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[Franc-Parler] Actualité - Who Was Abu Musab al Zarqawi?: The Associated Press reported Monday that four of the men arrested said on Jordanian television that they had been recruited by al-Zarqawi to carry out "the first suicide attack to be launched by al-Qaida using chemicals .striking at Jordan, its Hashemite (royal family) and launching war on the Crusaders and nonbelievers." One of the conspirators, Azmi al-Jayousi, said he received about $170,000 from al-Zarqawi to finance the plot and used part of it to buy 20 tons of chemicals.
[I.N. Daily”¦ from Canada] Why the Boycott of Israel is Justified: Saliency: Most of the organizations that call to boycott Israel have their own different missions that are not focused on the Middle East. Each has to consider the role solidarity with Palestinians and pressure on Israel plays in its overall position and the way it reflects its identity and specific goals.
Today in Iraq: After almost four decades, we still have a parade of four-star not so gentle men, in and out of uniform, who proudly refer to the My Lai investigation as "the gold standard." That is something unfathomable to anyone with half a mind, and a slice of heart, when at day's end the punishment dished out for the murder of hundreds of non-combatants (old men, women and children) in a Vietnamese hamlet shamelessly ended up being a three-and-a-half year confinement to quarters for a platoon leader. Many of us, I recall, have been for years referring to this total whitewash as "the Medina standard," and not "the gold standard." A "few bad apples" in the military?
[A Blog For All] Disharmony Among Jihadis: Once again, we're seeing that Zawahiri and al Qaeda are being forced to react to events around the world, instead of pushing their own agenda. However, it is troubling and disconcerting that the world refused to recognize the threat posed by failed states like Sudan and Somolia where al Qaeda has operated with impunity before and seeks refuge to regroup and rebuild their jihadi aspirations after being forced from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan in a thorough pasting.
[Discussion about 09/11/2001] [UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied... : ...Zarqawi was the ultimate "foreign fighter," one who willingly adopted the name "al Qaeda in Iraq," feeding the mistaken notion that there is actually an organization called al Qaeda, an official enemy that is global and eternal, and now manifest on this particular part of the oil patch. Just this year, the Washington Post published a documents showing that the Pentagon had an active program to legendize Zarqawi (...) The Pentagon public relations staff, with the activ!
[PC Free Zone] Zarqawi's Last Words ~ What's That Whistling... : Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was killed by 500-pound bombs dropped by two F-16 fighter jets on a house north of Baghdad, it was the result of intelligence information gathered, in part, by an elite task force of international special operations forces formed just a month ago with the express purpose of taking him out.
[Mudville Gazette] Dawn Patrol: On a day when many in America are rejoicing at the death of the most wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a man who is responsible for countless deaths in Iraq and who made it his mission to spark civil war, CBS brought in a long time Bush administration critic to discuss its implications on this morning's "Early Show." Co-host Harry Smith, utilizing spin that would make "Baghdad Bob" jealous, attempted to portray Zarqawi’s death as being bad news for America, and his guest, CBS News Terrorism Analyst Michael Scheuer, was happy to back his assertions even going so far as .
[Iris.org.il] IRIS Blog: But the continuing war in Iraq has made it impossible for the US to mount a credible threat, because American public opinion would not accept a second war — or so the Iranians believe. Moreover, America’s allies in the war against Iraq — most particularly Great Britain — would not support an attack on Iran.
[Xymphora.blogspot.com] Xymphora: The federal level of government is run by a corporatist elite group which consists of American Christian and Jewish Zionists, and American politicians who front for these groups, who take instruction from the government of Israel, and run the policies of the federation with respect to the Middle East almost entirely in the interests of the State of Israel. The federation closely resembles the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a federation with two separate parliaments which was run by an Austrian Emperor largely, but not entirely, in the interests of the Austrian part.
[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: The Saudi-backed London daily al-Hayat [Life] [Ar.] argues that the visit (demarche would be more like it) of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw to Baghdad is a (succssful) attempt to break up the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance bloc in parliament and to sideline Ibrahim Jaafari. It reports that she assured Jaafari that he is a fine politician, but just isn't up to heading a government of national unity that requires gaining the trust of a wide cross-section of Iraqis.
[Littlegreenfootballs.com] Little Green Footballs: charged the British government with “occupying Muslim lands .the murder of innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and (being) an active participant of .
[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: Who Benefits?: Indicative of this, Abdul Jabbar Waheed, the head of the Misan provincial council in southern Iraq, announced his councils’ decision to lift the immunity British forces have enjoyed, so that the soldiers who beat the young Iraqis can be tried in Iraqi courts. Former U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer had issued an order granting all occupation soldiers and western contractors immunity to Iraqi law when he was head of the CPA”¦but this province has now decided to lift that so the British soldiers can be investigated and tried under Iraqi law.
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