Posted on 11/12/2003 12:04:54 PM PST by Timesink
Fox News CONFIRMING Al Qaeda is operating in Iraq. Full details coming up at 3:15 pm Eastern (about fifteen minutes after I type this). This is what the US boom boom over there this evening has been about.
TOWNHALL.com: "PROMISE, PROGRESS AND SETBACKS ON THE WAR WITH JIHADISTAN" -Column by Mark Alexander (COLUMN SNIPPET: "There are additional intelligence reports this week supporting previous evidence The Federalist reported in November of '02 that Iraq shipped some of its biological and nuclear WMD stores to Syria and the Bekaa Valley. This comes on top of last week's assessment from Israel's Mossad that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad allowed Saddam's primitive nukes (possibly with cores for three) to transit through Syria to a protected site in Lebanon's heavily fortified Bekaa Valley.") (September 22, 2003) (Read More...)
On The Net...English.ALJAZEERA.net - NEWS - Arab World: "FULL TEXT OF THE MESSAGE Usama bin Ladin has issued a message to the American people, broadcast on Saturday on Aljazeera television. A full and exclusive translation follows:") (October 17, 2003)
On The Net...English.ALJAZEERA.net - NEWS - Arab World: "AL-QAIDA VOWS ANTI-US ATTACKS Al-Qaida Number Two Ayman al-Zawahri has called on Iraqis to "devour" their American occupiers") (September 10, 2003)
WEEKLY STANDARD.com: "AL QAEDA'S NEW BASE From the November 3, 2003 Issue: Osama bin Laden's men are operating in Eastern Iran. What are we doing about it?" by Jeffrey Bell (November 3, 2003) (Read More...)
WEEKLY STANDARD.com: "OSAMA'S BEST FRIEND From the November 3, 2003 Issue: The Further Connections Between Al Qaeda and Saddam" by Stephen F. Hayes (November 3, 2003) (Read More...)
TOWNHALL.com: "THE BATTLEFIELDS IN IRAQ AND AT HOME" -Column by Diana West (COLUMN SNIPPET:"Speaking on Lebanese television from Norway (where he has political asylum -- thanks, Norway), Kreikar gave his take on the Islamic nature of the war on liberated Iraq. "The resistance is not only a reaction to the American invasion," he explained. "It is part of the continuous Islamic struggle since the collapse of the caliphate." By "caliphate," he was referring to the centuries'-long Islamic rule that dissolved at the end of World War I with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. "All Islamic struggles since then are part of one organized effort to bring back the caliphate."") (August 19, 2003) (Read More...)
AFTENPOSTEN.no (English): "KREKAR EXPECTS TERRORIST ATTACKS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mullah Krekar believes the group Ansar al-Islam, which he has led in the past, will retaliate violently to what they see as an unmotivated attack on them, TV 2 reports. The US civil administrator claimed that members of the north Iraq based group had returned to Iraq, planning terrorist actions.") (Read More...) (August 11, 2003)
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 By John Moody ![]() BAGHDAD, Iraq After a week of almost nightly terrorist attacks, U.S. officials have concluded that Al Qaeda is operating in Iraq along with pro-Saddam forces and is responsible for the deaths of American troops in the country, a senior coalition source said Wednesday.
The source would not be drawn into estimates of how many operatives of the terrorist organization headed by Usama bin Laden were in the country, or of which specific attacks they were suspected. At least 156 Americans have been killed in Iraq since the announced end of major combat last May. We have Al Qaeda in the country, yes, theres no doubt about it, said the source. We also have Saddam loyalists who have nothing to lose. And we have foreign fighters who have come across the border from Syria and Iran and who see Iraq as the best place to kill Americans. On Tuesday, Sanchez revealed that coalition forces had captured as many as 20 suspected Al Qaeda fighters, but stopped short of confirming their affiliation with the group, which claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A member of the Iraqi Governing Coalition (search) made similar claims and repeated the charge that Al Qaeda has selected Iraq as its new battlefield against the U.S. The most recent attacks in Baghdad have caused few injuries and little damage. But they have focused on the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority (search), which is in the tightly controlled green zone of the capital. Most of the incidents have involved firing mortar rounds or rockets from crude launching devices. Brig. General Mark Hertling, the commander of U.S. forces in the capital, said the rockets used in Tuesdays attacks were actually launched from an old metal gutter. While acknowledging that they hit close to the CPA compound, Hertling dismissed the attacks as militarily insignificant. He pointed out that more Iraqis than Americans nearly 1,000 according to some estimates have been killed by recent terrorist incidents. He said some 2,200 caches of weapons and ordnance have been uncovered in the Baghdad area alone, and nearly all of them are now under guard or have been destroyed. That represents progress, but is not a solution in itself. I had an officer say to me, I get why theyre shooting at you,' Hertling recalled. And he said, I guess I get why theyre trying to kill people from the U.N., and the Red Cross, because those people will help Iraq become free and prosperous eventually.
Said Hertling, I knew exactly what he meant. But I couldnt answer his question. John Moody is senior vice president of Fox News. |
At least 14 Italians have been killed in a suicide attack at the country's military police headquarters in Iraq, officials in Rome say.
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dont you know that Al-Qaida is in Iraq yet!
wait till you see all the blood of your sons on the streets of iraq with the hands of god we fight....alaaah akbaar.
hope you get the messege well italians!!.
alaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid
Strongly disagree.
There is no doubt in my mind that this was a.) anticipated, because they believed AQ really couldn't afford to let the Iraq "democracy demonstration project" succeed (or the Iraq oil counter-balance be under our control) and was b.) fervently hoped for. Better they face the 82nd, 101st, et al, than the NYPD.
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