On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:23:36 -0400, NOYB wrote:


In February 2003, Colin Powell made the case before the UN that al
Zaqawi was in control of an Iraqi al Qaeda group.

While al-Zarqawi is definitely anti-American, some analysts dispute that
he is al Qaeda. Oh, and much of his terrorist training was under the
watchful eye of our very own CIA in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets. You
have to love the foresight exhibited by our trusty spooks.

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



The nexus with Al Qaeda, Mr. Powell said, originates with a branch
headed by Abu Massab al-Zaqawi, a senior associate of Osama bin Laden.
He said Mr. Zaqawi has a camp in the northeastern corner of Kurdish Iraq
teaching terrorist operatives how to produce ricin and other extremely
lethal chemicals.

Just to remind you, Kurdish Iraq was in the US defined "no-fly zone",
where al-Zarqawi was protected from Saddam, by *us*.