2. Al Qaeda has just pissed off billions of football fans
I still can't understand how the West can't outwit these animals. They videotape beheadings, commit mass-murder and our response is more repression and supporting similar groups who are just as despised.
probably funded by Saudi's plutocracy. Most of the foreign extremist groups in Iraq are. They began to recruit locally after the downfall of Saddam using the chaos and lawlessness to their advantage.
13. well, AQ in Iraq aren't really the Osama Bin Laden AQ
but they do get their money from similar sources and they did start around a cadre of Sunni extremists. I think it's just a convenient label slapped on any hardline Sunni fundamentalists who see ordinary Iraqis as legitimate targets according to their warped theology.
These and similar groups are now being backed by the US as a bulwark against Hizbollah and Hamas, unfortunately there has already been blowback in Lebanon.
15. AQinIraq do recruit locally as well, this doesn't make them a popular movement
If AQ was recruiting in the UK or US they could always find some impressionable souls to join up. Having said that the whole Iraqi resistance to occupation is overwhelmingly Iraqi. AQ in Iraq is a tiny proportion of the total. Even counting all hard-line fundamentalist Sunni groups together and saying they are "Al Qaida" they are only a small fraction. By hard-line I mean groups that look on (all?) other muslims as degenerate apostates.
I suspect that the use of a bombing to target ordinary muslims has the hallmark of one of these groups. I can't remember the term such groups use to denote (jaheel?) muslims who are not ultra-orthodox. In the eyes of these extremists they are every bit as bad as the foreign occupation forces.
The definition depends on the religious outlook rather than nationality. Going OT, such groups are the ones that recent US policy has chosen to be proxies in the fight against Hamas and Hizbollah. This is exteremly short-sighted and will prove disastrous. Bush and the State department should dump these madmen and start talking to Hamas and Hizbollah. They have to stop seeing them as boogeymen and start treating them as legitimate parties with genuine grievances. The cure will prove worse than the disease if this blinkered policy continues.
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