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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Yes, thanks. We need to disseminate this news.
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Yep, ping me when it shows up on AP and/or Yahoo. If this info is coming from Allawi surely AP and Yahoo would have had it by now.
And it would definitely Reuters would be running with it, however grudgeingly, but they would run with it.
Did anyone run with story that Jordan's King said that he told Saddam exactly where Zarqawi was and to turn him over and yet Saddam did nothing?
No, AP did not run with the story neither did Reuters and it was 4 days ago. It just died.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Jordan%2C+King%2C+Zarqawi%2C+Saddam
This story is much bigger and we have to make sure the media doesn't again try to just ignore another story and let it die like I am sure they will do otherwise. That is why I think we should email AP, Reuters, Fox, CNN, etc tonight and tomorrow with this story.
Yes, it appears that The Washington Times is attempting to CTS (cover their shite) by their title of their article "Review of the Arab press".
Do you know what email addresses should be used to send a message to AP, reuters, CNN, and Fox? I don't give a crap about MSNBC, they have too few viewers.
Tomorrow's news.
We already know how they'll handle this. What I want to see is how the Brigadiers and paleolibertarians (anti-war Right) is going to handle it. That should provide some uproarious entertainment!
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I've searched for AKI news these days and have been surprised about the quality about news on terrorism and terrorist. It is uncertain how accurate the news are but it covers news that often other news source do not get. You will notice some of the news posted on Free Republic are from this site.
No, I don't find that they have. However I do see that that story came from the very same avenue that this one does. And starts out in about the same fashion.
Jordan king: Iraq refused to deport Zarqawi
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Published May 19, 2005
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jordan's King Abdullah revealed Thursday that Iraq's former Baath regime had refused to deport Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for ongoing terrorism in Iraq.
Speaking in an interview with Saudi daily al-Hayat, Abdullah said Zarqawi, a Jordanian, is well entrenched in Iraq and that "he and terrorists like him thrive in such places where security and stability are non-existent."
I would think that King Abdullah would have revealed that info way before now if he was going to reveal it at all.
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Why would you think King Abdullah would have released that info long ago, it is not like that info mattered at all to him. I honestly don't think King Abdullah would have cared if Kerry had won, mostly because the president has been giving Abdullah alot of flack trying to get him to reform democratically. I don't think Abdullah would have released that info earlier, because I don't think he cared if the president was re-elected or not.
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It has nothing to do with GWB's reelection. IMHO King Abdullah relayed info to GWB prior to Iraqi Freedom during a visit to the Crawford Ranch. This was prior to Powell's speech at the UN. Sometime around March 2002.
Don't...hold...your...breath.
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If this is true all the pieces should fit together and if Allawis documents are legit (and I see no possible reason why he would lie about it) then everything will fall into place and the story will only get out slowly if the MSM doesn't pick it up, but it will end up getting out.
I emailed all the sources above, because I believe the MSM cares more about profit then idology, if they think they can make a buck playing up this news story they will run it inspite of all the liberals ringing their hands over it, and all we need to do is show interest in the story.
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