For 18 mos after 9/11, WHO harbored 200 al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq?

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For 18 mos after 9/11, WHO harbored 200 al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq?

The amazing answer: George W. Bush! THREE TIMES, over a period of many months, his National Security Council vetoed Pentagon plans to annihilate Abu Musab Zarqawi's terrorist camp. The camp was separated from areas under Saddam Hussein's control by a U.S. "no fly zone".

Abu Musab Zarqawi, who now has the same $25 million price on his head as Osama, ran a well-known anti-Saddam terror camp in US-controlled Iraqi Kurdistan, for a year and a half AFTER 9/11. A respected veteran NBC reporter, Jim Miklaszewski reported seven months ago that, on THREE separate occasions, the Bush White House HALTED specific Pentagon battle plans to obliterate Zarqawi's gang out when they still were all in one place.

The reason for this bizarre WH behavior was their "Terror Haven invasion pretext": If the WH could not point to "Iraqi terrorists", they had no chance to sustain their false claim that Iraq was a "terrorist haven" needing foreign invasion to overthrow Saddam.

Problem: The terrorists were in an area of Iraq BUSH controlled, not Saddam! Saddam was not harboring terrorists: they were trying--in vain before Bush helped them by sending Saddam into hiding--to bring down his regime and replace it with a Sunni fundamentalist state. In their "little Tora-Bora", protected from Saddam by the US "no fly zone", Zarqawi's group prohibited educating women, outlawed photography, and banned MUSIC! Saddam was not harboring terrorists; BUSH was! And not just ANY terrorist, but a younger and more active clone of Osama bin Laden:

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Zarqawi and his men: Where are their Bush/Cheney buttons?

Do you remember this photo from mid-May? Wearing the tres chic hoods are Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi terrorist leader responsible for the demise of hundreds of US military personnel, and four of his men. Seated on the floor in orange is Nicholas Berg, an American hostage whose HEAD Zarqawi himself was about to saw off.

You may ask, how did this situation come about? Why are these men even at large? There are well over 100,000 US troops looking for them. How do they continue to escape capture?

The AMAZING answer is, THE WHITE HOUSE PROTECTED THEM FROM THE PENTAGON, THREE TIMES, as recently as a year and a half after 9/11!

In a recent column, Arianna Huffington comments on Rove/Bush/Cheney's relentless campaign to portray John Kerry as "soft" on terrorism, to win over otherwise solidly Democratic "Security Women". She writes,

'Somewhere -- and I don't think it's heaven -- Lee Atwater is smiling. ... WHAT'S NEXT, A PHOTO OF ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI SPORTING A KERRY-EDWARDS CAMPAIGN BUTTON?" (From http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=736 )

But a seven-month old MSNBC story by the respected Jim Miklaszewski strongly suggests Zarqawi and company should be wearing BUSH/CHENEY buttons, not Kerry/Edwards buttons:

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From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/

'MSNBC - Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind: Abu Musab Zarqawi blamed for more than 700 killings in Iraq

By Jim Miklaszewski, Correspondent, NBC News. Updated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 2, 2004

Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself, but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide. The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, THE PLAN WAS DEBATED TO DEATH IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL.

Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe. THE PENTAGON DREW UP A SECOND STRIKE PLAN, AND THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN KILLED IT. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq. 'People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president's policy of preemption against terrorists, according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.

In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq. THE PENTAGON DREW UP STILL ANOTHER ATTACK PLAN, AND FOR THE THIRD TIME, THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL KILLED IT...."

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Two blog threads provide many more details of this amazing, unreported, unknown story.

There's a March 2004 thread at Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/3/4/2045/08540

and a DU thread this week from SoCalDemocrat, summarized at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=909236&mesg_id=916224&page=

The actual video of Nicholas Berg's beheading is accessible through a link to a report by Stacy Case in the right-hand column at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/24/60minutes/main645596.shtml