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Al Qaeda-Iraqi relationship proven beyond any doubt.
ABC World News Now | 4/27/2004

Posted on 04/27/2004 2:12:25 AM PDT by Beckwith

ABC World News Now. April 27, 2004

In an interview broadcast by ABC's World News Now, the leader of the Al Qaeda cell organizing the explosive and chemical attack on the Jordanian security headquarters and the American Embassy in Jordan stated that he received his training from Al-Zawahiri in Iraq, prior to the fall of Afghanistan.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afterbash; alqaeda; alqaedaandiraq; alzawahiri; bush2004; iraq; iraqalqaeda; jordan; salmanpak; southwestasia; wmd
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ABC World News Now. April 27, 2004

I was interested to hear that the leader of the Al Qaeda cell organizing the explosive and chemical attack on the Jordanian security headquarters and the American Embassy in Jordan state that he received his training from Al-Zawahiri in Iraq, prior to the fall of Afghanistan. This training was in the use of weapons of mass destruction using easily obtained chemicals.

This video statement, by the leader of the attack team, proves beyond any doubt that there was definitely a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda prior to the Liberation of Iraq.

Since Zawahiri is not a chemist, this specific Iraqi and Al Qaeda relationship suggests to me that the tools and techniques to build chemical weapons of mass destruction came from the Iraqis.

President Bush has repeatedly stated one of his reasons for the invasion of Iraq was to prevent Iraqi weapons technology from falling into the hands of Al Qaeda and here is this Al Qaeda team leader stating that is exactly what happened.

ABC News presented the video containing the terrorists statement, but has not made this connection or commented on it.

1 posted on 04/27/2004 2:12:26 AM PDT by Beckwith
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To: billbears
Here you go.
2 posted on 04/27/2004 2:15:56 AM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: Beckwith
Just some cross reference details on this...

According to This Report [POISON GAS PLOT] , Azmi al-Jayousi, leader of the terror cell, admitted he was schooled in explosives and poisons in Afghanistan, then plotted in Iraq with Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, a close associate of Osama bin Laden.

This still shows a link between Iraq & al-Qaeda, but it seems al-Jyaousi's training was actually done in Afghanistan.

3 posted on 04/27/2004 2:18:01 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (A vote for JF'nK is a vote for Peace in our Time!)
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To: Beckwith
President Bush has repeatedly stated one of his reasons for the invasion of Iraq was to prevent Iraqi weapons technology from falling into the hands of Al Qaeda and here is this Al Qaeda team leader stating that is exactly what happened.

Therefore, Bush has failed yet again.
< Knee-jerk leftist spin = OFF >

4 posted on 04/27/2004 2:20:54 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Beckwith
Nice... any link available to this ABC report? I know a few liberals who I'd love to see strangle on this bit of information.

Qwinn
5 posted on 04/27/2004 2:21:08 AM PDT by Qwinn
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To: Qwinn
This was on NIghtline last night, too, I saw the first 10 minutes of it before bed

6 posted on 04/27/2004 2:53:20 AM PDT by RaceBannon (VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
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I was interested to hear that the leader of the Al Qaeda cell organizing the explosive and chemical attack on the Jordanian security headquarters and the American Embassy in Jordan state that he received his training from Al-Zawahiri in Iraq, prior to the fall of Afghanistan.

I hope that this is true but there's one thing I've noticed about myself and I'm trying to break myself of the habit is that I'm quick to believe things in the press that I want to believe and quick to dismiss things that aren't.

For some reason I have my doubts about this report being true.

7 posted on 04/27/2004 3:04:19 AM PDT by Terp (Retired living in Philippines were the Mountains meet the Sea in the Land of Smiles)
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To: Terp
This wasn't a report. It was a video statement made by Azmi al-Jayousi, himself.

Again, it wasn't a report in the press. It was this man's own video-taped testimony.

8 posted on 04/27/2004 3:15:38 AM PDT by Beckwith (How you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes . . .)
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To: Beckwith
This confession will be dismissed as forced under torture. The Jordanians had these guys for several days before the confession was aired and whether it's true or not their confessions won't change anything. Don't get your hopes up.
9 posted on 04/27/2004 3:32:20 AM PDT by Arkie2
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To: Beckwith
ABC News Ping:

ABC News presented the video containing the terrorists statement, but has not made this connection or commented on it.

10 posted on 04/27/2004 3:34:51 AM PDT by GOPJ (NFL Owners: Grown men don't watch hollywood peep shows with wives and children.)
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To: Beckwith
Not Al-Zawahiri, Al-Zarquawi. Both Al Qaeda, but there is a difference, as Zawahiri is bin Laden's right hand man. No evidence of him being in Iraq.
11 posted on 04/27/2004 3:36:30 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Charter member Broken Glass Republicans (2000))
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To: Beckwith
Well, the Iraq-al Qaeda link has been proven before anyhow
12 posted on 04/27/2004 3:38:22 AM PDT by spycatcher
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To: Beckwith
Under Saddam, the weapons were contained. Because of Bush, they're in the hands of terrorists.

Coming soon to a DNC talking point near you...
13 posted on 04/27/2004 3:38:34 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Beckwith
WOW! What a catch. Thank you.

Going in my Iraq/AQ connection file.
14 posted on 04/27/2004 4:05:49 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Beckwith
Talking about it on FOX right now!
15 posted on 04/27/2004 4:08:48 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: Beckwith; xzins; Alamo-Girl; editor-surveyor; fishtank; RnMomof7; Gal.5:1; Commander8; ...
FYI.......ping.

BTTT

16 posted on 04/27/2004 4:28:51 AM PDT by maestro
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To: Beckwith
Chemical WMD and al-Qaeda, wow, good thing they were in Jordan so the libs/dems can still claim no WMD or al-Qaeda in Iraq.

[The libs/dems remind me of something a niece pulled 25 years ago when she was about 3 years old.

All of the sudden, she starts yelling, "I can't see! I can't see!"

Family panics. "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "Why can't you see?"

Niece snickers, "I can't see....'cause I've got my eyes shut. hehehe."]
17 posted on 04/27/2004 4:32:32 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Beckwith
bump
18 posted on 04/27/2004 4:34:37 AM PDT by jonno (We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)
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To: Beckwith
Plot in Jordan could have killed upwards of 80,000 had it been successful.

[How do you get through to libs and Euroweinies that they -- Islamist fanatics -- are out to kill as many people as possible?]
19 posted on 04/27/2004 4:37:03 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Beckwith
bump
20 posted on 04/27/2004 4:53:13 AM PDT by sanchmo
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