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To: one_less who wrote (188065)	6/2/2006 5:01:28 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Al-Zaraqawi is a Salafi who believes in the depths of his heart that the Shi'ites are the corrupters of God's religion. Actually, to be more specific, Zarqawi is a Takfirist, a very militant and intolerant sub-sect of Salafism. Takfirists act to destroy anything they believe is heretical and against Islam. They feel utterly entitled to kill any violators (or chop their hands off), often without a trial. Hawk

To: one_less who wrote (188065)	6/2/2006 5:27:30 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have posted to you some related polls from back then that showed how popular Sadr became. I have another article from Apr 9 2004 that states: Cross-confessional intifada For all purposes, an intifada is now going on. Local sources tell Asia Times Online there are pro-Muqtada posters all over Anbar - the richest, predominantly Sunni, Iraqi province. Ramadi - where marines have been under fierce attack - is in Anbar. Only a war of national liberation is the motive capable of explaining these posters. The concept - penned by the Pentagon - of a Shi'ite Mahdi Army fighting the marines in Sunni Anbar is positively ludicrous. This regional resistance is conducted by former officers of the Iraqi army, as tribal sheikhs in the Sunni triangle told this correspondent last year. Sunnis and Shi'ites are united in Baghdad, under the same nationalist impulse. Sheikh Raed al-Kazami, Muqtada's man in the Shi'ite-majority Kazimiya neighborhood, is not very far from the truth when he says: "All of Iraq is behind Muqtada al-Sadr; we are but one body, one people." On the other side of the Tigris, Sunni-majority Adhamiya is now aligned with Kazimiya, as well as Fallujah, Ramadi and even Mosul, against the "American invaders". The popular justification is always the same: this is now a jihad, regardless of whether one is Sunni or Shi'ite. People will fight in their neighborhoods, even if they don't join the Mahdi Army. Asia Times Online has learned that in an unprecedented move, 150 powerful Sunni tribal leaders and emissaries personally delivered a support message to Muqtada's key aides in the 2-million-plus slum of Sadr City, the former Saddam City: "We are all behind Muqtada al-Sadr, we are by his side because he awakened the Iraqi people to liberate the country from the infidel invaders." The message also said: "We are but one Muslim nation - no one can separate us, be it in Iraq or Palestine." Washington was busy predicting a civil war among Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The White House, the Pentagon and the CPA even had the perfectly manufactured culprit: Jordanian Mussab al-Zarqawi, the new Osama bin Laden. What they bought themselves instead is the ultimate occupier nightmare: Sunni and Shi'ite united. Muqtada may be a cross between two-thirds Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran and one-third Che Guevara (without the romantic charisma). But he finds enormous echo in Iraq when he compares Bremer to Saddam (in Sadr City, US-trained Iraqi soldiers first fired on peaceful demonstrators, followed by the US Army with tanks, Apaches and jets firing at random on homes, shops and even ambulances; according to local hospitals, dozens of civilians were killed and many more were injured). Muqtada also finds enormous echo in the Arab world when he aligns himself with Hamas - predominantly Sunni - and Hezbollah - predominantly Shi'ite. US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld swears Washington has nothing to do with the arrest warrant against Muqtada: this is "Iraqi justice" in action. Wrong. The Iraqi Jurists Association published a statement on Wednesday saying that the arrest warrant is "illegal and based on a lie ... The arrest warrant is illegal and incorrect, as the occupation forces issued it in disregard for sovereignty of Iraq's justice system." The Iraqi minister of justice, Abdel-Rahim Al-Shibly, also says he had not been aware of the arrest warrant. Then I have (but I can't find right now) what is one of the most comprehensive intelligence gatherings on Zarqawi, made public that shows due to this popularity of Sadr, Zarqawi actively redirected attacks against the Shia so as to provoke a response against the Sunnis...now although I can't find that report, fortunately there is a less credible report that was release by CPA and the government (which I know you love and trust) which basically states the same thing, i.e. Zarqawi actively pushed for civil war. Just google "Zarqawi letter civil war" and you'll find it. So once again you've exposed yourself as uninformed...not really a surprise.