Al-Qaida in Iraq: 'Insurgent Tape' Fake

[ECH1969]

Al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday that a recent video tape made by a man claiming to be an insurgent who called for the replacement of the head of the terrorist group was fabricated.

On Friday, a man who said he was an Iraqi Islamic insurgent released a video tape urging Osama bin Laden to replace al-Qaida in Iraq's leader with an Iraqi national.

al-Masri whose pseudonym means "the Egyptian" took over the leadership after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June. Other Sunni insurgents had criticized al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, for turning Sunni Iraqis against the movement by killing civilians.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400938.html

[Kagemusha]

1. How desperate do you have to be to plagiarize terrorists.

If that's what the US has been reduced to for dirty tricks...

[USA_1]

2. more fake tapes to follow

... as the election approaches

[Ecumenist]

3. It's sad to say but I believe him...

COMPLETELY. I never thought I'd ever say that about my own country's government but alas, it has come to this...

[Eugene]

4. Not only a fake but the most amateurish one yet.

With the civil war going at full blast, al-Qaeda in Iraq is irrelevant,
not that they were ever that big a factor in the Sunni insurgency.
The tape was yet another attempt to conflate the insurgents with
the terrorists and show the terrorists in disarray. An appeal
to al-Qaeda for tolerance and moderation is just laughable.

Meanwhile the death squads on both sides have just escalated to targeted
mass killings of women and children. The atrocities that "Abu Osama
al-Iraqi" were complaining about are almost tame by comparison.