Iraq prime minister ties Saddam regime to captured Al Qaida commander

[Pete]

Don't look for this to get any air time in the MSM anytime soon.

"Iraq prime minister ties Saddam regime to captured Al Qaida commander"

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtri...0344_04_30.asp


Good news that a mudering thug is off the streets.

[Sigaba]

I'm still waiting for the MSM to report the terrorist training camps that soldiers and Marines found in Iraq.

And, while we're at it, how about some detailed reporting on the findings of the Iraqi Perspectives Project?

Oh, wait. I'm sorry. That would require some actual research. That would cut into too many reporters' blogging.

[redleg99]

There was something about the Baathist-Jihadist relationship on PBS Frontline in 2006. They did a series called “Inside the Insurgency,” where they interviewed a number of people, among them Michael Ware, who at that time TIME Magazine's Baghdad bureau chief.

Here are some exerpts:

Q: But isn't there a large portion of the insurgency that remains nationalist?

A: There is, but that has increasingly been hijacked by the Islamists.

Q: Do you think that the nationalists who are insurgents are now regretting entering into this marriage of convenience with the Islamists?

A: ... The secularists, the nationalists, the Baathists went into that strategic alliance with their eyes wide open. It was never a happy marriage. From day one, you could see the friction and the tension, be it over tactics, be it over materiel, be it competition for attention or resources or money, or be it just turf wars and power conflicts.

I remember, for example, a very senior Baathist commander. He comes from one of the main strains of the Baathist insurgency, linked to the faction headed by Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed, who gives direction of money principally from Syria. He and some of his organization had a meeting with some very senior members of Zarqawi's organization, principally foreigners but also Iraqis. They thrashed out the issues that they had to deal with, and they're sitting down afterwards in the afternoon drinking some chai. They're just having a conversation. Eventually it turns [in] a certain direction and became somewhat heated, as the Iraqis called them Arabs. [And a senior foreign fighter] turned around and said, "You know, if you Baathist gang return to [the] power you seek, we'll be coming for you." And the Baathists snapped straight back: "We are under no illusions about that, and we will be ready." That's the way it's been from the beginning.

See the rest of the interview here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...iews/ware.html