Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is urging other Arab nations to send troops to combat the terrorists disrupting the progress in the beleaguered nation.
Allawi made the appeal a day after Saudi officials disclosed that they had initiated an effort to encourage the creation of a Muslim security force to help bring stability to Iraq.
“The leaders of this region must unify and must stand as one group against those gangs, against those terrorists and those criminals who are threatening and causing a great deal of harm to the Arab World and the Islamic world,” Allawi said.
The terrorists responded quickly by playing the Jew card and posting internet threats against such a force
“Our swords will be drawn in the face of anyone who cooperates with the Jews and the Christians,” the group said in its statement. “We will strike with an iron fist all the traitors from the Arab governments who cooperate with the Zionists secretly or openly.”
The statement was issued in the name of the Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Islamiya — Omar el-Mukhtar Brigade, a little known group whose main title means the Group of Islamic Monotheism. Omar el-Mukhtar is the name of a Libyan nationalist who fought against the Italian occupation who was hanged by the colonial authorities in 1931….
The Internet statement was addressed to the Saudi and Pakistani governments. It said the two states “intend to send Islamic troops to Iraq.”
“We will not keep silent in case any Islamic or Arabic country, especially Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt, send troops to Iraq. We also call on Muslim soldiers, in case they are sent to Iraq, not to respond, not to throw themselves in the path of death.”
These tough guys are getting to be quite the good at the criminal side of the business via their kidnapping. They can prolong the suffering of their fellow Arabs, standing against the tide of progress and the hands of time.
However, practically asking Muslim troops to please not make the trip shows their weakness: they can’t fight. They can’t make a stand against the well-trained soldiers of the coalition without getting shredded, and they can’t make a stand against Muslim forces without threatening any support they have in the populaces of Arab nations.
They can only manage atrocities against civilians and assaults on the infrastructure. Oh yeah, they can post threats on the internet.