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Default OT--9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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...absent an invasion sponsored by the actual
government of Iraq, we'll be doing
nothing else in that immediate area.


What if the government of Iraq sponsored the invasion?

Allawi Vows Reprisals against Nations Supporting Iraq Terrorists

July 20, 2004

(CBN News) - Iraq's Defense Minister



CBN News? Now you are citing the krazed kristian broadcasting network?
Puke.


Right. Typical partisan response...attack the messenger, not the message.
Perhaps you'd prefer this report from Reuter's:

Iraq Says Will Hit at Countries Backing Rebels
Tue Jul 20, 2004 04:30 AM ET

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq is ready to retaliate against countries it accuses of
supporting violence wracking the country, the country's defense minister
warned Tuesday.
Hazim al-Shaalan mentioned no countries by name but accused old foe Iran of
"blatant interference." Iraq has also complained in the past about guerrilla
fighters entering the country from Syria.

"We are prepared to move the arena of the attacks on Iraq's honor and its
rights to those countries," he was quoted as saying by the London-based
Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

"We've spoken to them and confronted them with facts and evidence, but none
of them have taken any action to stop supporting terrorism in Iraq," he
said.

Iraq blames a wave of bombings and assassinations, which has claimed
hundreds of lives including senior Iraqi politicians, on remnants of Saddam
Hussein's regime as well as foreign Islamic militants who have entered from
neighboring countries.

"They (Iranians) confess to the presence of their spies in Iraq who have a
mission to shake up the social and political situation," the defense
minister said.

"Iranian intrusion has been vast and unprecedented since the establishment
of the Iraqi state.

Washington, too, has accused Tehran of seeking to destabilize and gain
influence in Iraq, which like Iran, is predominantly Shi'ite Muslim. Tehran
denies interfering in Iraqi affairs.

Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein waged a protracted war against Iran
between 1980 and 1988 in which hundreds of thousands died on both sides.

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi -- on a tour of Arab states bordering
Iraq -- won Jordanian support for his drive to crush insurgents.

Syria agreed earlier this month to help seal its long desert border with
Iraq and stop foreign insurgents infiltrating into Iraq to fight U.S. forces
and the U.S.-backed authorities.