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Save the persecution complex for somebody who cares. You probably wrote that last post in a hurry so I will be kind and not respond to all the inaccuracies and obfuscations.
Just to reply to some of the misinformed assertions here:
Again, read the Dulfer Report.
Hopefully we will find how the CIA got that intellengence so lametably wrong or was blindsided by Saddam, Syria, and Russia. Perhaps the end of the Baathist regime in Syria will shed some light on the whole affair one day.
Ansar al-Islam is indeed affilated with Al Qaeda. Some evidence:
1. Provided an entry point for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other Afghan veterans to enter Iraq.
2. Contacts with al-Qaida allegedly stretch back to 1989 and include regular recruiting visits by bin Laden cadres to Kurdish refugee camps in Iran and to northern Iraq, as well as a journey by senior Ansar leaders to meet al-Qaida chiefs in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2000.
3.According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, new details on Ansar al-Islam’s connections with al-Qaida were provided by the interrogation of Rafid Ibrahim Fatah, an Iraqi Arab currently held by the PUK. Fatah was interviewed by the magazine’s reporter at a PUK security complex in Sulaymaniyah. He said that the group had received money once from Abu Qatada, a London cleric linked to bin Ladin’s European network. He also reported that an Ansar delegation had met with Mohammed Atef, alias Abu Hafas al-Masri, bin Ladin’s military chief, but that bin Ladin rarely met personally with such groups.
...and it goes on.
Saddam let Zarqawi into Irap only because he knew war with the US was imminent. That's a good one. No further comment is necessary. You still haven't addressed the santuary given to the 1993 WTC bomber. Kinda wrecks the "no terrorists in Iraq before the invasion myth" doesn't it.
I'm happy, my scimitar welding friend, to see you wish Iraq will turn into a "free, democratic, prosperous and SECULAR state". Well, if it does, it will be certainly be so in spite of people like you. It will be so because of Coalition soldiers, both dead and alive, and the bravery and fortitude of the majority of the Iraqi people.
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