|
More on Zarqawi's Origins.
 Note for editors: Someone, Paul Moloney I think, posted this article yesterday. But I can't find it, anywhere. He said RTWT, and I agree, it's an important article.
This next bit is extra-interesting to me. The inquiry noted that following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Gulf War, 250,000 Palestinians emigrated from Kuwait to Jordan. This phenomenon was called "those who returned from Kuwait." The inquiry stated: "According to calculations by Jordanian experts and researchers, some 160,000 of these displaced persons came only to Al-Zarqaa. The experts noticed a connection between their return and the flourishing of the Salafi Jihad trend in Jordan, particularly in Al-Zarqaa." I still regard Mylroie's theory as the best concerning the origins of Ramzi Yousef. However, I have a slight refinement: Basit was not an innocent victim of the Iraqi occupation. A Kuwaiti minister has been quoted as saying that he was a collaborator. Perhaps Basit was did indeed help the Iraqis (as did many other Palestinian residents, which is why they were expelled), but Basit was killed in some damnfool looting incident or something during the occupation. And an old pro assumed Basit's identity. I think that would better reconcile the Kuwaiti minister's quote. However, I'm quite aware that this debate will likely never be fully settled. Mylroie might be wrong: Basit is Basit. (Keep scrolling up.) All the more reason to pay close attention to this article, then. Posted by: Pete Stanley 2005-01-25 |
|
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=54592 |