Bloodless Coup

Zarqawi Is Playing Two-Level Games?

Presuming for a moment that Ayman al-Zawahiri really does want Zarqawi to decrease his attacks on Muslims (quite possible, but I don't want to act as if I'm certain of either what Zawahiri is thinking, or of the nature of correspondence within al-Qaeda), it is quite interesting that Zarqawi would continue on with attacks on Muslim Arabs. And it makes me wonder more about whether intra al-Qaeda politics might not be more than the second front in Zarqawi's war (as Marc Lynch speculates). Maybe the intra-group feud has become equally important to the shape of current events in Iraq.