Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Is Al-Qaeda losing the hearts and minds of Iraqis?
Here's some interesting news from the Associated Press:
The critics of the Iraq war were certainly correct when they argued that Iraqi society is far more complicated than the hawks were willing to admit. But that may be old news. Today's interesting question is whether Iraq may ultimately drain Al-Qaeda's resources more emphatically than our own.
A group of armed, masked Iraqi men threatened Tuesday to kill Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if he did not immediately leave the country, accusing him of murdering innocent Iraqis and defiling the Muslim religion.
The threats revealed the deep anger many Iraqis, including insurgent groups, feel toward foreign fighters, whom many consider as illegitimate a presence here as the 160,000 U.S. and other coalition troops.
In a videotape sent to the al-Arabiya television station, a group calling itself the "Salvation Movement," questioned how al-Zarqawi could use Islam to justify the killing of innocent civilians, the targeting of government officials and the kidnapping and beheading of foreigners.
The critics of the Iraq war were certainly correct when they argued that Iraqi society is far more complicated than the hawks were willing to admit. But that may be old news. Today's interesting question is whether Iraq may ultimately drain Al-Qaeda's resources more emphatically than our own.
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