CIA: Iraq now a bigger terrorist threat than Afghanistan/binLaden

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.

A classified report from the U.S. spy agency says Iraqi and foreign fighters are developing a broad range of deadly skills, from car bombings and assassinations to tightly coordinated conventional attacks on police and military targets, the official said.

Once the insurgency ends, Islamic militants are likely to disperse as highly organized battle-hardened combatants capable of operating throughout the Arab-speaking world and in other regions including Europe....

President Bush justified the invasion of Iraq in part by charging that
Saddam Hussein was supporting al Qaeda. A top U.S. inquiry later found no collaboration between prewar Iraq and the bin Laden network....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/pl_nm/security_iraq_cia_dc

[Bluebear]

1. P.S. Remember DeLay said Iraq was just like Houston, Texas!

[cynatnite]

2. Does that mean we can invade and send troops in?

Install a new government, let the people loot, etc.

[Bluebear]

12. The mind reels with answers

:)

[LynnTheDem]

3. BUSH made the threat from terrorism

WORSE.

Thanks, BUSH.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. But I thought

they said we were winning!!!! Damn CIA for using facts!

:sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

15. The "last throes"!

[Jacobin]

4. As predicted

Fucking neo con morons

[Bluebear]

6. Good thing gays can't marry!

:eyes:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Well if the CIA said it, it must be true.

Bunch of bumbling, murderous, thugs that they are. The National Enquirer of Intelligence services.

[Bluebear]

13. So you think Iraq is not a breeding ground for terrorists?

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Well, DUH!

It took the CIA all this time to figure out what we already figured out for ourselves?

:rofl:

[EVDebs]

8. But but but, this was a 'slam dunk' right ? PNACers and neocons

are STILL being listened to.

[killbotfactory]

9. everything Bush touches turns to shit

neocons should be run out of town on a rail

[Bluebear]

14. Indeed.

All his frigging life.

[Kraklen]

10. How many Americans has Iraq killed on U.S. soil?

None. Doesn't sound like much of a threat to me.