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Al-Qaida denounces Jordan's king and Iraqi Sunni Arab leaders The Associated Press Published: November 30, 2006 CAIRO, Egypt: Al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday denounced Iraqi Sunni politicians who met the past week with Jordan's King Abdullah II, calling them and the monarch "traitors." The statement, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, made no mention of a summit Thursday between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. President George W. Bush in the Jordanian capital, Amman. Both leaders met separately with King Abdullah before their talks. Instead, al-Qaida in Iraq the country's most feared Sunni Muslim militant group lashed out at a string of Iraqi Sunni Arab politicians who held talks with Abdullah ahead of the summit. Al-Qaida has long demonized the U.S.-allied Jordanian monarch and in the past has targeted Iraqi Sunnis it sees as cooperating with the Shiite-led Iraqi government or the United States. Abdullah met earlier this week in Amman with Harith al-Dhari, head of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars, a hardline Sunni Arab group known to have links to some factions within Iraq's three-year-old Sunni-led insurgency. The king also met with Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi and Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim. "The traitors of Jordan's meetings, whether they know it or not, have entered today in a pact with Satan to fight the men of God," al-Qaida in Iraq said in its statement. The statement called on "the lions and free men of Jordan" to prepare themselves to confront the king and prevent him from harming Islam. "To Abdullah, we tell him to be patient, since you have followed the path of your grandfather, the traitor, and your fate with God's help will be the same," the group said. The monarch's grandfather, King Abdullah I, was accused by hardliners of planning to make peace with Israel and was assassinated in 1951 by a Palestinian gunman. The authenticity of the al-Qaida statement could not be confirmed. It was posted on a Web forum often used to issue militant statements and was signed by the "Islamic state in Iraq," the so-called Islamic government that the group declared earlier this year and that now issues all its messages. It called on al-Dhari, a harsh critic of Iraq's Shiite-led government, to rejoin "the ranks of your brothers and to the ranks of the mujahideen." Al-Dhari, in an interview with the Al-Arabiya satellite television channel last week praised al-Qaida in Iraq as one of the resistance groups but he said he was not, ideologically, in line with them. The Iraqi government has issued an arrest warrant against him on charges of inciting sectarian strife. Al-Qaida in Iraq also warned Iraqi Sunnis to quit the Iraqi Islamic Party, headed by Vice President al-Hashimi, saying its members would "go to hell." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
