As U.S. military officials said that American troops had now "occed" the entire city of Falluja, Reuters reports that in a video obtained on Saturday Islamist groups vowed to take their battle from Falluja to all corners of Iraq and warned Iraqi government
workers and soldiers would be targeted unless they stopped work immediately:
"In response to the crimes and mass annihilation the Muslims of Falluja are facing, the groups Qaeda Organization of Jihad in Iraq, the Islamic Army, the 1920 Revolution Brigades ... announce the spread of the battle to all governorates and parts of Iraq," one gunman read from a handwritten piece of paper.
"We warn all employees in the government and ministries, both civilian and military, not to go to work and to announce civil disobedience because remaining at work is doing a service to the Americans and collaborator government.
"Anyone who does otherwise will make himself a target for us." Essential services such as health, water and electricity were exempted, he said.
This is just Zarqawi and his fellow evil doers trying to use the battle for Falluja to fulfill al-Qaeda's desire to incite a full blown civil war between Iraq's Shiite majority and the Sunni minority. They may be able to create more mayhem between now and the elections scheduled for January, but if they could wreak more violence now to distract attention from the slaughter of a thousand of their band of evil doers, they would.
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