Reuters:
The leader of an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq vowed in an audio tape on Sunday to attack Iranians unless Iran cut off its support for the Iraqi government within two months.
"We give the ... Persians in general, and leaders of Iran in particular, two months to withdraw their support and presence in Iraq," Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, said in the 50-minute audio tape posted on Islamist Web site which has often carried al Qaeda statements.
In the first such threat by his group, Baghdadi said that unless Iran met his demands, the group would wage a "brutal war" against Iranians.
If you're one of those people who get all their news from right wing talk radio or believe everything the Bush administration tells you about what's going on Iraq, then nothing in those few paragraphs makes any damned sense at all. After all, Karl Rove just recently told an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival that '80-90 percent of violence in Iraq is due to al Qaeda.' The administration's line has been that Iran has been arming iraqis and contributing to the violence. If you were to believe the administration were telling the truth, you'd conclude that Iran was arming al Qaeda.
Clearly, this isn't the case...
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