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Aziz Hakim sees Al Qaeda role in brother’s death
2004-02-22
Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who has led Iraq’s top Shia Muslim political group since his brother’s assassination last year, said in remarks published on Saturday he believed Al Qaeda played a role in his brother’s death. Al Hakim said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that he had “reliable” intelligence that Osama bin Laden’s network was involved in the car bomb attack that killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim and more than 80 others in August.
Al Qaeda was among the top suspects at the time, though there were a lot of other candidates. But, yeah. I can see it as a Zarqawi boom.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  A major reason to go onto the military offensive -- as we did when we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq -- is to disrupt, disperse, disorganize, hurry and confuse your opponents. In such a situation, your opponents tend to make many more and much more consequential mistakes.

Al Qaeda's decision to explode that particular bomb was a colossal, irreparable blunder, decided in panic, haste and desparation. By killing those 80 Shias, Al Qaeda turned all Shias everywhere against itsef.

IF we had responded to the September 11 attacks with only a patient, gradual, international strategy, we would not have forced Al Qaeda to make so many mistakes like this.

Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-2-22 11:13:40 AM  

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