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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT nationi.net>]

>From the Qur'an, Gurah 2:190 - 193

Fight in the cause of Allah, those who fight you, but do not transgress 
limits; for Allah does not love transgressors.  And slay them wherever you 
catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for 
tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the 
Sacred Mosque, unless they first fight you there; but if they fight you, 
slay them.  Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.  But if they 
cease, Allah is oft-forgiving,  Most Merciful.  And fight them on until 
there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith 
in Allah.  But if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who 
practice oppression.



Is this all the farther you got?  This is in book 2 of 114.

Wendy



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Toni Hawryluk
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  Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:57 PM
  Subject: [Homestead] fundament ..... al believers


  According to the Koran/Qu'ran :



  "kill them where ever you find them" -

  I wonder if I would have read about

  "bounties" had I been not so nauseated

  as to quit reading the garbage ?



  
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Deadly%20Triangle<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Deadly%20Triangle>



  Friday, November 19, 2004 · Last updated 7:49 a.m. PT

  Bounties offered on Americans in Iraq

  By MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

  BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A portly Shiite cleric, Abu Qusai sheds his black robe 
for a training suit and exchanges his white turban for a baseball cap, an 
effort to mask his identity for a risky trip through what has become known 
as the "triangle of death."

  The region has become a death zone for many Shiite Muslims, Westerners and 
members of the Iraqi security services, many of whom have become the victims 
of Sunni Muslim insurgents and gunmen - some who receive bounties of several 
thousand dollars.

  The triangle, formed by the cities of Youssifiyah to the northwest, 
Latifiyah to the south and Mahmoudiya to the east, holds the fastest routes 
from Baghdad southward to the Shiite shrines in Najaf and Karbala.

  The area is no less dangerous for foreigners than the better known 
insurgent strongholds west of the capital, including Fallujah and Ramadi.

  French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot disappeared 
Aug. 20 on their way from Baghdad to Najaf. They remain missing, though 
their Syrian driver, Mohammed al-Joundi, was found by U.S. troops last week 
in Fallujah.

  Two members of a Polish television crew were killed and a third was 
wounded in an attack near Mahmoudiya in May. Four months earlier, two Iraqis 
working for CNN were shot and killed while traveling through the same area.

  Bayan Jaber of the major Shiite political party said that a week ago, five 
Shiites traveling to Najaf from Diyala province near the Iranian border were 
waylaid in the "triangle of death" and shot dead. The attackers demanded - 
and received - $15,000 from their families to return the bodies.

  According to Jaber, insurgent leaders in the area offer cash bounties for 
killing certain kinds of people: $1,000 for a Shiite, $2,000 for a member of 
the Iraqi National Guard and $3,000 for an American.

  Abu Qusai, who asked that his real name not be published out of concern 
for his safety, goes through the triangle on trips to the Shiite holy city 
of Najaf. He said he disguises himself to avoid the fate of two colleagues, 
Shiite clerics Basheer al-Jazaeri and Karim Baghdadi.

  They were gunned down in separate incidents while en route to Najaf for 
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended last week.

  According to Abu Qusai, gunmen chased al-Jazaeri's car after he stopped 
for gasoline. Gunmen blocked the road, dragged him from his car and demanded 
his identification papers.

  "They killed him and set fire to his car when they found out that he is a 
Shiite," Abu Qusai said.

  Baghdadi received the same treatment, Abu Qusai said.

  "Dozens of people have been killed during Ramadan because of their sect," 
said Hussain al-Shahristani, a close aide of Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, 
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. "The government is responsible for 
protecting its citizens and for securing a safe way for them to move."

  U.S. Marines operate in the area, reinforced for the month by Britain's 
Black Watch regiment. Shortly after arriving from the relatively peaceful 
south, the Black Watch lost three soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter in a 
suicide attack Nov. 4.

  One day after the Black Watch attack, insurgents blew up a bridge near 
Latifiyah, and four buses carrying Shiite pilgrims to Karbala plunged into 
the Euphrates River, killing 18 people. Two days later, 12 Iraqi National 
Guardsmen were abducted and murdered on their way home to Najaf by militants 
dressed as policemen.

  With U.S. and Iraqi forces unable to stop the killings, many professional 
drivers are taking a 150-mile detour from Baghdad to Najaf. The route takes 
travelers well east of Latifiyah, whose name derives from the Arabic word 
for "decent" but which is the most dangerous point on the "triangle of 
death."

  A taxi driver from Najaf, who gave his name only as Abu Maki, said 
Latifiyah residents call the insurgents the "Opel gangs" because they often 
use Opel cars looted from police stations to carry out their attacks.

  Abu Maki said that he was stopped once on the Baghdad-to-Najaf highway by 
the Opel Gangs, who "beat me up with two of the passengers, broke the 
windows and warned us not to approach this area again."

  Some Iraqis attribute the trouble in the area to demographic changes in 
the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein relocated large numbers of Sunni Muslims into 
what historically has been a largely Shiite area. The plan was to settle 
members of his own religious community along main routes from Baghdad to the 
Shiite heartland of the south.

  Saddam recruited members of Sunni clans and tribes in the area into the 
Republican Guard and the intelligence services. During the failed Shiite 
uprising of 1991, Sunnis, especially from the al-Janabat tribe, were used to 
curb the rebellion.

  Many of the Sunnis that relocated to the "triangle of death," including 
the al-Janabats, came from Anbar, the volatile Sunni province at the heart 
of the insurgency where Fallujah is located.

  Residents said insurgents have been distributing leaflets warning that 
Sunni landowners who lease land to Shiite farmers face death if they don't 
dismiss their tenants. The U.N.-funded ReliefWeb said last month that about 
500 Shiite families had fled the Latifiyah area for Karbala because of 
threats.

  That has raised prospects of a backlash among Shiites who have decided 
that they must defend themselves if the government and the multinational 
force cannot.

  In Basra, a group called the "Brigades of Anger" has emerged, vowing to 
defend Shiites in Iraq from any group deemed a threat. A leader of the 
group, Dheya al-Mahdi, told The Associated Press that he will give the 
go-ahead for his followers to avenge the killing of Shiites.

  Al-Mahdi blames Wahhabis, an extreme sect of Sunni Islam dominant in Saudi 
Arabia, for encouraging and funding operations aimed at Shiites in Iraq.
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