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Friday, June 9, 2006

al-Zarqawi :: Trail of Terrorism


the realityAnti Torture      The information in the quotes below is alluded to at several other blogs but had a tendancy to be overlooked (if mentioned at all) in some of the timelines of the trail of terror that was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.   It should be noted that instead of beating the drums of war as usual, they are quietly massaging the buttons of the loyal.   All of a sudden cautious where reckless abandon was the norm until the polls reflected a majority of the American People finally waking up and wanting Out of Iraq.


Instead of celebrating a great triumpt over the war on terror, they finally squished a bug that they themselves allowed to grow into a monster.   Instead of taking out a tired and wounded fanatic on a mission (one leg amputated from the Afghanistan War), they allowed him to apply the tools of terror in ways the western world had only glimpsed of, our sensitivity and civility horrorfied by beheadings and gang-land executions.


The NeoCons in their rush to topple Saddam and conquer Baghdad (protecting only the oil while throwing away money) had let live a petty theif turned Afghan Freedom Fighter with a maniacal urge to carry out radical Islamist Jehad on the soft under belly of the Greatest Shock and Awe, Technilogically Advanced War Machine of all time.


We should be acknowledging the incompetence of this administration's handling of George Bush's War OF Terror and hoping along with the Iraqi People that finally a corner will be turned.   One toward a rational and productive outcome which and our permanent military bases Out of Iraq (Surely someone in the circle of power [Cheney Administration / NeoCons] will realise that the Islamic Republic of Iraq will settle for nothing less).   It is about time that something truely good does come out of this debacle.   We can only hope...   - fc

THE AGE.com.au


US 'allowed Zarqawi to escape'
May 1, 2006
By Chris Evans


"Mr Bush had Zarqawi in his sights almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq,"



"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."



Slate


Why Bush let Iraq's top terrorist walk

Posted Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, at 5:08 PM ET
By Daniel Benjamin


In recent months, the mystery of the administration's inaction has only grown. News reports - including, most recently, one in the Wall Street Journal this week - make it clear that military leaders and the CIA felt Zarqawi was a threat that could and should be removed. On at least three occasions between mid-2002 and the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon presented plans to the White House to destroy the Khurmal camp. Each time the White House declined to act or did not respond at all.


TIMES ONLINE.co.uk


Iraqis unknowingly captured al-Zarqawi then set him free

December 17, 2005

From Richard Beeston in Baghdad and Stephen Farrell in Fallujah



IRAQI security forces captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the fugitive terrorist leader, last year but freed him because they did not know who he was.



According to Major-General Hussein Kamal, the Deputy Interior Minister responsible for Intelligence, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq was detained by police for several hours more than a year ago in Fallujah, which was then an insurgent stronghold.




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