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**natahololll** · 12-12-2006, 10:09 PM

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The Baathists are a neo-facisitic group, essentially non-religious (except, on occasion and for political purposes, they do exault Islamic and condemn Israel). Their loyalty is to the exaulted leader--who used to be Saddam.

Al Qaeda is a group of religous fanatics whose alpha and omega is the Koran and Islam--as interpreted by their exaulted leader, Osams bin Ladin.

The two can form a temporary alliance of convenience, but in the long one, they will turn on each other and, at most, only one will survive. The Iraqi Baathists had been shifting to Islamist (though not Wahabist) legitimizations of power through the 1990s (See for ex "the mother of all battles Mosque") though they continued to include non-muslims like Tariq Aziz in the leadership. In the wake of the invasion Baathists like al-Douri seem to have moved much closer to AQ and other Wahabist groups - IIUC al-Douri actually became a Wahabist. The situation on the ground in Anbar is acting as chamber for the exchange and recombination of memes, as it were.

12-12-2006, 10:09 PM	#33
natahololll Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 667 Senior Member	Originally posted by Zkribbler The Baathists are a neo-facisitic group, essentially non-religious (except, on occasion and for political purposes, they do exault Islamic and condemn Israel). Their loyalty is to the exaulted leader--who used to be Saddam. Al Qaeda is a group of religous fanatics whose alpha and omega is the Koran and Islam--as interpreted by their exaulted leader, Osams bin Ladin. The two can form a temporary alliance of convenience, but in the long one, they will turn on each other and, at most, only one will survive. The Iraqi Baathists had been shifting to Islamist (though not Wahabist) legitimizations of power through the 1990s (See for ex "the mother of all battles Mosque") though they continued to include non-muslims like Tariq Aziz in the leadership. In the wake of the invasion Baathists like al-Douri seem to have moved much closer to AQ and other Wahabist groups - IIUC al-Douri actually became a Wahabist. The situation on the ground in Anbar is acting as chamber for the exchange and recombination of memes, as it were.
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