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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: DizzyG who wrote (51432)10/14/2008 8:56:54 AM
From: cirrus2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 224655
 
Perhaps it is you who should expand your reading list. Repeatedly citing only Stephen Hayes confirms the narrowness of your argument... the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.

Ambassador David Mack is a terrorism expert at the Middle East Institute in Washington. He said since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, Ansar al-Islam has expanded its goals to destabilizing the fledging Iraqi democracy and undermining the new government's international support. This tactic has led to devastating attacks on UN headquarters and the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad.

And it has ties to al-Qaeda through Abu Masab al-Zarqawi, a Sunni Muslim and head of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Matt Levitt of the Washington Institute for near East Policy says the ties are growing.

"I think Ansar al-Islam has some pretty strong connections to the al-Qaeda core. They certainly have relationships with Zarqawi. There's debate as to whether or not Zarqawi was the head of Ansar al-Islam, [or whether] he's connected to Ansar al-Islam. The nature of the relationships [is] unclear. What's important is to understand and recognize that they are there," explains Matt Levitt.

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