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)