E&P: MAJOR L.A. TIMES REPORT: AS IRAQ WAR DRAGS ON, IT ONLY HELPS BIN LADEN

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: 'L.A. Times' Report: As Iraq War Drags On, It Only Helps Bin Laden
Published: May 20, 2007

NEW YORK It has long been alleged by critics of the war in Iraq that this effort is only helping al-Qaeda by serving as a training ground for terrorists who were not in that country before the U.S. invasion. Now a major Los Angeles Times probe, published today, points to other ways the war is assisting bin Laden and his crew: both in men and money.

The lengthy article by Greg Miller begins as follows. It appears in full at www.latimes.com.

"A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase in the movement of Al Qaeda operatives and money into Pakistan's tribal territories, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the operation.

In one of the most troubling trends, U.S. officials said that Al Qaeda's command base in Pakistan is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq, where the terrorist network's operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the anti-American insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity.

The influx of money has bolstered Al Qaeda's leadership ranks at a time when the core command is regrouping and reasserting influence over its far-flung network. The trend also signals a reversal in the traditional flow of Al Qaeda funds, with the network's leadership surviving to a large extent on money coming in from its most profitable franchise, rather than distributing funds from headquarters to distant cells...."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003587942

LINK TO L.A. TIMES ARTICLE, "Influx of Al Qaeda, money into Pakistan is seen":
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-binladen20may20,0,5046563.story?coll=la-home-center

[opihimoimoi]

1. But...that is what them Neocons WANT..they want war, they want death, they want CONTROL / Domination

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3. Can we impeach him now?

[Fridays Child]

4. Something about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind comes to mind.

The Bush administration has made this a more perilous world, by many orders of magnitude.