My gut tells me that the letter is a forgery. Most likely it is a black psy-ops operation of the US. But it could also come from Iran, since the mistakes are those a Shiite might make when pretending to be a Sunni. Or it could come from an Iraqi Shiite group attempting to manipulate the United States. Hmmm. (emphasis added)You know, we can't win in this War when our own side may be propagating crap like this. At some point, we won't believe anybody (not that we do much believing anymore anyway).
Friday, October 14, 2005
Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi
Much has been made of a letter that is allegedly from Zawahiri (Bin Laden's #2) to Zarqawi, the current Al-Qada big man in Iraq. Make no mistake, this is not a good man. Juan Cole weighs in on this and, for a number of reasons, mostly textual analysis (Jaques Derrida anyone?):
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It was a question of "look at the shiney thing" It took 'til now for journalists to notice the very funny closing:
"My greetings to all the loved ones and please give me news of Karem and the rest of the folks I know, and especially:
By God, if by chance you're going to Fallujah, send greetings to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
Heh, Heh
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