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> We are all Britons today.
>
> Pierre Legrand
>
> My Blog all about politics and the terror war.
> www.papadoc.net/PinkFlamingoBar.html

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>
> "PAPADOC" <PAPADOC@jimbobs.drive.by> wrote in message
> news:0karc1lkad7p98v0l98n0nscmqqf78hkq8@4ax.com...
>
>
> HOW ABOUT A BIG XXXX YEAH FOR ALL THE BLOGGERS OUT THERE WAGING TE WAR
> AGAINST TERROR FROM THE SAFETY OF THEIR HOME COMPUTERS
>

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>
> AMERICA XXXX YEAH BABY FREEDOM REIGNS FREE MOTHERXXXXING ISLAMIC PIG
> MUTHERXXXXERS
>

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> PAPDOC LETS PRACTICE BLOWING UP A-RABS WITH FALCON 4 ILL BRING THE
> CHEETOES AND BEER
>
>

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>
> "bioderm" <shavolsky@ladavisky.com> wrote in message
> news:11crbin6ho3gp52@corp.supernews.com...
>
>
> Are you suggesting everyone opposed to the terrorists should enlist?

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>
>
> You have point there!
>
>
>
>
> Really? Cool, but I'll pass on the Cheetos thank you.
>
> Jarg

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> We are all Britons today.
>
> Pierre Legrand
>
> My Blog all about politics and the terror war.
> www.papadoc.net/PinkFlamingoBar.html

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> CHEETOES AND BEER
>

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>HOW ABOUT A BIG XXXX YEAH FOR ALL THE BLOGGERS OUT THERE WAGING TE WAR
>AGAINST TERROR FROM THE SAFETY OF THEIR HOME COMPUTERS
>
>
>AMERICA XXXX YEAH BABY FREEDOM REIGNS FREE MOTHERXXXXING ISLAMIC PIG
>MUTHERXXXXERS
>
>PAPDOC LETS PRACTICE BLOWING UP A-RABS WITH FALCON 4 ILL BRING THE
>CHEETOES AND BEER
>

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>So does this prove that by invading Iraq that we would fight Al-Queda in
>Iraq and not here or on our allies shores?
>
>

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> We are all Britons today.
>
> Pierre Legrand
>
> My Blog all about politics and the terror war.
> www.papadoc.net/PinkFlamingoBar.html

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> Yup because those pitiful bastards were only able to pull off that
> pitiful stunt. Or how this guys puts it is a whole lot more eloquent.
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/pottersys/...5/in/pool-bomb/

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>
> PAPADOC
>
>

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> <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:m9erc1to17e056akrnoi0palrlnhaeaqlm@4ax.com...
>
> The URL is nice bravado but here are the facts.

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> Many more people died of needless poverty

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>
> During ww2 England...

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>
> "Jarg" <scottharringtons@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Wnize.2069$6%2.578@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>
> XXXX no! Instead they should be drafted! Freedom ain't free bro.

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> In article <0karc1lkad7p98v0l98n0nscmqqf78hkq8@4ax.com>,
> PAPADOC@jimbobs.drive.by (PAPADOC) wrote:
>
>
> Calm down dear, it's only a few bombs. Thanks to Noraid we're used to it.
> The IRA used to do this kind of thing to us all the time.
>

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>Calm down dear, it's only a few bombs. Thanks to Noraid we're used to
>it. The IRA used to do this kind of thing to us all the time.
>
>Having said that, it has somewhat taken the gloss off a week in which
>seeing Pink Floyd (not in the flesh sadly) together made me happier than
>a very happy person on happy pills on National Happy Day.
>
>Andrew McP
>
>PS Obviously condolences to the bereaved & maimed. Individual misery is
>always awful no matter whether you're in London, Beslan, Darfour,
>Madrid, New York, or anywhere else. But the world didn't change
>yesterday. Many more people died of needless poverty than needless
>violence on the 7th of July. So I'm glad Blair got back up to the G8
>summit as soon as possible. Climate change and poverty are far more
>important than terrorism. It's like worrying about a gnat bite when
>you're tied to a railway track.
>
>PPS Must admit when I saw Blair get into a Chinook I was a bit concerned
>though. I mean, I despise the man since he took us to Iraq, but he's a
>decent human being at heart, and surely there were safer ways of getting
>him to the nearest airport?

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> We are all Britons today.
>
> Pierre Legrand
>
> My Blog all about politics and the terror war.
> www.papadoc.net/PinkFlamingoBar.html

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> Nice of you to stop by pal.

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>
>"Jarg" <scottharringtons@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:Wnize.2069$6%2.578@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>
>XXXX no! Instead they should be drafted! Freedom ain't free bro.
>
>
>
>
>How about Coolranch Dorritos?
>

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>
>Heh.. The details of all those "Britons today" have all been passed on to
>the Inland Revenue. Tax demands will be in the post soon..
>
>Si
>

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>I'll bring the "Support Our Troops" bumperstickers for the back of our
>SUVs. 'Cuz, you know, nothing says true support like a bumpersticker.
>Although a blog about the terror war ranks right up there.
>
>** Love My Country **
>** Fear My Government **

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>
> hehe...Scharmers simple mind that you are let me explain to you why it is
> important to have a blog about the war on terror.
>
> Because the only way this country ever loses wars is having assholes like
> you
> attack our will to fight. Now admittedly my site doesnt reach a whole lot
> of
> people all the time but from time to time I have made a difference in how
> more
> than a couple of people have viewed the war. That is reason enough to
> justify it
> in my mind....your mind doesnt count.
>
> PAPADOC
>

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> leadfoot wrote:
>
> Are you trying to say that the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the
> Khobar Towers bombing in Dharan, Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US Embassy
> bombing in Nairobi in 1998, the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and the
> September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington DC, were all
> fictitious?
>

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> <boggle>

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> Briarroot wrote:
>
> From http://ramblingrhodes.mu.nu/archives/019722.html, an interesting
> analysis and dissection of this overhyped quote:
>
> "This Hermann Goering Quote Has Been Bothering Me
>
> I try to keep up with the anti-Iraq-war and anti-war-on-terror viewpoints
> because, as much as I continually believe I'm always right, I'm willing to
> acquiesce that sometimes, occasionally, other people may have something
> compelling to say that could change my mind. I thought such an occurence
> came about about a month ago when this Hermann Goering quote started
> making appearances all over the blogosphere.
>
> Goering, for those unfamiliar with history, was the Commander-in-Chief of
> the Luftwaffe in Nazi Germany during World War II. He said:

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>
> "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of
> the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to
> drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or
> a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people
> can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
> have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
> pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater
> danger."
>
> The emphasis here, of course, is usually provided by the folks who plop
> this quote on their blogs, and they wave this as proof that the Bush Jr.
> administration is dragging the U.S. along the same simple formula. As I've
> said before, I'm no huge fan of the Bush administration. Until they pull
> this economy out of the muck and start addressing, successfully, some of
> the problems here at home, that Texan won't earn my vote in '04.
>
> However, the real Bush haters, the ones who feel he stole an election and
> simply wages war for oil, are determined to transmogrify the man into a
> short angry leader with a wispy cookie duster moustache and a bad
> combover. They cry fascism any time the terror alert system clicks up a
> notch or a celebrity is chastised for blowing their ignorant blather.
>
> First, it should be noted that Goering was not a professional
> propagandist. That honor fell to Joseph Goebbels. Second, Goering did not
> utter that infamous quote during testimony at the Nuremburg Trials, as
> many believe. Rather, he was engaged in debate, while sitting in his cell,
> with an individual named Gustave Gilbert. Gilbert, who was given free
> access to the inmates awaiting sentencing, kept a journal of his
> conversations with the prisoners. So, in other words, you essentially have
> a condemned man, who is not a professional propagandist, lamenting his
> fate to whoever will listen, trying to deflect blame for his murderous
> role in history. Goering was not exactly an authority on anything at that
> point, in my opinion.
>
> But, let me pick apart the quote itself.
>
> Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
> leaders.
>
> Well, not really. If there's one thing that Vietnam taught us, it's that
> people aren't necessarily mindless cows being trotted out to pasture and
> back. But, that was Vietnam. If we were to take Goering at his word here,
> today, with the Iraq conflict and the war on terror, we should have seen
> the resurrection of the draft with everyone clamboring to grab a rifle.
> But, that didn't happen

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>
> All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
> pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater
> danger.
>
> The major problem here is that we weren't just TOLD we were being
> attacked. We WERE attacked. 9/11 wasn't some fluke navigational error. It
> was a coordinated assault on our home soil and our very way of life, and
> if you don't believe that, you've been watching too much American Idol and
> refusing to acknowledge the realities of the world today. If you really,
> truly, honestly believe that dreadful day was an isolated incident that
> couldn't possibly happen again, you seriously need a big steaming mug of
> "wake the XXXX up."

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>
> As for denouncing pacifists, the sword cuts both ways here. Well, yeah,
> pacifists have been denounced, but at the same time, war-proponents are
> subject to criticism, too. How many "peaceful" protests have turned ugly
> when the protestors tossed a rock through a store window sporting a
> "Liberate Iraq" sign, and how many 9/11 memorials have been defiled by the
> same?

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>
> The crushing of dissent in both camps is alive and well, but you primarily
> hear about anti-war folks being denounced because, more often then not,
> they're high-profile celebrities spewing ignorance. Where do they get the
> idea that they're somehow an authority on anything but acting? I can just
> about imagine the repercussions if I were to use this magazine's weekly
> editorial meetings to ascend the pulpit and use the entire hour to spout
> off about the war. I certainly HOPE my co-workers would tell me to shut up
> and sit down, because it's not my job to express my opinions on world
> affairs; it's my job to write about high technology news. The same goes
> for celebs. Their job is to act, not subject everyone to their half-formed
> ideas about how the government works or doesn't work.

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>
> Take the Goering quote however you will, but I tend to view it as a
> stream-of-consciousness uttering from a desperate and destroyed man, not
> as an ominious denunciation of the current war on terror."

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> Where are the significant ties to AQ. The
> smearing of Ambassador Wilson.

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> leadfoot wrote:
>
> No

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> "leadfoot" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:jEqCe.35777$4o.2303
> @fed1read06:
>

Ah lets put the rest of that back in that you cut out. You weren't
embarrassed to put your words under this were you? I'm sure you were
concerned about the little electrons that might die unnecessarily. I sure
do hope no one DIED because Valerie Plame was outed.

Do you realize the damage that revealing his
wife as CIA agent has done? the loss of cover company that took years to
establish. That everyone overseas she came in contact with is in danger of
losing their life? Yeah lets " denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." Especially a true
American hero who faced down Saddam to save over 2000 American lives while
acting ambassador in Iraq in 1990. I don't think this is a man who has any
love for Saddam.
[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> You might want to check out what the congressional reports have to say
> about Wilson's trip to Niger. Wilson put his own XXX on the line when he
> elevated his own ill-informed OPINION in a very public format. If he
> wants
> to spout out about leaders behaving responsibly, he might want to look at
> himself.
> As for his wife, in his own book he reveals they've been stateside for
> many
> years now, with some reports stating concern she was outed by Ames. Not
> to
> mention the fact that it was apparently well known in Washington who his
> "secret agent" wife was. Theres also been nothing in the news lately
> about
> the initial reports of White House "shoping" this story around as we were
> originally told. Wilsons own lies about who sent him to Niger is why he's
> in trouble now. The dems are calling for blood now because when the
> special prosecuter's done, theres gonna be no basis for this.

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> Chuck

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>
> --
> Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
> Benjamin Franklin

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>
> "Chuck" <Nonyabiz@all.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96965BA50506Cnonyabizallcom@216.196.97.131...
>
> Ah lets put the rest of that back in that you cut out. You weren't
> embarrassed to put your words under this were you? I'm sure you were

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> concerned about the little electrons that might die unnecessarily. I
> sure do hope no one DIED because Valerie Plame was outed.
>

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> Do you realize the damage that revealing his
> wife as CIA agent has done? the loss of cover company that took years
> to establish. That everyone overseas she came in contact with is in
> danger of losing their life? Yeah lets " denounce the pacifists for
> lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
> Especially a true American hero who faced down Saddam to save over
> 2000 American lives while acting ambassador in Iraq in 1990. I don't
> think this is a man who has any love for Saddam.

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>
>
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/dayfl
>
> From Bloomberg news
>

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> BTW as far as Karl Rove is concerned I'll wait until the Fitzgerald
> report is out.
>
>
> ...and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing
> the country to
> danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."
>
>
>
> -Goering
>
> You might try a different Benjamin Franklin quote
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
>

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> Nothing wrong with beer though ;-).
>
>
>
>
>

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>
> "Briarroot" <woodsyl@iwon.com> wrote in message
> news:11dksabs9dao019@corp.supernews.com...
>
> Thank you
>
>
>

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> No, I'm just focusing on ONE wrong part of your ramblings, if I focused on
> all of them it would take more time than I felt like investing.
>
> Nice little strawman you constructed with the "significant" there. At
> least you were smart enough not to use an absolute statement. You'll
> excuse me if I don't list a bunch of links just for you to hide under the
> "that's not a significant tie" bullshit. Or just XXXXing ignore like you
> did to Briarroot.

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>
>
> And yet, who was so eager to put her picture out for in the public, hint:
> it wasn't Rove or the admin, it was Wilson, sensing partisan gain. Do you
> really think, if she was a "secret agent", plastering her pic all over
> Vanity Fair was a great idea....given they were SO concerned about all the
> contacts she had (yes, that was sarcasm)

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>
>
> When you can verifiably quantify this "damage", I might agree with you.
> And
> if she was already outed by Ames? Believe it of not, I don't agree with
> anyone "outing" a secret agent. But it's very far from established that
> thats what happened here, and I really dont know what Wilson expected
> given
> the lies he was telling about why he was sent...etc. It's becoming more
> and more apparent that the tale of the White House shoping this story
> around to "get" Wilson looks like bullshit, at least as far as Cooper's
> reports.
>
>
> Seems some have a problem with Bloomburg's statements:
>
> http://www.gopbloggers.org/mt/archives/001601.html
>
>

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> "leadfoot" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
> news:lxuCe.35781$4o.584@fed1read06:
>
>
> What a XXXXing hypocrite. Do these words ring a bell.
>
>
> "Ah lets put the rest of that back in that you cut out. You weren't
> embarrassed to put your words under this were you?"
>
> Either a very good troll, or a very blind ideologue.

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>
> Chuck
>
> --
> Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
> Benjamin Franklin

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>Even though Goering was as I said before a vile and despicable creature he
>had to have something on the ball at one time to rise to CinC of the
>Luftwaffe and for a long time number 2 behind ole dolph.

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>
>

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> "leadfoot" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:xwSCe.41399$4o.32877
> @fed1read06:
>
>
> Whats wrong leadfoot, cant address the critisism's? Since we know how
> honorable you are (cough,cough) dont' forget your recent feelings:
>
> "Ah lets put the rest of that back in that you cut out. You weren't
> embarrassed to put your words under this were you?"
>
> Anyway, its obvious your a blind ideologe, and there's no sence addressing
> it with you, and you probably feel the same way about me...but the biggest
> demostrable liar in this whole thing is Wilson.
>
> Chuck

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>
> --
> Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
> Benjamin Franklin

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> leadfoot wrote:
>
> You can't tell the players without a scorecard. Here are 2 (of many) AP
> reports from 2003.

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>
> Mar 8, 6:16 PM (ET) By JOHN L. LUMPKIN (Associated Press)
>
> "WASHINGTON (AP) - Al-Qaida operatives are planning to strike at U.S.
> and allied forces taking part in a war in Iraq, according to information
> acquired by American intelligence agencies, counter-terrorism officials
> said Saturday. The operatives are subordinates of Abu Musab Zarqawi,
> whom CIA officials describe as a senior associate of Osama bin Laden.
> Some are in Baghdad; others are elsewhere in Iraq, the counter-terrorism
> officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
>
> The intelligence does not suggest any kind of coordination between the
> government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida
> operatives; instead officials believe the terrorists are looking to
> capitalize on the chaos created by any military conflict to strike at
> American and allied troops. A CIA report, passed to senior government
> officials last week, warned of the potential strikes.
>
> A CIA spokesman declined to comment. The New York Times first reported
> the information Saturday on its Web site. The counter-terrorism
> officials said operatives may be planning to use explosives or toxins to
> conduct the attack.
>
> The new information comes against a murky backdrop regarding whether
> Iraq supports al-Qaida, or to what extent there are ties.
>
> However, intelligence officials have generally agreed they have nothing
> to document that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001,
> attacks or that Saddam and Osama bin Laden are coordinating terrorist
> operations.
>
> At the center of U.S. allegations that there are links between Iraq and
> the terrorist group is Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist
> operative, and some of his followers.
>
> CIA Director George Tenet and others have described Zarqawi as a senior
> associate of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but officials acknowledge
> some difference of opinion within U.S. intelligence whether it is
> correct to describe him as a member
> of the organization.
>
> Zarqawi has been linked to the failed millennium bombing of a tourist
> hotel in Jordan and the killing of an American diplomat
> in Amman in October.
>
> According to U.S. officials, Zarqawi was in Baghdad last summer,
> presumably with the knowledge of Iraqi officials. Some of his
> people are still there. Zarqawi is also linked to an Islamic extremist
> group in northern Iraq, Ansar al-Islam, that operates
> in a region outside of Saddam's control.
>
> An agent from Iraq's government is working for Ansar, Secretary of State
> Colin Powell said in a Feb. 5 presentation to the U.N.
> Security Council. Powell said this agent had offered safe haven to some
> al-Qaida operatives in the region.
>
> But Powell omitted an important point: U.S. officials later acknowledged
> they don't know what this Iraqi operative is doing with Ansar al-Islam,
> and they do not know whether Ansar is aware he works for the Iraqi
> government.
>
> While the agent could be openly representing Saddam's government, he
> also could be spying on the group for Saddam's security services,
> officials said.
>
> According to intelligence officials, Zarqawi believes he is operating
> independently of al-Qaida's chain of command. But
> they say while he manages his own network of followers, he relies on
> al-Qaida money and logistical support, making him
> - in effect if not in reality - a lieutenant of bin Laden.
>
> What is known, according to Powell, Tenet and other officials: Zarqawi
> was around Herat in western Afghanistan in October 2001, when the U.S.
> attacked the Taliban and their al-Qaida allies. He ran a camp in the
> region that experimented with poisons and chemical weapons.
>
> Officials say he may have been wounded in the leg, probably by U.S.
> bombing. He crossed the border into Iran, where he reportedly received
> some medical treatment. U.S. intelligence learned of his presence there,
> prompting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in April 2002 to accuse Iran
> of sheltering al-Qaida terrorists.
>
> The following month, Zarqawi went to Baghdad. The reasons for his
> departure from Iran are unclear, but he received more medical treatment
> in Baghdad, possibly being fitted with a prosthetic leg, and stayed
> there two months.
>
> While he was in Baghdad, about two dozen of his followers moved to the
> city. Some are still there, including two senior members of Egyptian
> Islamic Jihad, a terrorist network that merged with al-Qaida during the
> last few years.
>
> U.S. officials say Saddam's security apparatus is too effective for them
> not to know Zarqawi and his followers were in town. But
> no officials claimed evidence that Zarqawi and the Iraqis are actively
> working together to conduct terrorist attacks.
>
> U.S. intelligence learned of Zarqawi's presence in Baghdad while he was
> there, and a friendly foreign government twice asked
> Baghdad about him and was rebuffed both times. Zarqawi left shortly
> after the inquiries.
>
> Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said Baghdad had no ties to Ansar
> al-Islam, nor to an alleged al-Qaida fugitive Abu Musab Zarqawi.
>
> In July, shortly after the foreign government's inquiries, Zarqawi left
> Baghdad. U.S. defense officials said he was later reported in Syria.
> Officials suspect he also went to northern Iraq where Saddam holds
> little authority.
>
> In that region, his followers, working with Kurdish members of Ansar
> al-Islam, established a new camp to research poisons and make
> explosives. They trained others in the production of ricin, a poison
> that can be used as a biological weapon.
>
> Their ties were widespread, spanning the countries of Georgia, France,
> Spain, Great Britain, Russia and possibly Italy.
>
> European authorities have arrested 116 members of Zarqawi's extended
> network, including members of a British cell that was believed to be
> making ricin in a London apartment.
>
> Zarqawi's whereabouts are unknown.
>
> His time in Baghdad is not the only link claimed by U.S. officials.
> Others include:
>
> _An al-Qaida source said Saddam and bin Laden agreed not to oppose each
> other in the mid-1990s.
>
> _Senior representatives of both organizations met at least eight times
> since the early 1990s. This includes a trip by Iraq's
> ambassador to Turkey to Afghanistan in 1998.
>
> _An Iraqi intelligence operative turned defector said Saddam sent agents
> to Afghanistan to provide training to al-Qaida in document forgery.
>
> _An al-Qaida training camp commander from Afghanistan, now in U.S.
> custody, said al-Qaida sought chemical and biological weapons training
> from Iraq between 1997 and 2000." ...
>
>
> followed up by this one:
>
>
> Apr 30, 2003 4:36 PM (ET)
>
> By MAGGIE MICHAEL (Associate Press)
>
> DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A tape purportedly made by al-Qaida
> operative Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi acknowledged his group was behind a
> failed plot to destroy Jordan's secret service headquarters and warned
> the U.S.-allied government it faced "terrifying events."
>
> But the speaker on the seven-minute audiotape aired Friday denied having
> a chemical weapon, as Jordanian officials claim. Jordanian state
> television has broadcast confessions by militants allegedly linked to
> al-Zarqawi in which they say the group was plotting al-Qaida's first
> chemical bomb attack.
>
> The speaker on the tape, who introduced himself as Musab al-Zarqawi,
> called the allegation of a chemical bomb attack "a mere lie."
>
> "God knows, if we did possess it, we wouldn't hesitate one second to use
> it to hit Israeli cities, such as Eilat and Tel Aviv," the speaker said.
>
> The tape was broadcast on an Internet site known as a clearinghouse for
> statements by al-Qaida and other extremist groups. Excerpts also were
> broadcast by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel.
>
> Earlier this week, a purported al-Zarqawi statement appeared on the same
> Web site claiming responsibility for an April 24 suicide boat attack on
> Iraq's oil terminal in the Persian Gulf that killed three American
> service members..
>
> The speaker on Friday's tape said the Jordanian General Intelligence
> building was targeted for attack because "Jordan has turned itself into
> a hidden base of supplies for the occupying army in Iraq."
>
> The building also housed a "big database used by the enemy of Islam to
> track down holy warriors," the voice said. The speaker dubbed the
> structure the "Arabs' Guantanamo," referring to the prison for terrorist
> suspects at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
>
> The voice on Friday's tape could not immediately be authenticated as
> that of al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian wanted by the United States for
> allegedly organizing terrorists to fight U.S. troops in Iraq on behalf
> of al-Qaida.
>
> The United States has offered a $10 million reward for al-Zarqawi's
> capture. He is believed to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden and
> is known as an expert in poisons.
>
> Al-Zarqawi also is blamed for orchestrating the 2002 assassination of
> U.S. aid worker Laurence Foley, 60, outside his Amman home. Al-Zarqawi
> was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian military court.
>
> Security forces smashed the terror cell plotting attacks against targets
> inside Jordan by arresting six militants in at least two raids over the
> past month, Jordanian officials said.
>
> Four other militants died last week in a shootout with police in Amman.
>
> The militants allegedly planned to strike other buildings in Amman, such
> as the U.S. Embassy and the prime minister's office, officials said.
>
> The speaker on the tape said that while Jordan foiled this plot, his
> group has more in store for the kingdom.
>
> "The battle between us and the Jordanian government has its ups and
> downs," he said. "Terrifying events are awaiting you."
>
> He said the four men shown on Jordanian television had been tortured
> into confessing, and named Azmi al-Jayousi, the alleged leader of the
> plot, who confessed that he reported to al-Zarqawi.
>
> "The torture marks on the face and hands of brother (al-Jayousi) were
> very obvious," the voice said.
>
> In Tuesday's broadcast, al-Jayousi's right eye and cheek were slightly
> swollen, and he had scars on his right hand and scratches on his neck.
>
> The discovery of the plots caused widespread fear in Jordan, a moderate
> Arab nation that is closely allied to the United States, has a peace
> treaty with Israel and enjoys relative stability in the volatile Middle
> East.
>
> But the kingdom's close ties with the West have placed it in the
> cross-hairs of Islamic militants in the past.
>
> Twenty-two Arab men were convicted in a terror plot that targeted U.S.
> and Israeli tourists in the 2000 millennium celebrations in Jordan."
>
>
> The bottom line is that Saddam allowed Islamic terrorists asylum and
> support in Iraq in exchange for them leaving his regime alone.