Al-Zarqawi says Shiites most dangerous

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http://www.newsone.ca/ottawarecorder/ViewArticle.aspx?id=33292&source=2

Al-Zarqawi says Shiites most dangerous

CAIRO, Egypt - 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 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.

"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."

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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.

[Kagemusha]

1. Honestly, they should fear the Shiites more.

But therefore seeing it as advantageous to stir the Shiites up further like Zarqawi... claimed... er... is purported to have claimed, seems a questionable strategy. (I'm trying not to offend those who view Zarqawi as a non-entity existing only in propaganda.) It's not like I can't understand a 'don't let them have Iraq without a fight' mentality but, that only flies if you think the US was going to give Iraq to the Shiites on a silver platter and let them do as they desired.

I mean, I see where someone could get that impression, yes...

[sugapablo]

2. Nasrallah in league with Israel?

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.

Well that's a new one. :)

* - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_AL_ZARQAWI?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=home.htm (From the full AP article)