« Pentagon's secret spy unit broadens Rumsfeld's power | Main | Bird Flu Pandemic Could Hit Tsunami Proportions »

January 23, 2005

Ahead of Iraqi elections, Al Qaeda group arrested for planning attack in Iraq

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

We just keep hearing more of the same from the MSM, especially the Arab press. It's suppose to be breaking news that the terrorists aren't terribly happy about the elections and will try anything to disrupt them. Let's play along and devour this latest information with great fervor, as though we are all sitting on the edge of our seats with bated breath and in utter disbelief that the Sunnis and Islamists want to sidetrack the democratic process. The nerve of those people!

-Aljazeera

In the run-up to the elections, Iraqis are bracing themselves for an extremely turbulent week as the violence that's rocked the country since the U.S. forces invasion, continues.

But interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is insisting that only the elections would end the violence that has swept the country.

An audiotape message, attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been posted on a website. The message says that the January 30th elections were a "wicked trap aimed at putting the Shiites in the seat of power in Iraq...We have declared all-out war on this wicked course."

However, the authenticity of the tape could not be confirmed nor whether it really was al-Zarqawi speaking.  Read more..

Related commentary:
Digger's Realm
InTheBullPen
Backcountry Conservative
The Command Post

Posted by Hyscience at January 23, 2005 4:47 PM

Articles Related to Middle East News and Perspectives:

• A Catholic Church In Saudi Arabia? - Mar 29, 2008
• Abbas' advisor caught at Allenby crossing with 2,000 smuggled cell phones - Mar 19, 2008
• War Drums In The Middle East - Is War Between Israel, Hezbollah, And Syria Likely? - Mar 16, 2008
• Palestinians Celebrating Mass Murder - Mar 07, 2008
• Todays Change Of Pace - Ofra Haza. If Only Her Message Of Peace In the ME Were Heeded - Mar 06, 2008
• Incredible Jaw-Dropping Reuters Hamas Propaganda - Mar 03, 2008
• Breaking: Benazir Bhutto Killed In Suicide Blast (Updated) - Dec 27, 2007
• Hamas MP Says 'Jews Are Creating Artificial Earthquakes' - Dec 14, 2007
• Children Tout Genocide On Hamas TV - Dec 13, 2007
• Israeli Nuclear Expert: 'Target Of Israeli Top Secret Air Raid Was Syrian Nuclear Bomb Factory' - Dec 02, 2007