WMDs In Iraq

Now What? Oh! MY!!

Now What? Oh! MY!!

Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:39 PM

The Guardian: Al-Qaeda in Iraq Before War Began
Posted by: Brad Dayspring (05-02-2007, 10:50 AM)

Yesterday it was reported that the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed in a fight between insurgents north of Baghdad. Al-Masri became the al-Qaeda’s point man in Iraq after American forces killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last summer.

It was VERY interesting to see that the Guardian, a British newspaper not exactly considered a bastion of conservative thought, reported the following: “Security experts say he (al-Masri) became a terrorist in 1982 when he joined Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He probably entered Iraq in 2002, before al-Zarqawi, and may have helped establish the first al-Qaida cell in the Baghdad area.

Wait… “…entered Iraq in 2002.” Stop the presses! Senior al-Qaeda leaders were in Iraq before the war began? And somehow Al-Masri set up an al-Qaeda cell in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?

So what do Congressional Democrats, some of whom go as far as to deny the presence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Democrat presidential candidates have to say about the Guardian’s report?

****** UPDATE (5-2, 11:57 AM): The Guardian has updated their story.