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AFGHANISTAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 15:39:38 EDT
ARAB AFGHANS ANNOUNCE IRAQI RESISTANCE
A group calling itself the "Mujahedin in Iraq" has issued a statement
regarding the existence of a supreme command that combines Iraqi
military leaders and Arab fighters coming from Afghanistan, Cairo's
"Al-Sha'b" weekly reported on 18 April. Its commanders are identified as
Khalid Sheikh, Abu-Iyad al-Falestini, and Nasrallah al-Afghani. The
Mujahedin in Iraq states that Iraqi forces withdrew from Baghdad as a
reaction to coalition air strikes and "following consultations between
the military command of the mujahedin and the leadership of the ruling
Ba'ath Party in Iraq." If this is untrue, the statement asks, then where
are the Americans' pictures of Iraqi tanks and missiles, where are these
weapons, where are the Iraqi aircraft, and where are all the Iraqi
soldiers? The statement claims that "what happened in Iraq was a pure
tactical retreat." "Brethren in the Arabian Peninsula" are advised to be
ready for "the showdown" and "the battle of jihad." BS
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