Posted on 01/20/2005 7:18:40 AM PST by TexKat
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi claimed 800 Israeli soldiers as well as Jordanian troops took part in the US-led assault on Fallujah in November, according to an audiotape posted on the Internet.
"It is known that 800 Israeli soldiers ... participated in the battle; just like the participation by the Jordanian military, whose officers contributed to the planning and the military assault against the city," he said Thursday.
The authenticity of the 75-minute tape, posted on the first day of the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha, could not be verified.
US and Iraqi forces retook the rebel stronghold of Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital, from insurgents in an all-out assault last November.
Iraq's most wanted man also claimed that Israeli soldiers in Fallujah "were accompanied by 18 rabbis, some of whom were killed, as newspapers and Israeli media announced".
"The battle of Fallujah removed the ugly mask of the doomed 'Rafidha' (a derogatory term for Muslim Shiites), whose hatred (for Sunnis) was manifested in this battle," Zarqawi said.
"They participated in the military campaign for the battle against Fallujah with the blessing of the imam of infidelity and apostasy, Sistani," he added, in reference to Iraqi Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
"They played a big role in the massacre, the looting, the sabotage and the spilling of innocent blood among children, women and the elderly," he added.
The speaker charged that Shiites "occupied (Sunni) mosques, sticking on their walls photos of their Satan, Sistani, and writing with hate: 'Today (we take) your territory, and tomorrow your honour.'
"Ninety percent of the (Iraqi) national guard is composed of hateful Rafidha and 10 percent peshmerga (Kurdish fighters)," he said.
Zarqawi would make a good liberal. Totally intollerant of ideas other than his own and hates his own country.
WE GOT YER BOYS AND WE"RE GONNA GET YER ASS TOO!
The IslamoMorons eat this crap up.
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi unverified internet posted tape ping.
Israeli and Jordanian troops? What is ol' Zarkawi smoking these days?
If Zarqawi keeps talking, maybe we can track him down.
The dude is Michael Moore, Barbara Boxer, Howard Dean crazy.
This is like Ted Kennedy lecturing on the evils of water torture.
Don't count on this being accurate...I was in the area and never saw an Isreali military presence of any kind. You can't hide 800 troops and equipment.
Probably some of that same shite that our guys found in the terrorist hideout houses in Fallujah.
I wonder if Zarqawi has heard the nasty rumor that all our ammo is now made in Israel. Kosher even.
Accurate?..It's pure propaganda to incite the Islamics.
Read your profile, stay safe. As to Zarqawi's claims, just a little Anti-Joos Anti-semi-ally agitprop for the democrat, er, terrorist base....
I believe the reports said the "defenders" of Fallujah were high on heroin, methedrine and the like, I guess to ensure their willingness to be "martyrs".
If they were smoking anything they'd be a lot more mellow and listening to the "Grateful Dead", not trying to BECOME just plain DEAD!
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yeah, right! (/s)
``The dude is Michael Moore, Barbara Boxer, Howard Dean crazy.``
I agree with Boxer and Dean, but MM is an extremely business savvy man who learned how to bilk the left for millions.
OOOHHRAAA!
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