5,000 jobs
KABUL (Voice of Sharia) -- Citing worldwide
reaction to last week's terrorist attacks, multi-national terror network Al
Qaeda announced Thursday that it would lay off 5,000 or more holy warriors.
The "holy war" concern said the move
was necessary because of an expected 20 percent fatwah reduction and cost and
complexity of thwarting new airport and immigration security procedures,
according to a statement broadcast on Afghanistan's Voice of Sharia radio.
"This is, without a doubt, the most
difficult thing I have had to do in my over two decades as a mujahad," said
Al Qaeda mastermind and chief operations officer Osama bin Laden in a letter to
employees. He added, "Some of these people are my friends, who have been
fighting the infidel by my side since we were living in caves in Afghanistan
during the Soviet occupation. We are still living in caves in Afghanistan, but I
believe the bottom is forming and we will see a turnaround soon, provided we can
meet the challenge by getting both leaner AND meaner."
"I have declared a state of emergency at
Al Qaeda," he said. "This declaration is an official recognition that,
hard as it may be to accept, our network's very survival depends on dramatic
change to our operations, our jihad and worst of all our staffing levels."
The cuts, bin Laden said, would include both
mujahadin (holy warriors) and ulema (clerics). They will impact Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Iraq.
Some mujahadin will be notified immediately,
others won't be notified until the end of next week as they finish attacks in
progress or in late stages of planning, according to Taliban spokesman Wakil
Ahmed.
Staff cuts for suicide pilots, car bombers,
petty religious clerics and other Al Qaeda holy warriors will be based on
seniority, Ahmed said, in a deal worked out at a meeting between bin Laden and
union officials from the IBIJ (International Brotherhood of the Islamic Jihad).
Mujahadin and others who lose their jobs will
not receive any sort of severance package, according to the Al Qaeda statement.
Pakistan, which oversees Al Qaeda and its subsidiary Taliban organization, is
the world's largest country with a pre-medieval culture and justice system. The
country's latest quarterly report said the different units of the Al Qaeda/Taliban
organization, including the madrassas (schools Pakistan has been running for
twenty years to turn ordinary children into suicidal holy warriors) had at total
of 30,000 employees, meaning the cut represents a 16 percent reduction in staff.
Al Qaeda is the latest in a string of Islamic
terror network layoff announcements, pushing the total of announced cuts in the
last five days to 10,000.
Referring to massive U.S. troop movements
involving three carrier groups in the Mediterranean and Arabian Sea, worried
Afghani ulemas in testimony during the emergency sharia council in Khandahar on
Thursday told their spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar that the number is
likely to cross the 20,000 threshold in the coming days, through attrition, with
none of the expected openings slated to be refilled.
OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference)
and bin Laden are considering spending billions on emergency aid to the
industry, distributed through a vast network of corrupt Saudi emirs,
international prostitution rings and drug smugglers. The current exchange rate
is approximately 100,000 afghanis to the dollar.
The PLO announced Tuesday it will reduce its
workforce by 200 to 300 sleeper agents worldwide by end of 2002 at its
commercial bus bombing division and restaurant theater operations.
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