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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Rascal who wrote (104553)7/10/2003 1:47:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
THE FACTS:
The alleged Al Qaeda training camp, which Colin Powell described to the United Nations in February, is later revealed to be outside Iraq's control and patrolled by Allied warplanes. By late June, Michael Chandler, the head of the U.N. team monitoring global efforts to counter Al Qaeda tells Agence France Press: "We have never had information presented to us -- even though we've asked questions -- which would indicate that there is a direct link."


These "facts" are just counterspin. A good many sober reports have come from Kurdistan regarding the ties between Ansar al Islam and Saddam's intelligence services. Ansar was clearly getting outside support. Yet your article presents the "fact" that Ansar operated in Kurdistan as some kind of definitive proof that there were no ties between it and Saddam, which is absurd on its face. A more sensible debate would present evidence that it was supported by Iran or Al Qaeda instead, but I have seen no evidence of that.

Moreover, the terrorist training camp that Colin Powell referred to was NOT in Kurdistan. Powell was talking about Salman Pak, which lies about twenty miles south of Baghdad, in territory that was always Iraqi-controlled.

After reading this much mendaciousness in just the first paragraph, I didn't bother to go on.
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