January 14, 2005

al Qaeda Gearing Up for Iraqi Elections

Evan Kohlman is now blogging over at The Counterterrorism Blog and links a number of his original translations of recent al Qaeda in Iraq communiques. His analysis?

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi--has dramatically increased its targeting of influential Iraqi government officials, potential candidates in the election, and anyone else associated with the electoral process.

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1 You know that Shia cleric that was just gunned down recently? An hour ago on Fox, they said the Sunni's are taking responsibility for that murder, but we'll hear soon enough. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 14, 2005 02:50 PM (D39Vm)

2 There is now you can get this type of organizational ability and sophistication without help from other states. Syria has a hand in this. What country stands to lose the most from a democratic IRAQ? Syria.

Posted by: Asia at January 14, 2005 09:19 PM (Sbgdv)

3 I can't think of any form of death that would be appropriate for this man and his gruesome beheadings. You could always tell it was him because of the way he did things, cowardly covered up or not. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 14, 2005 11:48 PM (D39Vm)

4 I can, Cindy. Get the bluntest, rustiest sword you can find and slowly, very gingerly, start cutting his neck, and no blindfold...let him see his own blood spurting out. Let the bastard bleed out before you begin to cut a little more, and a little more....make it last.

Posted by: Laura at January 16, 2005 02:32 PM (ptOpl)

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