"Yet mounting an attack on Iraq's Shiite majority could rescue the movement, according to the document. The aim, the document contends, is to prompt a counterattack against the Arab Sunni minority. " Any body else suspect that this is too good to be true? Something plausible, but planted to discredit al-Qaeda among Muslims?
A few of the phrases regarding Iraqi sovereignty, democracy and our successes sound like something that they’d be in denial of.
I don't know about "too good to be true" but I do sense there is a lot of dissonance in the story.
We are told that Zarqawi wrote this document suggesting attacks on Iraqi Shiites to stir up trouble with Iraqi Sunnis (the hotbed of Baath holdouts). Zarqawi may be in Iraq, but as recently as a couple of weeks ago there were reports that he may be in (Shiite) Iran.
The article begins to suggest that maybe Ghul was the guy who had the CD with the letter on it. But Ghul was arrested while entering Northern Iraq from Iran:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073476/posts?page=9#9 Iran is where an Ansar al-Islam (an organization associated with Zarqawi) guy named Warzir Ali Wali Mamoyi was coming from when he got nabbed near Sulaiymaniya. It was also reported that he was going to the "Sunni Triangle area, possibly to link up with anti-U.S. insurgents from the former regime of Saddam Hussein."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-02-07-iraq_x.htm Add in that curious story about Iraqi Shiite leader al-Sistani escaping an assassination attempt that later didn't happen at all. . . . Well, something funny is going on or being reported.
The dissonance may only be in my mind, but my guess is that there is a lot of disinformation being sent out. In my mind taken as a whole it is too garbled to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
There is far more persuasive evidence. Mainly the attacks on Iraqis which has been a persistent concern.
They have been doing what this writer claims.
Actions speak far louder than words.