CBS News: Six prominent Sunni jihadist groups form the "Political Council of the Iraq Resistance"

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/15/iraq/main3366346.shtml

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In a video first broadcast on an Arabic news channel and then found by CBS News on an extremist Web site, six of the most prominent domestic Sunni jihadist groups declared the formation of the "Political Council of the Iraq Resistance".

The Council is not, like the Anbar group, a U.S.-allied coalition of tribal leaders, and is not in any way supported by America or its allies - it is a coalition of militant jihadist groups who still vow to fight U.S. forces in Iraq.

However, the Council pledges in its introductory announcement to battle all "foreign occupation and foreign influence" in Iraq. Very few al Qaeda militants are Iraqis, and there presence is increasingly seen as an effort to divide the country and exacerbate sectarian strife.

The statement vows that militant operations will target only "the occupiers and their agents, and do not target the innocents and the vulnerable ones". This declaration is a move to label al Qaeda, whose chief tactic has been suicide attacks which leave scores of civilians dead, as an enemy.

[robinlynne]

1. At first glance this looks like great news. I don't know enough to really know

what it means, however. funny that the article interprets foreign fighters to be only al queda. sounds like al queda, and the US to me.