[Peach]

ANYONE care to deal with the fact that before the war, Zarqawi's operations were in the Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq that was indisputably not under the control of Saddam's government?

Sure sounds to me like you think Saddam didn't know about terrorist activities in Kurdish territory because it wasn't "under his control". And to think that Saddam didn't control Iraq in all territories is rather naive, isn't it?

You seem so committed to the fact that Saddam didn't support and work with AQ. Where's your proof he didn't?

I'm sure Saddam "knew" that AQ was operating in Iran, but that doesn't create ties between him and AQ.

Do you mean Iraq?

Oh, so you don't think he had ties with AQ but he knew in advance about 9/11 and he let them train there and just didn't interfere. Is that your position? It is certainly contrary to everything that has been written about his control of his own country.

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No, I mean Iran. He had as much control in Iran as he did in the Kurdish area where Ansar had their hq. So what's the difference?

You can throw about the Chalabi allegations all you want, but that is not the premise of this article.

Prove he didn't? You are joking, right?

Prove Prince Turki al-Faisal didn't know about 9-11 beforehand.