The Islamist jihadis inside Iraq hate Sunni Arab states.
So when the jihadi allies of the Baathists start capping Arab diplomats in Baghdad, it can't be good for pan-terrorist solidarity:
Insurgents were pursuing diplomats to sow a climate of fear and "scare the other diplomatic missions so that they won't expand their presence in Iraq," Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kuba told reporters.
"This is a message from the terrorists to the Arab countries not to open embassies in Iraq and to prevent security, economic and political overtures to Iraq," said Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the parliamentary foreign relations committee.
The actions of the foreign terrorists undercut all their crap about resistance to the foreigners. And the local Sunni insurgents don't like this turn of events, apparently (via Instapundit):
Tribal leaders in Husaybah are attacking followers of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born terrorist who established the town as an entry point for al-Qa'eda jihadists being smuggled into the country.
The reason, the US military believes, is frustration at the heavy-handed approach of the foreigners, who have kidnapped and assassinated local leaders and imposed a strict Islamic code.
Who'd have thought that the Iraqi so-called Minutemen's tactics of beheadings and terror would fail to win hearts and minds?
A true national resistance against the real foreign invaders is taking shape.
