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Bin Laden sends out warning
29/12/2007 21:35 - (SA)
Cairo - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against joining tribal councils fighting al-Qaeda or participating in any unity government in a new audiotape posted on the Web on Saturday, the Associated Press reports.
"The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life," bin Laden said in the tape.
He denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, a tribal force fighting al-Qaeda in western Iraq, who was killed in a bombing in September.
Bin Laden said US and Iraqi officials are seeking to set up a "national unity government" joining the country's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
"Our duty is to foil these dangerous schemes, which try to prevent the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq, which would be a wall of resistance against American schemes to divide Iraq," Bin Laden said.
According to an additional report by Reuters, bin Laden said the United States wants to create a national unity government in Iraq in order to control oil supplies, build military bases and dominate the region.
It is meant "to give the Americans all they wish of Iraq's oil", he said.
- AP
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