In a June 13, 2009 communiqué, the Al-Qaeda-founded organization Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) denounces the voices that have lately been heard among some Sunni jihad groups in Iraq advocating "national unity," "the national plan for ousting the occupier," and "national resistance." The ISI accuses the proponents of this view of trying to "distort the true identity of the Iraqi jihad fighters" and to pluck the fruit of their labors, and of promoting religiously unacceptable tolerance. This communiqué, which was posted on an Islamist website is apparently a response to a message published June 1, 2009 by several Sunni jihad organizations that have not joined the Salafi ISI....
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