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Iraq: Al-Qaeda Declares All Middle East Christians Are “Legitimate Targets For The Mujahedeen”…
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — All Christians in the Middle East are now “legitimate targets,” al Qaeda in Iraq announced Wednesday, as the group’s deadline for Egypt’s Coptic church to release alleged Muslim female prisoners expired.
An audio message released Monday gave the church 48 hours to disclose the status of Muslim women it said are imprisoned in Coptic churches in Egypt.
The message purportedly came from the Islamic State of Iraq, which claimed responsibility for an attack on a Baghdad church Sunday that killed 58 people and wounded 75. The umbrella group includes a number of Sunni extremist organizations and has ties to al Qaeda in Iraq.
The group said the women’s alleged plight was the reason it stormed the church.
Wednesday, the group released a new message saying, “The Ministry of War of Islamic State of Iraq declares that all the centers, organizations and bodies of Christian leaders and followers have become legitimate targets by the Mujahedeens, wherever our hands will reach them.”
Shortly after the message was released, Egyptian police sources confirmed that security has been reinforced at churches around the country.
Additional protection was also being provided to the head of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III, who is scheduled to give a sermon in Cairo in the evening, according to a police spokesman who could not be named in line with policy.
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Riiiiiiiight, because it's NOT like the American Christian Right didn't start a Crusade over there for no good reason whatsoever (remember, the UN report said there were no, nada, zip, zilch, bupkus weapons of mass destruction in the first place), a crusade that they have steadily been losing for ten years now, and that, once the smokescreen clears and the truth comes out, will make the Vietnam War look like a flesh wound....
By the way, that scare-quotes headline is misleading; read the article down far enough, and it's the Coptic Church they're going after, not "all Christians". (Although I'm sure they assume all the American military troops currently in the Middle East are largely Christian.)
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