Saddam Was Trying to Capture Zarqawi (Juan Cole)

[kpete]

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Saddam Was Trying to Capture Zarqawi

The Bush administration repeatedly made the presence in Iraq of Abu Musab Zarqawi a pretext for invading the country and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. They implied that he was a client of Saddam and that Saddam had arranged for hospital care for him.

Newly released documents from the captured Iraqi archives show that Saddam had put out an APB for Zarqawi and was trying to have him arrested as a danger to the Baath regime!


' However, one of the documents, a letter from an Iraqi intelligence official, dated August 17, 2002, asked agents in the country to be on the lookout for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and another unnamed man whose picture was attached. '
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=176240192&p=y76z4x898

The September 29, 2002 Denver Post paraphrased Cheney, "He said the evidence presented against Iraq will be long and persuasive, including more details of a relationship between Hussein's forces and the al-Qaeda terrorist network."

http://www.juancole.com/2006/03/saddam-was-trying-to-capture-zarqawi.html


U.S. Releases Prewar Iraq Documents

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2006
The documents, the first of thousands expected to be declassified over the next several months, were released late Wednesday via a Pentagon Web site at the direction of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.


U.S. Releases Prewar Iraq Documents
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/alqaeda.pdf
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/terror/main1409920.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/terror/main1409920.shtml

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. uh-oh...I guess that bad intelligence fooled us again! n/t