Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think..

[AGENDA21]

Is the threat posed by Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi real? Is Zarqawi himself a fiction, as some maintain?

The Washington Post's recent revelation that a Pentagon psyop unit hyped up the Zarqawi threat may turn into the next big scandal, especially since the leaked document specifices that the propaganda campaign targeted the "U.S. Home Audience."

One segment of the Post story desrves special attention:

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.

That letter, though largely forgotten in the onrush of events, attracted some attention at the time. It's a 17-page "Dear Osama" letter in which Zarqawi helpfully demonstrated a link between the insurgency and Al Qaeda

More in link:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/zarqawi-gate-more-important-than-you.html

[robinlynne]

1. great reading.

Thank-you for bringing this to our attention.

[AGENDA21]

6. Your welcome!

[Supersedeas]

2. psych ops directed at Iraqis or Americans

[dipsydoodle]

3. I concluded long ago

that he was figment of someone's imagination with a name derived from the old joke about the pygmy tribe which lived in long grass who were known as the Wherethefuckarewe tribe. This was due to their cries as they kept jumping up and down in an effort to find their way out of the grass.

Nothing to date has changed my conclusion.

[TexasLawyer]

4. k'd and r'd

a good read

[NNN0LHI]

5. And people can't quite understand why others won't trust the NYT? n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. All The Leaks Fit to Print?

[Old and In the Way]

7. The Merry-Go-Round of Truth

When's it gonna stop?

[magellan]

9. WTF!? I am so pissed off right now

No joke. I wish I COULD crack a joke. But the only conclusion I can come to after reading this is that the entire government and military needs to be purged. And that's impossible.

I never believed Zarqawi was half the deal that BushCo make him out to be, and I've often considered that he was dead. But to learn that our government is going to THESE lengths to perpetuate the myth of this man just to shore up their little war here at home...

Of course these particular bastards could and would. It's being smacked in the face with their extensive treachery once again that has me spitting nails. I swear to god, it's a damn good thing I don't own a gun. Never, ever, ever did I imagine in my worst nightmare that I would live to see the day our own government would lie to us over and over again and cause countless needless deaths of our own soldiers and innocent civilians with such impunity...and nobody does a damn thing about it.

I WANT TO WAKE UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE NOW. SOMEBODY PINCH ME. PLEASE.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Isn't this the one-legged man that they claimed was killed

at the beginning of this sham "war"?

I swear I have heard he was killed several times now.

So tired of the lies...

[leftchick]

11. ATimes 2004: Zarqawi - Bush's man for all seasons

The making of a legend
Before January 2003, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was little known. Very few people were even aware of the one-legged ethnic Palestinian Ahmed Fadeel al-Khalayleh, born in the dreary industrial wasteland of Zarqa in Jordan, who was basically a semi-literate, tattooed, Shi'ite-hating thug.

His goal while in Jordan was to topple King Hussein. It didn't work. He became a jihadi in Afghanistan in the late 1980s against the Soviets, and after returning to Jordan in 1992 spent seven years in jail for possession of guns. In fighting in 2002 following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan to topple the Taliban, one of his legs was severely injured - and may have been, or maybe not, amputated. He then found refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan, protected by the Anglo-American enforced no-fly zone, with Ansar al-Islam, a group with a maximum of 400 fundamentalist Kurdish warriors. And he may have moved to the Sunni triangle after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.

Zarqawi stopped being a non-entity on February 5, 2003, when he was spectacularly catapulted onto the global stage - six weeks before the start of the Iraq war - by US Secretary of State Colin Powell's weapons of mass destruction speech at the United Nations. Powell used Zarqawi to link Saddam Hussein's secular Ba'athist regime to the "Islamic terror network", and thus partly justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Asia Times Online confirmed in Amman, Jordan in February 2003 that practically nobody knew Zarqawi outside of Jordan - even though in 2002 he had been the target of a CIA disinformation campaign tying him to the theocratic regime in Tehran. But soon the Bush administration was to invest him with the aura of an "international man of mystery" - the world's most dangerous man after Osama bin Laden.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ15Ak02.html

[Mnemosyne]

13. Thanks leftchick! The doll is wonderful! Or

should I say terrorist action figure?

I remember the first time he was killed like it was yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that day. Maybe it was April or May 2003. And at least 2 or 3 times in 2004, then at least once last year IIRC.

How can we ever know what is "real" anymore with these asses of evil running the show? I have visions of OBL having dinner in Crawford, family style. Will we ever not distrust the gov again after these neoconroids end up in the Hague? Just a rhetorical I guess.

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http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fo/wfowanted.htm

Most Wanted Terrorists

Mohammed Ali Hamadei
Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser
Ali Atwa
Hasan Izz-Al-Din
Imad Fayez Mugniyah
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil
Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie
Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub

Seeking Information - War on Terrorism

Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi
Seeking Information Alert

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I wonder what "Seeking Information - War on Terrorism" means?

And why isn't Osama Bin Missing on the list?

Not here either. Hmm.
Seeking Information - War on Terrorism

http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm

Sure glad we're not wasting more money looking for Osama Bin Bush.

[stillcool]

12. sometimes I really wish I had money...

Damn but it's hard to read this and not feel totally frigging useless. Underground Newspapers is the way to go...plastered everywhere. They were all the rage in the 60's, so I've read....and a :kick: