Officials probe Zarqawi link in London attack:

[tocqueville]

Officials probe Zarqawi link in London attack: report 1 hour, 11 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AFP) - Investigators in London are probing whether Iraqi explosives -- possibly provided by Al-Qaeda's top agent in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- were used in last week's terror bombings.

"Al-Zarqawi is a potential source since there's an unlimited amount of explosives and munitions in Iraq that he controls," a US official told Time magazine, in a story posted on its website.

"It's just a matter of getting it out of Iraq and to the right people," the official told Time, as the search continued for the perpetrators of the multiple bombings on Thursday that killed at least 50 people and injured around 700.

Speaking on US television Sunday Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said US officials are "concerned about" a possible Zarqawi link.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050710/wl_mideast_afp/britainattacksus

[ewagner]

1. Give. Me. A. Break!

They don't know WHO did the bombing yet.

They don't have any real confirmation on what TYPE of explosives were used.

They seem to have forgotten that OUR FORCES left a major AMMO DUMP upgarded....and it was LOOTED. And we DON'T KNOW WHO LOOTED IT.

This is bullshit.

No it isn't....It's propaganda.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Somebody please explain this theory to me

Zarqawi provided the explosives from Iraq and sent them to associates in Britain.

If I wanted to commit an act of mayheim like that, wouldn't it be easier to assemble the bomb with materials purchased locally? Wouldn't that be easier than smuggling explosives from a foreign country?

I don't usually spend my spare time contemplating how to build bombs and plant them on buses, so I could be overlooking something. So, please, somebody help me out. What am I missing?

[tocqueville]

5. making an IED is a piece of cake

but sources to hightech explosives are few :

you can buy from the mafia, but that's not a guarantee, because they can either be infiltrated or turn you in to the cops against a certain "blind eye" or whatever. For them only money counts.

you can have sources from countries like Iraq, Tchetchenia, Iran, Pakistan, Syria etc...

smuggling 40 pounds is not very difficult

the alternative is to use conventional explosives, but you need a bigger amount, therefore much more difficult to plant in monitored subways...

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Thank you

That is a possible consideration of which I know nothing.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. What Did I Tell You???

'scuse me, but I called it. I demand credit! :hippie:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1911892#1912499

[tocqueville]

4. I don't buy the Zarquawi story, but...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4061784&mesg_id=4061784

several sources indicate that the explosives are probably of military type, which can make Iraq a plausible source...

CIA links terror threat to Iraq

Goss says insurgents could go on to build transnational cells
Unrest in Iraq is providing Islamist militants with training and contacts that could be used in new attacks abroad, the head of the CIA has warned.
In his first public appearance as CIA director, Porter Goss said the conflict had become a "cause for extremists".

It was only a matter of time, he added, before militant groups like the al-Qaeda network attempted to use weapons of mass destruction.

Mr Goss was testifying before a Senate hearing on threats to the US.

More than three years after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the CIA director stressed that militants were still trying to strike inside the US.

The Bush administration cited links between Saddam Hussein and the 11 September hijackers as a main reason for invading Iraq.

The US later said it had found no evidence of contacts between Iraq and the hijackers.

Mr Goss said the ongoing Iraq conflict, "while not a cause of extremisms, has become a cause for extremists".

One US terrorism expert said Mr Goss's remarks indicated he was not taking marching orders from the White House.

"Goss is very much listening to what his analysts are saying, and not necessarily to what the White House wants to hear," Kenneth Katzman of the Congressional Research Service told the Reuters news agency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4272287.stm
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it cannot be in the interest of Bush/Blair of linking Iraq/London because goes against the theory of "fighting terrorism abroad, so it doesn't hit at home"...

or ?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Zarqawi=Emmanuel Goldstein. Ain't it odd that several tribal leaders

in Northern Iraq attested to the fact that Zarqawi was killed in a bombing attack in the beginning of the war.

[kentuck]

7. Let's say he did even if he didn't...

and keep adding on to the lies that have already been told about the Iraq War....