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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Saddam and Zarqawi

While Christopher Hitchens is using the evil of al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a reason to reinvigorate the fight in Iraq and the Weekly Standard is trying for the 80th time to draw a link between Saddam and al Qaeda, it turns out Saddam was just as interested in getting rid of Zarqawi as the United States is now.

Juan Cole points that recently released documents show that Saddam felt Zarqawi was a threat to his regime and in August of 2002 called on an intelligence officer to capture the terrorist.

My favorite part of this news is that it sticks it to both Saddam and Bush/Cheney. Saddam for now encouraging an insurgency led by a man that he would have happily murdered four years ago and Bush/Cheney for once using Zarqawi as a way to link Saddam with al Qaeda.

Too bad this has received next to no press.

-Mr. Alec

posted by Alec Brandon @ 2:53 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 7:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the thesis of this argument sounds convincing until you look at the date: the timing of this interestingly corresponds to the post-9/11 buildup to the war in Iraq - Saddam knew exactly who he was hosting (Zarqawi has a long and storied history as an anti-western terrorist), and, looking for a way to appease the Americans, called on his capture in order to appear as if he was assisting in the "war on terror"...

 

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