Zarqawi declares 'all out war' on Shiites
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Thursday, September 15, 2005. 6:12am (AEST)
Al Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has declared "all-out war" against Shiite Muslims in Iraq in an audiotape attributed to him and posted on the Internet.
The warning was issued after his militants claimed a devastating series of attacks in Bahgdad, including a massive suicide car bombing in a Shiite area that killed 112 people, mainly labourers seeking work.
"The Al Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers is declaring all-out war on the Rafidha [a pejorative term for Shiites], wherever they are in Iraq," the tape says.
The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified.
Zarqawi, the one-legged extremist who has a $US25 million price on his head, also urged Sunni Arabs to "wake up from your slumber ... the war to exterminate Sunnis will never end".
Iraq's most wanted man also challenged Iraqi leaders to leave the highly fortified 'Green Zone' in Baghdad where the seat of government is located, to challenge his mujahedeen, or holy warriors.
Earlier, militants loyal to the Jordanian-born Zarqawi claimed they had carried out the devastating wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad to avenge an offensive by US and Iraqi troops on the northern rebel town of Tal Afar.
The bombings and shootings claimed 150 lives in the capital, making it the bloodiest day of insurgent attacks in the Iraqi capital since the US-led war of March 2003.
"The conquest of revenge for the Sunni people of Tal Afar has started," it said in the statement, the authenticity of which could not be verified.
- AFP
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Thursday, September 15, 2005. 6:12am (AEST)
Al Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has declared "all-out war" against Shiite Muslims in Iraq in an audiotape attributed to him and posted on the Internet.
The warning was issued after his militants claimed a devastating series of attacks in Bahgdad, including a massive suicide car bombing in a Shiite area that killed 112 people, mainly labourers seeking work.
"The Al Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers is declaring all-out war on the Rafidha [a pejorative term for Shiites], wherever they are in Iraq," the tape says.
The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified.
Zarqawi, the one-legged extremist who has a $US25 million price on his head, also urged Sunni Arabs to "wake up from your slumber ... the war to exterminate Sunnis will never end".
Iraq's most wanted man also challenged Iraqi leaders to leave the highly fortified 'Green Zone' in Baghdad where the seat of government is located, to challenge his mujahedeen, or holy warriors.
Earlier, militants loyal to the Jordanian-born Zarqawi claimed they had carried out the devastating wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad to avenge an offensive by US and Iraqi troops on the northern rebel town of Tal Afar.
The bombings and shootings claimed 150 lives in the capital, making it the bloodiest day of insurgent attacks in the Iraqi capital since the US-led war of March 2003.
"The conquest of revenge for the Sunni people of Tal Afar has started," it said in the statement, the authenticity of which could not be verified.
- AFP
Link Here
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