Al-Qaeda statement, quoted in Jihad Unspun
Today a great misfortune has happened and is part of the US conspiracy to ignite the fire of sedition between the Muslims in Iraq. The US forces today perpetrated a massacre to kill the innocent Shias in their polytheist city of Karbala and in Baghdad. The Americans are trying to attribute these actions to the Mujahideen of Al-Qaida who have inflicted pain and suffering on the United States in Iraq and elsewhere. The United States wants to distort the image of the Mujahideen. And we are today telling all Muslims that we disassociate ourselves from this action and disassociate ourselves from what the Shia Muslims worship other than Allan Allah.
So that our aims may be clear to everyone, we strike the American Crusaders and their allies and we strike the Iraqi puppet police, the tail of America and the stick that America uses to strike the Mujahideen in Iraq. We hit America’s stooges in the infidel council, the so-called Governing Council and those who collaborate with them, both Sunnis and Shi‘is. Oh, heroic people of Iraq. The Mujahideen are a people who love Allan Allah and His Messenger and only do what pleases Allan Allah, and they do not slay such life as Allan Allah has made sacred, except for just cause. This includes the heretic Shia groups that do not insult the companions of Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allan Allah be upon him, and do not contravene the Quran and do not tamper with Allan’s Allah’s Shari’ah... Beware!! The United States wants you to help it against the Mujahideen and the Mujahideen want you to turn the tables against it and to declare war on the United States. Come on, rise with your brother Mujahideen against the idol of the age, the United States... |