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 [Adam Ash] Zarqawi: from terrorist to martyr via a couple... : al-Zarqawi, like many who follow him, was from an anonymous family (even though they are members of a significant tribe) and an anonymous town””a man who was fired from a job as a video-store clerk and whose background included street gangs and, according to Jordanian intelligence officials, prison for sexual assault. He was a ruthless self-promoter who, U.S. officials claim, killed or wounded thousands of people in the past three years””in suicide bombings, mass executions, and beheadings that have been videotaped.

 [Hitchens Watch] Slaying the Bogeyman: He pops up just before the war to give Colin Powell his Saddam-Osama link, He manages to time the beheading of Nick Berg just as the Abu Graib scandal was breaking, he could always be relied on to give living proof that the "insurgency" was alien to Iraq and linked to Osama and now he happens to get himself blown up just as the exposure of the Haditha massacre has driven support for the war to a new low.

 [My Buffalo River Home] Fear Factors: Overselling Terror - Robert Parry... : According to the letter, as released by U.S. intelligence, Zawahiri hoped that after U.S. forces left Iraq, al-Qaeda's contingent could hold out in some Sunni enclaves and keep the jihadists in line by promising the eventual creation of a “caliphate” in an area along the Mediterranean Sea to Egypt, known as the Lavant.

 [Halfway There] Rehabilitating a lie: did their work well and today shills like Melanie Morgan condemn the news media for having reported to the contrary. Of course, she spins it like a gyroscope: “They've falsely reported that there is NO connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda.”

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Timmerman is taken seriously by the White House, Congress, and the US press but in fact has no credibility as an Iran expert (at IC we like our Iran experts to know Persian, the way you'd expect an expert on France to know French; we're funny that way).

[Time.com] TIME.com: TIME NAMES PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 2004 PERSON OF THE ...: “Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting. But in 2004, blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there,” writes TIME’s Lev Grossman.

 [Army.com] Army.com - Blog: "If they continue their obstinance, if they continue to say to the world, 'We really don't care what your opinion is,' then the world is going to act in concert."I don't think Iran has any intention of suspending their program. They clearly have an agenda to reach and they are either using the nuclear program in a "hold the world hostage" kind of way, or they mean to join the nuclear bomb club, which every agrees is a very bad thing.

[Michaelmoore.com] Welcome to MichaelMoore.com : Newsroom: "I think that George Bush is a fool and anybody who aligns with George Bush right now, especially with his administration crumbling from this corruption, I think they should distance themselves and quit supporting my country in committing crimes against humanity."

[Activistchat.com] BLOG-IRAN by Activistchat.com (Iran News & Views): Global ...: Yet, even largely constrained to a single base, the reaction by many Saudis and Islamists was the same as though a full-scale occupying force had been deployed to Saudi soil.” Catherwood, the author of a new history entitled Churchill’s Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq, based on his research of the Chartwell Papers at Churchill College, Cambridge, added that he saw distinct similarities between Churchill’s to effectively “garrison” British ground forces to reduce the British military footprint ”” and, more importantly, expenditure ”” and the current discussion about “drawing down” troop levels to affect Iraqi perception of the Coalition presence. Even the US resort to airpower to combat the Islamist forces of Fallujah further mirrored Churchill’s efforts in the “Mesopotamian rebellion” of 1920 to rely on the Royal Air Force to subdue the insurgent threat.

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