Al Qaeda's Opening Shot in Iraq War (Pro-US Iraqi Opposition Leaders Assassinated) (Debka)

Debka ^ | Feb. 9, 2003 | Debka

[FairOpinion]

Note especially this part:

"The three-way collaboration between Baghdad, al Qaeda and the Kurdish fundamentalist terrorists provided a live and incontrovertible smoking gun. The price was heavy, a grave setback for US war plans.

DEBKAfile’s military analysts compare the murders to the assassination of the Afghan Northern Alliance commander Shah Massoud two days before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

The wiping out the PUK high command in Suleimaniyeh has alerted Western counter-terror agencies to the possibility of its being the precursor for another massive al Qaeda strike against the United States or its allies."

[AntiGuv]

Intriguing! I'd not seen any information about this anywhere else (and I'm a voracious news junkie). Thanks for the post.

[Former Proud Canadian]

There is a reason you haven't seen this in the lame stream meadia, it is real news.

[jnarcus]

Guess this news adds some substance for upgrading the Alert Status to Orange, huh? We ought to quit sitting in the library diddling around and go ahead and do the job...

[hillsborofox]

We should have gone in last week, at the latest. Kowtowing to the UN benefits only Saddam and the murderous dirt Islamists.

[Fusion]

The congruency between this killing and the assassination of General Masoud on September 9, 2001 should send alarm bells ringing at the highest levels in the West. Combined with the Chechen counter-offensive now begun, and the rash of political killing in the Balkans over the weekend, it appears the Islamic entente is about to imminently unleash its next WMD strike -- with Great Britain the likely target.

American television with the usual myriad of "experts" Friday discussing the latest alert level increase. Each was quick to mention the Haj as a factor yet not a single time could the so-called "experts" answer the question of "when does the Haj end." Everyone of them giving the same stock reply - "next week sometime."

This because none of the experts know that the Muslim Holy Man determines this termination by sighting the moon in a specific phase and adding five days. The Haj ends on February 13 this year and it bodes ill for the West.

The West had better wake up fast or it will be too late. The so-called "leaders" out of touch with the scale of the coming Islamic entente strike -- it will literally make 9/11 look like a ripple in the pond. President Bush must uptempo the US invasion plans for Iraq and should immediately utilise the "Hasty Mobilisation" option -- where US forces can begin the attack within 48 hours.

The clock is ticking for London -- no doubt this coming week will see Western markets crushed as foreign investors flee for safety...

May the Christian god have mercy on the UK...

The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.

[Newbomb Turk]

Check out the Google new site at the bottom. I saw it there a couple of hrs ago.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Senator_Palpatine]

This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans,

Begin landing your troops......

[RummyChick]

damn france russia germany china to hell if something happens

bush wanted to do something..he has gotten bogged down trying to get world support
and if we get nailed in the meantime...he will get the blame

Putin is a back stabbing SOB..at least we have always known that the French are cheese eating surrender monkeys

[Campion]

The three-way collaboration between Baghdad, al Qaeda

This is impossible. Iraq and al-Qaeda have nothing to do with one another. Iraq is diverting us from the war on terror; both the Smartest Woman in the World and President-in-waiting Al Gore have said so.

</sarcasm>

[Kay Soze]

"The three-way collaboration between Baghdad, al Qaeda and the Kurdish fundamentalist terrorists provided a live and incontrovertible smoking gun. The price was heavy, a grave setback for US war plans. We must make certain even at the wonderful expense of losing the UN, France and Germany's "friendship" that we the USA does not pay a heavy price waiting for the gun to fire which in turn will display the "smoking gun".!

[Mossad1967]

The last time Al-Queda assassinated an opponet in Afghanistan, it was followed shortly thereafter by the events of September 11th. I have a bad feeling that this a pre cursor to a massive Al-Queda operation in the US!

[carl in alaska]

"...it will literally make 9/11 look like a ripple in the pond."

What do you think they're going to do to make 9/11 look like a ripple in a pond? I don't believe they have nukes, although they might have some dirty bombs. It's not as easy to attack an adversary who's expecting an attack. 9/11 was a "sucker punch" where they hit us when we weren't looking for it. Believe me, the American public is riled up about Al Qaeda. If they try a chemical weapons attack, those guys will be caught and shot by an angry gang of gun owners...and the FBI won't be able to stop it.

[applemac_g4]

Having learned the lesson that Muslims don't defect twice now, perhaps it will stick and the next time one of these allahific a**holes tries it, the good guys will just put a bullet in his brain.

[Publius Maximus]

I'd not seen any information about this anywhere else (and I'm a voracious news junkie).

try this: AP report

[Mossad1967]

This is going to be a bad week! We must all pray! Evil is trying to destroy us!

[FairOpinion]

By now it's in a lot of places, but they just mention "Kurd leaders assassinated", without putting it into context, explaining the importance and implications of this, as Debka did.

[a_Turk]

>>Before he was murdered, PUK commander, Gen. Mushir received heavy cannons for his militia, supplied by the Turkish army at the request of the Americans, for the purpose of mounting action to capture the Ansar enclave. This operation has meanwhile been called off.

Hope they gave back our cannon..

[Maelstrom]

bump
Reliability of DEBKA question.