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Arabia

Saudi mufti says Iraq jihad is 'road to ruin'

2004-11-12

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's top religious cleric warned Saudis on Thursday against going to neighbouring Iraq to fight what he called a ruinous jihad against US-led forces. Responding to a call to jihad (holy war) by 26 Saudi preachers on Sunday, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh said they were wrong to incite young men to go and fight in Iraq. "There is no flag to fight under and no basis to stand on and going there would be the road to ruin," the mufti told Okaz newspaper.

"And you could die, too!" he added.

Iraqi authorities said last month they had captured 24 suspected Saudi militants, and diplomats say many more may have slipped across the border to fight.

Posted by:Fred

#7 Hmm.. maybe this cleric gets it. This army ain't the soviet army, this ain't Afganistan, this force ain't here to control and conquer so the population isn't keen to rebel, and this army is damn lethal to your young dumb men.

Posted by: mmurray821 2004-11-12 10:32:49 AM

#6 Could this mean that they're...ummmmmmmmmmmm...losing, perhaps?

Posted by: tu3031 2004-11-12 9:14:41 AM

#5 Sounds to me like someone is beginning to get a clue. Next subject for mufti meditation-
Cause/Effect: is there a relationship?

Posted by: N guard 2004-11-12 9:06:29 AM

#4 Heh . . . headless jihadis . . . :-)

Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-11-12 7:12:17 AM

#3 You misspelled 'heads'.

Posted by: ed 2004-11-12 6:57:41 AM

#2 That's right - send the hands home. The handless Jihadis - feed them to hungry pigs - review the one scene in the movie "Snatch" for thumbnail planning factors.

Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-11-12 6:09:41 AM

#1 Simple, cut off their hands, and send them home!

Posted by: smn 2004-11-12 12:38:53 AM

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