Posted on 12/09/2006 11:32:44 AM PST by neverdem
Associated Press
The slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi purportedly believed that Iraq's Shiite Muslims were more dangerous than U.S. forces and more evil than dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a posthumous interview published Friday on the Internet.
The 33-page interview, conducted sometime before a U.S. fighter bomber killed the former al-Qaida in Iraq leader in June, could not be immediately authenticated. It was posted on a Web site known to be a clearing-house for al-Qaida material.
The posting, which comes amid ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq, said the interview had been kept in al-Qaida's archive but did not explain why the terror group had decided to release it six months after his death.
In the interview, al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying the leader of Iraq's Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is a "satan" who publicly tells Shiites to stay above the violence but secretly tells them to attack.
"Al-Sistani has ordered his followers not to fight the Americans ... and yet they hit Sunnis with assassinations, forcing them to flee their homes and attacking their mosques," said al-Zarqawi, a Sunni from Jordan. "For us, the Shiites are far more dangerous than the Americans."
"The mass graves that Saddam perpetrated, and all his other crimes over the past decades, do not amount to one-tenth of what the Shiites have done in the last three years," al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying.
Earlier this week, a bipartisan commission in the United States warned "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating" and recommended fundamentally different U.S. policies to combat the sectarian violence roiling the country.
The Iraq Study Group report also concluded that al-Qaida in Iraq is now largely made up of Sunni Arabs. Some 1,300 foreign fighters are believed to support the group or be available to carry out suicide bombings, the study found.
In the interview, Al-Zarqawi condemns the attacks of Iraq's Shiite Muslim militiamen on the country's Sunni Muslim community. Yet it was al-Zarqawi who had fomented Shiite-Sunni strife as the best way to scuttle the U.S. plans to rebuild Iraq as a democratic state after Saddam's overthrow.
Al-Zarqawi, whose real name was Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, was responsible for the most vicious of the wave of attacks that occurred in the first years of the Iraqi insurgency. He is believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages. The U.S. had put a $25 million bounty on his head, the same amount as for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
In the interview, al-Zarqawi also rails against the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, implicitly accusing Sheik Hassan Nasrallah of being in league with Israel.
Al-Zarqawi accuses Nasrallah of being two-faced in his opposition to Israel and suggests it is not an accident that Israeli aircraft have not killed him as they have killed several leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
"Hassan Nasrallah sits for hours at a military parade and Israeli aircraft don't bomb him. Who is he kidding?" al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying.
Maybe because Israel has a conscience, and will not bomb defenseless civilians.
There is Absolute Good, Mixed Good and Bad, and Utterly Bad. Evil is an absolute, it either is or isn't. If it is, and if Sunnis are it, then we ought to take off and nuke the region from orbit.
Exactly... this statement reveals the truly schizoid savagery of this demented pile of spider dung.
At least now he sleeps with the fishes. Too bad most of their society is no different.
"Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Mini-me, dimorats keep saying the war on terror is a "fail-ure". What do you think mini me? I love you mini me, you complete me."
"Nancy Pelosi can kiss my mini arse!"
"Let us rap mini me"....
911 came and they said they would fight back.
But Dimorats surrender, because they smoke crack
3000 died but the rats don`t care
They want Bush out, bring back the Clinton pair
Eight years of terror and fundraisers galore
The US burned while Bill screwed a whore
Now they want Hellary to rule once again
only this time it will be with a les-bi-an.
The AP has always liked to infer that Iraq was better off with hussein...
As long as we can do it without having our cities attacked. Energy independence on our part would seem smart too. A quarantine around the Islamic parts of the globe would help. Remaining options don't look too pleasant.
So, Zark is still giving interviews?? I'm impressed. How did the AP contact him?
Posthumous interview? Was Bob Woodward involved?
The fork is on the plate. The train has left the station.
Ever seen any movies from the old days when agents heard buzz words and acted?
That's what we are getting.
Remember, if Al-Zarqawi, who is most assuredly dead, had said anything he was afraid of his immediate opposition.
Question: Was Al-Zarkawi Sunni? If yes, then his largest adversary was a member of the Shia. They have been having a religious war since the 630's, and spread their violence across the middle East as well as North Africa - not necessarily followers of the Sunni sect, but Muslim's none the less.
Best option: Eliminate the Iranian/Syrian opposition contingent to a man.
SS
They are ALL the most dangerous---IMHO
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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