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For decades, Muslim radicals have targeted secular Arab leaders as infidels. Assassins
and terrorists have targeted Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar al-Sadat (killed by Egyptian
Islamic Jihad in 1981), Hosni Mubarak, Hafez al-Assad, the Saudi royal family,
and the military government of Algeria. Ayman al-Zawahiri, supposedly Osama bin
Laden’s right-hand man, was indicted in the al-Sadat assassination plot
along with three hundred Muslims, including Omar Abdel Rahman, later convicted
for “Seditious Conspiracy” (in other words, there was not enough evidence
to convict him) in relation to the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 and an alleged
plot to bomb New York landmarks including the United Nations and FBI offices.
In 1990, Osama bin Laden called for jihad against Saddam and asked the Saudi
government for permission to send jihadists to Iraq to overthrow the dictator.
In early 2003, Bin Laden allegedly issued an audio tape calling Saddam an infidel
and stating that Iraq’s secular “socialist” government had
lost credibility (of course, since Osama was dead for over two years, this supposed
audio statement should be dismissed—nonetheless, it is no secret that
Wahabbi fanatics such as the late Osama revile secular government and endeavor
to replace it in the Muslim world with Sharia law or the “Law of Allah”
covering not only religious rituals, but many aspects of day-to-day life, politics,
economics, banking, business or contract law, and social issues). Osama desired
“the establishment of a castle of the Muslims, a [new] Caliphate”
and this would obviously necessitate the removal of secular leaders such as
Saddam Hussein.
And yet we are expected to believe the alleged followers of Osama bin
Laden, in the guise of Al-Qaa’eda fi Bilaad’ir-Raafidee, or al-Qaeda
in Mesopotamia, want to kill the judges appointed to convict Saddam
and get rid of him. “Iraqi police said they have smashed an al-Qaeda cell
plotting to kill the chief judge in charge of building the case against ousted
leader Saddam Hussein, whose trial resumes today after a five-week recess,”
reports the Mumbai
Mirror. Police colonel Anwar Kader told the Mirror “12 members of
a cell linked to the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda” were arrested “during
a dawn raid on a house in eastern Kirkuk” and “confessed during
questioning to planning to kill (chief judge) Raed al-Juhi this week.”
Of course, considering the “interrogation” tactics of the Iraqi
police (in Basra, for instance, the British showed them how to put electric
drills to use on detainees), it is not unusual these “al-Qaeda”
suspects confessed to whatever the police wanted.
“Kader said all the suspects were Sunni Arabs from Kirkuk, from Saddam’s
hometown of Tikrit or from the restive western province of Al-Anbar.”
Now this would make sense if it was reported the Sunnis hailed from the non-al-Qaeda
resistance. However, since the resistance (according to the Bushcons and the
corporate media) is a pet project of al-Zarqawi, the idiot Jordanian who died
years ago in northern Iraq, it stands to reason anybody connected to the resistance
is under the thumb of al-Zarqawi and the dead Osama.
On the one hand we are expected to believe al-Zarqawi has declared
war on infidel Shia Muslims in Iraq (as he supposedly told us in one of his
infamous “internet audiotape” recordings earlier this year) and
on the other we are told “al-Qaeda in Iraq” wants to kill a judge
tasked with convicting and delivering Saddam the “infidel” to the
gallows.
In Bushzarro world, where Saddam “dead-enders” have morphed
into wild-eyed al-Qaeda Muslims, you need a scorecard just to keep track of
the convoluted twists and turns of the story as the Pentagon and the neocons
make it up as they go along.
