What type of TERRORIST was Al Zarqawi BEFORE the Iraq War?

FrenchieCat

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:17 AM
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What type of TERRORIST was Al Zarqawi BEFORE the Iraq War?

I only started hearing about Al Zargawi since the Iraq invasion.

Can you fill me in on what he'd done prior to this War that made him dangerous?

Was he involved in 9/11 or something?

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dipsydoodle

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:19 AM
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1. Try this for some history

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3483089.stm

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FrenchieCat

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 AM
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3. Thanks!

Doesn't seem to have been a big shot prior to 2002.......or am I missing something?

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dipsydoodle

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:28 AM
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12. He's a 7th cousin of Homer Simpson

:rofl:

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RagingInMiami

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:19 AM
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2. If he wasn't involved in 9/11

They'll pin it to him anyway.

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Kutjara

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:29 AM
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5. In the end, we'll all be involved in 9/11

By the time the government's spying program runs its course, everyone will be implicated somehow. 'Getting nineelevened' will enter the language as shorthand for spending a few weeks vacation in Poland or Romania, courtesy of Uncle Sam.

A: "Where'd you disappear to, Steve? Haven's seen you in weeks."
B: "Got nineelevened"
A: "Bummer. They find anything?"
B: "Just the usual stuff they load onto your PC while you're in custody, and then 'find' when they tear your house apart."
A: "Right. Well, could have been worse. You could have voted Democrat. They don't forgive that."
B: "Tell me about it."

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unschooler

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:19 AM
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9. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Very funny!

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Eugene

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:28 AM
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4. BushCo claimed that al Zarqawi was OBL's contact to Saddam.

They justified the invasion by saying al Zarqawi
worked in Iraq with Saddam's blessing and cooperation,
claims that were long ago discredited. They now
insist that we must stay in Iraq to keep al Zarqawi
from taking over.

BushCo needs ~~Goldstein~~ al Zarqawi to take the blame
for whatever goes wrong in this fiasco. He's not dead yet.

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still_one

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:31 AM
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6. bush screwed up a major opportunity to get him, but blew it

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

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killbotfactory

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:38 AM
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7. He was a known terrorist before the Iraq war

He was staying in the northern region of Iraq, beyond Saddam's reach, but that didn't stop Bush from saying "Iraq harbors terrorists" or whatever. We had plans to go grab him before the war started, but they were all shitcanned by the Bush administration. They thought that the propaganda value of having a terrorist on US soil outweighed the benefits of going after him before the war. Who knows how many died as a result of those decisions?

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neoblues

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:07 AM
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8. Well...

Whatever he did, didn't do, his name is a dead give-away... anybody with any of the following names (or similar) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... Simple: Terrorist! or, failing that... an Arab? or worse, a Muslim? one of those IRA*, uh, IRAQIS OR IRANIANS which are almost as bad as Afghanistanians (Afghans)... or what about those Packistanians (Packistanis) or Palestinis (Palestinians) or... You get it? Those Moslim (Muslim) Extremist peoples... Good thing Our Inspired Leader is Fighting Them Over There or We'd Be Fighting Them Here, In the Good 'Ol U.S. of A.! (an we might even be having to lurn to speech Arabick and live as they're slaves!!!) :sarcasm:

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unschooler

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:24 AM
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10. OH. MY. GOD. Are you saying Zarqawi is a....

RAGHEAD??? :scared: :scared: :scared:

:sarcasm:

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neoblues

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Thu Jun-08-06 06:02 AM
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13. Oooop! I forgot that one...

Raghead , Camel Jockey... what else? Nah, don't answer that--it'd be promoting bigotry (my link answers that and disregards my own proscription (my bad)). Such is the colorful jargon of racism/culturism/religionism probably owing to the intolerance of Conservatives (Republicans mostly).

(I would say 'religionism' might instead be 'theism', but theism exists and doesn't include prejudice in it's meaning (it means belief there is one God blah blah blah). Of course, I'm creating the words/changing meanings here--since 'religionism' exists and means "exaggerated religious zealotry" which is close to my desired meaning, but I would want to exchange 'zealotry' with 'bigotry'. Culturalism doesn't really exist by itself, so it seems okay to re-task it to "cultural bigotry")...

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Raksha

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:26 AM
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11. I wonder if it will give Shrub a blip in his approval rating

for a week or so. Not saying it will work, but they'll sure as hell try!

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