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To: justshutupandtakeit
Ansar was fighting the secular Kurdish groups of the KDP and PUK, who were common enemies of it and Saddam. And you know the old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
27 posted on 06/12/2003 4:30:44 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (I got a six-pack of whoop-ass riding shotgun with me, son!)
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To: Jacob Kell
That is what I believed. Thanks.
28 posted on 06/13/2003 10:47:55 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
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To: Jacob Kell
"Ansar was fighting the secular Kurdish groups of the KDP and PUK, who were common enemies of it and Saddam."


All three, KDP, PUK and Ansar al-Islam were against the Baathist regime. There was no shortage of enemy's enemies to befriend.

Byzantine.
32 posted on 06/21/2003 11:13:30 AM PDT by simonX
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