New al-Qaeda Tape Released
July 5th, 2007 | by Sqotty |Ayman Al-Zawahiri, second in command of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, has released a new video imploring all Muslims to support the “Islamic State of Iraq,” a shadow Islamist “government being pushed by the terrorist groups to replace the fledgling democracy in Iraq.
Al-Zawahiri made it clear that implementing an Islamic government in Iraq is a first step to establishing a caliphate rule in the region.
He is also calling for a push against the more moderate Arab states, calling them “corrupt” as they are taking a stand (in some cases rather lamely) against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups bent on pushing Islamic rule across the globe.
From Foxnews:
The move quickly met resistance. Some Islamic extremist clerics in the Arab world said it was too soon to declare an Islamic state because the Islamic law qualifications were not yet met and argued that a true Islamic state is not viable while there are still U.S. forces in Iraq.
That seems to be part of the plan. Once we pull our troops from the region, they will move out of the shadows and a full scale civil war will erupt with the intent of replacing the democratically elected government with Sharia law and Islamic Fundamentalist rule, similar to what is in place in Iran. No doubt, Iran will continue help any attempts to undermine and replace the legitimate government of Iraq.
Several large Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups publicly denounced Al Qaeda, saying its fighters were killing theirs and pressuring them to join the Islamic State. One group, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, has begun overtly cooperating with U.S. forces and Sunni tribal leaders to attack Al Qaeda.
At the same time, increased U.S. forces sent to Iraq this year are waging a number of offensives in suspected Al Qaeda strongholds north and south of Baghdad and in western Anbar province, claiming to have captured and killed a number of significant figures in the group.
The offensives have caused an increase in American casualties, but insurgent and militia attacks appear to have fallen in the past week. On Thursday, Baghdad was relatively quiet, with police reports of a policeman and a civilian killed in a shooting and bombing. A roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing a civilian and wounding three police.
Although al-Qaeda is making overtures to the various Sunni groups, they don’t seem to be buying it as there is a history of animosity between Shi’a and Sunni Muslims. That and they fear reprisals by Shi’ites for years of oppression while Hussein (a Sunni) ruled Iraq.
What is interesting is the mention of the impact the “surge” is having in Iraq. That’s the plan that Democrats are already denouncing as failure even before it had a chance to be fully implemented. The decrease in attacks may be a plan on the part of the terrorist groups to wait out the “surge” in anticipation that the chicken-doves in Congress will force a U.S. pullout from Iraq. It would not surprise me if that were the case. I’d prefer it if the surge is given an appropriate chance to work and see where we end up, hopefully victorious.
Meanwhile, the terrorist al-Zawahiri continues to call for Muslims to go to Iraq and raise “jihad” against U.S. forces and the legitimate government of Iraq.
One thing I would like to see, since al-Zawahiri and his ilk are so keen on “jihad,” is to see a significant Muslim cleric (or a group of them) call for jihad against al-Qaeda and lay a fatwa on al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Ladin and all of the other terrorists that are bent on tearing the country of Iraq, and the Middle East as a whole, apart.
I know, dream on. It will never happen.
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