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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...

Saddam, the ATM of Al Qaeda By Christopher S. Carson FrontPageMagazine.com | November 15, 2004 The Report of the 9/11 Commission has been digested, and the news media outlets have seized upon it as confirmation of their view that al Qaeda is a kind of purely stateless entity that never had "operational links" with rogue states like Iraq. Somehow, goes the thrust of the Report, Osama bin Laden was for years able to finance, train and supply an international terrorist corporation that had ongoing jihad operations in fifty countries - by himself, on no more than a $30 million personal...

What President George W. Bush did on Thanksgiving Day was beyond imagining. What he was able to accomplish was incalculable. If you haven't been looking at the news anywhere, here's what happened: The White House announced that the President would be enjoying Thanksgiving dinner at the ranch in Crawford TX, and that it would be a quiet dinner at home. The reality was that the President secretly got aboard Air Force one, flew to Andrews, and at Andrews AFB, changed planes and flew to Baghdad to visit the troops there. That he would go to the hottest battleground in the...

Someone should ask President Bush if upon leaving the residence Tuesday morning, did he look down and find a twenty-dollar bill on the ground. If that has ever happened to you, it sometimes portends the onset of a good day at the office. The 25th of November was such a day for the incumbent George W. Bush, an exceptionally good day. ITEM: Tuesday started out with Bush's biggest domestic triumph to date since his tax cuts, the passing of a Medicare reform and prescription drug bill. Viewed by the hard core party faithful as big government run amok, it cannot...

<p>Give credit where credit is due. President Bush's brief trip to Baghdad, although the ultimate photo op and ripe to be spun as an endorsement of his policies on Iraq, was a timely gesture of support for the troops in the field.</p>

Secret Baghdad visit is PR coup for BushBy Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 29/11/2003) President George W Bush was back at his Texas ranch yesterday basking in the most adulatory coverage in months, as an admiring American media described his surprise trip to Iraq as one of the boldest ever presidential forays.By turning up unexpectedly in Baghdad for Thanksgiving dinner, Mr Bush appears to have pulled off a stunning public relations coup.His secret overnight flight was glowingly compared to Abraham Lincoln's daring visits to battlefields in the Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt's summit meeting in the Atlantic with Churchill...