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2005-09-18 Terror Networks & Islam

Ex-Clinton official on Brisard's book on Zarqawi

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-18 00:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Operative phrase is "Ex Clinton Offical"

-- Case closed

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-18 00:29|| 2005-09-18 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 "a background as humble as Osama bin Laden's" WTF?
Humble? Son of a Millionaire? Huimble my butt. Pure propaganda of the Clinton kind which is why one of these clown worked for him.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-18 00:50|| 2005-09-18 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The world's foremost jihadist (Bin Laden) evidently thinks the Jordanian upstart has the resources to carry out such an attack, and surely this is reason enough for us to know more about him. But "Zarqawi" is a squandered opportunity.

I thought I read Zarqawi is a chemical expert, with at least one "dirty chemical bomb" averted. Propane-like canisters in a vehicle combined with explosives, thwarted in Jordan. I also thought he was familiar with parts of Europe, like Rome, and the Balkans or Chechnya, known to disguise himself, and to have multiple passports. He also supposedly met in Herat with Al Qaeda and Taliban, having lived there for a time. I'd say he's capable of most anything, has Al Qaeda funding, and certainly won't squander an opportunity. My biggest fear is that he gets one. Given a chance, he'll leave Iraq with the local battle-hardened jihadis to keep the fireworks going to screen his departure, just as I believe Bin Laden did, and actually pull something horrific off. We aren't looking for him in Greece....

Posted by Danielle 2005-09-18 10:27|| 2005-09-18 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought I read Zarqawi is a chemical expert, with at least one "dirty chemical bomb" averted

Zarqawi has less than a highschool diploma, failed at several small businesses in Jordan and set up as a thug, doing prison time for it. That's when he decided his future lay in Islamacism instead.

He's no chem warfare expert. Al-Q has got its hands on some materials and recipes and has some chem engineers working with/for him. But Z is just a Saddam wannabe, i.e. a virtually illiterate thug who has risen to power based on a willingness to kill civilians indiscriminately.

Posted by lotp 2005-09-18 10:44|| 2005-09-18 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 "a background as humble as Osama bin Laden's" WTF?

Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom, I think you read to fast. It says:

A Jordanian with a background as humble as Osama bin Laden's is grand..

Posted by SwissTex 2005-09-18 16:58|| 2005-09-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Zarqawi's camp near Herat Afghanistan was reputed to specialize in chem weapons and poisons. It was Zarqawi's boys (Ansar al Islam) who were arrested in the aborted Ricin attacks in Europe.

Posted by ed 2005-09-18 18:29|| 2005-09-18 18:29|| Front Page Top

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