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Al-Qaida Sought U.S.-Iran War

Liberty Belle

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Al-Qaida Sought U.S.-Iran War
Jun 15, 2006

By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq


A blueprint for trying to start a war between the United States and Iran was among a "huge treasure" of documents found in the hideout of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

The document, purporting to reflect al-Qaida policy and its cooperation with groups loyal to ousted President Saddam Hussein, also appear to show that the insurgency in Iraq was weakening.

The al-Qaida in Iraq document was translated and released by Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie. There was no way to independently confirm the authenticity of the information attributed to al-Qaida.

Although the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the document was found in al-Zarqawi's hideout following a June 7 airstrike that killed him, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the document had in fact been found in a previous raid as part of an ongoing three-week operation to track al-Zarqawi.

"We can verify that this information did come off some kind of computer asset that was at a safe location," he said. "This was prior to the al-Zarqawi safe house."

The document also said al-Zarqawi planned to try to destroy the relationship between the United States and its Shiite allies in Iraq.

While the coalition was continuing to suffer human losses, "time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance," the document said.

The document said the insurgency was being hurt by, among other things, the U.S. military's program to train Iraqi security forces, by massive arrests and seizures of weapons, by tightening the militants' financial outlets, and by creating divisions within its ranks.

"Generally speaking and despite the gloomy present situation, we find that the best solution in order to get out of this crisis is to involve the U.S. forces in waging a war against another country or any hostile groups," the document said, as quoted by al-Maliki's office.

According to the summary, insurgents were being weakened by operations against them and by their failure to attract recruits. To give new impetus to the insurgency, they would have to change tactics, it added.

"We mean specifically attempting to escalate the tension between America and Iran, and American and the Shiite in Iraq," it quoted the documents as saying, especially among moderate followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq.

"Creating disputes between America and them could hinder the U.S. cooperation with them, and subsequently weaken this kind of alliance between Shiites and the Americans," it said, adding that "the best solution is to get America involved in a war against another country and this would bring benefits."

They included "opening a new front" for the U.S. military and releasing some of the "pressure exerted on the resistance."

It pointed to clashes in 2004 between U.S. forces and followers of radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army militia as evidence of the benefits of such a strategy. Al-Sadr and his growing followers are among the fiercest advocates of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

It said the "results obtained during the struggle between U.S. army and al-Mahdi army is an example of the benefits to be gained by such struggle."
Al-Maliki's office said the document provides "the broad guidelines of the program of the Saddamists and the takfiris inside al-Zarqawi's group."

"Takfiri" is a reference to an extremist ideology that urges Muslims to kill anyone they consider an infidel, even fellow Muslims. It is the ideology that many Iraqis, especially in the Shiite community, use to describe al-Zarqawi and his followers.

The language contained in the document was different from the vocabulary used by al-Qaida statements posted on the Web. For example, it does not refer to the Americans as "Crusaders" nor use the term "rejectionists" to allude to Shiites.

Much of what is in the statement from al-Rubaie echoes results that the U.S. military and the Iraqi government say they are seeking. It also appears to reinforce American and Iraqi arguments that al-Qaida in Iraq and its operatives are a group of imported extremists bent on killing innocent civilians.

Al-Qaida in Iraq has been blamed for thousands of deaths, hundreds of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations in the past three years. Al- Qaida in Iraq's own hatred of the Shiites is well-documented and al- Zarqawi has repeatedly called on Sunnis to rise up and kill them.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/15/D8I8NEB80.html
 

Disagreeable

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Ms ding dong said:
Al-Qaida Sought U.S.-Iran War

Osama has told potential recuits for years that one day the United States would invade a small, oil rich, Muslim nation. Goerge W. Bush made his claim come true. Is he now going fulfill another Al Qaida dream by attacking Iran?
 

Liberty Belle

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Ms ding dong said:
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Al-Qaida Sought U.S.-Iran War

Osama has told potential recuits for years that one day the United States would invade a small, oil rich, Muslim nation. Goerge W. Bush made his claim come true. Is he now going fulfill another Al Qaida dream by attacking Iran?
Hey dis - how about a link for bin Laden’s predictions or did you just make that up?

Personally, I hope that if Iran keeps demanding nuclear weapons we give them one – fired right into old psycho’s presidential palace.
 

Disagreeable

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So you guys are willing to give Al Qaida what they want? Does that make any sense? I wonder what gasoline would cost if Iran stopped oil production?
 

Ben H

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actually the Saudis recently warned us that we could see oil prices triple if we went to war with Iran. I think Iran is the second largest oil producer, they also are in the middle of a major route for oil movement. Not a good situation.
 

Hanta Yo

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So you guys are willing to give Al Qaida what they want? Does that make any sense? I wonder what gasoline would cost if Iran stopped oil production?


I don't get it...we have the oil here in the US. :!: I think there may come a time pretty soon when the MAJORITY of the US LEGAL CITIZENS will get sick and tired of the greenies who stop oil production in the US becuth we are killing the bugth and the birdth and the prairie dogth and the owlth and the fitheth. As we ranchers say, GET 'ER DONE :!:
 

jigs

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I am all for 100% AMERICAN oil.....I say we drill EVERYWHERE and start with drilling in Mr Global Warming Al Gores ass !
 

Hanta Yo

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jigs said:
I am all for 100% AMERICAN oil.....I say we drill EVERYWHERE and start with drilling in Mr Global Warming Al Gores ass !



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