Al-Zarqawi may not be behind Iraq attacks

[TomClash]

Al-Zarqawi may not be behind Iraq attacks

Intelligence says group too small to do what he claims or is blamed for

By Mohamad BazziNEWSDAY

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Whenever a car bombing, beheading or other spectacular act of violence takes place in Iraq these days, U.S. officials are quick to blame Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. If he hasn't already taken responsibility himself.
But according to an Arab intelligence assessment, al-Zarqawi is not capable of carrying out the level of attacks in Iraq that he has claimed and that American officials have blamed on him.

Al-Zarqawi's own militant group has fewer than 100 members inside Iraq, although al-Zarqawi has close ties to a Kurdish Islamist group with at least several hundred members, according to two reports produced by an Arab intelligence service. The Kurdish group, Ansar al-Islam, has provided dozens of recruits for suicide bombings since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the reports say. And while U.S. forces relentlessly pound the insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Samarra, claiming to hit al-Zarqawi safe houses, the elusive militant could be hiding in the northern city of Mosul.

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[TomClash]

1. You will recall that Cheney said Zarqawi

was the main force behind the attacks.

[sherilocks]

2. Another Cheney lie!

Can anyone think of anything Cheney said that was true?

[bushwakker]

3. first it was saddam loyalists, then people coming from outside

the just lie whenever it suits their purposes. they don't now what the fuck they're doing.

[Ducks In A Row]

4. Isn't he supposed to be death? Has been for months.