Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi statement

Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, The Amir of "the Islamic State of Iraq" released an audio statement through al-Furqan media on Saturday. Along with announcing attacks against US soldiers and threatening Iran, it made a worrying reference to the Palestinian refugees in Iraq. Jihad Unspun website writes: "The Islamic State has completed a project of preparing tens of villages with modern housing, living facilities, farms and gardens for the Palestinian brothers who were forced to flee their homes by the Shia Iraq. Amir Baghdadi makes a call to all Palestinians who fled to neighboring countries to come back to their new homes in the Islamic State of Iraq especially to Anbar, Salahudeen and Diyala. [Al-Baghdad said] “Tens of towns have prepared the best of houses for you, from what Allah has given us from the Shiites, with farms and gardens and rivers crossing them, and defended by the men of the Islamic State.”"

The Palestinian community in Iraq is unarmed and not aligned with any of the waring groups in Iraq. However, this statement risks further marking out Palestinians as targets of sectarian attacks.