Iraq Qaeda says to spare anti-U.S. Sadr group

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19169092.htm

Iraq Qaeda says to spare anti-U.S. Sadr group-Web

DUBAI, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said on Monday it would not attack Shi'ite groups, including that of maverick cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which have opposed U.S. and Iraqi military operations in northern Iraq.

Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last week declared a war on Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq in response to a U.S.-Iraqi government offensive on the rebel town of Tal Afar, considered a stronghold of the country's Sunni-led insurgency.

"It has become known to our group that some sects, such as the Sadr group ... and others, have not taken part in the massacres and not helped the occupier," the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site often used by al Qaeda.

"So we have decided not to hurt these groups in any way, as long as they do not strike us," it added.

[Just Me]

1. Interesting. This coincides with Brit Sp Ops caught with bombs,...

,...in their car and shooting at Iraqi police. Hmmm

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. bush and the pnac has spawned the weirdest place on earth

since Cambodia in the 60's-70's.

[bemildred]

3. Dueling sock-puppets now.

Which fake al Zarqawi are you going to believe?

[0007]

4. I like the one that has been killed at least three time

and caputured a half a dozen times and lost his leg and has 108 number two men.