Posted on 11/26/2004 10:22:11 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Sunni insurgents backing Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi have expressed alarm at the prospect of a defeat by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
An audio tape said to be from Al Zarqawi charged Muslim clerics with letting down the insurgency "because of your silence."
On Wednesday, Al Zarqawi, with a $25 million bounty on his head, was the target of a major manhunt in the Sunni Triangle, Middle East Newsline reported. Iraqi military sources said Al Zarqawi was said to have been seen in an area south of Fallujah.
Islamic sources said that for the first time in more than a year the Tawhid and Jihad group led by Al Zarqawi appears to have lost control over many of its insurgents in the Sunni Triangle.
The sources said Iraqi and U.S. assaults on major insurgency strongholds in such cities as Baghdad, Fallujah, Mosul, Ramadi and Samara have resulted in heavy insurgency casualties and a break in the command and control structure.
Over the last few days, Al Zarqawi supporters have appealed for help from Al Qaida and related groups. The sources said Al Qaida's allies, including the Salafist Brigade for Combat and Call, have sought to increase recruitment of Muslim volunteers to fight the coalition.
The Internet has also reflected the growing concern that Islamic insurgents would be routed in Iraq. A message posted on an Islamic website appealed for help from Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority.
The message, posted by a purported insurgency supporter who used the name Abu Ahmed Al Baghdadi, acknowledged that the Sunni insurgency has been harmed by the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah. Al Baghdadi said insurgents have lost their haven in Fallujah, but asserted that Al Zarqawi has acquired a broader base for operations and recruitment.
For his part, Al Zarqawi has also expressed concern over the U.S. military operation against Fallujah, Mosul and other insurgency strongholds.
On Wednesday, an audio tape posted on an Islamic website and purportedly from Al Zarqawi accused Muslim clerics of failing to support the insurgency in Iraq.
"You have let us down in the darkest circumstances and handed us over to the enemy," the message said. "You have stopped supporting the holy warriors. Hundreds of thousands of the nation's sons are being slaughtered at the hands of the infidels because of your silence."
In early November, Al Baghdadi posted a plan for the Tawhid group to take over Iraq. Islamic sources said Al Baghdadi was believed to be pseudonym used by a major Islamic operative.
Al Zarqawi accused unnamed clerics and scholars of preventing Muslims from joining the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. He said Muslim clerics abandoned the insurgents to the United States.
"Are your hearts not shaken by the scenes of your brothers being surrounded and hurt by your enemy?" Al Zarqawi asked.
"How long will you continue to abandon the nation to the tyrants of the east and of the west, who are inflicting the worst suffering, cutting the throats of the holy warriors, the best children of the nation, and taking its riches?"
Like the MSM, the arrogance will be their end.
The news just keeps getting better. After 40 years in the wilderness, I can see the promised land.
Keep up the jaw-jackin', al Bahgdadi, with the kill ratio approaching 50 to 1, it won't be long until the interem government of Iraq has to post advertisements for settlers.
This is quite an announcement to his followers.
Hmmm... sounds like Allah has deserted them.
You mean it was ALL a LIE...take it like a man Zarkie...the end is near, commit suicide!
"The Zarqawi Network"
hmm. dont get that one. check with cable co.
Sure you do. It's the one with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes.
I love this line. Baghdad Bob couldn't have said it any better. When your forces are routed and forced to flee to the hinterlands, you've "acquired a broader base for operations".
I think the USA outta knock 5 million bucks a week off of the price on zarcoward's head.
As binny-boy himself said, "People want to back the strong horse"
The strong horse is not the ship of fools known as Islamic Terrorists. It never was but for a long time because of inaction it appeared to be.
Now they are discovering what, "Don't make me come over there," means. And the fact that they are a paper tiger is being exposed to the world, to their potential recruits and more importantly to themselves. You could almost feel sorry for them if they weren't such a bunch of murderous thugs.
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Keep your head about you now, (no pun intended), and keep thinking about those 72 virgins!
"I DO believe in virgins, I DO believe in virgins..., I DO, I DO, I DO!!!
Send more targets.
Thank you, Knute Rockny
Well, they always say 'God willing'. Guess God might have taken a little vacation for the start of deer season and not heard their pleas...
They would have been much better off to keep quiet until we left the country. Instead, they had to fight us instead of a new Iraqi government just as it would have begun to get established.
Their blind hatred for us was their downfall.
Sign up with us and be slaughtered. Great advertisement. If Arabs actually do respond to messages like this, they sure are strange folk.
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