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CHENEY: ..."Look at the Zarqawi case. Here's a man who's Jordanian by birth. He's described as an al-Qaida associate. He ran training camps in Afghanistan back before we went to war in Afghanistan. After we went in and hit his training camp, he fled to Baghdad. Found safe harbor and sanctuary in Baghdad in May of 2002. He arrived with about two dozen other supporters of his, members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which was Zawahiri's organization. He's the number two to bin Laden, which was merged with al-Qaida interchangeably. Egyptian Islamic Jihad, al-Qaida, same-same. They're all now part of one organization. They merged some years ago. So Zarqawi living in Baghdad. We arranged for information to be passed on his presence in Baghdad to the Iraqis through a third-party intelligence service. They did that twice."

This is new news to me. Has anyone heard anything like this before.

Note - I don't think this is the trip to Baghdad to fix up the old leg although I supposed it could be. This is a trip to Baghdad after Zarqawi was kicked out of Afganistan. The fact that the U.S. advised Saddam of his presence is certainly news to me also.

And last - Cheney is ON FIRE.

No, I hadn't heard it! Thanks for bringing this up in your post because it struck me too as I read it. Particularly how we arranged for intel on his presence to be passed to the Iraqi's.

Bit of inside information there I believe. Dog, have you heard this?

Interesting Ping MadIvan

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I knew he (Zarqawi) went to Baghdad in May 2002 - he went to Uday's hospital to get fixed up after getting hurt in Afghanistan. I had no idea he was accompanied by members of Zawahiri's Islamic Jihad. O'Reilly even mentioned it tonight when debunking the media's take on the report today.