Nothing To Do With International Terrorism
Al Qaeda in Iraq, that is. Conventional wisdom on the left is that al Qaeda in Iraq has nothing to do with al Qaeda and nothing to do with international terrorism, assuming that it exists at all. But someone forgot to tell the organization's leaders.
The head of al Qaeda in Iraq has just put a $100,000 bounty on the head of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and his editor, Ulf Johansson:
"We are calling for the assassination of cartoonist Lars Vilks who dared insult our Prophet, peace be upon him, and we announce a reward during this generous month of Ramadan of $100,000 for the one who kills this criminal,” the transcript on the Web site said.The al-Qaida leader upped the reward for Vilks’ death to $150,000 if he was “slaughtered like a lamb” and offered $50,000 for the killing of the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks’ cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body on Aug. 19.
It's worth an extra $50,000 to al Qaeda if the murderer slits the cartoonist's throat instead of merely shooting him from a distance.
Maybe other European countries will take comfort from the idea that Swedes are being targeted because of Sweden's staunch support of our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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