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I hope I did not confuse people by the title of this thread
I did not mean Cindy Crackpot Sheehan or White Flag Harry Reid
Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend
By BOBBY GHOSH/BAGHDAD
Al-Qaeda has lost its most powerful friend in Iraq: Harith al-Dari, the country's most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure, has rejected al-Qaeda's vision of an Islamic state, telling TIME that Iraqis "will not accept such a system." In a sharp departure from his long-standing view of the terror group, al-Dari now says al-Qaeda has "gone too far." He also repudiates recent statements on Iraq by Osama bin Laden's deputy, saying: "Ayman al-Zawahiri doesn't represent Iraqis."
But al-Dari's change of heart on al-Qaeda is not necessarily good news for the Bush Administration. The Sunni cleric remains an implacable foe of the U.S. occupation, and of the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He is dismissive of the "surge" in Baghdad, insisting that no solution to Iraq's problems is possible while American troops remain and rejects as "insincere and meaningless" al-Maliki's efforts to reach out to the Sunnis.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1620607,00.html
I did not mean Cindy Crackpot Sheehan or White Flag Harry Reid
Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend
By BOBBY GHOSH/BAGHDAD
Al-Qaeda has lost its most powerful friend in Iraq: Harith al-Dari, the country's most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure, has rejected al-Qaeda's vision of an Islamic state, telling TIME that Iraqis "will not accept such a system." In a sharp departure from his long-standing view of the terror group, al-Dari now says al-Qaeda has "gone too far." He also repudiates recent statements on Iraq by Osama bin Laden's deputy, saying: "Ayman al-Zawahiri doesn't represent Iraqis."
But al-Dari's change of heart on al-Qaeda is not necessarily good news for the Bush Administration. The Sunni cleric remains an implacable foe of the U.S. occupation, and of the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He is dismissive of the "surge" in Baghdad, insisting that no solution to Iraq's problems is possible while American troops remain and rejects as "insincere and meaningless" al-Maliki's efforts to reach out to the Sunnis.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1620607,00.html