al-Zarqawi pimped as new Al Qaeda bag man - attack DUers!

[SoCalDemocrat]

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the evil terrorist that Bush used to link Saddam to Al Qaeda and 9-11.
al-Zarqawi, whom Bush helped secure a foothold in Iraq in a policy that has backfired "big-time". The Bush policy in Iraq for two years following September the 11th was the opposite of fighting terrorism--it was to PROTECT terrorists and use them as political pawns to gain oil and power.

al-Zarqawi, whom the U.S. was secretly asking for help in Iraq just months after 9-11.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030503_ansar.html

al-Zarqawi, who for two years was based in NE Iraq with Ansar Al Islam, his terrorirst organization.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2149499.stm

al-Zarqawi, and “Al Ansar had ties to Al Qaeda, some members shared training camps in Afghanistan… he developed chemical and biological weapons which were unleashed on targets in Europe. The U.S. was fully aware of his presence and the base from the get go.”
-– Christian Science Monitor, BBC July 24, 2002
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1016/p12s01-woiq.html

al-Zarqawi, on whose behalf President Bush interceded three times to protect him from Pentagon air strikes intent on destroying Zarqawi and his camp.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/

al-Zarqawi, and Iraq's Tora Bora, which could of been "crushed" with U.S. help.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1122/p01s02-wome.html

al-Zarqawi, who Colin Powell cited as the reason for going to war in Iraq on Feb 5th.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm

al-Zarqawi, whom Qatar gave safe refuge and a million dollars; a Bush "ally" in the war on terror.
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/526/1/3/ (from NY Times)

al-Zarqawi, and his group have spread by the time the U.S. invades Iraq.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/2020/iraq030221_ansar.html

al-Zarqawi, and his Ansar-al-Islam "Al-Qaida-linked" group behind majority of post-9/11 terror deaths in Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4428430/

al-Zarqawi, Bush finally attacks the base but it's far too late.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81843,00.html

al-Zarqawi, re-emerges with his renamed group "Tawhid and Jihad -- which means Monotheism and Holy War".
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=589457

al-Zarqawi, who is credited by George Bush for sawing off the head of Nick Berg in a how-to video for future terrorists.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5152646
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136076/posts

al-Zarqawi, blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. … Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation … but never pulled the trigger.”
-– NBC News March 2, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4428430/

"Mission Accomplished" -George W. Bush, 2003

More background material:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=909236

[irancontra]

1. kick.

yeah this nonsense again... didn't we kill him at one point?
one-legged, one-eyed terrissst. :P

[democracy eh]

2. I see your kick and raise you

2 kicks

kick kick

[Javaman]

10. 1 eyed, 1 horned, flying purple people eater...

[donkeyotay]

3. al-Zarquwi is the new, improved boogeyman

Osama been forgotten is SO 2003

:kick:

[SoCalDemocrat]

11. any more info

Please post any Zarqawi related info here.

[SoCalDemocrat]

4. Zarqawi, America's Phantom Menace

Reuters UK says that, in 2003, when the US FINALLY destroyed long-known Ansar al-Islam bases in Northern Iraq, Zarqawi's group became known as "Tawhid and Jihad -- which means Monotheism and Holy War".

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=...

"Reuters RSS

Zarqawi -America's phantom menace

Thu 23 September, 2004 14:55

By Ed Cropley

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Despite the bombs, the thousands of troops hunting him, and the $25 million (14 million pound) bounty on his head -- the same price offered for the al Qaeda leader himself -- Zarqawi and the myth which has grown up around him live on. The man himself remains largely a mystery. His only revelations to the outside world being menacing recordings on the Internet or grainy video tapes of hooded, heavily armed warriors posted on Islamist Web sites. ...

Before the war, he was linked to Ansar al-Islam, a militant group operating in Kurdish-held northern Iraq, an area placed beyond Saddam's control by U.S. air protection since 1991. Ansar's bases on the Iranian border were destroyed early in the 2003 invasion, but Zarqawi, a man with a string of aliases who had spent much of the previous three years in the lawless wastes of western Pakistan and Afghanistan, was not found. Following Saddam's capture in December and the waves of suicide attacks on U.S. and Iraqi security forces which followed, Zarqawi quickly became America's top enemy in Iraq, accused of sowing the seeds of civil war. Attacks claimed by his group include the August 2003 bombings of the U.N. Baghdad headquarters and a Shi'ite shrine in Najaf, as well as a suicide car bomb that killed the head of Iraq's now-defunct Governing Council, Izzedin Salim. ...

According to fellow inmates, during his days in a Jordanian jail in the 1990s he was a thug with a passion for body-building and the Koran. Later he cast aside his real name of Ahmed Fadhil al-Khalayleh and created a personal cult of brutality as the keystone of his campaign to destabilise Iraq. When an Islamist Web site showed a video in May of a man sawing off the head of American hostage Nicholas Berg, it said Zarqawi was the one wielding the knife. Similarly, the CIA said it was Zarqawi who read out the spine-chilling statement which accompanied the beheading of U.S. hostage Eugene Armstrong earlier this week. 'Killing for the sake of God is their best wish, getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our Lord.'"

[SoCalDemocrat]

5. Where is William Rivers Pitt

Mr. Pitt,

Where is our editorial on Zarqawi and the Bush betrayal!

[SoCalDemocrat]

6. Bush blames Zarqawi for Nick Berg - ties to Al Qaeda

Note Reuters has taken this story offline, this is from an archive.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136076/posts

Bush says Zarqawi Killed Berg; Cites Saddam 'Ties'
Reuters ^ | May 15, 2004 | Caren Bohan


By Caren Bohan MEQUON, Wis. (Reuters) - President Bush on Friday blamed al Qaeda supporter Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for beheading American Nicholas Berg and cited him as an example of Saddam Hussein's "terrorist ties" before the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Bush's revival of accusations linking Saddam to terrorism comes as the president faces growing doubts among Americans over his Iraq policy. At a fund-raising lunch in Bridgeton, Missouri, Bush said Zarqawi was an example of the threat posed by the ousted Iraqi leader. "We knew he (Saddam) had terrorist ties. The person responsible for the Berg death, Zarqawi, was in and out of Baghdad prior to our arrival, for example," Bush said.

A video of Berg's beheading was posted this week to an Islamist Web site. The grisly film included a statement, signed off with Zarqawi's name, that urged Muslims to take revenge for Iraqi prisoners abused by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The CIA on Thursday said Zarqawi was probably the one who beheaded Berg.

American doubts over Bush's Iraq policy have been fueled by the Abu Ghraib scandal, uncertainties over the planned June 30 transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis and a violent insurgency. Furthermore, the United States has failed to find alleged unconventional weapons in Iraq that were the heart of Bush's case for going to war.

Although Bush administration officials had raised the possibility Saddam helped al Qaeda plan the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Bush eventually said there was no evidence. Bush has previously cited Zarqawi as a link between Saddam and al Qaeda.

[SoCalDemocrat]

7. Ayman al-Zawahiri releases Oct 1st video asking for leadership

Note in the video released today, Oct 1, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahiri asks Al Qaeda to put together some kind of leadership structure. If he is the #2 man in the leadership chain, why is he sending a video message to Al Qaeda asking them for help and leadership structure for the organization?

An Arab analyst on CNN today raised this point and the announcer cut her off and changed the subject.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/

[skip fox]

8. Great work. You shd park this in Editorials where

it will stay current (and thus useable) longer.

[Disturbed]

9. w mentioned al Zargawi.

too bad Kerry didn't fire back on this. w is not only weak on terrorism he and his criminal Neo Fascists have enabled terrorism.

[SoCalDemocrat]

13. I don't think he has these talking points

They're not reaching him. MoveOn or someone needs to crucify Bush on this decision. I can't believe it's slipping by.

[SoCalDemocrat]

12. Bush used Zarqawi in his debate last night

Bush used Zarqawi as the excuse for Iraq once again in last nights debate. We need to crucify him on this point.