Iraq al-Qaida group threatens Iran (Islamic State in Iraq gives Iran 2 months to get out of Iraq)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/8/07 | Mammoun Youssef - ap

[NormsRevenge]

CAIRO, Egypt - The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shiites in Iraq within two months, according to an audiotape released Sunday.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who leads the group Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing for four years to wage a battle against Shiite-dominated Iran.

"We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shiite government and to stop direct and indirect intervention ... otherwise a severe war is waiting for you," he said in the 50-minute audiotape. The tape, which could not be independently verified, was posted on a Web site commonly used by insurgent groups.

Iraq's Shiite-led government is backed by the U.S. but closely allied to Iran. The United States accuses Iran of arming and financing Shiite militias in Iraq — charges Tehran denies.

In the recording, al-Baghdadi also gave Sunnis and Arab countries doing business in Iran or with Iranians a two-month deadline to cease their ties.

"We advise and warn every Sunni businessman inside Iran or in Arab countries especially in the Gulf not to take partnership with any Shiite Iranian businessman — this is part of the two-month period," he said.

Al-Baghdadi said his group was responsible for two suicide truck bomb attacks in May in Iraq's northern Kurdish region. He said the attacks in Irbil and Makhmur showed the "Islamic jihad," or holy war, was progressing in the Kurdish areas.

At least 14 people were killed when a suicide truck bomb struck a government building in Irbil, Kurdistan's capital, on May 9. Four days later in Makhmur, another suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party, killing 50 people.

In the recording, the Islamic State of Iraq leader did not mention Saturday's deadly truck bomb in Armili, a Shiite town north of Baghdad, which killed more than 100 people. The attack was among the deadliest this year in Iraq and reinforced suspicions that al-Qaida extremists were moving north to less protected regions beyond the U.S. security crackdown in Baghdad.

Al-Baghdadi criticized Kurdish leaders for their alliance with Shiites in Iraq's government and accused them encouraging unsavory morals.

"The leaders of apostasy ... have impeded the march of Islam in Muslim Kurdistan and helped communism and secularism to spread. ... They insulted the religious scholars ... encouraged vices and women without veils," he said.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Wholeheartedly agree. I think the soon-to-be-playing next episode of the Lebanese civil war is being launched to divert pressure from the mullahcracy, as it works on nuclear weaponry. Meanwhile the Iraqis are, more and more, participating in the efforts to rid the country of al-Qaeda, thus making a US redeployment possible.

The result of cutting off Iranian gasoline will be serious for the mullahcracy.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hey Fred. They don’t pay me the big bucks for nothing. Heheh.

[null and void]

Is this what’s known as “Red on Red”.....?

Yes. Exactly.

Although I'm pushing to call it "Green of Green" as green is the color of islam...

[Seadog Bytes]

...ping (...on the off chance you missed it....LOL)

[Cindy]

Thanks Seadog Bytes.
I appreciate your pings.

#

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts?page=818#818
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts?page=819#819

[Seadog Bytes]

LOL! I figured you already saw that, but thought I’d make sure.

When I saw it, the phrase ‘whistling in the dark’ came to mind. How about you?

[Seadog Bytes]

I hadn’t seen this before...
FYI: Seemed interesting...
http://www.juancole.com/2006/11/233-dead-in-civil-war-carnage-health.html

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: “I hadn’t seen this before... FYI: Seemed interesting...”

Oops. Sorry. My error. I meant the current page at...

http://www.juancole.com/
“Monday, July 09, 2007 - Physicians of Fear - “Inside the minds of killer doctors”

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping, Seadog Bytes.

[Seadog Bytes]

...Another...?

AUDIONETDAILY - Muslims declare sovereignty over U.S., UK

Hear Islamic leaders in London: ‘Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!’
Posted: July 9, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Art Moore
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Protesters at London Central Mosque
Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque...(continues)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56503

[Cindy]

Yep.

Jihadis have been busy lately.
The propaganda is so thick;
one needs hip waders to get
through the muck.

Apparently they don’t like
the heat — so to speak.

Yep, sums it up nicely.

Anyway, jihad another day.

[Earthdweller]

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