Hans Rustad Tre tegn på at muja i Irak er på defensiven:
Først: utslettelsen av en treningsleir ikke langt fra Samarra tirsdag:
The size and location of the camp suggested a shift in strategy by insurgents, American military officials said: It was first time the military had come across insurgents organized in such numbers in a remote rural location, an arrangement similar to Al Qaeda training camps in the arid mountains of Afghanistan.
U.S.-Backed Iraqis Raid Camp and Report Killing 80 Insurgents
Så historien om vanlige irakere som har fått nok og nå dreper muja før de selv blir drept:
Ordinary Iraqis rarely strike back at the insurgents who terrorize their country. But just before noon on Tuesday, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming toward his shop here and decided he had had enough.
As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their Kalashnikov rifles and opened fire, the police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia’s nephews and a bystander were wounded, the police said.
Iraqi Civilians Fight Back Against Insurgents
Til sist: et brev fra Al Qaida om kampen i Irak. Her er det avsnitt med en defensiv tone: Muja klager over at de blir mislikt av befolkningen.
So why should your brothers the Jihad fighters – both foreigner and native(3) – be subject to reproach? These brothers of yours emigrated from their homelands, left their wives and children, and sacrificed their blood for your sake – to protect you, to protect your families, and to preserve your honor, and to drive the invaders from your land.
«Beware of the Western media’s deception and of its agents, such as the ‘Alawi government, who distort the image of your brothers the Jihad fighters, who came to you for your sake, without desiring for themselves neither your reward nor your gratitude, neither a penny nor a pound. They put their neck before your neck, their blood before your blood, and their life to ransom your life. God forbid that our Jihad should be [considered] civil strife [fitna]. Rather the avoidance of Jihad is civil strife. That was the verdict of Allah, who said of those who shirked Jihad, ‘Surely they have already succumbed to temptation [fitna], and Hell engulfs the unbelievers.'(4)
