The First Revenge Battle in Zarqawi's Name
By Evan Kohlmann
Today, the Mujahideen Shura Council--an insurgent umbrella organization headed by Al-Qaida in Iraq--issued a communique detailing the first apparent revenge battle carried out in the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, targeting a U.S. military convoy in the city of Ramadi. According to the statement:
"At 7:55pm on Thursday June 8, 2006, your brothers from the Military Wing of the Mujahideen Shura Council--after confirming the news of the martyrdom of our beloved Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (may Allah have mercy on his soul and accept him as a martyr)... were deep in sadness and sorrow was in their hearts. [They] arose demanding the blood of those who killed Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and chanted, 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Messenger!' in order to harden their resolve and increase their insistence on avenging the religion of Allah and the killing of the Shaykh. [They also sought] to make clear to the infidels and apostates that the Islamic nation from which Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi came will bring forward thousands upon thousands more just like him, with the help of Allah. Your brothers, by the grace of Allah, attacked a crusader vehicles column in... Ramadi with rockets and light weapons... Your brothers succeeded in completely destroying a crusader armored Humvee, then setting it ablaze and killing at leat four crusaders. The heroes were able to safely retreat while shouting, 'Allahu Akhbar!'--all of this with tears in their eyes and devotion in their hearts praying for the Shaykh [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi] and asking that Allah have mercy upon him and allow him to reach the ranks of the martyrs..."
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