Al Qaeda issues "new" manifesto in Iraq

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Actually, they don't say anything different from what they've been saying and doing since the early 1990s.

You know.....everyone who isn't a Wahhabist Muslim is a dirty infidel pig-dog kuffar who needs to be killed for the greater glory of Allah's caliphate on earth, etc, etc. etc.

But, still thought you'd want to know.


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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/26/alqaeda.book/

Al Qaeda in Iraq issues virulent manifesto
Document calls for violence, destruction of 'American empire'

Friday, August 26, 2005;

The group al Qaeda in Iraq -- which has been behind many of the worst attacks, beheadings, and kidnappings in Iraq -- has issued a manifesto in which it calls for violence and hate for all but "true Muslims."

Shiites do not belong among "true Muslims," the group says, calling their faith "a confession of polytheism and rejectionism."

It also declares: "We vow by the name of God that we are determined to destroy the American empire," adding that the insurgency is stronger than Washington acknowledges.

The document also warns there will be no end to the insurgency.

"The call for jihad goes on until doomsday, whether there is an imam calling for it or not."

The group's e-book surfaced on an Islamic Web site this week and offers links to three issues of al Qaeda in Iraq's e-magazine, a forum often used to claim responsibility for attacks. In numerous sections totaling dozens of pages, the e-book covers topics from the justification of beheadings in the Quran and why democracy is wrong.

No date was given for the document, and no author was listed. The reference to its Jordanian-born leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in the third person suggests he did not write the document.

Iraq and the United States call him the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. The United States has posted a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.

While part of the document seems to have been written relatively recently, another part refers to to the government of Ayad Allawi, who was interim leader in Iraq until April.

The document also called President Bush's insistence on staying in Iraq "until we accomplish our mission" a "desperate catchphrase ... used to make the public believe that the mujahedeens are in bad shape."

The document repeatedly urged Muslims to launch attacks against foreign forces in Iraq and their allies and for Iraqi troops and police to turn their backs on the new elected government.

"You who betrayed Muslims and in humiliation became one of many collaborators, a servant under the command of the cross, we ask you to return to your Islamic instinct or cutting your neck will be your only punishment for your treason against your religion and your people."

It adds this warning: "Repent or else."

The group calls its doctrine and mission guided by "our agreement to believe in and fight for the religion of God. We believe that those who follow these beliefs and the provisions of faith are true Muslims, and anyone who denounces any of these beliefs and conditions is an infidel even if he still claims to be a Muslim."

The central image of the e-book is the group's logo: a globe with an open book, presumably the Quran. Emerging from the center of the Quran are a spear, a Kalashnikov rifle, a hand with the index finger sticking up -- a symbol of unity -- and a banner reading, "There is no God but God; Mohammed is the messenger of God."
 
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