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2005-01-24 Iraq-Jordan

Al-Hayat Inquiry into the city of Al-Zarqaa

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-01-24 1:20:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, [whose real name is] Issam Muhammad Taher Al-Burqawi. [He is] a Palestinian who lived in Kuwait, who later became the spiritual teacher of this stream in Jordan, and in 1989 became Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi's teacher.

I'm confused. Where was Zarqawi that he met Maqdisi in 1989? Maqdisi didn't go to Jordan until 1991.

And a stupid question, no doubt, but the article doesn't say, and I don't know.... why did all of those Palestinians extremists go to Kuwait in the first place and why did they leave Kuwait after the Gulf war? And why Jordan?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 7:17:40 AM|| 2005-01-24 7:17:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 well...I suppose why not Jordan..but why the mass exodous?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 7:33:58 AM|| 2005-01-24 7:33:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not sure why the extremists congregated in Kuwait specifically, but all the Pals were kicked out of Kuwait after the Gulf War because they were a little too enthusiastic in their support of Saddam.

Jordan has a Palestinian majority so there was never really anywhere else they could go.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-01-24 7:40:29 AM|| 2005-01-24 7:40:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 thanks.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 7:43:43 AM|| 2005-01-24 7:43:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I suppose that they hated the American infidels more than they hated secular Sadaam....but it seems odd that they would cheer Sadaam against Kuwait ....being they were so devout and all.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 7:47:36 AM|| 2005-01-24 7:47:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Saddam was paying large sums of money to the families of suicide bombers ($10-25,000 per), and had a pet colony of Palestinians in Baghdad -- subsidized housing, subsidized schooling, subsidized jobs... he bought Palestinian support, fair and square. And post-invasion, the Iraqis kicked them out just as quickly as the Kuwaitis had after Gulf War I. The poor dears lived for a while in an open soccer stadium until they could figure out how to get themselves to wherever they went next.

Query: Does anybody know where they went after being kicked out of Iraq?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-24 8:17:19 AM|| 2005-01-24 8:17:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks, TW. But I'm still missing a puzzle piece. Why, if Saddam supported them, and they supported Saddam, did he expell them after the Gulf War.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 8:30:11 AM|| 2005-01-24 8:30:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 2nd Gulf War 2B.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-24 9:01:22 AM|| 2005-01-24 9:01:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 ahhh...I see.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-24 9:04:41 AM|| 2005-01-24 9:04:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Saddam being a pragmatist had no purpose for the Palestinians any longer. He had enough problems with sanctions, no fly zones, Kurdish and Shite uprisings and Iranian eastern pressure and the Syrian and Jordanian western movements to deal with "humanitarian" issues. I believe he sent them packing to the Jordanian border. His end game there is to creat instability for the Hashemites by infusing all of these radicalized Palestinians. If the US was depending on Jordan as a launch point for Gulf War II then the Kingdom would have to deal with internal instability.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-01-24 9:58:30 AM|| 2005-01-24 9:58:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 The Paleos have been abused terribly for decades by their Arab "brothers," and are brainwashed from birth to think it's all ~~the Jooos'~~ Israel's fault.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-24 5:13:45 PM|| 2005-01-24 5:13:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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