Tape claims al Qaeda behind attacks in Iraq

Tape claims al Qaeda behind attacks in Iraq

CTV.ca News Staff

A group claiming to be an Iraqi branch of al Qaeda said its group -- not Saddam Hussein loyalists -- are behind recent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a videotape aired on an Arab television network.

Dubai-based satellite station al Arabiya aired the four-minute video Sunday, showing a black-and-white still photograph of an unidentified man with a long white beard, dressed like an Islamic cleric in a robe and white turban.

An accompanying voice track on the video reads a message warning American forces to "leave Iraq's territories and to live up to their promises.

"I would like to remind all that the only cure for cancer is to eradicate it, and the the Islamic nation's cancer is the Zionist entity, headed by America. This cancer is not inflicted exclusively on Iraq and Palestine, but on all the Islamic nations under the guise that they are fighting terrorism."

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Weren't all the people who forcast that the invasion of Iraq would be the ultimate al-Quaeda recruiting tool throughly ridiculed (when they weren't being ignored) by the "liberal" media? </sarcasm>