Planted Seed of a Quagmire
Everyone is focusing on what to do about Iraq. Does President Bush plan one last push? What will the Iraq Study Group recommend? Do the Dems have a plan for getting us out?
All of these are good questions and deserve extensive debate. But we would be remiss if we ignored how we came to be there in the first place. Because we apparently did exactly what the terrorists wanted us to do.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. We all know how adept the Bush administration has become at doing exactly what the terrorists want. My only question is: when will we stop letting Osama dictate US policy?
(Filed at State of the Day)
All of these are good questions and deserve extensive debate. But we would be remiss if we ignored how we came to be there in the first place. Because we apparently did exactly what the terrorists wanted us to do.
A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies claimed last night.
The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaida had been training Iraqis.
Libi was captured in November 2001 and taken to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured. Asked on BBC2's Newsnight whether Libi or other jihadists would have told the truth if they were tortured, Nasiri replies: "Never".
Asked whether he thought Libi had deliberately planted information to get the US to fight Iraq, Nasiri said: "Exactly".
This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. We all know how adept the Bush administration has become at doing exactly what the terrorists want. My only question is: when will we stop letting Osama dictate US policy?
(Filed at State of the Day)
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