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| Zark blasts Soddies for killing al-Oufi |
| 2005-09-06 |
| Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denounced Saudi Arabia's rulers as despots allowing Westerners to loot the riches of Islam's birthplace, according to an Internet audio tape attributed to him on Tuesday. "The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption," said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist Web site. "From what we have seen of these tyrants, their rule has no legitimacy," said the speaker on the tape, presented as the first of a series of lectures by the Jordanian militant to be issued on the Internet by al Qaeda's wing in Iraq. In the undated tape, which was more than an hour long, the speaker referred to the death of the leader of al Qaeda's Saudi wing, Saleh al-Awfi, who was killed by Saudi security forces on August 18 in a shootout in the holy city of Medina. The tape was posted on an Islamist Web site that often carries messages from al Qaeda and other insurgent groups in Iraq. The speaker blasted education reforms in Muslim countries as un-Islamic, in apparent reference to changes brought about after U.S. criticism after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The education system in Saudi Arabia and other countries has come under attack in the West for promoting hatred of non-Muslims and violence against Westerners. Many Arabs and Muslims see U.S. policy in the Middle East as against Islam and infringing on their independence. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 *yawn* mooslim "fire". 'nother day, 'nother holy islamic pronouncement. *yawn* night. |
| Posted by: Brett 2005-09-06 23:11 |