Just a quick tidbit I missed when it came out.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader al-Baghdadi has threatened Iran with war unless it ends its support of Iraq's Shi'a government in under two months. The tape supposedly has not been verified, but I haven't heard anything discrediting it yet. Al-Baghdadi also attacked Kurdish leaders in the video and it will be interesting to see if Zawahiri and the AQ leadership have something to say about their 'subordinate's' divisive language in a future video. Iran has been accused by a wide number of sources of actually supporting Al-Qaeda in Iraq. If such assertions are true then the recent video presents many questions about the relationship between Iran and AQI. If support has been cut off by Tehran then that might explain something. If they weren't receiving support to begin with then why the sudden announcement? The deadline is in September...around the time when the US will supposedly have made its decision on Iraq.... Very interesting.
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