Al-Qaeda issues a helpful statement of its intentions for those who do not read Jihad Watch. Of course, Sharia is already part of the Iraqi Constitution, so why do they oppose it? From AKI, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Baghdad, 18 Oct. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terror group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has released a new statement in which it explains the reasons for its terror campaign and states that they are not fighting the US occupation of Iraq, but to create "an Islamic state which is part of the caliphate and the Muslim territory."The message from the terror group appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, just a few days ahead of a visit to Baghdad by the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. "The secretary of the Arab League has been tasked with going to Iraq to convince the Sunnis to enter the political game so as to stop the Jihad [holy war] in the Sunni areas. With the excuse of national interest, they are trying to save the Americans," the statement says.
The terror group then goes on to reveal its real objectives, saying: "We are not fighting to chase out the occupier or to save national unity and keep the borders outlined by the infidels intact," the statement continues. "We are fighting because it is a religious duty to do it, just as it is a duty to take the Sharia [Islamic law] to the government and create an Islamic state."
Its no wonder Zawahiri hass been trying to slap Zarqawi down a little, releasing statements like these which tell the world the truth about their aims and objectives - whatever next?
Off topic:It is well to realize that a people "palestineans", are a creation of arab propaganda overnight in 1967, but isn't Zarqawi also a "palestinean" and isn't the failure of mainstreammedia to mention as much an attempt to "sanitize" him ?
Al-Zarqawi has been described as a "Palestinian" here, and you can find more about the calculated way in which he has lost his "Palestinian" identity -- just as did that "Jordanian" Sirhan Sirhan, and others -- by googling "Zarqawi" and "Palestinian Jordanian" and "Posted by Hugh" and "Jihadwatch."
I wish Hugh would remember his thread of thought before his parenthetical excursions come to their conclusion:
"What a tangled toponymic web Muslim Arabs weave, when e'er they practice to deceive, first by making up the "Palestinian people," and then by pretending that no matter when some Muslim Arab (parenthetical excursion), so that, both backwards and forwards, no matter how tangential or short-lived a particular Muslim Arab's connection to "Palestine," as long as there was one, at some point, necesssarily and for all time makes all of his descendants into into "Palestinians," with all the claimed rights thereto appertaining -- and apparently forever."
That's a rather tangled web of a paragraph...
"The message from the terror group appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, just a few days ahead of a visit to Baghdad by the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. 'The secretary of the Arab League has been tasked with going to Iraq to convince the Sunnis to enter the political game so as to stop the Jihad [holy war] in the Sunni areas. With the excuse of national interest, they are trying to save the Americans,' the statement says."
I have no issue with the secretary of the Arab League being tasked to go to Iraq for the purpose of asking the jihaddists to give it up, whatever purpose anyone wishes to ascribe, but when is the AL gonna ask Amr to go to Sudan and tell Khartoum to rein in the Janjawid? They don't like it when western countries invade Muslim lands to depose dictators, but what's their excuse for sitting on their hands when Arab Muslims turn against Muslims of any sort?
But wait, al-qaeda denied that the letter from Zawahiri to Zarqawi was a fake, right? This report is essentially just a restatement of the allegedly fake letter.
If the caliphate is revived we would at least have a belligerent state on our hands that the USAF could bomb back to the stone age with sanction provided by article 51 of the UN Charter.