AQI Leader Doesn’t Have Enough Problems

In the latest audiotape, al-Baghdadi also threatened moderate Palestinians, saying that jihad makes “no distinctions between the infidel Jews and the renegade Palestinians … between (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert and his criminals and (Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas and his gang.” He called the state of Israel a “wicked germ sown in the (Palestinian) nation’s body which should be uprooted, even if the traitors signed thousands of surrender treaties.” Much of the audiotape was devoted to threats against Hamas political leaders “who betrayed the nation and turned against the blood of the martyrs,” al-Baghdadi said, also saying that Hamas has been pressuring its military wing not to stage rocket attacks on Israel but to accept a truce. Al-Baghdadi called for “opening new fronts to ease the American and Jewish pressure off the Palestinians while bolstering the fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan.” He urged every “working Muslim to spare 2 dollars a month, half of it would go to our Palestinian brothers and the other half to finance other fronts.” As for attacks on Israel, al-Baghdadi said the “Islamic state in Iraq will be the cornerstone for the return of Al-Quds” and added the group was trying to use Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar as a launching pad for missiles against Israel–the same way the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired 31 missiles against the Jewish state in the Gulf War. “The Jews and the Americans have realized this and tried by all means to prevent us from achieving this target including the fierce campaign on al-Anbar, knowing that it is easy to fire missiles on Israel from some parts there,” al-Baghdadi said.