Bin Laden Brandishes Jihadi Threat Against US in Iraq by Juan Cole

Published: September 8, 2007, 9:46 am

Bin Laden Brandishes Jihadi Threat against US in IraqI don't know why so many press commentaries keep saying that the new videotape fromUsama Bin Laden does not contain any threats.It contains a clear threat: to escalate regional jihadi resistance against the US troops in Iraq.(The text is here in PDF format.Bin Laden, however, is not now and perhaps never has been a credible actor in Iraq. Most Iraqis are nationalists and would not want a Saudi telling them what to do. He made a big but perhaps unavoidable error in attacking the Shiites, and so denying his movement a nationalist platform. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a small cult of hyper-Sunni bigots and serial murderers. Instead of playing Abdul Nasser, who attracted the allegiance even of many Shiite Arabs in his day, Bin Laden long ago chose to play the role of a cultist, a David Koreish with better explosives.A lot of jihadis consider Bin Laden a jinx, since he brought ruin on the Arab Afghans, who were killed, captured or had to go to

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