"Is Al Qaeda a Hoax?"

by **NewKid** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:39 am

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by * » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:04 pm

in a word, YES

by **CyberChrist** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:05 pm

They're not called "Al'CIA-da" in some circles for nothing.. -- CyberChrist http://www.hackerjournal.org My brain is hung like a horse.

by **Moddey Screbbagh** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:23 pm

this from today's washington post: Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 10, 2006; A01 The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists. For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign. Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist. Although Zarqawi and other foreign insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain "a very small part of the actual numbers," Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., last summer. In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways." "The long-term threat is not Zarqawi or religious extremists, but these former regime types and their friends," said Harvey, who did not return phone calls seeking comment on his remarks. There has been a running argument among specialists in Iraq about how much significance to assign to Zarqawi, who spent seven years in prison in Jordan for attempting to overthrow the government there. After his release he spent time in Pakistan and Afghanistan before moving his base of operations to Iraq. He has been sentenced to death in absentia for planning the 2002 assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan. U.S. authorities have said he is responsible for dozens of deaths in Iraq and have placed a $25 million bounty on his head. Recently there have been unconfirmed reports of a possible rift between Zarqawi and the parent al-Qaeda organization that may have resulted in his being demoted or cut loose. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that it was unclear what was happening between Zarqawi and al-Qaeda. "It may be that he's not being fired at all, but that he is being focused on the military side of the al-Qaeda effort and he's being asked to leave more of a political side possibly to others, because of some disagreements within al-Qaeda," he said. The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war. That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004. Leaks to reporters from U.S. officials in Iraq are common, but official evidence of a propaganda operation using an American reporter is rare. Filkins, reached by e-mail, said that he was not told at the time that there was a psychological operations campaign aimed at Zarqawi, but said he assumed that the military was releasing the letter "because it had decided it was in its best interest to have it publicized." No special conditions were placed upon him in being briefed on its contents, he said. He said he was skeptical about the document's authenticity then, and remains so now, and so at the time tried to confirm its authenticity with officials outside the U.S. military. "There was no attempt to manipulate the press," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's chief spokesman when the propaganda campaign began in 2004, said in an interview Friday. "We trusted Dexter to write an accurate story, and we gave him a good scoop." Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's government be publicized, U.S. psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was "seen on Fox News." U.S. military policy is not to aim psychological operations at Americans, said Army Col. James A. Treadwell, who commanded the U.S. military psyops unit in Iraq in 2003. "It is ingrained in U.S.: You don't psyop Americans. We just don't do it," said Treadwell. He said he left Iraq before the Zarqawi program began but was later told about it. "When we provided stuff, it was all in Arabic," and aimed at the Iraqi and Arab media, said another military officer familiar with the program, who spoke on background because he is not supposed to speak to reporters. But this officer said that the Zarqawi campaign "probably raised his profile in the American press's view." With satellite television, e-mail and the Internet, it is impossible to prevent some carryover from propaganda campaigns overseas into the U.S. media, said Treadwell, who is now director of a new project at the U.S. Special Operations Command that focuses on "trans-regional" media issues. Such carryover is "not blowback, it's bleed-over," he said. "There's always going to be a certain amount of bleed-over with the global information environment." The Zarqawi program was not related to another effort, led by the Lincoln Group, a U.S. consulting firm, to place pro-U.S. articles in Iraq newspapers, according to the officer familiar with the program who spoke on background. It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background. The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work. One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." Kimmitt is now the senior planner on the staff of the Central Command that directs operations in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. In 2003 and 2004, he coordinated public affairs, information operations and psychological operations in Iraq -- though he said in an interview the internal briefing must be mistaken because he did not actually run the psychological operations and could not speak for them. Kimmitt said, "There was clearly an information campaign to raise the public awareness of who Zarqawi was, primarily for the Iraqi audience but also with the international audience." A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency by emphasizing Zarqawi's terrorist acts and foreign origin, said officers familiar with the program. "Through aggressive Strategic Communications, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi now represents: Terrorism in Iraq/Foreign Fighters in Iraq/Suffering of Iraqi People (Infrastructure Attacks)/Denial of Iraqi Aspirations," the same briefing asserts. Officials said one indication that the campaign worked is that over the past several months, there have been reports that Iraqi tribal insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists, especially in the culturally conservative province of Anbar. "What we're finding is indeed the people of al-Anbar -- Fallujah and Ramadi, specifically -- have decided to turn against terrorists and foreign fighters," Maj. Gen Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said in February.

by **BannedfromDU** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:47 pm

For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.

by **Qutb** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:21 pm

No. Check out Paul Thompson's recently updated <a href="http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ann-2006-03-19pt.jsp" target="top">9/11 Timeline</a>. It's a treasure trove of information on al-Qa'ida activities.

by **isachar** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:41 pm

Classic Trotskyite/Psy-War tactic. Become your own opposition - or at least be the one to define, and thereby, control them. This clearly links back to the phony hotel bombing in Amman several months back. A bombing that was blamed on Zarqawi, but was probably a black op by Mossad/US/Jordanian intelligence. Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 10, 2006; A01 The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists. For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign. Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist. Although Zarqawi and other foreign insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain "a very small part of the actual numbers," Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., last summer. In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways." "The long-term threat is not Zarqawi or religious extremists, but these former regime types and their friends," said Harvey, who did not return phone calls seeking comment on his remarks. There has been a running argument among specialists in Iraq about how much significance to assign to Zarqawi, who spent seven years in prison in Jordan for attempting to overthrow the government there. After his release he spent time in Pakistan and Afghanistan before moving his base of operations to Iraq. He has been sentenced to death in absentia for planning the 2002 assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan. U.S. authorities have said he is responsible for dozens of deaths in Iraq and have placed a $25 million bounty on his head. Recently there have been unconfirmed reports of a possible rift between Zarqawi and the parent al-Qaeda organization that may have resulted in his being demoted or cut loose. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that it was unclear what was happening between Zarqawi and al-Qaeda. "It may be that he's not being fired at all, but that he is being focused on the military side of the al-Qaeda effort and he's being asked to leave more of a political side possibly to others, because of some disagreements within al-Qaeda," he said. The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war. That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004. Leaks to reporters from U.S. officials in Iraq are common, but official evidence of a propaganda operation using an American reporter is rare. Filkins, reached by e-mail, said that he was not told at the time that there was a psychological operations campaign aimed at Zarqawi, but said he assumed that the military was releasing the letter "because it had decided it was in its best interest to have it publicized." No special conditions were placed upon him in being briefed on its contents, he said. He said he was skeptical about the document's authenticity then, and remains so now, and so at the time tried to confirm its authenticity with officials outside the U.S. military. "There was no attempt to manipulate the press," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's chief spokesman when the propaganda campaign began in 2004, said in an interview Friday. "We trusted Dexter to write an accurate story, and we gave him a good scoop." Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's government be publicized, U.S. psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was "seen on Fox News." U.S. military policy is not to aim psychological operations at Americans, said Army Col. James A. Treadwell, who commanded the U.S. military psyops unit in Iraq in 2003. "It is ingrained in U.S.: You don't psyop Americans. We just don't do it," said Treadwell. He said he left Iraq before the Zarqawi program began but was later told about it. "When we provided stuff, it was all in Arabic," and aimed at the Iraqi and Arab media, said another military officer familiar with the program, who spoke on background because he is not supposed to speak to reporters. But this officer said that the Zarqawi campaign "probably raised his profile in the American press's view." With satellite television, e-mail and the Internet, it is impossible to prevent some carryover from propaganda campaigns overseas into the U.S. media, said Treadwell, who is now director of a new project at the U.S. Special Operations Command that focuses on "trans-regional" media issues. Such carryover is "not blowback, it's bleed-over," he said. "There's always going to be a certain amount of bleed-over with the global information environment." The Zarqawi program was not related to another effort, led by the Lincoln Group, a U.S. consulting firm, to place pro-U.S. articles in Iraq newspapers, according to the officer familiar with the program who spoke on background. It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background. The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work. One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." Kimmitt is now the senior planner on the staff of the Central Command that directs operations in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. In 2003 and 2004, he coordinated public affairs, information operations and psychological operations in Iraq -- though he said in an interview the internal briefing must be mistaken because he did not actually run the psychological operations and could not speak for them. Kimmitt said, "There was clearly an information campaign to raise the public awareness of who Zarqawi was, primarily for the Iraqi audience but also with the international audience." A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency by emphasizing Zarqawi's terrorist acts and foreign origin, said officers familiar with the program. "Through aggressive Strategic Communications, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi now represents: Terrorism in Iraq/Foreign Fighters in Iraq/Suffering of Iraqi People (Infrastructure Attacks)/Denial of Iraqi Aspirations," the same briefing asserts. Officials said one indication that the campaign worked is that over the past several months, there have been reports that Iraqi tribal insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists, especially in the culturally conservative province of Anbar. "What we're finding is indeed the people of al-Anbar -- Fallujah and Ramadi, specifically -- have decided to turn against terrorists and foreign fighters," Maj. Gen Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said in February. © 2006 The Washington Post Company <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...90_pf.html</a>

by **Qutb** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:51 pm

Evil can only have one face, or else the American public might get confused. Whether it's Qaddafi or Noriega or Saddam or Slobo or Osama or Saddam again, there can only be one guy who plays the role of Official Enemy of America at any given time. That Zarqawi has had the honor of playing this role for a while has been rather obvious. Interesting that military documents are now leaked that confirm this. And that that they seem to confirm that this strategy originates not in the White House, but in the military.

by **slimmouse** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:38 pm

. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Interesting that military documents are now leaked that confirm this. And that that they seem to confirm that this strategy originates not in the White House, but in the military.<hr></blockquote> March 1963, Lyman Lemmizter presents the Northwoods plan to Macnamara, who passes it on to JFK. JFK tells these maniacs where to go and ends up the victim of the infamous magic bullet. Closely followed by his brother Bobby. All under the corporate attention, and powers that go way back when. I know , I know , Im just some "new age crazy" <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> Im a big Groucho Marx fan actually. " I could never be a member of any club that would accept me" , or words to that effect. Meanwhile,'Work it out for yourselves' would be my best guess. One things for sure. The lunatics HAVE taken over the assylum.

by **Ike Broflovski** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:39 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>And that that they seem to confirm that this strategy originates not in the White House, but in the military.<hr></blockquote> Wha? I didn't get that from the article at all. Who usually sets the strategy for the military?

by **slimmouse** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:44 pm

Have a look at ; The angle the earth sits at to the Sun. How fast the earth revolves around the above. The speed of light - The latter 2 as measured in Miles per hour. Good old English units .....adopted from shhhh, you know who <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> You might want to measure the moons diameter while youre at it. Or the number of bones in the human body. All coincidence of course. Too funny.

by **NewKid** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:48 pm

I can't imagine the actual group of people identified as "al qaeda" don't exist in some form. They existed in the Soviet-Afghan war, they existed in Bosnia and they existed in Chechnya, so they're by no means a complete phantom. What's bizarre is how little effort seems to be going in to making it look as though they're actually engaged in these terror attacks. You can't get any connection to the Madrid or London bombings pinned on them. C'mon!

by **AlicetheCurious** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:51 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Is “Zarqawi” Another Black-Op? By John Doraemi Al-Jazeerah, October 25, 2004 The Bush administration has attributed the bulk of the Iraqi resistance to a character named “Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.” There are many people asking the legitimate question, does Zarqawi even exist? Given the credibility of Bush and company – the people who brought us phantom weapons of mass destruction, false links between Saddam and bin Laden, forged uranium documents, and a stack of other untruths – there is little reason to accept Bush’s super-boogeyman on faith alone. As pointed out in the Asia Times (Oct. 15, 2004): “Not a single source, anywhere, claims to have actually seen ‘Zarqawi’ since late 2001 in Afghanistan. Ask the Pentagon. Ask the CIA. Ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No one, on the record, is able to independently verify that ‘Zarqawi’ actually exists.” Mainstream US corporate media has not challenged the administration on this point, nor on most of the other lies, distortions, omissions or obvious international crimes they have committed. Rather Reuters, ABC, and Washington Post have uncritically raised the phantom warrior to the status of a “Zarqawi movement.” Never mind they haven’t made the case for Zarqawi the person, alive and breathing. "’We want to know what proof there is that Zarqawi is in Fallujah,’ Hatem Maddab, a member of a Fallujah negotiating committee, told Arabic Al Jazeera television (…) ‘Zarqawi is like the weapons of mass destruction that America invaded Iraq for,’ (…) ‘We hear about that name (Zarqawi), but he is not here. More than 20 or 30 homes have been bombarded because of this Zarqawi and his followers but only women, children and the elderly have been affected.’" (1) Why doubt the official story? Q: Just who has this alleged “Zarqawi” targeted primarily? A: Iraqis. Q: What is “Zarqawi’s” GOAL in Iraq at this time? A: To trigger a civil war between Sunnis and Shi’ites. "… ‘Zarqawi’ also released a statement - but with a different voice, saying he was determined to ‘ignite a civil war between Sunnis and Shi'is’. Curiously enough, that's exactly what US intelligence wants, a rehashing of the same old British maxim of ‘divide and rule’.” - -Asia Times (Oct. 15, 2004) Most people learned of the alleged existence of “Zarqawi” when Nicholas Berg was apparently beheaded in May of 2004. There are several serious problems with the Berg evidence, however. 1) The video that was allegedly put out by “Zarqawi” showed heavy editing, with a soundtrack completely out of synchronization from the images. Why? 2) The alleged voice of “Zarqawi” – a Jordanian national – did not have a Jordanian accent, according to CNN’s Arab language experts. (2) 3) The man in the video had two perfectly good legs, whereas the actual Jordanian Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was reported to have had his leg amputated. 4) Why would a man who deliberately identifies himself wear a black mask to shield his identity? 5) The “Zarqawi” in the video wore a golden ring, which is forbidden, and is a telltale sign that the killers were not Jihadists. 6) Nicholas Berg wore an orange jumpsuit – standard prison issue – so are we to believe that “Al Qaeda” fighters bring along US styled orange prison wear to clothe their victims in? For what possible reason? 7) This atrocity served the purpose of diverting media attention away from the Abu Ghraib torture abuse scandal, that had just shocked the world. Zarqawi’s Dubious Existence Predates the Iraq War (II) “Zarqawi” was introduced at the United Nations, by Colin Powell on February 5th 2003. Like most of Powell’s bogus information, Zarqawi’s role was also proven to be untrue. Powell claimed that “Zarqawi” was the missing link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Powell also claimed that “Zarqawi” was running a poison and chemical warfare training camp in northern Iraq. No evidence has ever come out linking Saddam Hussein to Zarqawi, or to bin Laden. Even Bush and Rumsfeld have admitted as much. As far as the alleged chemical and poison laboratory is concerned: “Ansar al-Islam - the Islamic group that uses the compound identified as a military HQ by Powell - yesterday invited me and several other foreign journalists into their territory for the first time. 'We are just a group of Muslims trying to do our duty,' Mohammad Hasan, spokesman for Ansar al-Islam, explained. 'We don't have any drugs for our fighters. We don't even have any aspirin. How can we produce any chemicals or weapons of mass destruction?'" - The London Observer's correspondent in Northern Iraq, February 9 2003 After the camp was destroyed by cruise missiles, US inspectors also came to the same conclusion: “A specialized biochemical team scoured the rubble for samples. They wore protective masks as they entered a building they suspected was a weapons lab. Inside they found mortar shells, medical supplies, and grim prison cells, but no immediate proof of chemical or biological agents.” - - Jim Sciutto, ABC News, with US Special Forces in Northern Iraq " (ABC News, 29 March 2003) This alleged chemical weapons story is even more bizarre than it appears. When Colin Powell tells the UN, and the world, that this camp is evidence of Saddam Hussein’s connection to Islamic terrorists, he neglects to tell us that the camp was in the Kurdish “no fly zone”, and not controlled by Saddam’s forces at all. The area was a US protectorate! “Zarqawi” has been a creation of US foreign policy, a myth, a fable, the most convenient man in Bush’s alleged “war on terror.” Much like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy “Zarqawi” is a mythical creature that leaves gifts for those in position to take advantage of them. He is a manufactured enemy, built to specifications, and his presence ensures outrage and an escalation of the conflict. I do not believe in Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Notes: 1 – ABC News, Thursday, October 14, 2004. 6:00pm (AEST), Fallujah negotiator questions Zarqawi ultimatum, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1220237.htm">www.abc.net.au/news/newsi...220237.htm</a> 2 - CNN, May 11, 2004, as recorded by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405B.html">www.globalresearch.ca/art...O405B.html</a> “CNN Arab linguists say, however, that the voice on the tape has the wrong accent. They do not believe it is Zarqawi. U.S. officials said the killers tried to take advantage of the prison abuse controversy to gain attention.” 3 - Was Nick Berg Killed by US Intelligence, Sirajin Sattayev, KavkazCenter.com, May 22 2004, Center for Research on Globalization, <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SAT405A.html">globalresearch.ca/articles/SAT405A.html</a> "U.S. intelligence officials, who used to believe that Zarqawi had lost a leg in Afghanistan, recently revised that assessment, concluding that he still has both legs." (News and World Report, 24 May 2004). 4 - Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi? Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405B.html">www.globalresearch.ca/art...O405B.html</a> The article was submitted by the author to Al-Jazeerah.info on October 23, 2004. John Doraemi is a freelance writer currently living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He can be reached at johndoraemi@hush.com <a href="http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/October/24o/Is%20Zarqawi%20Another%20Black-Op%20By%20John%20Doraemi.htm">www.aljazeerah.info/Opini...oraemi.htm</a> <hr></blockquote> <blockquote>Quote:<hr> ...In September, 2004, the BBC, among others, reported, "U.S. officials suspect that Zarqawi…is holed up with followers in the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah," though their sources, as is true of more or less all sources in every report on Zarqawi, were nebulous. During the second siege of Fallujah, last November, Newsweek reported that "some U.S. officials say that Zarqawi may actually be directing or instigating events in the town by telephone from elsewhere in Iraq." Though they too cited no specific sources and provided no evidence for this, Newsweek then summed Zarqawi's importance up in this way: "His crucial role in the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, however, cannot be underestimated." Meanwhile, the BBC was reporting that his "network is considered the main source of kidnappings, bomb attacks and assassination attempts in Iraq" -- another statement made without much, if any, solid evidence. In the end, the vast mass of reportage on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi amounts to countless statements based on anonymous sources hardly less shadowy -- to ordinary readers -- than him. He exists, then, in a kind of eternal netherworld of reportage, rumor, and attribution. It could almost be said that never has a figure been more regularly written about based on less hard information. While we have a rough outline of who he is, where he is from, and where he went until he entered Iraq, evidence that might stand up in a court of law is consistently absent. The question that begs to be answered in this glaring void of hard information is: Who benefits from the ongoing tales of the mysterious Zarqawi? ...According to this man, Zarqawi has two brothers named Ahmed and Sail. He says with a smile, "Most of the media coming here are westerners because I think most of the Arab media know this is all a myth." <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=4481">www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=4481</a> <hr></blockquote>

by **NewKid** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:55 pm

Fuck it, just bring back Kaiser Sose.

by **slimmouse** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:57 pm

Robin cook stood up in parliament one week, and told the all 'knowledgeable' house members who "Al quaeda" actually were. He even told them what the name stood for, and who named them. THE BASE. The name given to them by the kennedy murderers - The CIA/ Military industrial complex/ Global elite. THE DATABASE OF MUJAHADDIN FIGHTERS RECRUITED, FINANCED AND TRAINED BY THE NAUGHTY ONES. The next week he dies on top of a mountain. I feel both sorry for RC, and in the same breath proud of the man. Sorry for him, in the sense that , like myself, this poor guy spent the vast majority of his life believing the crap that is indoctrinated into each and every one of us from the moment our souls enters its chosen mortal coil. Proud for him, in the sense that he finally saw the naughty ones as those who are, were, and ( as long as we allow them ) always will be trying to con each and every last one of us. Having recognised this, he obviously decided that enough was enough. Kudos to the man. His soul wasnt for sale. Nice one Robin. Funny how it all works out right ? Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=slimmouse@rigorousintuition>slimmouse</A> at: 4/10/06 4:12 pm

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Re: Is al-Qaeda a hoax?

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

March 1963....

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

And .....especially for you QUTB.....

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

Re: zarqawi psyop -- from today's WaPo

Robin cook.

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