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Iraq: Former PM Reveals Secret Service Data on Birth of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (Great News)
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Posted on 05/23/2005 7:15:19 PM PDT by jmc1969

Baghdad, 23 May - The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information discovered by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein regime, which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Islamic terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian militant al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period.

"Al-Zawahiri was summoned by Izza Ibrahim Al-Douri – then deputy head of the council of the leadership of the revolution - to take part in the congress, along with some 150 other Islamic figures from 50 Muslim countries," Allawi said.

According to Allawi, important information has been gathered regarding the presence of another key terrorist figure operating in Iraq - the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Allawi's remarks come after statements to al-Hayat by King Abdallah II of Jordan over Saddam's refusal to hand over al-Zarqawi to the authorities in Amman.

On this question Allawi said: ''The words of the Jordanian King are correct and important. We have proof of al-Zawahiri's visit to Iraq, but we do not have the precise date or information on al-Zarqawi's entry

In Allawi's view, Saddam's government "sponsored" the birth of al-Qaeda in Iraq, coordinating with other terrorist groups, both Arab and Muslim. "The Iraqi secret services had links to these groups through a person called Faruq Hajizi, later named Iraq's ambassador to Turkey and arrested after the fall of Saddam's regime as he tried to re-enter Iraq. Iraqi secret agents helped terrorists enter the country and directed them to the Ansar al-Islam camps in the Halbija area," he said.

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To: FreeKeys
Newsmax interview 2004:

Bodansky:

Al-Qaida has always been an amorphous entity.

From an operational point of view, of significance are the terrorist groups run by and/or associated with the International Front for Confronting the Crusaders and the Jews.

There has been a major expansion since winter 2001 with the operational cadres (would-be terrorists) increasing by three-fold and the active support elements increasing by ten-fold.
Most significant is the flow of thoroughly westernized Muslims in Western Europe into the ranks of the would-be terrorists. Moreover, there is an ongoing radicalization and alienation of ever greater segments of the Muslim world even if only a relative few resort to violence.
However, of far greater significance is the fact that there is NO real counter-movement throughout the Muslim world since the fall of 2001. There is no popular movement calling for moderation, modernization, co-existence with the West, etc.
Osama bin Laden has never been in direct operational control over the majority of the Jihadist-Islamist groups.
Ayman al-Zawahiri has controlled, and is still controlling, the key elite terrorist formations committed to spectacular strikes of strategic or global significance.
The marked expansion of the Islamist-Jihadist movement since fall 2001, concurrent with the reduced importance of the Afghan-Pakistani hub, resulted in the growing pronouncement of the regional distinction of the various Islamist-Jihadist groups, particularly those with charismatic commanders and leaders.
Bin Laden, however, remains the undisputed supreme spiritual authority that charts the overall course of the Jihad.
Ideologically and theologically, all of these developments are still the manifestation of the growing alienation of the Muslim world from the West and the grassroots adoption of the call for fateful confrontation bin Laden has been advocating since late 1990s.
By mid-2002, the U.S. preoccupation with Baghdad the former sacred capital of the Caliphate, as distinct from Saddam Husseins secular Iraq resulted in the eruption of Islamist zeal based on the cataclysmic legacy of the Hulagu Khan syndrome.
I discuss this issue in great detail in the Introduction to "The Secret History of the Iraq War." Needless to say that the subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq and the widespread destruction wrought only aggravated the situation and confirmed bin Ladens worst-case scenario.
In a nutshell, going to a warranted and justified war to disarm and topple the Saddan Hussein regime, the U.S. completely ignored the much wider and more profound global Islamic ramifications of such a move particularly the inevitable worldwide Islamist-Jihadist mobilization.
We now pay dearly for this oversight and will continue to do so for generations to come.

Bodansky is right...

Its Al Harb[House of war] folks.......we are in denial.

121 posted on 05/25/2005 2:50:40 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: jmc1969

It's just an illegal war, all about oil for the Bush family, the libs will never believe anything else. We could have pictures and they'd say they were falsified.


122 posted on 05/25/2005 2:53:06 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki
"We could have pictures and they'd say they were falsified."

You mean like these? Notice the airliner (Sept 11, 2001), and train cars, (Madrid 3/11/04), in the Salman Pac terrorist training facility outside Baghdad in this 2000 satellite photo. Click the image to get high resolution.

Al Qaeda Training Site Near Bagdad, Click for high resolution detailed image, 220K



I keep this and a lot more on my homepage for anyone's use.
123 posted on 05/25/2005 7:05:59 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: DocRock

Newsweek will be on this like odour on feces... lol


124 posted on 05/25/2005 8:02:40 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Light Speed

Thanks.


125 posted on 05/25/2005 8:16:40 PM PDT by FreeKeys (You can trace our failures to stop terror all the way back to Jimmy Carter and Sen. Frank Church (D))
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To: FreeKeys

bttt


126 posted on 05/26/2005 12:03:16 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (whats wrong with a draft?)
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To: God luvs America

The media will ignore it. It never happened. End of story.


127 posted on 05/27/2005 9:33:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Has anyone seen this on any of our news shows?


128 posted on 05/30/2005 9:45:48 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: jmc1969

Note that the guy who summoned Zawahiri was Izzat al Douri and al Douri’s back; also note that Zawahiri is now the head of alQaeda.


129 posted on 10/21/2014 6:36:08 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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