Insurgent groups condemn al-Qaida tactics

[sabra]

Source: NBC

In a development experts call a significant shift, Iraqi insurgent groups are speaking out against al-Qaida and its brutally violent tactics.

Last week, two groups, Asaeb al-Iraq al-Jihadiya (aka "the Iraqi Jihad Union") and the 1920 Revolution Brigades (aka "Hamas in Iraq") issued statements accusing al-Qaida's Iraq wing, al-Qaida in Iraq, of brutally killing their fighters and commanders, as well as women and children.

"They have killed them and mutilated their bodies," reads an English translation of the Iraq Jihad Union's statement prepared for the NEFA Foundation, a non-profit terrorism research organization. "They dug up their bodies from the graves, further mutilated them, beheaded them, and showed them off from their vehicles.… They committed all of these acts despite the fact that these brothers were faithful to their religion...."

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"The al-Qaida network," the second statement concludes, "has actually made people here think that the occupation forces are merciful and humane by comparison."

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NBC News has not independently confirmed the specific statements.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21267335/

[damntexdem]

1. Ooh, "has actually made people here think that the occupation forces are merciful and humane ...

by comparison." Al Qaida must rank down there with Blackwater.

[monktonman]

2. Sometimes I don't know what to believe

Yeah ok tin hat time...
Are these acts really being perpetrated by Al Qaida in Iraq
or Al-CIA-da in Iraq?
How would any of the above described actions help the AQ cause?
just doesn't make sense.