I am sure that Bush will glee with this news but the problem is they do not
tell when the contacts were made. I doubt that they would have been in Iraq
prior to the overthow of Saddam. I guess Bush took a place that probably had
not contact with Al-Qaida and created a new home base with lots of Al-Quaida.
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Operative Sought al-Qaida's Help in Iraq
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An anti-American operative in Iraq (news - web sites) appealed
for help from al-Qaida leaders to help spark a sectarian war between Shiite and
Sunni Muslims in an effort to "tear the country apart," U.S. officials said
Monday.
The officials confirmed a report Monday in The New York Times about the alleged
plan, which was outlined in a 17-page letter that U.S. forces confiscated from
an al-Qaida suspect in Iraq.
"We believe the report and document are credible. We take the report
seriously," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of operations, told a news
conference. He said the letter would be made public later.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the letter was on a
computer disk found on Hassan Ghul, a senior al-Qaida courier arrested last
month by Kurdish forces as he tried to enter the country from Iran.
The Times said its reporter viewed the Arabic document and a military
translation on Sunday. It said the document is the strongest evidence to date
of contacts between extremists in Iraq and al-Qaida.
Note: how many times can they post something without saying how old it is.
Kimmitt said the letter was believed written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a
Jordanian who is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida.
Note Again no date for the letter.
"We are persuaded that al-Zarqawi was the author of the letter. It is our
understanding that this letter was being taken out of the country for delivery
abroad," he said.
Note. How many times can they not say when the letter was written. So much
for US sources .
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said the letter talks about "a strategy of
provoking violence, targeted at Shiites leaders that would result in reprisals
against other ethnic groups within the country."
The strategy is "focused on provoking ethnic sectarian warfare in this country
in the hope of tearing this country apart," Senor said.
The Times report quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying that American
forces arrested a man who had the document on a computer disc and was taking it
to Afghanistan (news - web sites) to get it to al-Qaida's senior leaders.
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