Iraq Leader: U.S., Iraq Share Same Goal

[rodeodance]

And the people----of both countries?--to hell with the majority say the "LEADERS"


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Iraq Leader: U.S., Iraq Share Same Goal

NEW YORK, Sep 25, 2007 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Iraq is the "tip of the bayonet" in the fight against terror, the country's prime minister said ahead of a meeting with President Bush, stressing that the same group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks was behind the destruction of the minarets of a revered Iraqi Shiite shrine.

Those "who destroyed the towers of the (World) Trade Center are the same as those who blew up the (Golden Mosque) in Samarra and carried out the bombings of hotels in Jordan and Algeria," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday.

The event was held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly a day before al-Maliki is to meet with Bush. The Shiite politician has come under great criticism from many in the United States for failing to meet a series of benchmarks for progress on the political and economic fronts.

The attacks al-Maliki referenced - all blamed on al-Qaida and its offshoots - included the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York, the triple hotel bombings in the Jordanian capital in November 2005 and the double-suicide bombings in Algeria in April.

[dipsydoodle]

1. I'd be really interested

to see any links to "offshoots" prior to the invasion. Seems to me to be a classic case of cause and effect.

[Boojatta]

2. Did Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meet some leaders of Iran

while they were simultaneously in New York at the UN building?

Edited to add: Sorry edwardlindy, I should have clicked on reply to the OP.