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| Iraq | |
| End of al-Qaeda near, says Baghdad | |
| 2006-06-15 | |
| THE reign of terror of al-Qaeda in Iraq is nearing its end, the Iraqi Government said today as a massive security crackdown in Baghdad entered its second day. The mine of information from al-Qaeda documents seized after its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed spelt "the beginning of the end" for the terror group, according to Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie. "We believe al-Qaeda in Iraq was taken by surprise, they did not anticipate how powerful the Iraqi security forces are and how the government is on the attack now," Mr Rubaie told a news conference. He said the documents had given Iraq an "edge over al-Qaeda and will also give us the whereabouts of their network and their leaders and their weapons, and the way they lead the organisation and the whereabouts of their meetings". The documents were seized from the rubble of Zarqawi's safe house on June 7 following its destruction in a US airstrike, and in a series of subsequent raids in Baghdad. The Prime Minister's office, citing one of the documents, disclosed that Zarqawi had sought to widen the rift between the United States and Iran with kidnappings and assassinations against US interests falsely attributed to Iran. In what the Government dubbed Zarqawi's "plan of death and destruction", he voiced doubt whether "America is truly an enemy of Iran because of the large support that Iran provided America in its wars against Afghanistan and Iraq". "On that basis, it is vital to work towards inflating the danger of Iran to America, and show America and the West in general the real danger presented by Iran," the document read. Earlier reports on the documents found at the safe house showed that al-Qaeda was intent on stirring up conflicts between the Shi'ites and US forces and, as well, between various Shi'ite leaders. The group also planned to carry out terrorist attacks in the West and then leave evidence at the sites implicating the Iranians, according to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office. Zarqawi's organisation was also going to spread misinformation that Iran had weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical weapons.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Operation Forward Together, Sounds like an Abel Weiss Production |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-15 14:08 |