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Shiites guilty of genocide: bin Laden
AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden has accused Iraqi Shiites of waging "genocide" against Sunnis and warned of retaliation, in a second audio recording attributed to him and posted on the Internet overnight."The unarmed Muslims in the Land of Two Rivers are subjected to a campaign of genocide at the hands of the gangs of grudge and treachery," the speaker, purported to be bin Laden said in a reference to Shiites. Those "gangs" were "deployed in all key posts in the former government of (Ibrahim) al-Jafari and are present today in the incumbent (Nuri) al-Maliki government," the speaker said of Iraq's previous and incumbent Shiite prime ministers. "The (Sunni) Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq has warned against the genocide they (Sunnis) are being subjected to," he said. "It is not possible that many of the people of the south (who are predominantly Shiites) join America and its allies in attacking (the Sunni bastions of) Fallujah, Ramadi, Baquba, Mosul, Samarra, Al-Qaim and other cities and villages and (expect) their regions to be spared a reaction and harm," the speaker said. The speaker accused the Maliki government of being "treacherous and apostate," saying it was walking in the footsteps of the Jafari cabinet. "The first step required to bring stability to Iraq is to drive out the crusader armies by force, then to punish the leaders of (Shiite) parties" who "lied to the people by telling them that participation in the political process is the way to drive out the occupiers," he added. The new statement was posted after the CIA authenticated a message by the fugitive Al-Qaeda leader released on Thursday in which he warned that jihad, or holy war, would go on in Iraq despite the killing of the network's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a US air raid last month. It was posted on the same Islamist website, which had announced earlier that it would release a new message. Posted by: tipper 2006-07-01 |
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