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It is indisputable that al Qaeda was and is in Iraq. For the purposes of this argument, it is entirely irrelevant whether or not al Qaeda was associated with or backed by Saddam Hussein; what Sarah Palin said was the absolute truth
No it's not.
It's complete nonsense & another bald faced lie aimed at stupid uninformed people.
"al Qaeda in Iraq" didn't have a damn thing to do with attacking us on 9-11.
'al Qaeda in Iraq" DID NOT plan and carrY out 9-11.
That's a FACT that people know who are not ignorant.
What you & your soccer mom dunce believe & claim is complete gibberrish.
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But specialists say that the enemy the military calls "Al Qaeda Iraq" is a combination of Iraqi jihadists and an unknown number of fighters from countries throughout the Middle East. "AQI" came together after the US invasion. And while there is evidence that AQI members coordinate attacks among themselves, there is little evidence that they coordinate closely with bin Laden
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic ... q_911_tie/, it is now believed to be led by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir[3] (presumed to be the Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri[4]).
In a July 2005 letter to al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Zarqawi outlined a four-stage plan to expand the Iraq War, which included expelling U.S. forces from Iraq, establishing an Islamic authority (caliphate), spreading the conflict to Iraq's secular neighbors and engaging in battle with Israel.[10] Consistent with their stated plan, the affiliated groups were linked to regional attacks outside Iraq, such as the Sharm al-Sheikh bombings in Egypt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-ZarqawiAbu Musab al-Zarqawi (Arabic: أبومصعب الزرقاوي‎, ’AbÅ« Muṣ‘ab az-ZarqÄwÄ«, Abu Musab from Zarqa)) (October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (Arabic: Ø£Øمد Ùضيل النزال الخلايله‎, ’Aḥmad Faá¸Ä«l an-NazÄl al-ḪalÄyla) was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and being responsible for a series of bombings, beheadings and attacks during the Iraq War.
He formed al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, which later became the group called Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in the 1990s, and led it until his death in June 2006. Zarqawi took responsibility, on several audio- and videotapes, for numerous acts of violence in Iraq including suicide bombings and hostage executions. Zarqawi opposed the presence of U.S. and Western military forces in the Islamic world as well as the West's support for and the existence of Israel. In late 2004 he joined al-Qaeda and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
After the 2001 war in Afghanistan, Zarqawi appeared on a U.S. list of most-wanted al-Qaeda terrorists still at large in early 2002.[51] It was reported he received the equivalent of US$5000 for his activities from Osama bin Laden.[citation needed]
According to the Washington Post and some other sources, he formally swore loyalty (Bay'ah) to bin Laden in October 2004 and was in turn appointed bin Laden's deputy. Zarqawi then changed the name of his Monotheism and Jihad network to "al-Qaeda in Iraq," [52](Tamzim al-Qaeda wa'l-Jihad fi Balad al-Rafidayn)[53]
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