Al Qaeda fighting with Iraqi's (as reported by ABC News)

ABC Radio News Update~Chicago ^ | 03/27/2003

[cherry_bomb88]

BREAKING NEWS...according to ABC radio news, captured Iraqi troops are telling British soldiers that some Al Qaeda are fighting with Iraqi soldiers. (still looking for print version of this)

[Mark]

I'll go check the LA Times site....Be right back, fer sure..

[cardinal4]

The enemy of my enemy.....

[Preachers Kid]

True. I've no doubt the two are in bed together, never have doubted that. I only hope we are able to prove it.

[TheRightGuy]

captured Iraqi troops are telling British soldiers that some Al Qaeda are fighting with Iraqi soldiers

Fighting with the Iraqis or fighting for the Iraqis?

[Porterville]

[dfwgator]

Stalin and Hitler hated each other too, but they still signed a non-agression pact and agreed to carve up Poland.

[cherry_bomb88]

Not BS, was on the radio....it's an early report....I'm still looking for the written version....will post as soon as I find it...and if you look at the other posts, apparently I wasn't the only one that heard it

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Link here: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653833092.html

[Dog]

Everyone go easy here....the freeper heard it on the radio ....and another freeper confirmed he heard the same thing.......so everyone chill.

[MAWG]

Al Qaeda fighting coalition forces?

This cant be true. Al Qaeda dont fight with those who have weapons and can fight back.They only kill innocent civilians, not soldiers. There must be some mistake.

[cherry_bomb88]

My bad....what a difference a word can make...they are fighting FOR the Iraqis

[Wavyhill]

Anyone want to bet that these comprise all of the "fanatic Iraqis enraged at the US invasion"?

[stands2reason]

If it's not on the internet, it didn't happen! (/sarcasm)

[Porterville]

Like Chirac and Hussien.

[Mears]

Thanks for the link. I hope this connection with the two groups will shut some of the anti's up!!!!!(wishful thinking)

[Dog]

Al-Qaeda fighting with Iraqis, British claim March 28 2003, 9:41 AM

Near Basra, Iraq: British military interrogators claim captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein's forces against allied troops near Basra.

At least a dozen members of Osama bin Laden's network are in the town of Az Zubayr where they are coordinating grenade and gun attacks on coalition positions, according to the Iraqi prisoners of war.

It was believed that last night (Thursday) British forces were preparing a military strike on the base where the al-Qaeda unit was understood to be holed up.

A senior British military source inside Iraq said: "The information we have received from PoWs today is that an al-Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr. There are possibly around a dozen of them and that is obviously a matter of concern to us."

If terrorists are found, it would be the first proof of a direct link between Saddam's regime and Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington.

The connection would give credibility to the argument that Tony Blair used to justify war against Saddam - a "nightmare scenario" in which he might eventually pass weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.

On Wednesday Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said the coalition had solid evidence that senior al-Qaeda operatives have visited Baghdad in the past.

Rumsfeld said Saddam had an "evolving" relationship with the terror network.

The presence of fanatical al-Qaeda terrorists would go some way to explaining the continued resistance to US and British forces in southern Iraq, an area dominated by Shi'ite Muslims traditionally hostile to

Saddam's regime.

Heavy fighting continued around the besieged city of Basra yesterday after British forces destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks which had struck out towards the Al Faw peninsula.

Military commanders have decided against launching an attack on Basra because of fears the operation would result in a Stalingrad-style street battle.

It is estimated the Iraqi military forces in the area have been reduced to 30 per cent fighting strength but have now embedded themselves within civilian buildings in the city.

Armed raids have destroyed transmitters and taken state radio and television off the air in Basra and effectively cutting off its communications with Baghdad.

British tanks from the 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, could be sent into Basra if there is a sudden civilian uprising against Saddam's forces

Last night, forces around the city heard loud explosions as coalition helicopter gunships were sent into the area.

This is a pooled despatch from Gethin Chamberlain of The Scotsman.

[countrydummy]

since it is supposedly coming from ABC......yes that is a surprise! :-)

[aristeides]

Thanks for the link. Al Qaeda fighting near Basra. Very odd. That's Shiite country.

I wonder if Al Qaeda had anything to do with that suicidal convoy out of Basra yesterday.

[Starstruck]

Doonesbury was just making fun of the Administration yesterday for making an Al Qaeda - Iraqi connection.
I love it when liberals are proven to be idiots.

[cherry_bomb88]

Thanks for the help...I was checking EVERYWHERE.