Beheaded Soldiers: New Zarqawi Strikes in Short Order

Kurt Nimmo
Jun. 21, 2006

Our new Arab Goldstein, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has wasted little time. “The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been recovered, and an Iraqi official said Tuesday the men were “killed in a barbaric way.” The U.S. military said the remains were believed to be those of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.,” reports the Associated Press. “Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for killing the soldiers, and said the successor to slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had ’slaughtered’ them, according to a Web statement that could not be authenticated. The language in the statement suggested the men had been beheaded…. The claim of responsibility was made in the name of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of five insurgent groups led by al-Qaida in Iraq. The group had posted an Internet statement Monday claiming it was holding the two American soldiers captive.”

Not mentioned here of the fact the “five insurgent groups led by al-Qaida in Iraq,” with the exception of Jaish al-Taifa al-Mansourah and the so-called “Zarqawi network” (now presumably the al-Masri network), are unknown Salafi-jihadi terrorist groups outside of the larger resistance, composed of nationalists, primarily former Ba’athists and Saddam Hussein loyalists, although we must assume there is no shortage of average Iraqis determined to get rid of the occupiers.

“The formation of the Council is clearly an attempt to unify insurgent efforts against Iraqi and US forces,” explains the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base. “Some analysts believe it also to be a reaction to, or a reflection of, a rift between the numerous Sunni insurgent groups. At the time of its formation, the groups represented in the Council were all unified by an extremist Salafi ideology, separating themselves from other less extreme Islamist and nationalist organizations…. By creating the Council, al-Qaeda can continue its operations without having to claim direct responsibility for its violent actions.”

In other words, the “violent actions” of the CIA-ISI created terror operation “al-Qaeda” may now be attributed to a larger and more diffuse (and thus more threatening) range of radical Islamic groups. “We give the good news … to the Islamic nation that we have carried God’s verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders,” the alleged MSC internet message states. Naturally, for propaganda reasons and sheer horror effect, instead of simply executing the captives with a bullet to the back of the head, they were beheaded. No doubt a video of this grisly event will surface soon enough.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri and the Mujahedeen Shura Council are a continuation of business as usual—the ongoing demonization of Arabs and Muslims, thus our two minute hate sessions, broadcast ceaselessly by various corporate divisions of the Ministry of Lies and Manufactured Truth, may proceed, inculcating the public further in preparation for the ultimate conflagration, i.e., World War Four, as plotted by the neocons.