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"Those who want to seize Sunni power and establish an
Islamic
fundamentalist regime in Iraq are no one else than the
Wahabi,
read al-Qa'ida and company. In fact, thousands have
poured
through the borders of Saudi Arabia. Significantly, a
Saudi
Jihadist told al-Jazeera today, that many Islamists
are crossing
the border to fight in Mesopotamia. But you have the
'other'
fundamentalists, i.e. the Shi'ite Islamists. Let's
not forget
that the radical clerics of Iran want an Islamic
Republic in Iraq,
and that Hizbollah of Lebanon has pledged to 'support'
the Iraqis
'if they decide to resist.' If the Wahabi want a
Caliphate
in Baghdad, the Hizbollahi wants a Khumani in Najaf.
Both are
anti-American, both reject any Arab or international
recognition
of the new Iraqi gfovernment. Now read the events
under the light
of this objective alliance: If you wish to keep the
moderate Arabs
out of Iraq, you blow up the Jordanian embassy. If
you want to
threaten the international community you blow up the
UN site.
And if you wish to pressure the Iraqi Shiite into
submission and
fear, you kill their leader. Deja vu? Yes, in
Lebanon back
in 1982. Embassies, multi-national forces and a
President --
Bashir Gemayel -- they were methodically eliminated so
that the
ground would be left open to Hizbollah, all other
terrorists and
eventually the Ba'athist troops of Assad."
--Walid Phares, PhD, Professor of Middle East Studies
at Florida Atlantic University

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