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Iraq-Jordan
Zarqawi sez he's gonna kill the Algerians
2005-07-26
Al Qaeda in Iraq said it will kill two Algerian diplomats it had kidnapped in Baghdad last week, according to an Internet statement posted on Tuesday.

"The judicial court of the Organisation of al Qaeda in Iraq has sentenced to death the diplomatic envoys of the apostate Algerian government," said the statement from the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

"This is the fate of the ambassadors and the envoys of all infidel governments," said the statement, dated July 25.

Its authenticity could not be immediately verified. Algeria's foreign ministry declined to comment and a government official said the issue was too sensitive to make a statement at the moment.

Algerian Foreign Minister Mohamed Bedjaoui said in comments published on Tuesday: "We have always been on the side of the Iraqi people ... For Algerian envoys to be attacked is something that is beyond comprehension."

Guerrilla strikes have driven diplomats from the Iraqi capital, undermining the U.S.-backed government's efforts to gain support among Arab countries. On Monday Algeria pulled its last diplomatic staff out of its embassy in Baghdad.

The statement, posted on an Islamist Web site often used by al Qaeda in Iraq, did not give details about the fate of mission chief Ali Belaroussi, 62, and attaché Azzedine Belkadi, 47 who were snatched by gunmen on Thursday near their embassy.

It was the first time the group admitted to holding Belkadi. Earlier this week, al Qaeda claimed the kidnapping of Belaroussi and on Monday posted pictures of identification cards belonging to him on the same Web site.

The families of Belaroussi and Belkadi on Tuesday appealed in an newspaper to al Qaeda to free their loved ones.

Al Qaeda in Iraq earlier this month kidnapped and killed Egyptian mission chief Ihab el-Sherif. It also shot and wounded the envoys of Pakistan and Bahrain.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#6  Lot more apostates out there then I ever would have thought. Doesn't it seem like he is biting of more than he can chew? He started out fighting us, now he has just about every Arab country(besides Iran) and the G8 countries on his ass.
Posted by: Bigjim-ky   2005-07-26 22:22  

#5  So maybe we do need to capture the psychopath. Maybe the Algerians, Egyptians,Pakistanis, and Bahrainians wanna help? Howzabout you Russians, Spanish, East Timorians, etc. Maybe you could each send two policemen?

Let's just say you were right not to support the war in Iraq. Politics, trade, anti-US, humanitarian reasons? I don't care anymore. Whaddaya gonna do now? Run away?

Yeah, run away, in fear and in shame. Run awayt until somebody else solves the problem. Taliban 2000™ coming soon to a country near you, and looking better and better all the time, eh? No hard times, no heavy lifting to get there, just wait for it.
Posted by: Bobby   2005-07-26 12:46  

#4  He's just a psyhopath.

A Hannibal Lecter on steroids.

Like all good psyhos he's convinced his audience he's somebody else. The Islamic public (somehow) needs the ablity to see that a psyhopath is not a freedom figher. That's a major plot hole in their body politic.
Posted by: 3dc   2005-07-26 12:17  

#3  I meant the unfortunate global response as how it was conducted. Way too many governments said one thing at the UN and back home it was business as usual.
Posted by: Thraling Ulaitle8166   2005-07-26 11:14  

#2  This has little to do with the Iraqi people, and it has more to do with the Jordanian pretender of Islam and the meowing kitten of crimminals everywhere. Zarqawi is more at issue here rather than alleged apostate governments and foreigners trying to re-empower the survivors of Saddam Hussein's reign of terror and the unfortunate global response to dis-empower him. The common Iraq people suffered from all quarters. Now... they suffer another terror in the shape of the one-legged pervert of the word of Allah and his messenger. Zarqawi feels he has no choice to maintain his so-called credibility. he still mistakens fear for respect and that trait is what betrays his true self and motive. It is all about him and the only way to ralley others to his selfish pursuits is to raise the banners of Jihaad, Islam and the need to destroy terrible mean Satanic West. It is all about Zarqawi and he cannot back down and be seen as weak or was just a fake and fraud. Zarqawi must follow his satanic path to it's end... no matter how many he must drag down with him. Is it any wonder that he quietly has some of his potential competitors arranged for a glorious death? he must maintain center stage and in the spotlight. It is aboput Zarqawi and not Jihaad. Jihaad is the vehicle to achieve his personal and twisted goals of empowerment as a dictator disquised as a Sultan or Caliph or prince. Then can he satiate his need for boys and perverted lusts at the expense of the Iraqi people and elsewhere. He is sick and must be cured or returned to his kennel for a quick death. Then he can sit down at the big table with his master Satan and play cards all he wants along with Hitler, Stalin and the rest.
Posted by: Thraling Ulaitle8166   2005-07-26 11:04  

#1  "Why, I'll moidalize dem bums!"
Posted by: mojo   2005-07-26 10:29  

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