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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (301910)9/1/2006 11:02:56 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1574109
 
"Zarqawi has set up a terrorist camp in the Kurdish part of Iraq. He was not affiliated with Saddam Hussein even if he did go to Baghdad which is still unclear. He did not hook up with bin Laden until after the US invaded Iraq"

WE actually protected Zarqawi FROM Saddam with our "No Fly" zone to protect the Kurds.

washingtonmonthly.com

"..former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit:

He told Four Corners that during 2002, the Bush Administration received detailed intelligence about Zarqawi's training camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.

...."Almost every day we sent a package to the White House that had overhead imagery of the house he was staying in. It was a terrorist training camp...experimenting with ricin and anthrax...any collateral damage there would have been terrorists."

So why wasn't Bush willing to hit Zarqawi, a known al-Qaeda terrorist in a known location? Scheuer says he was told it was because Bush was afraid of annoying the French — a theory that seems a bit of a stretch, non? Others believe it was because Zarqawi was politically convenient: having him alive allowed Bush to pretend that Saddam was "harboring terrorists," thus providing useful ammunition for the war."
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