[Dane]

The Christians were permitted to co-exist under Saddam's regime. Now that he has been removed, the Islamic jihad will proceed against the Christians. They will convert or else. What a nice consequence of our "victory" over Saddam. It was predictable

This was written in Persian and not Arabic. Persian(Farsi) is the language of Iran, while Iraqis speak Arabic. I have no idea if a person speaks Arabic if they basically can understand Persian, like a Spanish speaker can understand Portuguese.

But since this was written in Persian, it would only be logical that the letter came from Iran.

[Myrddin]

Farsi and Arabic share a common script, but they can not understand each other. I work with an Iranian immigrant and do business with a computer shop owned by an Iranian. Both speak Farsi, but don't have a clue when it comes to Arabic.

The letter may have originated geographically in Iran. The contents may have been expressed in Farsi. The message content was originated by Islamic terrorists.

[Cronos]

I have no idea if a person speaks Arabic if they basically can understand Persian, like a Spanish speaker can understand Portuguese.

Actually, Farsi is more closely related to English than to Arabic -- it is one of the Indo-European languages, albeit written nowadays in the arabic script.

In the north the Kurds speak Kurdish which is another Indo-European language related to Irani. In the south Arabic would be the language of the common people but for millenia Farsi has been the language of the intellectuals and especially the language of the Shia clerics.