Don't be fooled by 'democratic marriage': Al-Qaeda in Iraq

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PARIS, Dec 17 (AFP) - The Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda on Saturday urged the
country's Sunni Arabs not to be fooled by the apparent success of this
week's landmark elections.

"We say to our (Sunni) brothers: do not be fooled by what you have heard of
the propaganda from the crusaders and their footmen.

"The coming days will show you the fate of this 'democratic marriage' and
the marriage of prostitution that it celebrated," the group said in a
statement on a frequently used Islamist website.

"Their armed forces (of the Iraqi government) will be useless. Know that the
decision of the crusaders to pull out of Iraq has already been taken," reads
the statement, whose authenticity could not be verified.

The group, led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is threatening to continue
its attacks in Iraq and says it did not halt them during last Thursday's
elections for a full-term parliament.

"The Mujahedeen (holy warriors) succeeded in striking the positions of the
crusader forces and the apostate government," it said.

On the eve of the election, during which the Sunnis flocked to the polls,
the group declared it was launching a large-scale offensive against "the
apostate's bastions" in order to disrupt the polls.

However this offensive did not materialise and the rare outbreaks of
violence on polling day left four people dead.

Ansar al-Sunna, a Qaeda-linked insurgent group, claimed in an another
statement Saturday an attack against a US military Humvee in Tikrit, north
of Baghdad, branding it its first attack after the elections.

The group also posted short video footage of a Humvee exploding after
hitting what it said was a roadside bomb.

Neither the statement nor the images could be independently verified.

"After waiting for the elections to end, we are resuming our operations
against the forces of occupation," said the statement signed in the name of
Abu Karar al-Dulaimi, the purported commander of the group's military wing.

Another insurgent group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, had announced before the
elections that it too would halt operations on polling day to spare civilian
bloodshed.

Leading Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi on Saturday called for a
coalition to protect national unity in a new parliament as he thanked
insurgents for not attacking polling stations during the vote.

"The resistance announced it would protect polling stations and not allow a
single group to attack them and it respected its promise," he said,
referring to another militant group.

"In the name of National Concord Front, we thank them," said Dulaimi
referring to the electoral coalition of which he is a leader.
 
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