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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159405)	3/22/2005 12:47:05 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Conclusion: Zarqawi is a terrorist, but runs his own show. The relation to Saddam or even bin Laden is sketchy at best, especially in the run up to the invasion. This conclusion is based on the hypothesis that Zarqawi should be assumed to be independent unless proved to be working for the government. If you found him working in France, this would be a good assumption, but in a police state like Saddam's Iraq, it is a very bad assumption. Free agent terrorists do not get the run of a police state without the active cooperation of the local mukhabarat - and Saddam ran a police state. Also, the way that Zarqawi has been able to tap into Saddam's hoarded money and munitions in running the AQ part of the insurgency shows strong signs of preparatory cooperation between the former Iraqi regime and Zarqawi. As for Salman Pak, I do have quotes from Pollack and I believe Kay on them. Am on the road now, don't have the articles with me. Where did you ever read that our intel said Salman Pak was for counter-terrorism? Where did our intel ever say that Saddam was interested in counter-terrrorism? Who says the Fedayeen Saddam were anti-terror?