Iraq Reviews

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 [43rd State Blues: Democracy for Idaho | Politics in our own private umm, you know.] Sorry seems to be the hardest word: I'm sorry Bush told us Saddam had ties to AlQaeda, and didn't. I'm sorry Cheney told us that Saddam's agents had met with Mohammad Atta in Prague, when he didn't.

 [Rob's Blog] In response to the right on the Downing Street Memo: I felt compelled to reply to a commenter who felt that to be against the war was to defend Saddam (referring to Iraq as a "happy Disney World-like place we called pre-war Iraq" in a sarcastic attempt to say those against the war had an artifically rosy view of Iraq).

[Obsidian Wings] The "Reform" Sunni Spinoffs: In his 2001 book Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner, Zawahiri identifies and prioritizes the goals of what he calls the “the revolutionary fundamentalist movement”: first, achievement of ideological coherence and organization, then struggle against the existing regimes of the Muslim world, followed by the establishment of a “genuinely” Muslim state “at the heart of Arab world.” Zawahiri views the current stage of the jihad as one of worldwide, revolutionary struggle, to be waged by means of violence, political action, and propaganda against the secular Muslim regimes and secularized Muslim elites. Zawahiri argues that because the terrain in the key Arab countries is not suitable for guerilla war, Islamists need to conduct political action among the masses, combined with an urban terrorist campaign against the secular regimes, supplemented with attacks on “the external enemy”””i.e., the United States and Israel””as a means of propaganda that will strengthen the jihad’s popular support.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Ishraqat al-Sadr carries on page 1 a 100-word report citing Muqtada al-Sadr calling on the Iraqi Government to "refrain from accusing the Arab Sunnis of backing terrorism." Al-Sadr is cited as saying that such accusations "kindle sectarian strife," adding that the government must "include all Iraqis in the political process." Ishraqat al-Sadr runs on page 1 a 150-word report citing Muqtada al-Sadr accusing the US forces of "collaborating with terrorists," during a meeting with Karbala Governorate Council, adding that "the Ba'thists, terrorists, and occupation" Are enemies of Iraq. Ishraqat al-Sadr publishes on page 1 a 300-word text of a statement issued by the Iraqi Elites Group calling on the Iraqi Government to release detainees belonging to the Al-Sadr trend.

 [Nosuchblog.blog-city.com] More Saddam-al Qaeda Connections II (nosuchblog.blog-city.com): Iraq-al Qaeda IV: Abu Sayyaf. Iraq-al Qaeda IX: Hassan al Tura. Iraq-al Qaeda V: al Shifa ... Yet more updates. Hosted @ www.Blog-City.com; RSS Feed @ /rss/ ...

 [Slantpoint.com] Slant Point: New Iraq-Al Qaeda Links: I advised him to start a blog as it would quickly gain a huge audience, and if he didn't have the time, to hire a ghost blogger, and I told him SlantPoint would be the ideal ghostblogger, because he's young (and thus presumably not that expensive to rent), smart, experienced and in NYC."

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