Posted on 10/01/2006 1:04:14 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
IRAQ: AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ'S NEW LEADER ISSUES MESSAGE
Baghdad, 28 Sept. (AKI) - The proclaimed heir to al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has urged his supporters to capture foreigners and use them as bargaining chips to free a Muslim cleric in the US. "I call on every holy fighter in Iraq to strive during this holy month (Ramadan)... to capture some dogs of the Christians so that we can liberate our imprisoned sheikh," said the speaker, identified as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, referring to sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, in jail in the US since 1995 for the attack two years earlier on World Trade Centre.
In the message, the al-Qaeda leader called on the Iraqi Ulema and on tribal chiefs to join the insurgency.
The 20-minute long audio file - "Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You" (Surah Imran, verse 64, the Koran) - was posted on Thursday to jihadi internet sites by the Mujahadeen Council, an umbrella group of eight Iraqi armed Salafite formations, including al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The message dates from the first day of Ramadan, 23 September, and besides threatening foreigners, it also seeks to win support from leading Sunni clerics ."We are your brothers, but you have left us" said al-Muhajir, addressing the Ulema Council.
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But you know that both dogs and cats are now banned from Saudi Arabia. And many cat lovers made the very points you made about Mo's love of cats.
That is the first positive thing I have ever heard about islam. I know Buddhists are kind to cats but I had no idea that muzzies were.
And of course Christians follow in the steps of St Francis.
YIKES, whats the background of that pict?
got to put this one down fast.
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