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To: thames_sider who wrote (100498)	6/6/2003 2:16:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

this group took land - Saddam didn't provide them any safe haven, they took land that we'd blocked him from keeping in his dictatorship. If they took the land from anyone, it ws the Kurds, or us. Do you really believe that Saddam was helpless and had no troops? He fought the Kurds off and on the whole 12 years. He actively worked on Arabizing Kirkuk and Mosul, chucking Kurds out of their homes to increase his control of the border areas. Do you really think that this small force of of a few hundred Ansar-al-Islam wouldn't have been attacked, and attacked succesfully, if Saddam had wanted them out? Instead, Iraqi intelligence aided them against the Kurds. They were a useful proxy force. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000 this agent offered al-Qaida safe haven in the region. Translation: the Iraqi intelligence agent, who exercised control over the proxy force of Ansar al-Islam on behalf of the Saddam regime, instructed Ansar to open their doors to fleeing Al Qaeda agents. I would be a lot slower accusing other people of not being able to read, if I were you.

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