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al Qaeda in Iraq issues virulent manifesto
Document calls for violence, destruction of 'American empire'

Friday, August 26, 2005; Posted: 6:20 p.m. EDT (22:20 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/26/alqaeda.book/index.html

(CNN) -- The group al Qaeda in Iraq -- which has been behind many of
the worst attacks, beheadings, and kidnappings in Iraq -- has issued a
manifesto in which it calls for violence and hate for all but "true
Muslims."

Shiites do not belong among "true Muslims," the group says, calling
their faith "a confession of polytheism and rejectionism."

It also declares: "We vow by the name of God that we are determined to
destroy the American empire," adding that the insurgency is stronger
than Washington acknowledges.

The document also warns there will be no end to the insurgency.

"The call for jihad goes on until doomsday, whether there is an imam
calling for it or not."

The group's e-book surfaced on an Islamic Web site this week and offers
links to three issues of al Qaeda in Iraq's e-magazine, a forum often
used to claim responsibility for attacks. In numerous sections totaling
dozens of pages, the e-book covers topics from the justification of
beheadings in the Quran and why democracy is wrong.

No date was given for the document, and no author was listed. The
reference to its Jordanian-born leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in the third
person suggests he did not write the document.

While part of the document seems to have been written relatively
recently, another part refers to to the government of Ayad Allawi, who was
interim leader in Iraq until April.

The document also called President Bush's insistence on staying in Iraq
"until we accomplish our mission" a "desperate catchphrase ... used to
make the public believe that the mujahedeens are in bad shape."

The document repeatedly urged Muslims to launch attacks against foreign
forces in Iraq and their allies and for Iraqi troops and police to turn
their backs on the new elected government.

"You who betrayed Muslims and in humiliation became one of many
collaborators, a servant under the command of the cross, we ask you to return
to your Islamic instinct or cutting your neck will be your only
punishment for your treason against your religion and your people."

It adds this warning: "Repent or else."

The group calls its doctrine and mission guided by "our agreement to
believe in and fight for the religion of God. We believe that those who
follow these beliefs and the provisions of faith are true Muslims, and
anyone who denounces any of these beliefs and conditions is an infidel
even if he still claims to be a Muslim."

The central image of the e-book is the group's logo: a globe with an
open book, presumably the Quran. Emerging from the center of the Quran
are a spear, a Kalashnikov rifle, a hand with the index finger sticking
up -- a symbol of unity -- and a banner reading, "There is no God but
God; Mohammed is the messenger of God."

CNN's Octavia Nasr contributed to this report.