Here is another threat from a Zaqawi affiliate in Northern Iraq (probably Krekar's pals) that is making news in Norway today. The "mercenaries" in question are humantarian aid workers... :
The Al-Rudd Brigades Issues Warning to the Governments of the European Countries, Stressing Holland, Denmark and Norway, to Remove Their “Mercenaries” from Northern Iraq Within Two Weeks
By SITE Institute
July 16, 2005
In a statement posted today, July 16, 2005, to a Zarqawi-affiliated website, a group calling itself al-Rudd (the Responders) Brigades of the Mountain, the Level land, and the Two Rivers, warns the “foreigners and the crusaders” of European to withdraw their organizations from Arbil, northern Iraq, within two weeks, or the mujahideen will “strike all the foreigners and the mercenaries.” The message specifies Holland, Denmark and Norway amongst these European countries.
Further, the group alleges that a Dutch citizen of Iraqi descent, “who sold his soul and his faith to the occupiers,” and worked for Dutch intelligence, was captured. Dutch documents were found on his person that were subsequently translated into Arabic, and “Allah’s order was issued on him.”
Al-Rudd Brigades claims to be fighting the “traitors and the converters” in northern Iraq, and are “accountable for the all the jihad operations” executed within this area.
A full translation of the statement is provided to our Intel Service members.
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications69105&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Yes, gotta watch those aid workers! Actually, there is a Marxist technique called "miserification." This means you want things to get really horrible for people, so that they will blame the folks in charge and turn against them. This has been used in LatAm a lot, where aid workers - foreign or not - are often attacked by Marxist guerrillas. The whole point is to drive them away and make the poor even more miserable and unhappy, and then announce that your silly little terrorist *ss is going to ride to the rescue.
Unfortunately, they use this technique because it works.
(And I'm not even talking about the "aid workers" who actually are mercenaries - on the other side, like the Italian Communist ditzes who were "kidnapped" awhile back.)