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The Al Qaeda Iraq Tie Russia Helped Al-Qaeda, Arming Iran — Intelligence ReportsAnsar Al-Islam: Iraq's Al-Qaeda ConnectionThe Al-Qaeda Network in Iraq countries : -
Russia Helped Al-Qaeda, Arming Iran — Intelligence Reports22.03.2005 17:07 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:07 MSK New evidence connects Saddam Hussein to
support for al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, and even more disturbing links
between the terrorist network and Russian intelligence, reports Joseph Farah’s
G2 Bulletin. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/22/rusiran.shtml
Ansar
Al-Islam: Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection
Ansar al-Islam,
an al-Qaeda affiliate active in Iraqi Kurdistan since September 2001, is a
prototype of America's enemies in the "war on terror." The group
serves as a testament to the global spread of al-Qaeda affiliates, achieved
through exploitation of weak central authorities and a utilitarian willingness
to work with seemingly differing ideologies for a common cause. Lengthy reports
on Ansar have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles
Times, and Kurdish leaders have given Washington a plethora of intelligence on
the group. Nevertheless, Ansar has yet to appear on official U.S. terrorism
lists. Meanwhile, political complexities would make military action against the
group difficult, at best. Hence, this small force of 650 fighters is a textbook
example of the ongoing challenges posed by the war on terror.By Jonathan Schanzer The Washington Institute for Near East Policy | January 17, 2003 Northern Iraq's al-Qaeda In August 2001, leaders of several Kurdish Islamist factions reportedly visited the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan with the goal of creating an alternate base for the organization in northern Iraq. Their intentions were echoed in a document found in an al-Qaeda guest house in Afghanistan vowing to "expel those Jews and Christians from Kurdistan and join the way of Jihad, [and] rule every piece of land . . . with the Islamic Shari'a rule." Soon thereafter, Ansar al-Islam was created using $300,000 to $600,000 in al-Qaeda seed money, in addition to funds from Saudi Arabia. Today, Ansar operates in fortified mountain positions along the Iran-Iraq border known as "Little Tora Bora" (after the Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan). There, the group's Kurdish, Iraqi, Lebanese, Jordanian, Moroccan, Syrian, Palestinian, and Afghan members train in a wide array of guerrilla tactics. Approximately 30 al-Qaeda members reportedly joined Ansar upon the group's inception in 2001; that number is now as high as 120. Armed with heavy machine guns, mortars, and antiaircraft weaponry, the group fulfills al-Qaeda lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri's vision of a global jihad. Ansar's goal is to disrupt civil society and create a Taliban-like regime in northern Iraq. To that end, it has already banned music, alcohol, photographs, and advertising in its stronghold. Girls are prevented from studying; men must grow beards and pray five times daily. Activities since 2001 Ansar first made headlines in September 2001 when it ambushed and killed forty-two Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) fighters. In February 2002, the group assassinated Franso Hariri, a Kurdish Christian politician. That spring, Ansar attempted to murder Barham Salih, a PUK leader; five bodyguards and two attackers were killed in the ensuing gunfight. In June, the group bombed a Kurdish restaurant, injuring scores and killing a child. In July, the group killed nine PUK fighters, and destroyed several Sufi shrines -- a move reminiscent of the Taliban. In September, Dutch authorities arrested the group's leader, Najmuddin Faraj (a.k.a. Mullah Krekar), for suspected ties to al-Qaeda. In December, Ansar launched a surprise attack after the PUK sent 1,500 soldiers home to celebrate the end of Ramadan. According to the group's website, they killed 103 PUK fighters and wounded 117. That same month, Jordan's prime minister announced that al-Qaeda operative Fazel Inzal al-Khalayleh (a.k.a. Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi) had sought refuge with Ansar. Khalayleh had ordered the spring 2002 attack on Salih as well as the October 2002 murder of U.S. Agency for International Development officer Laurence Foley in Amman. Khalayleh's deputy, Nur ad-Din ash-Shami (a.k.a. Abu Abdullah), was killed in a battle with Kurdish fighters less than two weeks ago. Currently, more than thirty Ansar militants (about twenty of whom are Arab) are incarcerated in Sulaymaniyah. Their testimony has provided clues about the group's ties to Saddam Husayn, al-Qaeda, Iran, and weapons of mass destruction. Chemical Weapons Some Bush administration and PUK officials claim that Ansar has established chemical weapons facilities in Iraqi Kurdistan. Reports allege that Baghdad helped to smuggle these weapons from Afghanistan and that Ansar has tested substances such as cyanide gas and the poison Ricin. Salih has cited "clear evidence" that such tests have been performed on animals. Moreover, the Washington Post reported that the group smuggled VX nerve gas through Turkey in fall 2001. Links to Saddam Bush administration and PUK officials have also speculated that Ansar may be working with Saddam through a man named Abu Wa'il, reportedly an al-Qaeda operative on Saddam's payroll. Kurdish explosives experts also claim that TNT seized from Ansar was produced by the Iraqi military, and that arms are sent to the group from areas controlled by Saddam. Iraqi officials deny all such ties, yet Saddam clearly profits from Ansar's activities, which keep Kurdish opposition forces tied up on the border and away from Saddam. Indeed, support for Ansar is not unlike the money Saddam gives to families of Palestinian suicide bombers; turning up the heat in Kurdistan and the Palestinian territories takes heat off Saddam as a crisis looms. Currently, Kurdish and international sources are accumulating evidence they say could soon present a clearer picture of Saddam's cooperation with al-Qaeda. Links to Iran Iran supports Ansar by allowing it to operate along its borders. Iran may also provide logistical support by permitting the flow of goods and weapons and providing a safe area beyond the front. The Turkish daily Milliyet has noted that Ansar militants check cars leaving their stronghold en route to Iran, indicating coordination with the Islamic republic. Moreover, the recently apprehended Mullah Krekar spent many years in Iran and was arrested in Amsterdam after a flight from Tehran. Iran has several possible reasons for supporting Ansar. For one, having a democratic proto-state on its borders threatens the very nature of the Islamic republic. Thus, continued guerrilla activity benefits Tehran, as does any movement designed to spread Islamism in Kurdistan. Furthermore, by supporting Ansar and other Islamist groups in Iraq, Tehran may attempt to gain influence among the various factions that could contribute to a new Iraqi government if Saddam's regime is overthrown. Implications More than one year after Ansar announced its formation, the State Department has yet to designate it a Foreign Terrorist Organization, nor has the Treasury Department listed it as a Special Designated Global Terrorist. It would be interesting to know why. Other questions remain: Can Washington pressure Iran to cease cooperation with Ansar? Can it persuade Norway, where Mullah Krekar lived for several years, to examine his financial accounts? Can it verify ties between al-Qaeda and Saddam based on interviews with captured Ansar militants? If such links are established, military force should be considered. Reports from the front indicate that Ansar could not withstand an aerial assault. Yet, Washington may be reticent to attack during this period of UN inspections for fear of international rebuke, particularly from Turkey. Ankara, already ambivalent about an Iraq war, may be sensitive to any measures that would potentially strengthen the Kurds. Still, Ansar al-Islam poses a threat to any future U.S. ground deployment. Moreover, dismantling the group would potentially weaken both Saddam and al-Qaeda -- two primary targets in the war on terror. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5571
The praise of Allah and the prayer and the
greeting on the messenger of Allah and on the one(s) who supported it .
A presenter no escape
from her : -
No becomes obscure on each
observer that the Al-Qaeda Network in Iraq had from the power and the
position in the world a general and in Iraq specially what does not become
obscure on all with a core, have the organization and thank God an unity and
by a short period the minimized proverb became to the Islamic state
And that prevents it from the
application of the penalties like the punishment of theft and the adultery
and two others is except what befell in Iraq from calamities Tatar .
And this appears a clear
in the matters the next note
1-He became for the organization now an
information related to it surpassed the common media organization to the
coalition forces
What from an operation
that happens except and the organization has broadcast it through the read
mass media from it and the heard one
2-There is in the Al-Qaeda Network now
legitimate court it does not fear her in blame of blamers Allah that applies
the limits of Allah between it and between the accused at it
3-There is in the organization now a
military intelligence committee on a great position from the accuracy and
the power in the information
Where she could thank God he
rose that she comes to fortified many places by the newest of the wired and
wired systems
4-The organization became praise be to God
and the favor on a great ability from the manufacture of explosives and
explosive devices which sharpened by the American War Ministry to the change
of its military manufacture strategy then there is no for the taunt now any
rank in the hearts of its owners and its enemies in front of this that sees
on a person from the world now
And from Rumsfeld 's
witness when he visited Iraq so that he meets with his enthusiastic speech
by the mercenaries soldiers
And at that time he was
surprised by what he was not in its consideration since one of the soldiers
stood objecting to double of the military cars in front of the militants
charges ....And Ramsfld answered it a patched his tragedy : - we will study
the new operation of Al Tsfih
5- The Al-Qaeda Network has contained
individuals from all of the nationalities and the races ...Have the
organization became each of the races meaning it by the males and the
females and from all the nationalities
This is very briefly the
organization state now
We come except to the events of
Amman and that hid its truth the Jordanian and international media
And this is clear from the
solidarity of all of the media powers on the coverage of this event as they
want
From the visit of the British foreign
secretary to Clinton 's visit to the pro-coalition crying the regimes on
what befell in Amman and ran for it
And as if the Kaaba rumbled
Amman events : -
According to what preceded it
becomes clear that the Al-Qaeda is in Iraq what set out for this doing for
us so and she is on an advance and supported knowledge by the definitive
evidences that this doing no escape from its application and with the urgent
speed
To this what the Al-Qaeda set
out for this doing except after holding the Shura Council in it times and
times
And the Al-Qaeda with its
choice of Amman land for the application of this blessed hitting has injured
and that to the next reasons : -
1-The Jordanian system is considered the
greatest regime protecting the Jews dignity and the Hebrew country
The Jordanian borders are the
longest borders that separate the sacred land from their family or she is
the longitudinal borders that separate the militants about he sanctified
them
And the fly can not so to
speak assuming that it escapes from the courageous grip the Jordanians from
the army Al Mstfwi as the His Majesty King Abd names it the English { with
that more than quarter of the armies from the homosexuals and the hashish
addicts }
2-The Jordanian regime is a system betraying
Allah and to its messenger and does not live except on the treason and the
cunning with its neighbours
And not that the dead did Al
Hussein Bin Talal is by a little after when he took his helicopter plane
going and meaning his guardians from the Jews so that he informs them of the
war on them from the Arabs ...And the matter has taken place as wanted then
the meeting was between it and between a president ministerial then Goulda
Meir
And that the matter increases
a clarity and the departure of the statements that gave them the Jordanian
adulterer of the network of the American Cnn when BE hinting by that the
bombers the terrorists on its claim they entered by Syria
He started hinting at the
accusations randomly on Syria a seizing the international pressures on it
under the pretext of Milis 's deciding
3-Jordan has become a den for the tripartite
conspiratorial meetings the Al Angloushioamrkia with the party of the other
traitor and they are Ibn Al Alqmi 's grandsons
4- Jordan became a military training center
of the traitors from the Iraqi army and who spreads in the Ahl al-Sunnah wal
Jama`ah the killing and the killing ...And all this on the world eyes and
all supports and supports in the name of the war on the terrorism
5-Jordan considers the alive and safe lung
for the convalescence of the American forces in Port Of Aqaba and that
received the last hitting before two months from now by the Al-Qaeda Network
And Arab world and the Islamic
one not was aware by what Jordan does or by what Jordan represents of the
coalition forces as a sensitive lung except when the previous hitting and
that revealed a thing which the regime hides about its nation
And Jordan has conquered its
desert in the blue and she is the northern eastern region in it
Its opening to the American
forces and to the allies they revel and lay off in them without control
Jordan has opened all its
crossings whether the air or land to the coalition forces
6-The Ynmthl of the Jordan of the right arm
of the American intelligences and this is known from the statements of the
same of CIA institution and have this news was spread before days in one of
its most famous newspapers
The results of this
battle : -
The results of this battle have been praise
be to God good and blessed
The organization as mentioned for it a
legitimate Shura Council
What set out for this doing except after a
collective consultation and an individual seeking guidance
And the prophet has showed peace be upon him
that he is what frustrates the seeker of guidance and what strays the
consulter or as he said upon him the best the prayer and a more perfect the
peace
And the summarization of the results is
possible on the coming way : -
First : - shaking the
repressive Jordanian regime based on the injustice and the tyranny and the
clannish one where the regime came to a stage from the conceit in its
security and military enterprises that it is a regime it is not defeated and
he is not violated then Allah violated it that rose and its defeat by the
monotheism lions
A second : - this blessed operation revealed the
high treason before this system of the Islamic Nation all and that when
one of the Hebrew newspapers announced that the Jordanian government could
with excessive intelligence that it carries out the evacuation of the
agents of the Zionist country peacefully
A third : - these explosions injured the
pro-occupation some economic symbols
Have ministers fell in this battle from the pro-occupation and also
some collaborating Palestinian Authority agents ethnic Oil Ministry
A fourth : - and from its good results also
directing a message to all collaborating Arab regimes that the Al-Qaeda
hand a command and individuals they have become longitudinal that can
shoot when they wanted and anywhere they wanted
A fifth : - the revelation of a bitter truth very
and she is that the Jordanian nation was still living on the emotion and
that devastates it from the fifties from this century and she is from the
dead remains Al Hussein Bin Talal then all what appeared on the Jordanian
television from a condemnation of these hitting from the pro-palaces
clannish Jordanian crowds
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