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To: Quad Sevens who wrote (3399)	1/26/2004 9:25:33 AM
From: Magnatizer	Respond to of 3592

Wade When you address me as one of the "war mongers" and then go onto speak of President Bush's WMD allegations I can only assume you regard me as a Republican. This is a fact. I am a Republican. However, as you may or may not understand the belief that Saddam possessed WMD goes farther back then the current administration. cnn.com I am sorry the intelligence was poor regarding WMD's. Perhaps if Clinton and Kerry had not cut the feet out from under our intelligence gathering organizations we would have collected higher quality data. Mag

To: Quad Sevens who wrote (3399)	2/4/2004 9:14:50 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3592

Wade. You said...." The URL you gave takes us to a story about Ansar al-Islam. If you do some research, which I doubt you'll do, you'll find that these Islamic nuts established themselves in Kurdish regions in the north of Iraq in 2001. This region had been out of the control of Saddam Hussein since 1991, because of the no-fly zone created by the US and England and enforced by the US military from a base in Turkey."...... I don't understand your logic...How does the USA enforcing the no fly zone prevent an-islam from doing what they want on the ground in Northern Iraq...No USA forces on the ground that I heard of. Also they are sunni muslims...so was/is sadam. Ansar al-Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan (Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan) is one of a number of Sunni Islamist groups based in the Kurdish-controlled northern provinces of Iraq. Its bases are in and around the villages of Biyara and Tawela, which lie northeast of the town of Halabja in the Hawraman region of Sulaimaniya province bordering Iran. hrw.org --------------------- Names Ansar al-Islam (Supporters of Islam) Jund al-Islam Soldiers of God General Ansar al-Islam is a radical Kurdish Islamic group that is supportive of Saddam Hussein's regime. This group is located in the pseudo-autonomous Northern Iraq. This group has ties with Taliban and al-Qaeda. It is the most radical group operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Background Ansar al-Islam was established in December 2001 after a merger between Jund al-Islam, led by Abu Abdallah al-Shafi'i and the Islamic Movement splinter group led by Mullah Krekar. Both leaders are believed to have served in Afghanistan. The group is based in Biyarah and surrounding areas near the border with Iran. iraqinews.com --------------------------- Kurdistan Ansar al-Islam A radical Islamist group – with possible links to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein – is growing and threatening the stability of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. The group – Ansar al-Islam – emerged just days before the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. It delivered a fatwa, or manifesto, to the citizens in mountain villages against "the blasphemous secularist, political, social, and cultural" society there, according to Kurdish party leaders. Since, Ansar al-Islam has nearly doubled in size to 700, including Iraqis, Jordanians, Moroccans, Palestinians, and Afghans – a composition similar to the multinational Al Qaeda network. Villagers here claim it has ransacked and razed beauty salons, burned schools for girls, and murdered women in the streets for refusing to wear the burqa. It has seized a Taliban-style enclave of 4,000 civilians and several villages near the Iran border. qrmapps.com ------------------------------------ More inf on ansar-al-islam. search.foxnews.com