Report says U.S. wasted chances for Zarqawi

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Report says U.S. wasted chances for Zarqawi
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Big News Network.com Tuesday 12th October, 2004

Reports emerged Monday the United States missed three opportunities to kill Iraqi rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at his poison gas lab, the Mirror said.

The Jordanian-born militant who has ties to al-Qaida is blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. In June 2002, U.S. officials said they had information suggesting he and al-Qaida were producing deadly ricin and cyanide at the newly-built laboratory at Kirma in the north.

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Rumsfeld is totally incompetent!!! as well as Bush in the war in Terrorism!!!

Gimmee a break. They couldn't find Osama so had to create another bogey man. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/04/wirq04.xml There's growing sceptism that Zarqawi, if he exists (one report had him killed last year in a bombing attack) is a figure created in large measure by the Bush administration to support the allegation of an al-Queda connection to the insurrection.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=133360

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101004I.shtml

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Bush and the Neo Fascists passed up three opps to assasinate al Zarqawi because he was part of their claim about terrorist ties to Saddam. They knew this was a fuckin' lie. Now if al-Zarqawi actually exists and is responsible for over 700 deaths, it is indirectly a responsibilty of the US Neo Fascists.

Who Is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
By Don Van Natta Jr.
The New York Times
Saturday 09 October 2004

London - From a safe house in Falluja last January, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wrote a rambling, 17-page letter to Osama bin Laden. The letter asked Mr. bin Laden to send Al Qaeda operatives to Iraq to help Mr. Zarqawi continue the guerrilla war against the American occupiers and their allies.

In the letter, Mr. Zarqawi, a 38-year-old Jordanian, had a weary, desperate tone that contradicts the nearly mythic invulnerability ascribed to him by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who have described him as one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. Mr. Zarqawi is, they say, the clearest link between Saddam Hussein's deposed regime and the Qaeda terror network.

In his letter, Mr. Zarqawi hardly sounded emboldened by his guerrilla campaign. Instead he ticked off a lengthy list of obstacles to victory - a shortage of manpower, the wobbly will of some insurgents and peril lurking around every street corner.
"Our backs are exposed and our movements compromised," he wrote in the letter, which American forces seized in February from a courier in northern Iraq and later released to the public. "Eyes are everywhere. The enemy is before us and the sea is behind us."

Without question, Mr. Zarqawi is the most hunted man in Iraq. Nearly every week, coalition forces attack suspected safe houses where he may be hiding. Since writing his plea, Mr. Zarqawi has been portrayed by American officials as the world's most prolific terrorist, preaching jihad and practicing it, often while the world watches in horror - most recently in the beheading of a 62-year-old British engineer, Kenneth Bigley, that was confirmed on Friday.

Items appearing in the NYT may be less factual than they appear. ;)

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA71C.htm

I think the ramifications of a "poison gas lab" are a bit telling. I find it significant that Saddam had no WMD: labs, programs, etc. Now that prince george has run amok, there may be actual WMD labs? prince george, sharing his maloderous "freedom" with everyone within range.