Zarqawi urges Iraqi Sunnis to shun Shi'ites

[ECH1969]

Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi called on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday. "O Sunnis! Prepare to get rid of the infidel snakes and their poison … and don't listen to those advocating an end to sectarianism and calling for national unity. This is a weapon to get you to surrender," said the speaker on the tape who sounded like Zarqawi.

The speaker blasted Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as the "leader of infidelity and atheism" and said his followers were more concerned about honoring their own saints than protesting against cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad published in Danish and other European newspapers.

The speaker accused Shi'ite groups and government forces of being responsible for numerous attacks on Sunnis and their places of worship. He suggested that Shi'ites themselves were behind the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine and other attacks which touched off a wave of sectarian killings and revenge attacks. "The attacks were a charade … that revealed their (Shi'ites') hatred of the Sunnis," the speaker said.

The tape, which was issued in three parts totaling about four hours, covered what the speaker said were examples of the Shi'ites' enmity toward Islam throughout history. The speaker criticized a militia loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for stopping their fight against U.S. forces after uprisings in 2004 against U.S. troops. The speaker also attacked Lebanon's Shi'ite guerrilla group Hizbollah, and said majority-Shi'ite Iran had helped the United States in Afghanistan and was in contact with Washington over Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2030066

[struggle4progress]

1. How to capture ghost voices!

The dead do talk, and with the help of electronic devices we can hear them! I've recorded them and I know you can too! ...

Rating system for EVP's

Class A The voices are understood by all that listen. The words are actually somewhat loud and clear (rare).
Class B Voices cannot be deciphered clearly and tones are very low and hard to understand
Class C Voices are extremely faint and almost completely incomprehensible (most common but unexceptable).

http://www.ghoststudy.com/new/evp.html

[Dover]

2. A CIA ghost, no doubt. And we all know you can't capture a ghost.

pffft!

[sandnsea]

3. Hmm, this is interesting

I thought Sadr and Zarqawi were fighting the US occupation. Looks to me like they've been fighting each other all along.

[frylock]

4. GOLDSTEIN!!!