Who is Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi?
Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi and his group, Kata'ib Al Tawhid, or "Battalions of Monotheism"(Dialog File Number 985 Accession Number 210600254[Membership Required]), are strongly linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In July 2004, Al-Zarqawi and his group of radicals, including Azmi Jayyousi, confessed to planning the chemical attack in Amman, Jordan against the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office and the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence.
In addition, the recent massacre(from a suicide car bomb) of Iraqi children receiving candy from US soldiers in July 2005 proves to be strongly related to Al-Zarqawi; especially considering a top suspect in the massacre, Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shadad, or Abu Abdul-Aziz, was identified as the operations officer for Al Qaeda in Iraq (The Washington Times; Friday July 15, 2005; Page A16).
Although Al-Zarqawi publicly denied responsibility for the massacre, it seems to be quite the contrary. According to Caroline Cox and John Marks in "Islam, Islamism, and the West" on page 66, many people are not aware of the "doctrine of taqiyya, which justifies conscious deception about faith for self-protection in a hostile environment." They go on to state that,
"Algerian journalist Mohamed Sifaoui, a Muslim...infiltrated an al-Qaeda group in Paris whose members employed a consistent policy of dissimulation when talking to non-members of their group, and in particular to non-Muslims, and explicitly described the tactic of taqiyya. Sifaoui describes the different way the group members talked amongst themselves and when giving media interviews:
'Karim was demonstrating once again his double-speak, an activity which he excelled. What he actually believed was always the exact opposite of what he reserved for the infidels. The double-speak, taqiyya as the Islamists call it, is a technique to use in times of jihad 'with the enemy.' Never divulging your intentions or what you really think to a non-Muslim is the rule for all fundamentalists. That's how organizations or individuals which draw their doctrine from hard-core fundamentalism obligingly allow themselves to be labeled with the qualifier 'moderate' by naive Westerners who judge them exclusively by what they say.'"
In addition, the recent massacre(from a suicide car bomb) of Iraqi children receiving candy from US soldiers in July 2005 proves to be strongly related to Al-Zarqawi; especially considering a top suspect in the massacre, Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shadad, or Abu Abdul-Aziz, was identified as the operations officer for Al Qaeda in Iraq (The Washington Times; Friday July 15, 2005; Page A16).
Although Al-Zarqawi publicly denied responsibility for the massacre, it seems to be quite the contrary. According to Caroline Cox and John Marks in "Islam, Islamism, and the West" on page 66, many people are not aware of the "doctrine of taqiyya, which justifies conscious deception about faith for self-protection in a hostile environment." They go on to state that,
"Algerian journalist Mohamed Sifaoui, a Muslim...infiltrated an al-Qaeda group in Paris whose members employed a consistent policy of dissimulation when talking to non-members of their group, and in particular to non-Muslims, and explicitly described the tactic of taqiyya. Sifaoui describes the different way the group members talked amongst themselves and when giving media interviews:
'Karim was demonstrating once again his double-speak, an activity which he excelled. What he actually believed was always the exact opposite of what he reserved for the infidels. The double-speak, taqiyya as the Islamists call it, is a technique to use in times of jihad 'with the enemy.' Never divulging your intentions or what you really think to a non-Muslim is the rule for all fundamentalists. That's how organizations or individuals which draw their doctrine from hard-core fundamentalism obligingly allow themselves to be labeled with the qualifier 'moderate' by naive Westerners who judge them exclusively by what they say.'"
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