Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.
Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.
Yup, al-Dari's problem is that he resists the growing Iraqi nationalism as shown by the Shias that will soon dominate Iraqi government policy. He looks too hard headed to be effective at representing many Sunnis in the future and is becoming more marginalized. His call to boycott the elections really fouled up the Sunnis and they know it. What is interesting to me is the many Sunnis who voted anyway. Seems that al-Dari's support is paper thin among Sunnis at large and he has little rapport with Zarqawi's loony-tune Salafists.