An audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden recognized a new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq in a message that addressed two key Muslim battlegrounds -- Iraq and Somalia.
In the message, bin Laden endorsed Abu Hamza al-Muhajer as the successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, and wished him good luck.
U.S. officials have said they believe the leader of the group is a man named Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and senior military sources say they believe al-Masri and al-Mujaher are the same person.
In addition, the purported bin Laden said Iraqi Sunnis are undergoing what he calls annihilation and he called
upon them to fight Shiites, saying the only way to win freedom is to oust the occupying power. (Watch how bin Laden urges Sunnis to retaliate -- 2:29)
He warned that if such harm against Iraqi Sunnis continued, Shiite Muslims and their "areas" would not be safe from retaliation.
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I have to say they do not need any prodding. Annihilation appears to be the other way around.
The main Sunni Arab political bloc started a boycott of the Iraqi parliament today to protest the kidnapping of a Sunni legislator, and it threatened to withdraw its colleagues from the primer minister's cabinet should the captors not free the lawmaker within 48 hours
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This Iraqi breakdown needs no outside help. It is self perpetuating and will not stop. My concern is that Saudi Arabia who looks at itself as the protector of Sunni's will intervene and Iran will help the Shiites as seems to be happening
What should wake you up is that Iraq's PM Maliki said today that a loss of the Iraq war would be a loss of the country of Iraq.
I hate to be the one to tell him but Iraq is already lost. It is in civil war and that cannot be stopped now. It is now in proccess.As I have said many times, it will and is spreading throughout the entire middle east. You can thank Bush and his new world order!
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James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com