“How can I live peacefully at a time when the holy and sacred places have been violated, and the country is usurped, and the infidels are encroaching on our country and humiliating our religion?” But of course, this isn’t a religious war or a clash of civilizations or anything like that. From the London Daily Telegraph:
LONDON “” Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, has staked his claim to lead the jihad against the American presence by releasing a slickly produced video of suicide bombers and several of their attacks.
The hour-long production is part political manifesto, part recruiting campaign and part propaganda to tell the United States that its intense efforts to find the Jordanian-born militant leader have been a failure.
The video released by Zarqawi’s group chronicles what are supposedly the final days and hours of the suicide bombers as they prepare themselves for “martyrdom operations.”
There are scenes of them praying, relaxing and reading out final statements.
“How can I live peacefully at a time when the holy and sacred places have been violated, and the country is usurped, and the infidels are encroaching on our country and humiliating our religion?” asks one purported bomber, reading his statement as armed, masked men stand behind him at night.