What Is This World Coming To?

According to a report in the World Tribune, al-Qaeda had developed a plan to poison Iraq’s water supply with nitric acid, potentially killing tens of thousands of people in the process.

US forces discovered an 11-page letter intended for al-Qaeda’s Iraqi station chief, Abu Ayyoub Al Masri. It outlined a series of plans to expel the U.S.-led coalition, kill tens of thousands of Shi’ites and destroy the Iraqi security forces.

“This will lessen the pressure against us and the holy warrior brothers in all of Iraq when the enemies fight among themselves and weaken,” the author of the letter, known only as Abu Safyan, said.

Now, for the good news. US forces took the letter from Abu Safyan’s body after he was killed during a counter-insurgency operation.

This document is just one man’s articulation, one terrorist’s views about instigating conflict and turning Iraqis against each other,” U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said. “But it is also quite consistent with the patterns of violence we see from AQI.”

Abu Safyan proposed a reorganization of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In his recommendation, al-Qaeda would be divided into a unit of snipers, experts in assassinations and suicide bombers. The three groups, he wrote, would coordinate to “bring down the city or the area.”