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To: Elsewhere who wrote (127078)	3/23/2004 1:57:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

However, some experts have questioned this thesis saying that Ansar al-Islam was present in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq prior to the US-led war, and that it promoted an ideology hostile to Saddam's Baathist party. Implying that if Ansar was present in Iraq before March 2003, it couldn't have had any relation to Al Qaeda? Say what? Completely illogical. Certainly it was there; did you read Jeffrey Goldberg's articles from Kurdistan at the time. As for ideology, of course all the Islamists had an ideology hostile to Saddam's secular Ba'ath. Didn't prevent them from taking Saddam's money when it suited, nor for that matter did it prevent Saddam from trying to claim the Islamist mantle when it looked politically promising. "Experts" like this doubtless spent the thirties explaining how the Third Reich and the Soviet Union could never sign a treaty, either.

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