Posted on 07/19/2004 3:02:32 PM PDT by Gucho
Baghdad, Iraq, Jul. 19 (UPI) -- Sunni Tribe leaders and other prominent Fallujah residents expelled 25 Arab fighters from the city, a hotbed for Iraqi insurgency. Baghdad's daily al-Sabah al-Jadidi reported Monday Fallujah's leaders told the Arab gunmen: "You have to leave Fallujah immediately because the people of this city and all Iraqis in general are better placed to defend their country and expel the occupants." The paper also quoted the Fallujah leaders as saying the Arab fighters, believed to be responsible for car bombs and other attacks that claimed scores of Iraqi lives, "tarnished the reputation of the truthful Iraqi resistance." In another development, Iraqi resistance groups including the previously unknown Mohammed Army and Ali Bin Abi Taleb Brigades, circulated a religious edict in Fallujah Monday authorizing the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the suspected leader of al-Qaida network in Iraq. The edict urged all true Muslims to behead al-Zarqawi "the same way he cut the throats of foreign hostages, distorting Islam and the Iraqi resistance." U.S. warplanes hit several spots in Fallujah said to be hideouts used by al-Zarqawi's followers.
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Looks like they be heading out of town.
This will be something to keep an eye on...
The desert should be easy pickins! MOAB them!
You suppose they'd be heading to Iran?
The liberal press will spin this as the "civil war" that everyone had feared.
Wouldn't it be a shame if all these competing radical Islamic groups decided to kill each other off?
Well, the good news is that they've expelled the Arab fighters.
The bad news, apparently, is that they've expelled the Arab fighters because they think they can do a better job of fighting the evil occupying Americans.
So I wouldn't go cheering just yet.
"Looks like they be heading out of town."
and with some luck a few captured.
So what's up with this then-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174389/posts
They found documents in Saddam's briefcase tying this group to him.
About freaking time.
The libs will pick up only on this bit: "all Iraqis in general are better placed to defend their country and expel the occupants", and then they'll spin this as more evidence that the anti-American resistance is growing among Iraqis.
They found documents in Saddam's briefcase tying this group to him.
Isn't that Dick's brother?
"So what's up with this then-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174389/posts"
I would call it Sunni Spin
Well that may be true, or it could be a PysOp and it was included for local consumption.
Or it could be that having easily identifiable foreign fighters around draws attention to the local bad guys that could blend in easier. What ever the reason, it weakens the bad guys, and that is a good thing
Sounds like a power struggle is taking place inside Fallujah......I wonder if anyone important was killed in the last strike.
Careful you are stealing a tagline there: This will be something to keep an eye on...
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