Al-Zarqawi Vows to Assassinate Iraqi Leader (edited for length)

[hightime]

One Day After His Group Beheads South Korean, Al-Zarqawi Vows to Assassinate Iraqi Leader


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A recording purportedly made by the mastermind of bombings and beheadings in Iraq threatened to assassinate Iraq's interim prime minister and fight the Americans "until Islamic rule is back on Earth."
The audio, found Wednesday on an Islamic Web site, is supposedly from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the same Jordanian-born terrorist whose group claimed responsibility for the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg and Kim Sun-il, a South Korean whose decapitated body was found Tuesday evening between Baghdad and Fallujah.

South Koreans reacted with sorrow and anger to Kim's beheading Wednesday, with President Roh Moo-hyun calling it a "crime against humanity."

After the slaying, U.S. forces launched an airstrike on what the Americans said was an al-Zarqawi hideout in Fallujah. Three people were killed and nine wounded, said Dr. Loai Ali Zeidan at Fallujah Hospital. It was the second U.S. airstrike on Fallujah since Saturday


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBS0FAJTVD.html

[Fenris]

1. "The Iraqi Prime Minister has said publicly, however..."

"...that he plans on living out his life-long dream: dying of natural causes."

[Mistress Quickly]

2. huh?

"until Islamic rule is back on Earth."

Well now, that's scary.

[thirstygeorgian]

3. Yes, that is scary.

These groups could care less who we are or who we support. They love our inner conflict.