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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159412)	3/22/2005 9:09:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Zarqawi was seen in Baghdad, not just in Kurdish areas. As for the nature of Saddam's regime, I suggest you read Makia's Republic of Fear, then tell me if there were free agents running around in Baghdad. The claim that Salman Pak was for counter-terrorism was indeed made - by Saddam - and immediately dismissed as ludicrous by the UN inspectors and other sensible observers, among whom I do not include Seymour Hersch, the reportorial vacuum cleaner as tekboy used to call him. He'll suck up anything, and has. AQ showed up in Iraq, fast, funded with Baathist money, aided by the Syrian mukhabarat. Zarqawi was declared the emir of AQ in Iraq by Osama bin Laden. This much is known and attested by the American Army and the CIA. If you choose to believe that it's all an extraordinary coincidence, you may. If you say they were only brought to together by the American invasion of Iraq, my question is: didn't they regard America as an enemy to be attacked before that? Wasn't there evidence of meetings between Zarqawi and the Baathists and Zarqawi and OBL before that? What standard of proof do you need to draw the most obvious of conclusions?