Islamist: al-Qaida holds coalition troops

UPI ^ | 4/02/03

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Let them come, if they can get in. They can die with the Fedayeen Saddam. Just an opportunity to kill a few more thugs who are only capable of threatening unarmed and unsuspecting people.

[browardchad]

If "last Saturday" refers 3/29, there are no U.S. troops reported missing on that date, according to the latest list. Ditto for 3/22.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Israel

[iconoclast]

Do you know of a mideast country in which the Al-Quaeda is not welcomed with open arms?

Touche.

Try this on for size.

Is there a Muslim nation in the Mideast or North Africa where Al-Quaeda would be persona non-grata. Even Jordan seems up in arms.

[Kadric]

"Do you know of a mideast country in which the Al-Quaeda is not welcomed with open arms?"

Israel. Though they may have their arms open I don't think it for the type of welcome these guys would like.

[Teetop]

LOL! Good one Michael, but I believe they would be welcomed in Israel.....welcome to be shot & killed (which I agree with doing that).

It is going to be so funny to see the treasure-trove of information that comes out of Iraq after all of this is done with. Especially how France, Germany, Russia, Syria & China fit into all that went on in the UN. We have a good idea, but the paper-trail will make it that much sweeter!

[D-fendr]

al-Qaeda said it would enter Iraq in the wake of the chaos the invasion created.

Iraq has become a much more hostile place for al-Queda "in the wake of the chaos."

Just ask their compadres in the North - those still upright - if you can find them.

[jwalburg]

Janet Reno 1999 warns about threat

[Destro]

There are no current links between the Iraqi regime and the al-Qaeda network, according to an official British intelligence report seen by BBC News-Wednesday, 5 February, 2003, 10:05 GMT

[justshutupandtakeit]

What makes you think these Islamaniac terrorist groups are not all linked? Al Queda claims to have hit on 9/11 because US forces were on the "holy" land of Saudi Arabia. What that really means is that until that force is removed Saddam was unable to do what he wished and conquer Kuwait and S.A. Thus the 9/11 attack was designed to help remove that constraint on Saddam. That was its only purpose.

al Queda's entire thrust is based on protection of Saddam. It did not exist when the Afgans were fighting the Soviets so the US had nothing to do with its creation. Those were different fighters not yet organized under OBL.

AQ's pretense to be against Saddam is easily seen through. Care to name one act against Saddam that AQ has taken? Didn't think so.

[Destro]

Care to name one act against Saddam that AQ has taken?

OH yea! The biggest action there is! Al-Qaeda started because the Saudis did not allow Osama's al-Qaeda to fight Saddam! You did know that right?

When he joined the guerrilla campaign by the Afghan Mujahidin to force the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan, bin Laden was only too happy to accept support from America, in particular the CIA, which was helping to arm and finance the rebels. Back in Saudi Arabia, he found himself without a cause until Saddam ordered the invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. At the time, bin Laden was strongly opposed to the Iraqi action.

With its secular, Arab nationalist roots, modern Iraq is anathema to Islamic radicals such as bin Laden, who regard the ruling Baath Party as corrupt, Godless whisky-drinkers. Bin Laden was torn and urged the Saudi leadership to reject the help of the US-led coalition and instead fight the Iraqis with their own, hopelessly outnumbered, forces.

The tactic had little appeal, but when US troops remained in Saudi Arabia after the war was over in 1991, he began to gain support for the expulsion of non-Muslim Americans from Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the site of the two holiest mosques in Islam.

That campaign did begin to gain support and bin Laden was stripped of his nationality and expelled, becoming a fugitive and nascent terrorist. From then on, he joined any cause that would further his interests.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You think THAT is proof and reject all the other proof posted here for months of the connections to al Queda? Mighty selective there bro. Where are the quotes of OBL protesting the Kuwait invasion? Where is there any evidence of a connection between OBL and Saudi "leadership?" No one would have bothered with anything OBL said in 1990 particularly the Saudis.

That article referenced indicates that the tape does prove a connection anyway. It was always my belief that tape was the work of Langley not OBL who is splattered on the wall of a cave most likely.

If al Queda was formed to fight against Saddam when did it ever do so? Not when Salman Pak had AQ hijackers training there. Not when the number 2/3 leader was being treated in Baghdad after being blasted in Afganistan. And certainly not when it was setting up a large terrorist camp in the North to fight the anti-Saddam Kurds.

[justshutupandtakeit]

This "report" is likely bogus and concocted by the anti-war weenies to sabotage Blair. If legitimate it still has little significance since Blair ignored it or was he irretriveably caught up in the Bush "rush to war?"

You can find similiar stuff on any issue and most are as easily discredited as this one. Why would Blair go against his intelligence agencies to launch a costly and highly unpopular war if there was any validity to the report? The obvious answer is that this "report" is either fraudulent or was superceded by more current information.

I suppose you also don't believe the USA and the USSR were able to fight a common enemy in WW2 because of ideological differences.

Given the modern state of journalism's incompetence and bias I doubt that any REAL report would be accurately and honestly summarized or understood.

You don't believe we are losing this war do you?

[Darksheare]

Nope, no negotiations with terrorists.
And if they kill any of our boys, then they've signed their death warrants.

[Destro]

Where are the quotes of OBL protesting the Kuwait invasion?

You are red in the face for nothing, Bro. All I have done on FreeRepublic is post about al-Qaeda (90% of my posts). You probably read them. If link to Saddam and Osama is their -it is weak.

Tha assertion that Osama wanted to fight Saddam is well known and documented.

PS: Osama also had contacts with Turkey--can we invade them (he was helping Turkey and the Chechens against Russia)

[Destro]

The USA can't lose any war. It can lose the peace though.

[Junior]

Do you know of a mideast country in which the Al-Quaeda is not welcomed with open arms?

Israel?

[lewislynn]

All I have done on FreeRepublic is post about al-Qaeda (90% of my posts).

Post about? Or defend?

If link to Saddam and Osama is their -it is weak.

So now you're backing off and saying it is possible.

[Destro]

PS: One explanation as to why Osama has had diffuculty gaining access to Iraq before this war would be for 3 reasons. The Shiite majority of the South have little in common with the Waahabist Islam of al-Qaeda. The Sunni Arab minority has a tradition of secularisim and the south and center are firmly under the control of the Ba'athist police state. The only place before the war were al-Qaeda had a presence was in the Kurdish north the Saddam did not control-the al-Islam group we just targeted.

We shall see when we get to Baghdad and sift through the records of the regime.

[Destro]

I welcome a search of my posts by you. My anti-Islamist posts are legendary.