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Shiâite group threatens Zarqawi
An armed group calling itself the "Salvation Movement" threatened in a video aired Tuesday to kill Al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi if he did not leave Iraq. "The apostate, criminal Zarqawi and his henchmen must leave Iraq immediately," said a statement read by one of the group on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite news channel. "Islam has nothing to do with this criminal," said the statement, referring to attacks attributed to the Sunni Muslim Zarqawi, particularly in Shiite-populated towns. "We have started work and preparations to capture him and his followers or kill them and offer them as a gift to our people and martyrs," said the hooded gunman.The group also issued a "last warning" to those "harboring" Zarqawi and his men. "We will do to you what the (US-led) coalition forces were unable to do if you do not desist," the statement said. "Who is Zarqawi to be allowed to do what he is doing to Iraq?" the statement said, listing the abduction of foreign workers, the assassination of political and religious figures and threats to Iraqi Shiites. The hitherto unheard of group appeared to be made up of Shiites, who form a majority in Iraq. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-07-06 |
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