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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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This is huge.
1 posted on 05/23/2005 7:15:19 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
You're silly................Al-Qaeda was never and is not currently in Iraq.

Don't you get the democratic talking points?
2 posted on 05/23/2005 7:18:29 PM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: jmc1969

This will be in the Washington Post and NY Times tomorrow, right?


3 posted on 05/23/2005 7:21:50 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: OXENinFLA
You're silly................Al-Qaeda was never and is not currently in Iraq.

Just ask Chris Matthews. /sarcasm

4 posted on 05/23/2005 7:23:49 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: jmc1969
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.

The anthrax for the postal attacks in the U.S. probably came from Iraq. It was probably passed (in a fairly small quantity) from Iraqi intelligence to AQ.

5 posted on 05/23/2005 7:34:01 PM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
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To: jmc1969

Bingo, it all fits, good post.


6 posted on 05/23/2005 7:34:05 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: jmc1969

Great find.


7 posted on 05/23/2005 7:34:24 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: jmc1969; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Dog; Dog Gone; Mo1; TexKat; Gucho; Howlin; ...

Bombs bursting!


8 posted on 05/23/2005 7:37:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: OXENinFLA
Saw this earlier. I am waiting for a more reparable source if there is such a thing.
9 posted on 05/23/2005 7:39:21 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: jmc1969

Excellent find.

Ya just have to connect the dots, folks.

The only thing I regret is that we didn't go all the way to Baghdad in 1991 and "take out the trash" sooner.

Semper Fi,
Kelly


10 posted on 05/23/2005 7:40:36 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: OXENinFLA

In Allawi's view, Saddam's government "sponsored" the birth of al-Qaeda in Iraq, coordinating with other terrorist groups, both Arab and Muslim.

I've been beating that drum for 3 years.


11 posted on 05/23/2005 7:40:49 PM PDT by Peach
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To: pissant

seriously...let's see how the media handles this....


12 posted on 05/23/2005 7:42:45 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: jmc1969

But ... but ... but ... we've been assured by the Democrats and the UN that Al-Qaeda had no connection to Iraq!


13 posted on 05/23/2005 7:43:35 PM PDT by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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To: jb6; GarySpFc

This is the smoking gun, with fingerprints on it.


14 posted on 05/23/2005 7:43:42 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: God luvs America

They'll say it was then Governor Bush's fault.


15 posted on 05/23/2005 7:43:56 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Pray for us all.)
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To: jmc1969

Must have been the 9-11 Concept Brief to Saddam.


16 posted on 05/23/2005 7:44:02 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What is that sorce link of www.adnki.com???


17 posted on 05/23/2005 7:45:52 PM PDT by SierraWasp (The "Heritage Oaks" in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy are full of parasitic GovernMental mistletoe!!!)
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To: jmc1969

Move along...nothing to see here.


18 posted on 05/23/2005 7:47:08 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; OXENinFLA

Bump - Thank you.


19 posted on 05/23/2005 7:47:12 PM PDT by Gucho
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To: jmc1969
Great news but convince the msm of it. Effective right now the msm needs 3 identified sources before they print the story.
20 posted on 05/23/2005 7:47:16 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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