Postby avowedly-agnostic » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:17 pm
[quote] During an islamic meeting and with an unanimous vote, Sarqawi has been replaced as the head of Iraq's resistance. [/quote]
It's a mistake to believe that Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi was ever the leader of the Iraqi resistence. The Iraqi resistence isn't composed of one entity with a single leader at its head, but rather consists of different groups with different idealogies. There are nationalists, former Bathists, and Islamists.
Zarqawi belongs to the last of those groups.
In fact some sections of the resistence got extremely annoyed by Zarqawi's indiscriminate targeting of civilians, and his unjust killing of the shia, so in a video tape aired by Al-Arabiya, they threatened him and his extremist gang to leave Iraq or face death, saying that if he doesn't cease his muderous campaign, and leave Iraq immediately:"...we'll do to you what the American's have so far failed to do..."
Zarqawi and his extremist salafi group do not by any stretch of the imagination represent the Iraqi resistence. His group: Al Qaida in Iraq is estimated to number between 150 to 200 members out of some 20, 000 Iraqi resistence fighters.
The noble Iraqi resistence is better off without the murderous butcher. He gives the the resistence a bad name by ruthlessly killing innocent Shias, and mercilessly beheading foreigners. I believe the Iraqi resistence will get rid of him sooner or later.
The guy's no hero, he's a villian. He seeks to radicalise the moderate and relatively liberal Iraqi society, and subsequently impose sharia law "on the land of the two rivers" (Iraq). He's an absolute disgrace.
Long live the Iraqi resistence !
Death to Zarqawi!
