[antimedia] antimedia: As the evidence of links between Al Qaeda and Sunnis....

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As the evidence of links between Al Qaeda and Sunnis....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167602891.shtml


   ....[1]mounts, the statements of "experts" that there were no ties
   between Sadaam and Al Qaeda become more an more laughable.

     TIME magazine recently posted an interview with native Iraqi Abu
     Mohammed reflecting on a number of things related to Saddam
     Hussein's death including the effect that Hussein and his Baath
     regime had on the country of Iraq and Hussein's followers joining
     up with Abu Musab al Zarqawi after Hussein had been captured. (A
     confession also made in TIME magazine earlier this year by
     Hussein's former right-hand man Izzat al Douri.)
     Even the remnants of his (Hussein's) old regime, which had morphed
     into the Sunni insurgency, seemed to lose their fervor for Saddam
     (after his capture). Some Ba'athist groups kept up the charade that
     they were fighting to restore the dictator to his palace, but
     others quickly stopped referring to him at all and instead recast
     themselves as "the nationalist resistance" or as "mujahedin," or
     holy warriors. Many threw in their lot with the new ogre on the
     scene, Al-Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
     The secular Baath party, long been said to be completely
     incompatible with extremist groups such as al Qaeda, has repeatedly
     been pinpointed as al Qaeda's main ally in post-invasion Iraq, even
     to the point of following al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al
     Zarqawi after Saddam Hussein had been captured.
     It's worth asking when and how these networks and relationships
     began, though it's a question rarely asked in mainstream media
     circles.

   With the benefit of hindsight, the "experts" become idiots and the
   media become fools.

References

   1. http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/12/time_magazine_interview_with_a_1/