al-Qaida Statement Warns Muslims in Iraq

[sabra]

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-al-qaida-warning,0,7633645,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

al-Qaida Statement Warns Muslims in Iraq

By Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Internet statement posted Monday and purportedly issued by al-Qaida in Iraq warned Sunni Muslims to stay away from sites that militants in Iraq are likely to attack.

The statement, the authenticity of which could not be verified, was the first of its type to be written in both Arabic and English. Such statements are normally written only in Arabic.

"Brother Muslim: Don't ever come close to the sites of vice and infidelity so that you won't get hurt," said the statement, which appeared on a Web site known for carrying extremist Islamist material.

The statement advised Sunnis to stay away from Baghdad International Airport, which the group claimed "is a hide out for the crusaders and the renegades."


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[pocket]

1. sites of vice and infidelity

apparently they have been targetting liquor stores and brothels

[ConfuZed]

3. Uhhh they had Brothels under saddam????????????

:freak: :wow:

[pocket]

5. They have them now

one Iraqi told me it's $10 a shot.

Lots of impoverished women there now.

[existentialist]

7. and

according to (I think National Geographic but I'm not sure of the source) also in Syria, next door to a mosque where Sunni refugee teenage girls from Iraq are supporting their families by entertaining Sunni men. (But here it is reported to cost substantially more than $10 a shot).

I also remember a female reporter from Iran producing a short documentary film in Tehran "where even the prostitutes wear veils."

[Yupster]

9. Barbershops

is what I've heard.

[maxsolomon]

2. coffee, tea, tobacco, petrol: all vices.

"renegades"? there has to be something lost in the translation.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Hideouts for the Crusaders?

I thought that was the Skull & Boner crypt?

Or the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford?

Now we learn that its the Bhagdad airport, as well.

[Massachusetts]

8. Bushco and the Ignorant Amerikans

"If these goals are achieved, the propaganda system will have done its duty." N Chomsky

[54anickel]

6. Isn't that where they are holding Saddam? Speaking of Saddam...

Strange....

Saddam asks to meet ex-US official
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/45F96EAC-B778-4DB4-A3F7-933D1CBD7FAC.htm

Lawyers for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein have said he has asked to meet a former US attorney general who is a member of his defence team, but he is yet to hear from the authorities.

A statement on Monday issued by the team, which goes by the acronym ISNAD, said Saddam asked the special tribunal set up to try him for a meeting with former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, but his request had not been answered yet.

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Clark, who was attorney-general under President Lyndon Johnson, joined Saddam's defence team in December.

Relationship with Hussein

Clark, known for his left-wing political views, opposed the 13-year UN sanctions and wars on Iraq. He visited Iraq several times during the years of sanctions and developed a warm relationship with Saddam.

more...

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Ten bucks says it was written in English first. On MS Word. In DC.

[James T. Kirk]

11. Bigots.

From the article:
"Any government security office and every crusader's patrol or that of their tail, the Shiites," are also targets Sunnis should avoid, the statement said.

Face it, al Qaida, Shiites are muslims, too.