Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06KUWAIT2220
2006-06-11 17:33:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ZARQAWI, MAN OR MYTH?
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STATE FOR NEA/ARP, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, NEA/PI, INR/NESA, R/MR, I/GNEA,
B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA FOR ALTERMAN
LONDON FOR TSOU
PARIS FOR ZEYA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OPRC KMDR PTER PREL IZ KU TERRORISM
SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ZARQAWI, MAN OR MYTH?
Block Quotes
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
-- Hasan Al-Issa editorialized in the progressive Arabic daily under
the title "Dry Their Ideological Wells" (6/10): "Zarqawi is dead and
may his soul go to hell, but what of the thousands of Zarqawis in
our Arab-Islamic world walking our streets, holding official
positions, and issuing Fatwas about everything even the fundamentals
of rule and the characteristics of the ruler? What of those
ideological fleas who have hijacked the state and society through
their unwritten alliance between them and Arab regimes in the past?
What do we do with them? Is an American bomb weighing 250 kilograms
dropped on their heads enough?.... There is no other way to combat
Zarqawism than to dry up their terrorist wells. The education
curriculum should be the starting point. Next, we should pursue the
books sold and distributed for free throughout our Gulf entities
under thousands of slogans."
-- Mohamed Yousef Al-Mulaifi stated in the pro-government Arabic
daily under the title "In the Lion's Death a Scandal for the
American Rabbits" (6/11): "Despite our agreement or disagreement
with the Jihadist orientation taken by Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi in
occupied Iraq, his killing revealed to the world how cowardly and
scared Americans are in Iraq. Their spokesman went on television
screens before the world and reported how they killed Abu Musaab
Al-Zarqawi and how they lack courage. After they were sure that the
field commander Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi was sitting with a group of
his fiends that can be counted on one hand, the Americans did not
surround the place. They did not storm the location. They did not
even fire missiles from the ground at the location. They were so
scared that they sent two aircraft to bomb the house. What a wonder!
Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi's power and the fear he struck in American
hearts was so great that they could not face him with all of their
land forces, which they mistakenly call the 'Marines.' Because they
realized that they are up against one man who is worth 2,000 of
them, they only could resort to aircraft to get at this lion's
body."
-- On the same page of pro-government Arabic daily Al-Seyassah
Mahmoud Karam commented under the title "The Sad Zarqawis" (6/11):
"I don't know how our Arab brothers saddened by Zarqawi's death will
act. Some strong believers in conspiracy theories believe that he
was only an American myth that did not really exist. Now, they are
in a real bind as they search for explanations to present to their
audiences who also love conspiracy theories. Other Arab brothers
who long for the failure of democracy in Iraq and wait for their
sick prophecies to be fulfilled when Zarqawi and other terrorists
achieve their failed dream now suffer severe psychological problems.
Terrorism in Iraq is now being fought with American and Iraqi
determination.... None who mourn Zarqawi's death want to understand
that just as the justice of history eliminated Saddam, it came
through again to eliminate Zarqawi."
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s
Visit Kuwait's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/
********************************************* *
TUELLER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, NEA/PI, INR/NESA, R/MR, I/GNEA,
B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA FOR ALTERMAN
LONDON FOR TSOU
PARIS FOR ZEYA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OPRC KMDR PTER PREL IZ KU TERRORISM
SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ZARQAWI, MAN OR MYTH?
Block Quotes
--------------
Sunday, June 11, 2006
-- Hasan Al-Issa editorialized in the progressive Arabic daily under
the title "Dry Their Ideological Wells" (6/10): "Zarqawi is dead and
may his soul go to hell, but what of the thousands of Zarqawis in
our Arab-Islamic world walking our streets, holding official
positions, and issuing Fatwas about everything even the fundamentals
of rule and the characteristics of the ruler? What of those
ideological fleas who have hijacked the state and society through
their unwritten alliance between them and Arab regimes in the past?
What do we do with them? Is an American bomb weighing 250 kilograms
dropped on their heads enough?.... There is no other way to combat
Zarqawism than to dry up their terrorist wells. The education
curriculum should be the starting point. Next, we should pursue the
books sold and distributed for free throughout our Gulf entities
under thousands of slogans."
-- Mohamed Yousef Al-Mulaifi stated in the pro-government Arabic
daily under the title "In the Lion's Death a Scandal for the
American Rabbits" (6/11): "Despite our agreement or disagreement
with the Jihadist orientation taken by Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi in
occupied Iraq, his killing revealed to the world how cowardly and
scared Americans are in Iraq. Their spokesman went on television
screens before the world and reported how they killed Abu Musaab
Al-Zarqawi and how they lack courage. After they were sure that the
field commander Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi was sitting with a group of
his fiends that can be counted on one hand, the Americans did not
surround the place. They did not storm the location. They did not
even fire missiles from the ground at the location. They were so
scared that they sent two aircraft to bomb the house. What a wonder!
Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi's power and the fear he struck in American
hearts was so great that they could not face him with all of their
land forces, which they mistakenly call the 'Marines.' Because they
realized that they are up against one man who is worth 2,000 of
them, they only could resort to aircraft to get at this lion's
body."
-- On the same page of pro-government Arabic daily Al-Seyassah
Mahmoud Karam commented under the title "The Sad Zarqawis" (6/11):
"I don't know how our Arab brothers saddened by Zarqawi's death will
act. Some strong believers in conspiracy theories believe that he
was only an American myth that did not really exist. Now, they are
in a real bind as they search for explanations to present to their
audiences who also love conspiracy theories. Other Arab brothers
who long for the failure of democracy in Iraq and wait for their
sick prophecies to be fulfilled when Zarqawi and other terrorists
achieve their failed dream now suffer severe psychological problems.
Terrorism in Iraq is now being fought with American and Iraqi
determination.... None who mourn Zarqawi's death want to understand
that just as the justice of history eliminated Saddam, it came
through again to eliminate Zarqawi."
********************************************* *
For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s
Visit Kuwait's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/
********************************************* *
TUELLER