The dumbass knows very well that al Qaeda in Iraq grew out of Zarqawi’s terror al Tawhid cells that were in Iraq before our invasion and that Zarqawi had met with the Iraqi regime as early as 1999.
Yup, also a very good point!
Zarqawi’s group assassinated USAID’s Lawrence Foley in 2002 in Jordan using operatives from the Milan Cell... same cell that sent code-word laden messages about impending 9/11 attacks...
Al-Zarqawi was in Baghdad from May until late November 2002. After that he moved north. One of his group’s goals was to overthrow the King of Jordan.
The Dems in the Senate pointedly ignored his ties to al Dhouri, Saddam Hussein’s red headed general. They also insisted he was not al Qaeda, in spite of training his forces in camps adjacent to al Qaeda’s in Afghanistan.
And they - probably for political reasons- always refer to him as a “Jordanian national” rather than what he identified himself as... a Palestinian.
It gets better.
The dems began collaborating with al Qaeda in Iraq when they got AQI to make the Nick Berg video in coordination with the CBS news story on Abu Ghraib prison.
IIRC it was Charles Barron and Andrew Young who both said it symbolized the plight of the black man in Americas prisons.
Nick Bergs father was with International ANSWER and said the terrorist had just killed their best friend..
Nick Berg had also had contact with at least one of the 9/11 hijackers, just a coincidence I’m sure.