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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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