toohotfortnr: the real enemy, the real enemy: Abu Sarhan -- a "general coordinator" between AQI and the remnants of the Zarqawi organization -- says the U.S. shouldn't immediately leave Iraq. An al-Qaeda affiliate wants the U.S. to stagger its departure. What a testimony to the franchise model of al-Qaeda: the thug considers himself, foremost, an Iraqi Sunni, rather than a member of a global jihadist movement.
Iran is his real enemy, not the U.S., and he dreams the dreams of the genocidaire: "I personally don't have a hatred of the American people, and I respect American civilization," he said. "They have participated in the progress of all the nations of the world. They invented computers. Such people should be respected. But people who are crying over someone who died 1,400 years ago" -- referring to Shiites and their veneration of a leader killed in the 7th century -- "these should be eliminated, to clear the society of them, because they are simply trash."
"The real enemy for the resistance is Iran and those working for Iran," he went on. "Because Iran has a feud which goes back thousands of years with the people of Iraq and the government of Iraq."
There are some other interesting debates on this going back and forth here
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/07/16/al-qaeda-indigenous-sunnis-and-the-insurgency-in-iraq/
and
here
http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/07/the_attempts_to_mini.php
Posted by: Mark Eichenlaub | July 17, 2007 at 12:51 PM