Ayman Al-Zawahiri In New Video: "Iran Has Stabbed A Knife Into The Back Of The Islamic Nation"

MEMRI has an excepts from Al-Qaeda deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and Al-Qaeda media company, Al-Sahab. In it, Al-Zawahiri states,

Iran of collaborating with the U.S. in the latter's invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Further, he expresses,

"Iran has stabbed a knife into the back of the Islamic nation, and the traces of this stabbing will remain in the memory of the Muslims for a long time to come."

Later, he called on,

The jihad fighters in Iraq to unite their ranks, to ignore the regime's clerics, to fight the Crusaders and those who collaborate with them, and to join with the Islamic State of Iraq in order to establish the Islamic Caliphate.

I got a couple of points here:

1. Al Qaeda in Iraq must be on the ropes if Al-Zawahiri is trying to convince Shi'ites to be part of the Islamic Caliphate that Sunni terrorists are trying to establish in Iraq.

2. Al Qaeda in Iraq has gone out of its way to kill Iraqi Shi'ites in the last several years, but now wants these same Shi'ites to join the ranks of Al Qaeda.

3. Is accusing Iran, a Shia Theocracy long known for its hatred of the U.S., which has in several ways prolonged the war in Iraq through its own actions against the Coalition, of partnering up with the U.S./Coalition.

All I can say is this:

When things start going bad, people look to lay blame. Al-Zawahiri is now blaming Iran for its failures in Iraq.

I read an article long ago that said if your organization is not good, look at ever increasing concentric circles around yourself.