Memo Shows Plan for Sectarian War in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_sectarian_war&cid=540&ncid=1480

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The alleged plan is outlined in a 17-page memo that U.S. forces confiscated from an al-Qaida suspect in Iraq, The New York Times reported. The paper said its reporter viewed the Arabic document and a military translation on Sunday.

The Times says the document is the strongest evidence to date of contacts between extremists in Iraq and al-Qaida.

The document expresses frustration over efforts to force the United States out of Iraq and suggests that attacks on Shiites would prompt Sunni retaliation and a cycle of widening violence, the Times said.

"It is the only way to prolong the duration of the fight between the infidels and us," the document says. "If we succeed in dragging them into a sectarian war, this will awaken the sleepy Sunnis who are fearful of destruction and death at the hands" of Shiites.

[pinniped]

1. Ya he was just walking around with it.

The BS meter pegging max is a daily event. :eyes:

And how does one become an "Al Qaeda" suspect?

Did they witness a secret "Al Qaeda" handshake or something?

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2. link between iraqi extremists and al-qaeda

notice how it's not saddam al-qaeda is being linked to....

so of course al-qaeda now has a few members in iraq, duh!

maybe they even had a few members in iraq prior to gulf war ii, duh!

it wasn't saddam, though, and that was the entire excuse.


saudi arabia obviously had at least 15 al-qaeda members (the hijackers) but we don't seem to case about that....

[xchrom]

3. here we go again

the war against iraq was about saddam and the threat saddam posed.
that there is more than one crew of folk in iraq expressing themselves violently against the american occupation is a scenario of americas making or more to the point georges making.
al queda or anybody else wouldn't be blowing our asses up in baghdad if bushco hadn't started this illegal war.

[htuttle]

4. Bush Admin: "Whatever goes wrong,..."

"...is al Queda's fault. If something goes right, it's due to our deft statesmanship."

It's like we have an 8 yr old running the country...:eyes: