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Iraq al-Qaida group threatens Iran (Islamic State in Iraq gives Iran 2 months to get out of Iraq)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/8/07 | Mammoun Youssef - ap

Posted on 07/08/2007 4:42:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

CAIRO, Egypt - The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shiites in Iraq within two months, according to an audiotape released Sunday.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who leads the group Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing for four years to wage a battle against Shiite-dominated Iran.

"We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shiite government and to stop direct and indirect intervention ... otherwise a severe war is waiting for you," he said in the 50-minute audiotape. The tape, which could not be independently verified, was posted on a Web site commonly used by insurgent groups.

Iraq's Shiite-led government is backed by the U.S. but closely allied to Iran. The United States accuses Iran of arming and financing Shiite militias in Iraq — charges Tehran denies.

In the recording, al-Baghdadi also gave Sunnis and Arab countries doing business in Iran or with Iranians a two-month deadline to cease their ties.

"We advise and warn every Sunni businessman inside Iran or in Arab countries especially in the Gulf not to take partnership with any Shiite Iranian businessman — this is part of the two-month period," he said.

Al-Baghdadi said his group was responsible for two suicide truck bomb attacks in May in Iraq's northern Kurdish region. He said the attacks in Irbil and Makhmur showed the "Islamic jihad," or holy war, was progressing in the Kurdish areas.

At least 14 people were killed when a suicide truck bomb struck a government building in Irbil, Kurdistan's capital, on May 9. Four days later in Makhmur, another suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party, killing 50 people.

In the recording, the Islamic State of Iraq leader did not mention Saturday's deadly truck bomb in Armili, a Shiite town north of Baghdad, which killed more than 100 people. The attack was among the deadliest this year in Iraq and reinforced suspicions that al-Qaida extremists were moving north to less protected regions beyond the U.S. security crackdown in Baghdad.

Al-Baghdadi criticized Kurdish leaders for their alliance with Shiites in Iraq's government and accused them encouraging unsavory morals.

"The leaders of apostasy ... have impeded the march of Islam in Muslim Kurdistan and helped communism and secularism to spread. ... They insulted the religious scholars ... encouraged vices and women without veils," he said.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuomaralbaghdadi; alqaedainiraq; alqaida; iran; iraq; islamic; islamicstateiniraq; threatens
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1 posted on 07/08/2007 4:42:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Sure.


2 posted on 07/08/2007 4:44:15 PM PDT by Dog ("Nothing important happened today." - from the diary of England’s King George III, July 4, 1776)
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To: NormsRevenge
I hope they go at each other hammers and tongs. Time to break out the beer and popcorn!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 07/08/2007 4:44:18 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NormsRevenge
These people...and their puny little factions...
4 posted on 07/08/2007 4:45:30 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: NormsRevenge

lol yooks and zooks.


5 posted on 07/08/2007 4:47:00 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: NormsRevenge
You say and do crazy things when your world is collapsing in on you.....AQ is on the run big time....

Our pressure is showing all over the place....

6 posted on 07/08/2007 4:47:46 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: NormsRevenge
I'm sure Tehran will do what they always do - deny involvement. Right? I'm sure this 'al Qaida umbrella group' will accept that explanation.

Popcorn!

7 posted on 07/08/2007 4:48:10 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

fyi


8 posted on 07/08/2007 4:48:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah baby, this is gonna be fun!!!! Ooorahhh! Get Some!!

Semper Fi’
Jarhead


9 posted on 07/08/2007 4:50:42 PM PDT by Buffettfan
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To: Dog
You don't suppose these theatrics have anything to do with this recent revelation, do you?
10 posted on 07/08/2007 4:53:21 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
And this is a "revalation" to whom, exactly?

Not to anyone here on FR, I'm sure.

11 posted on 07/08/2007 4:54:41 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
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To: NormsRevenge
The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shiites in Iraq within two months...

Why not two hours...or two minutes? There is an old bromide that the only thing an Arab...or Persian...hates worse that a Jew is another Arab...or Persian.

12 posted on 07/08/2007 4:56:03 PM PDT by stevem
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To: NormsRevenge

Hmmm.
Could this be an American Psi-Ops? Get enemy factions fighting each other?

It would be great if attacks inside Iran were to start taking place. Taste of their own medicine.
Methinks Iranian intelligence wouldn’t be up to the job.


13 posted on 07/08/2007 4:57:09 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: NormsRevenge

Hmmm.
Could this be an American Psi-Ops? Get enemy factions fighting each other?

It would be great if attacks inside Iran were to start taking place. Taste of their own medicine.
Methinks Iranian intelligence wouldn’t be up to the job.


14 posted on 07/08/2007 4:57:38 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: NormsRevenge

Hmmm.
Could this be an American Psi-Ops? Get enemy factions fighting each other?

It would be great if attacks inside Iran were to start taking place. Taste of their own medicine.
Methinks Iranian intelligence wouldn’t be up to the job.


15 posted on 07/08/2007 4:57:41 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Cyclops08

Sorry!


16 posted on 07/08/2007 4:58:54 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: NormsRevenge

Put the baboons and the gorillas in the same cage and let them kill each other.


17 posted on 07/08/2007 5:03:24 PM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Zacarias Moussaoui confessions come to mind (lmao).


18 posted on 07/08/2007 5:04:59 PM PDT by jedward (Mission '08 - Take back the House & Senate. No Negotiations...No Prisoners.)
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To: NormsRevenge
..We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, ...

FROM...Address to a Joint Session of Congress--President George W. Bush-September 20, 2001

19 posted on 07/08/2007 5:05:30 PM PDT by smoothsailing ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction"--President Ronald Reagan)
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To: goldstategop
In this corner, the Sunni's! They have been wanting to fight for a reasonable replacement of Mohammad since his death!

AAAAAAnd in the other corner, the Shites! They have been wanting to fight for Mohammad's blood line since his death too!

This will be a fight to the death and the winning gets to go on to fight the Heavy Weight Champion of the world.

DING DING

Let's git it on boys! And if you like to watch chickens fight, this will be a good one!


20 posted on 07/08/2007 5:08:42 PM PDT by do the dhue (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I wont - George S. Patton Jr)
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