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Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda
The Weekly Standard ^
| March 1, 2004
| Jonathan Schanzer
Posted on 02/20/2004 9:01:42 PM PST by RWR8189
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:01:42 PM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
To the Left, there is no such thing as "fact", there is only opinion. There is no such thing as "right", there is only power.
This will change no attitudes. But it is still reasurring to hear.
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:13:23 PM PST
by
Chairman Fred
(@mousiedung.commie)
To: RWR8189
Free Republic will probably be the first and last time anybody sees this article.
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:16:08 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Is it vietnam yet ?)
To: RWR8189
Fascinating article. I googled the autohr -- he looks like an expert in this subject.
So how long will it take to hear this on the lamestream networks? Ever?
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:16:28 PM PST
by
RandyRep
To: RWR8189
And the plot thickens.
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:21:29 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Evil thrives when good men do nothing!)
To: RWR8189
bump
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:23:22 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: RWR8189
Great stuff - thanks for posting. Sure would like to put a bullet in Mr. Zarqawi.
To: RaceBannon
ping!
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:43:07 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F'in Kerry!)
To: JohnGalt; billbears; Peach; Mudboy Slim; sultan88; MeekOneGOP
fyi ping
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:46:33 PM PST
by
FBD
(...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
To: FBD; M. Thatcher; holdonnow; quidam; Matt Drudge; Hannity; Rush Limbaugh
"An Iraqi prisoner details Saddam's links to Osama bin Laden's terror network. A RECENTLY INTERCEPTED MESSAGE from Iraq-based terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi asking the al Qaeda leadership for reinforcements reignited the debate over al Qaeda ties with Saddam Hussein's fallen Baath regime. William Safire of the New York Times called the message a "smoking gun," while the University of Michigan's Juan Cole says that Safire "offers not even one document to prove" the Saddam-al Qaeda nexus. What you are about to read bears directly on that debate. It is based on a recent interview with Abdul Rahman al-Shamari, who served in Saddam's secret police, the Mukhabarat, from 1997 to 2002, and is currently sitting in a Kurdish prison. Al-Shamari says that he worked for a man who was Saddam's envoy to al Qaeda." This is long overdue...will the Vast, LeftWingMedyuhWhore'd report it?!
FReegards...MUD
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:56:47 PM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
(RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
To: Shermy
This is a must read.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:08:02 PM PST
by
marron
To: marron; swarthyguy
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:12:48 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
Very funny, I'm laughing out loud. And only too true...
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:19:42 PM PST
by
marron
To: RWR8189
The problem with this article is that it is totally short on meaningful details. He never really addresses the interesting questions - such as why did the Kurdish Peshmargas never confront Al-Ansar Islamia, during all their years in the "free zone."
Claims such as this, are said in a portententious tone, but are thin:
Al-Shamari stated that Abu Wael sometimes traveled to meet with these groups. All of them, he added, visited Wael in Iraq and were provided Iraqi visas. This corroborates an interview I had with a senior PUK official in April 2003, who stated that many of the Arab fighters captured or killed during the war held passports with Iraqi visas.
All foreigners in Iraq would hold passports with Iraqi visas. Without a visa one may could enter the country (during Sadaam's time, recently, with the collapse of law and order, the borders are more open). Can't he come up with something better than that? Sheesh.
He needs - not visas on their passports - but some verified link between these men, Al-Qaida, and the Iraqi government. Otherwise, they are just Arab volunteers going to Iraq to fight.
To: RWR8189
read later
To: RWR8189
bump
To: RWR8189
This is good. They need reinforcements like Hitler did in Berlin in Spring, 1945. GW has been brilliant. Lure them to the battlefields in Iraq and kill every last one of them.
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posted on
02/20/2004 11:11:14 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: RWR8189
Good post. An amazing article. Great work by Schanzer.
Like other detailed articles regarding Iraq's link to terrorism, it will most likely be ignored by the wider mainstream media, which has already concluded that there was no Iraq-Islamic terrorism connection.
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posted on
02/21/2004 12:53:12 AM PST
by
AHerald
To: BlackVeil; RWR8189
He needs - not visas on their passports - but some verified link between these men, Al-Qaida, and the Iraqi government. Otherwise, they are just Arab volunteers going to Iraq to fight. I'll offer my view, someone can tell me if I'm off base. The key here is that they were not just Arab volunteers coming to Iraq to fight, they were Arab volunteers entering Iraq by the official port of entry and being directed up to join a Kurdish unit fighting for Saddam, rather than attaching themselves to any of a number of units around Baghdad they could have joined.
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posted on
02/21/2004 12:57:37 AM PST
by
marron
To: marron
The key here is that they were not just Arab volunteers coming to Iraq to fight, they were Arab volunteers entering Iraq by the official port of entry and being directed up to join a Kurdish unit fighting for Saddam ... Excellent analysis. I didn't see that central point, myself, until you spelt it out.
Evidence for such an development is absent from this article. I would be interested to see such a link - al-Qaida/Saddamm/al-Ansar. Until then, I must say that al-Ansar Islamia looks like an Iranian backed show. No one mentions that possibility, but it is pretty obvious. They were on the Iran border, and fled away there once the fighting started.
The presence of the no-fly zone was a big temptation for the Iranian govt to try to expand there.
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