Terrorist memo raises questions on war's impact

[Judi Lynn]

Terrorist memo raises questions on war's impact


Vacuum may have invited Al Qaeda

By Christine Spolar
Tribune foreign correspondent
Posted February 16 2004

BAGHDAD -- The discovery of a memo attributed to terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that calls for incitement of civil war in Iraq raises questions again about whether Saddam Hussein, as the Bush administration claimed, once plotted with Al Qaeda.

But al-Zarqawi's memo--trumpeted by the Americans as a "blueprint for terror"--also should sound alarms about whether the U.S.-led war opened Iraq to global terrorism by making it unstable, insecure and ripe for exploitation.
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As Benjamin sees it, the memo is a sketch of the terrorist's goals in Iraq--and for all kinds of terrorists who now see Iraq, nearly a year after the American invasion, as an open playing field. But Benjamin finds little evidence that jihadists prospered inside Iraq before the U.S. invasion.
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" tells us nothing about prior connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq," he said. "What it does tell us is, now, we have a big terrorist problem in Iraq."
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/chi-0402160181feb16,0,5314122.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front

[ninkasi]

1. By his actions

Bush and the neocons have become the primary recruiters for Al Qaeda. As long as their get profits from the oil, they don't give a damn what happens to our soldiers, or Iraqi citizens. They have created chaos and ruin.

[damnraddem]

2. Oh, I don't think that it raises questions about the war's impact ...

as much as it answers them.

The Bushistas were warned that an invasion of Iraq could make things far worse, make the world less secure. The warnings were ignored, and we have already seen the consequences.

[feminazi]

3. well, duh

the only people who believed the terrorists would NOT find iraq fertile ground after saddam's fall were the idiots in the bush administration. or maybe they knew, but just didn't care. may they all rot in hell.

:grr:

[blackcat77]

4. Exactly what I was going to say... nt

[Bandit]

5. Well I may be an idiot although not in the Bush* administration but

I have a hard time thinking that terrorist from all around the world are going to come to Iraq to fight the American army stationed there. I would think that terrorist by definition would want to attack a civilian center of some sort. Not a heavily fortified and armored American Army.:crazy: By the same token I don't feel a lot safer now that Saddam has been kidnapped. I say kidnapped because if he had been arrested they would be talking about a trial and charging him with some sort of crime. I don't see any of that happening.