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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?

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From: Rock_nj2/17/2005 11:42:09 AM
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War Helps Recruit Terrorists, Hill Told Intelligence Officials Talk Of Growing Insurgency

By Dana Priest and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 17, 2005; Page A01

The insurgency in Iraq continues to baffle the U.S. military and intelligence communities, and the U.S. occupation has become a potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, top U.S. national security officials told Congress yesterday.

"Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists," CIA Director Porter J. Goss told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss prepares to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with other national security officials as committee member Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) watches. (Lucian Perkins -- The Washington Post)

"These jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focused on acts of urban terrorism," he said. "They represent a potential pool of contacts to build transnational terrorist cells, groups and networks in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other countries."

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Geeze, what a brilliant idea to attack Iraq in the name of fighting terrorism?!? We've stirred up a hornet's nest that is sure to create a backlash. This Attack on Iraq is the stupidest thing the U.S. has ever done and it wasn't even a war authorized by Congress as stipulated by the Constitution. All this for oil? Our leaders are insane!
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