Link to Zarqawi transcript

This proves that truth can be stranger than fiction

Wow, not really much left to say after reading that.

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"the Shi`a, the most evil of mankind"

Good thing this guy isn't making films about religious martyrs, he might be accused of being anti-Islam.

"Shi`ism is a religion that has nothing in common with Islam"

Oh, that clears it up.

"The Shi`i Safavid state was an insurmountable obstacle in the path of Islam. Indeed it was a dagger that stabbed Islam and its people in the back."

At least this guy isn't one to hold a grudge.

"They are a sect that follows the path of the Jews and Christians in lying and infidelity."

He says that like it's a bad thing.

"Sufis doomed to perdition"

This guy must kill in the comedy clubs there, Don Rickles on Jihad.

"God’s religion is more precious that lives and souls"

So apparently, even if your soul goes to Hell, you're going God's work. I can't help but wonder if this guy has a DVD of Pulp Fiction, and just keeps replaying that line about getting medieval on people's asses....

Bellham

"This is exactly what we want, since right and wrong no longer have any place in our current situation."

Right. That about sums it up.

I ascend

And if this doesn't disturb you about bush and his motives, nothing will:

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With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’


— Roger Cressey
Terrorism expert


“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.

Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.

The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.

“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.

In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.

The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late — Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone. “Here’s a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we’re suffering as a result inside Iraq,” Cressey added.

And despite the Bush administration’s tough talk about hitting the terrorists before they strike, Zarqawi’s killing streak continues today.

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Originally posted by JohnBellham:
"The Shi`i Safavid state was an insurmountable obstacle in the path of Islam. Indeed it was a dagger that stabbed Islam and its people in the back."

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Not only is he ignorant of history, he's got terrible taste. The Safavids weren't insurmountable, obviously, since they were wiped out only a little more than 200 years after they got off the ground. Moreover, the Safavids were cool. Turkic Shiite Sufis enamored of Persian culture who kicked butt for 200 years without the use of gunpowder, which they deemed "unmanly", their cities were magnets for artists and philosophers.

Oh yeah, that's right. Art and philosophy are evil. Sorry, forgot my Al-Qaeda-Asswipe training for a moment there.

--------"Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while." -Charles Barkley

The backwardness of the Bush administrations approach to terrorism is absolutely amazing. This guy and others like him are the most dangerous enemies but Bush & Co. get all anal retentive about "nation building" and WMD. The terrorist think they are part of some sort of nebulous "Islamic nation" and carry out their attacks without bothering to consult with Saddam Hussein, whom they would cheerfully murder themselves once they got around to it.