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To: NothingMan
"Among Saddam 's description for the expected collapse of America ( as being the Americans knot axis in the Orient ) .. And that came also from its talks with the army before the invasion is by days ..."

This sounds like they're implying that this jihad was a part of Saddam's master plan.

3,709 posted on 06/09/2004 9:08:40 AM PDT by Velveeta ("Do what's right......because it's right." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Velveeta

"One of the mysteries of postwar Iraq is why the Bush Administration and our $40-billion-a-year intelligence services haven't devoted more resources to probing the links between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda. . . The reason to care goes beyond the prewar justification for toppling Saddam and relates directly to our current security."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005133

"They carefully laid plans to occupy the occupiers," said one United States government official who has read the report. "They were prepared to try and hijack the country. The goal was to complicate the stabilization mission, and democratization."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/29ENEM.html


3,746 posted on 06/09/2004 10:17:23 AM PDT by NothingMan
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