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| U.S. created al-Zarqawi myth |
| 2005-11-15 |
| By JENNIFER SCHULTZ UPI Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The United States created the myth around Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and reality followed, terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni said. Al-Zarqawi was born Ahmad Fadil al-Khalayleh in October 1966 in the crime and poverty-ridden Jordanian city of Zarqa. But his myth was born Feb. 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell presented to the United Nations the case for war with Iraq. Napoleoni, the author of "Insurgent Iraq," told reporters last week that Powell's argument falsely exploited Zarqawi to prove a link between then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. She said that through fabrications of Zarqawi's status, influence and connections "the myth became the reality" -- a self-fulfilling prophecy. "He became what we wanted him to be. We put him there, not the jihadists," Napoleoni said. |
| Posted by:willtotruth |
| #15 :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-15 22:57 |
| #14 Ad some BettyCrockerCrats to the perloo, wrap it up, and I will buy it.....how much? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-11-15 22:54 |
| #13 you fooolsss it was RRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE & his secret Cabal of JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSsss yeahh they did it all 9-11 WW2, Hitler, Zark, Bin Laden, Richard Simmons, even the most hated slave mastaaaa Washington himself was actually grew in a future JOOOOOOO lab on top of mount Zion then ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVe alowed his time machine to participate in his sending back into time., oh yeah i also forgot Satlin was a us agent too. Remember everything bad is US/Isreal or better known as Big Satan/Little Satan now everything good is anyone or thing that kills or tries to kill or hell even just supports the killing of those two Satans. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-11-15 22:39 |
| #12 willtoBS seems a lot like Mike Sylwester. I wonder... |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-11-15 20:53 |
| #11 Correction ..... Loretta. Oh what the hell, both of you become fire ants. [Eric Idle] From now on, I want you all to call me "Loretta." [/EI] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-15 20:28 |
| #10 Downright humbling, isn't it? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-11-15 20:11 |
| #9 anothere "QUALITY" post by willtolie |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-15 20:04 |
| #8 Careful research indicates the strings on Zarquwi reach back to Karl Rove! |
| Posted by: Omirong Uniger7871 2005-11-15 19:56 |
| #7 Raman link. |
| Posted by: Rory B. Bellows 2005-11-15 19:51 |
| #6 I would tend to discount this analysis. According to B. Raman, Zarqawi traveled in some of the same circles as Ramzi Yousef. The camp near Herat that Zarqawi ran dealt with chemical and biological weapons. So I'm not willing to rule out Zarqawi as a middle-man between bin Laden and Saddam. Not at all. Of course, if the Bush administration would just tell it like it is, instead of getting Powell to drop large circular hints at the UN, there would be absolute moral clarity in the Iraq war. But nobody wants to mention the anthrax letters anymore. |
| Posted by: Rory B. Bellows 2005-11-15 19:45 |
| #5 Did the article mention her book? She's got one. Buy it, she's brilliant. She knows more than anyone else alive. It's in the book. She's the greatest terrorism expert since the last one to float a book. It's all in the book. Have you bought it yet? You'll see. Buy it. Today. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-11-15 19:11 |
| #4 ah, yes... and with the proper wording, you can delude yourself that the world is the way you want it to be. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-15 19:08 |
| #3 Correction ..... Loretta. Oh what the hell, both of you become fire ants. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-15 18:52 |
| #2 "He became what we wanted him to be. We put him there, not the jihadists," Napoleoni said. And Jennifer I would like you to become a tiny Georgia fire ant! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-15 18:51 |
| #1 Easy to get confused between cause and effect, isn't it? |
| Posted by: john 2005-11-15 18:25 |