Al-Zarqawi group aims to strike beyond Iraq

[ECH1969]

In recent communiqués that have received scant attention from Western analysts, the successors of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the helm of al-Qaida in Iraq claim to have deployed highly trained explosives teams outside Iraq and state that “good news” is expected to be forthcoming from these terrorist cells very soon.

The messages, posted in Arabic-language Internet chatrooms frequented by al-Qaida representatives and supporters, suggest that initial terrorist forays into Jordan and Lebanon last year by al-Qaida in Iraq were part of a deliberate and continuing strategy of expanding their jihad into Iraq’s susceptible neighbors.

According to al-Qaida in Iraq, the architect behind current efforts to use Iraq as an engine for international terrorism was a Libyan operative killed during the battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah in late 2004. Abu Nasser al-Liby — as he was known — had no prior combat experience to speak of, but nonetheless quickly distinguished himself among his comrades. In order to cement his bond with al-Zarqawi’s organization, Abu Nasser teamed up with a veteran Afghan-trained explosives expert from Syria known as Abu Abdullah al-Shami.

According to a biography distributed only weeks ago by al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Nasser was during this time “busy… training a large number of brothers on bomb-making and he formed combat units located outside of Iraq.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14012061/

[Purveyor]

1. Well of course "something" has to happen before the Nov.

elections...

[mom cat]

8. Bingo! We cant let the US destroy the evidence this time.

[jaysunb]

2. What has Bush wrought.......

:evilfrown:

[daleo]

3. Has he come back to life again?

Just in time for the November elections, too.

[Poll_Blind]

4. It's sort of like Van Halen after Roth left...n/t

PB

[krkaufman]

5. It's also possible that this is aQ-in-Iraq just puffing-up their chest ...

... lest they be forgotten after the killing of al Zarqawi and the flare-up (understatement) between Israel and Lebanon.

[megatherium]

6. The NY Times had a column this morning to the effect that

al Qaeda has to do something to regain its cred as the leader of the anti-Western resistance, because Hezbollah has been getting all the glory.

[krkaufman]

9. Gotta love competition and the free market finding its way ...

... to the proprietors of terrorism.

[Roland99]

7. Wait a minute! Is this a BIG clue?!?!

The other day it was reported at jpost.com that Hizb'allah was going to active "sleeper cells" that were spread all over.

Could that have been a convenient reworking of this news from "Al Qaeda in Iraq" in order that any near-future terrorist attacks could be pinned on Hizb'allah and, thus, "justify" further escalation (and perhaps US involvement)??


:tinfoilhat:


:scared: