Iraq insurgents battling al Qaeda (something you'll never here from a con)

yurbud

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:07 AM
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Iraq insurgents battling al Qaeda (something you'll never here from a con)

One of those lingering pathetic lies of Bushies is that we are primarily fighting al Qaeda & international Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in Iraq, and the actual Iraqis would be happy to bwanna's litter to inspect his oil wells.

The only problem is studies by by Israel and Saudi show that less than 10% of those fighting are from outside Iraq and an even smaller percentage are primarily motivated by spreading Islamic fundamentalism.

The US Army itself admitted it exaggerated the role of al Qaeda in Iraq for propaganda purposes.

Now this.

When it said al Qaeda was bugging street vendors about putting cucumbers next to tomatoes because it was sexually suggestive, I thought this sounded like a BS propaganda story--and it could well be.

But if so, it is a BS propaganda story someone bothered to get on the radar to undercut Bush's case for continuing the war.

And if it is true, then it makes Bush look even stupider, if that is humanly possible.

Insurgents battling al-Qaida outside Baghdad, U.S. says

By TODD PITMAN

The Associated Press

MUQDADIYAH, Iraq � At least two major insurgent groups are battling al-Qaida in provinces outside Baghdad, American military commanders said Friday, an indication of a deepening rift between Sunni guerrilla groups in Iraq.

The clashes have erupted over the last two to three months, pitting al-Qaida in Iraq against the nationalist 1920 Revolution Brigades in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces north of Baghdad as well as Anbar to the west, U.S. officers said. In Diyala, another hard-line militant Sunni group, the Ansar al-Sunna Army, is also fighting al-Qaida, they said.

"It's happening daily," Lt. Col. Keith Gogas said Thursday in an interview at an Army base in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. "Our read on it is that the more moderate, if you will, Sunni insurgents are finding that their goals and al-Qaida's goals are at odds."

American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003675519_iraqsplit21.html

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