Posted on 05/21/2005 1:10:34 AM PDT by Wiz
The UPI reports today that King Abdullah of Jordan told a Saudi newspaper that Jordan wanted Abu Musab al-Zarqawi extradited to Amman prior to Saddam Hussein's removal by US forces. Saddam refused to extradite the terrorist mastermind, providing him sanctuary instead (courtesy of Laurie Mylroie):
Jordan's King Abdullah revealed Thursday that Iraq's former Baath regime had refused to deport Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for ongoing terrorism in Iraq.
Speaking in an interview with Saudi daily al-Hayat, Abdullah said Zarqawi, a Jordanian, is well entrenched in Iraq and that "he and terrorists like him thrive in such places where security and stability are non-existent." ...
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ping!
Are we shocked?
Sure does explain alot.
PING
Noted and ping.
He was set up a long time ago... I can't wait tell we F..... him..;-)
THANKS for the ping Jet Jaguar.
Not surprising, now is it?
But Saddam didn't support terrorism. He wasn't a threat to anyone, least of all the US.
I have no excuse for being up at this hour - do you? can I borrow it?
strong in the Farce, you are...
Nod.
*inscrutable look*
Jet Jaguar wrote:
That's an easy one. Tell 'em you are in Korea and it is 5:55 pm.
That the excuse I always use
--> Hey Scott Peterson used the excuse, he said he was in France calling his mistress when he infact was home. He got caught lying LOL
Thing is, I am...
;0)
Amman, 20 May (AKI) - Jordan made ''big efforts'' to get Saddam Hussein's regime to hand over the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but their extradition requests were repeatedly rejected, says Jordan's King Abdullah has said. He told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat they had given Saddam's government all the information needed to catch al-Zarqawi, who had been sentenced to death in Jordan for terrorist activities, but it was all ''in vain.''
''We had information that he entered Iraq from a neighbouring country, where he lived and what he was doing. We informed the Iraqi authorities about all this detailed information we had, but they didn't respond,'' King Abdullah said.
The US authorities have placed a 25 million dollar bounty on al-Zarqawi, who is leading the insurgency in Iraq, in the name of the al-Qaeda terror network. He has claimed responsibility for many of the worst atrocities in the country, including car bomb attacks and the beheading of foreign hostages.
Al-Zarqawi was sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan in connection with the assassination of an American diplomat there in October 2002. In 1994 he began a fifteen year jail sentence for plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime, but was released in 1999 under a general amnesty. He is also believed to have planned a foiled chemical attack in the country and - along with twelve other men, three of whom are also fugitives - faces charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks, manufacturing and possessing explosives.
Nothing but a two bit criminal out to do as much damage as he can to the world he doesn't want to be part of. A world that now fights for the destruction of freedom and liberty, as we know it. A world of horror, terror, blood, destruction, and hate. There is no doubt who the leader of that world is, and his minions are legion.
A news search for, Abdullah Zarqawi Saddam location:U.S., turned up exactly one reference to this story. Yes, a DemocraticUnderground poster "news" source claimed that conservatives are idiots for believing anything like this. (Google's new "quality" news sources at work! Google at its finest: BEWARE!)
A news search for, Abdullah Zarqawi Saddam location:England, turned up a couple of references to this story.
Question: What is "The Spike?" Well, one answer is "a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980*) based on the premise that some news organizations 'spike', i.e., refuse to publish, stories that do not support their leftist political views."
One dictionary definition: " A thin, sharp-pointed vertical rod for impaling papers; a spindle."
The MSM uses a virtual spike these days but in the old days stories that the public were never to see were impaled and later discarded in the trash.
* Notice the date, 1980. That was decades after the MSM "journalists" appeared as skid marks on journalism's clean shorts and claimed the right to report on "the way things ought to be."
We have restored the free press. Don't ever let them destroy the free press again. It's worth defending with blood. Our free press, their blood.
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