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| Unknown Iraqi group issues death threat | |
| 2003-07-11 | |
| An unknown Iraqi group has started to rally Iraqis for jihad against US occupying forces, issuing a death threat to all Iraqis working with the US-led administration, according to a pamphlet reportedly distributed at a Baghdad mosque this week. From a mosque? Who’d have guested? "We are calling for a jihad," said the message on the pamphlet, vowing "a battle from hell that will terrify the Americans. We will attack with such force that they won’t know what hit them. Whomever stands with them or works with them is a coward and traitor of Allah and his prophet. Each traitor that came with the enemy or opened the doors of Iraq to the enemy will be killed," the English version of the pamphlet said, according to AFP. "This applies to everyone who works hand in hand with this dog Paul Bremer," the top US civil administrator in Iraq. "Be warned. We forbid you to work with the American dogs." The anonymous message in the pamphlet also calls for a general strike and for imams to urge Iraqis to join a holy war. It also urges Baath Party members, the Special Republican Guard, army intelligence services and Fedayeen militia fighters from the ousted regime to regroup and get ready for a long drawn war. "This is the time to prove your manliness. You will spill your blood to erase the bad record that has plagued the Iraqi People. And know that when the American dogs flee and take cover, death will follow them. Start to regroup because you know who you are and organise yourselves... and support the Mujahedeen in this war so that the people will forgive you for the past," it added. "Support the Mujahedeen", I’ll bet, means our old friends from Iran are stirring things up. It also appealed to Iraqis to stay away from US bases to avoid being harmed in attacks launched against occupation forces. Yes, stay away. Gives us a clear field of fire.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Saddam "might" still be alive. OBL is protein paste on the wall of some cave in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-7-11 2:26:51 PM |
| #2 Some of my fellow liberals think we went to war without a plan for the occupation. They are wrong. The problem is that we went to war with TWO plans for the occupation. An army/State/CIA plan that was based on relying on a large allied/un peacekeeping force. And a Department of Defense plan based on using the Iraqi National Congress to quickly organize an Iraqi security force on the ground. The hawks vetoed the degree of UN concessions it would have taken to quickly get a big peacekeeping force - and the Powellite "moderates" vetoed relying on the INC. So we went in with only our troops (plus 12000 brits of course) and that was and is plainly less force then would be desirable (not that it dooms us to quagmire - we may have just enough troops to handle this if we get lucky - but it doesnt seem wise to count on that) Hopefully now the admin will move forward on BOTH the hawk/neo-con and the moderate/multilateralist agendas - IE BOTH more rapid empowerment of Iraqis and build up of Iraqi security forces using reliable Iraqis INCLUDING exiles to do the vetting - and ALSO going more multilateral - beyond the 8000 poles, danes, spanish and italians who are coming. Hopefully most NATO states will be willing to come in under NATO command, so we can avoid establishing a UN command there. If they wont, we will face the dilemma of needing to establish a UN command there (not desirable for a number of reasons) versus going on without any more help. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-7-11 11:35:18 AM |
| #1 I guess the upside is that it will be that many fewer Islamic radicals the US military has to kill later on. That's a good idea. No use allowing U.S. forces to be the exclusive exterminators of Islamofascists. Spread the capability around amongst our acquaintances. :) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-11 11:27:02 AM |