Posted on 10/13/2005 12:23:16 PM PDT by SIRTRIS
Al Qaeda in Iraq says Zawahri letter is fake: Web
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq on Thursday rejected as a fabrication a letter by top group leader Ayman al-Zawahri which was issued by U.S. officials this week, according to an Internet posting.
"We in Al Qaeda Organization announce that there is no truth to these claims, which are only based on the imagination of the politicians of the Black (White) House and their slaves," the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site.
According to the letter, released this week by U.S. intelligence officials, al Qaeda's second in command Zawahri urged the group's leader in Iraq to prepare for an Islamic government to take over the country when U.S. forces leave. He said brutal tactics risked alienating Muslims.
"This is proof of the obvious bankruptcy plaguing the infidels' camp," said the statement signed by the group's spokesman in Iraq.
"All of this is in a letter attributed to our Mujahid sheikh...and naturally we do not know how and where this letter is to have been found," it added.
U.S. officials said the July 9 letter, addressed to Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was obtained during counter-terrorism operations in Iraq.
The letter, which appeared to show divisions between Zarqawi and al Qaeda's top leaders, was released days before Iraqis were to vote in a referendum on a new constitution in which U.S. authorities hope for a large turnout among Sunni Muslim Arabs.
Many Sunni Arabs oppose Saturday's referendum, however, and some experts believe Zarqawi declared war on Iraq's majority Shi'ite population last month to curry favor among the disaffected.
The Zawahri letter warned Zarqawi the killing of Shi'ite civilians and hostages risked alienating Sunnis at a time when al Qaeda in Iraq should be seeking popular support for a new religious state.
Will al-Queda now fire Muhammed Mapes?
Lets keep our powder dry until Ayman al-Zawahri confirms it with his own voice, otherwise this is just disinformation from Zarqawi.
So a letter asking Sunni muslim psychopaths not to kill and behead other muslims is a fake, eh?? It follows then that al- queda wants muslims to kill muslims, as a way, I suppose, to win muslims over to their side. That's some logic there.
They can tell it's a fake because the "i"'s are dotted with little hearts.
Well, Reuters (which calls the beheaders "fighters") and Yahoo (which hired the loathsome Kevin Sites after his attempt to frame a combat Marine went awry) would probably have pretty good connexions with Al Qaeda...
That they have commented on the letter, rather than ignoring it, shows that our IO is hurting them.
I'm not surprised that the US media have not dwelt on Ayman al-Zawahiri's assertion that "more than 50 percent of the battle is in the media." More than 50 percent of al-Zawahiri's support is, also. If it wasn't for their fluffers in Reuters and AP, the terrorists would be all alone.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq on Thursday rejected as a fabrication a letter by top group leader Ayman al-Zawahri which was issued by U.S. officials this week, according to an Internet posting."
I thought Al Qaeda had nothing to do with Iraq. /s
Nah, this is the fake, the other letter was real.
So it is a fake document........Dan Rather still vouches for it's accuracy.
It could be Psy-Ops and a fake. Glad it got distributed around the globe either way, slows AQ recruits and allows us to keep killing the enemy without mercy.
If it's a fake, it's an impressive fake.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500864/posts
Let's see, a letter which declares that ultimately Sunnis have to fight Shiites gets publicized. Do I believe that it got disavowed? Certainly. Do I believe that it's fake? Hey, I know - maybe it's fake but accurate!
Powerful comment.
And, the part about playing along with the shiites for a while until they can be enslaved under a Sunni caliphate is a little akward too.
If you can't believe al Qaeda in Iraq, who can you believe? It all comes down to trust. If you're a Liberal or Socialist weenie, who ya gonna trust.
LOL. Thanks.
Clearly the letter is fake - that's why 'ol Zarq. is whining so much....
ROTFLMAO!
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