MEMRI: Al-Qaeda in Iraq: the drafters of the Iraqi Constitution and those who support them are infidels who must be killed

And another reminder we're at war...

From MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, an excerpt:

In an attempt to prevent the Iraqi constitution committee from submitting its draft, Al-Qaeda in Iraq has posted threats on Islamist forums warning to harm those involved in drafting the constitution, and those who support them. The constitution, it says, is an act of heresy, and those who act to implement it are infidels who must be killed.

As part of the campaign against the constitution, the information department of Al-Qaeda in Iraq also launched an anti-constitution and anti-election propaganda campaign, in the form of posters on Islamist forums.

The following are excerpts from statements and forum postings:
Al-Qaeda Court: We Will Kill Anyone Who Makes Himself Partner to Allah and Drafts a Constitution

On August 11, 2005, the Shari'a Court of Al-Qaeda in Iraq issued a communiqué threatening to kill the drafters of the Iraqi constitution, and those who promote it, and to strike at the polling places of the referendum on the constitution, which is scheduled for October 2005.

"The Shari'a Court of Al-Qaeda in Iraq will act in accordance with Allah's decree, and will kill anyone who appoints himself partner to Allah and drafts a constitution of falsehood by whose laws people will act in matters of livelihood, life and death, honor, and domestic and foreign policy.

"Allah said: ' Fight them until there is no more fitna [civil strife] and the religion is only Allah's; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do ' [Koran 8:39]… The goal of our struggle is to eradicate the [danger] of fitna that liesin the heretical modern constitution. We will fight it by argument and by communiqués, and also by sword and spear – because the constitution is a false religion and its drafters and those who promote it are apostates [murtaddoon]…