Nothing like a friendly post to start my afternoon read of the thread. And how are you, Hawk? Well, if you feel so strongly about this issue, please offer some evidence of government support for Al Q, right now. Not three or four years ago. That's not Hezbollah and not Hamas and not several other groups. Just Al Q.
If your reply is that they are all tied together, then I ask for evidence? Not something on the level of we think Atta met with Iraqi agents, but something that is supportable
The Saudis paid Al Qaeda $300 million only recently, as tribute or extortion money. Al Qaeda did a formal merger with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Zuwahari's organization, in 1999, which in turn is a sister organization to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and often aids Hamas as well. Iraq has been spreading money all over the West Bank recently, paying salaries, paying the families of suicide bombers, and Iraqi intelligence has been working with Palestinian terrorists, who now include Al Qaeda men, as does Hizbullah, supported by Iran to the tune of $100 million a year. Iraq has trained terrorists at Salman Pak and Iraqi intelligence works with Ansar al Islam. All the major terrorist groups receive support from Syria as well and have offices in Baghdad; Atta did make several trips there.
These are facts established to a high degree of probability, not guesses. Doesn't this amount to quite a lot of evidence that the terrorist groups do, indeed, work together? I mean, how can you say "just Al Qaeda" and ignore the Muslim Brotherhood, when the two groups have formally merged? |
