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.
(Excerpt) Read more at adnki.com ...
It was translated from al-Hayat an Arab newspaper.
It may be an Italian news source.....kind of guessing.....looking at the Home Page!
So where is this scumbag Faruq Hajizi now??? If he was arrested trying to re-enter Iraq, is he imprisoned in country or somewhere else?? Gee, I really hope he never had to wear panties on his head.... our hands are tied dealing with this kind of guy, but the amount of terrorist info in his brain must be huge. He must know about a large number of the worst Islamo-fascists in the world.... and plenty who are now in hell!
yeh- and George Galloway will denied it ever happened.
But your source , your link, is Italian?
so should we all bombard the news agencies with e-mails containing links to this story and call relentlessly tomorrow asking why they are not covering this story??
Yes, it is Italian, but they have been good in the past at being the first with these kind of stories.
This answers two questions I have had for years.
1) What was Abu Nidal's involvement and why was he murdered by Saddam?
2) Was there a connection with Saddam and Al Queda?
We can't be sure this is factual but it has the ring of truth. If this is true, then Bush had every legal and moral right to remove Saddam's rogue regime. This is not only a "smoking gun"; it is a raging forrest fire.
That is true for news helpful to the American War Effort, other news that hurts the efforts has a lesser standard,...per the Newsweek latest articles!!!
Yes, we should email news agencies with this and with what Jordan's king said about Zarqawi.
So far I have yet to see even Fox say anything about the three day old story that Saddam refused to turn over Zarqawi.
This could be big news if the media is made aware of it and if they think people care about it.
Thank you!!!
BINGO !!!!
If this ever makes it to the MSM Howard Dean will be totally confused. He still gets Saddam and Osama confused.
YES... UPI now has it....
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050523-095550-1714r
""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. "
Ping!
Which 50 countries, that would be all of them, wouldn't it?
here is a clearer one
http://tinylink.com/?LY8olBHx1D
We got to make sure the media hears about this one tomorrow.
Even I knew Saddam was funding and sitting on a nest of terrorism for years. One only needs to look at where the money was headed, who in the U.N. was against the Iraq war, and what the primary use of Salman Pak was for.
hahahah it seems UPI screwed up the translation of Allawis article.
Good luck in trying to get the Liberal media to beat your drum for you tomorrow, without them trying to inject some bogus horsesh!t like "GI's flushing Korans down a turlet".
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