Scary
Scary account of a pair of French journalists kidnapped in Iraq. And they learned a bit about America’s chances in the war:
“One of our jailers told us they have four enemies,” he said. “American soldiers and other coalition members, collaborators, which meant businessmen – Italian, American or even French – who are working there, the Iraqi police and spies.” Any new Iraqi government, he said, will be viewed as an enemy, just as the Americans – and even secular Arab leaders – are viewed. The group’s main goals are far from modest. They want to defeat America in Iraq, drive a wedge between Europe and America and “overthrow the Arab leaders in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and return to the caliphate (Islamic rule) from Andalusia (Spain) to China.”
Read the rest here.