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| Zark calls for all-out war against Shi'ites |
| 2005-09-15 |
| AL-QAEDA'S leader in Iraq declared all-out war on Shiite Muslims, Iraqi troops and the country's government in a statement last night, as more than 160 people were killed and hundreds wounded in the country's bloodiest day since the United States-led invasion in March 2003. The speaker on a tape released on the internet, introduced as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said his militant forces would attack any Iraqi it believes has co-operated with an ongoing US-led offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. "If proven that any of [Iraq's] national guards, police or army are agents of the Crusaders, they will be killed and his house will be demolished or burnt - after evacuating all women and children - as a punishment," the voice said in the tape that surfaced on a site known for carrying extremist Islamist content. The speaker announced "all-out war against Shiites everywhere. Beware, there will be no mercy." The speaker called on Sunni Muslims in Iraq "to wake up from their slumber and rise up because the war waged to eradicate them won't stop". He said: "Crusaders and Shiites share a common goal to wage war against Sunnis," adding that attacks on Sunni-dominated cities such as Tal Afar prove this. Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, agreed last-minute revisions to the constitution in an effort to appease the disgruntled Sunni minority, which forms the core support for the country's virulent insurgency. In the worst attack yesterday, at least 114 civilians were killed and 160 injured by a suicide car bomber in a Shia district at 6:30am. Many of the dead were labourers who had gathered to find work. Twisted hulks of vehicles were strewn throughout a square in the Kadhimiyah district after the attack. The bomber drove a van into an area where men were looking for jobs. After attracting their attention by offering employment, he detonated his device, causing carnage. At a nearby hospital later, dozens of wounded men lay on stretchers, their bandages and clothes soaked in blood. The bombing followed a pre-dawn shooting when gunmen in military uniforms killed 17 men in the town of Taji, ten miles north of Baghdad, after dragging them from their homes. Police said the victims were handcuffed, blindfolded and shot. The dead included a police officer as well as drivers and construction workers employed by the US military. Two hours later, two soldiers were wounded when a car bomb hit a US military convoy near Shaad Stadium in eastern Baghdad. At 9:40am, another suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army convoy, killing three soldiers. Then in central Baghdad - just a few hundred yards from the Rashid Hotel, which houses diplomats and western workers - a suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy. Fourteen Iraqi police officers were injured. After that, another car bomb exploded alongside an Iraqi National Guard convoy in the northern district of Shula, killing at least two people. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Does that warrant two exclamation points rather than the usual one? Zark has been at all out war v. Shites, nothing new here. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-15 17:59 |
| #2 School of charms graduate? Destroying homes after women and men evacuated ... sounds like just what they damn the IDF for doing but the IDF doesn't kill indiscriminately as zman's thugs do does it. I like the "no mercy" notice. Since when did they exhibit much on a concern for mercy and people beyond their own? Sounds as though they are getting a bit desperate and very foolish far beyond the usual sociopathic routine. Zman's a bit full of himself and it appears, fully unhinged. Being involved in repeated brutal slaughters can do that to an animal. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-09-15 08:48 |
| #1 Beware, there will be no mercy. Ya mean like you have shown in the past? Sounds like you're desperate! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-09-15 08:01 |