Posted on 07/05/2005 11:06:42 AM PDT by jmc1969
BAGHDAD (AP) Insurgents mounted attacks against Arab and Muslim diplomats in Iraq on Tuesday, wounding Bahrain’s top envoy in a kidnapping attempt. Pakistan’s ambassador also escaped an assault on his convoy.
The attacks came three days after gunmen seized Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq as he was buying a newspaper in the capital, appearing to signal an insurgent campaign to discourage Islamic countries from bolstering ties with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
Al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the Egyptian diplomat, Ihab el-Sharif.
“We, the al-Qaida in Iraq organization, announce that the Egyptian ambassador has been kidnapped by our mujahedeen and he is under their control,” the group said in a statement posted on a Web forum used by radical Islamic groups.
The claim could not be independently confirmed. It was signed with the user name “Abu Maysara al-Iraqi,” the name used on all claims by al-Qaida in Iraq, which is headed by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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They are going to tick off all of the other nations until no one is on their side and that is a wonderful thing.
"You know, Al-Qaeda is going to keep this up and create even more US allies."
Right you are. They rule by fear. The only way we can lose this war is through the will of the US voter.
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