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Originally posted by taranaki
Do you have any evidence to back that claim?I'm sure the Pentagon would love to see it,as yet they've come up with no credible evidence to support that claim that Ive seen.
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Not true. There are confirmed reports of at least on terrorist camp that was raided in northern Iraq, and their operation shut down. In the camp were found all kinds of data linking them to.. I think to the Al Qaeda network. I think the less firm connection was one between this particular camp and Saddam's regime.
Yogs is right.
Don't forget, Al Qaeda is unfortunately one of.. I can't even guess how many large, powerful, and threatening terrorist organizations, but we'll say 50 as a conservative number. They just happened to be one of the ones that put themselves on the map by their high profile attacks on targets like the WTC and USS Cole. And unfortunately, the US further vilified their cause, and more importantly Osama Bin Laden, in attacking them with cruise missle strikes in the late 1990s, one of the reasons why Osama has such pull with Islamic dissidents (i.e. dissidents from the US).
I also think that people are jumping the gun about the war being over. Yes, Baghdad was of course the most significant military target in the country, but there are still enemy forces to be weeded out elsewhere, in Tikrit for example. And don't forget that to establish government under a new regime, the coalition forces will have to have occupancy, including from what I've heard 100 K troops over the course of years. I think it will be a rough process as well, with tensions between the Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds most likely erupting into violence at times. The liberation of Iraq is another Yugoslavia waiting to happen, which is still not a region that knows peace (and it hasn't been since.. I think June of 1991).