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Iraq War making us less safe from terrorism
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The entire US intelligence community reported in April that in Iraq a new generation of terrorists... [is] breeding resentment of US and support for global jihad...[and] fueling the spread of the jihadists. They would never have said this if it were not true.
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1. Before Cheney's Iraq war: The 9-11 commission reported page 66 that it found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.
January 22, 2007, al Qaeda it vastly stronger in Iraq: Now the US is fighting the Omar Brigade of Al Qaeda in downtown Baghdad, not to mention the mayhem in Anbar province. In short there is now a vast "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
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 Iraq: Qaeda Training
1. Iraq war is shaping a "new generation of terrorists".
2. is "breeding deep resentment of US".
3. is "fueling the spread of the jihadist" movement.
4. is "attracting new recruits and donors" to Al Qa'ida.
5. Al Qa’ida in Iraq might "lead to external operations".
6. Iraqi fighters are a potential "source of leadership for jihadists".
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A secret Australian intelligence report (Oct. 21) came to the same conclusion as US ingelligence community. "Iraq has been clearly used as a recruiting tool for terrorist groups around the globe with the number of jihadis steadily increasing."
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The Joint Intelligence Committee has warned British Prime Minister Tony Blair the war in Iraq has made Britain the target of a terror campaign by al-Qa'ida that will last "for many years to come".
A leaked top-secret memo says the war in Iraq has "exacerbated" the threat of terrorism by radicalising British Muslims and attracting new recruits to anti-Western terror attacks.... "It has reinforced the determination of terrorists who were already committed to attacking the West and motivated others who were not," the briefing says. The Australian 4/03/06
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In his first public appearance, CIA Director Porter Goss described armed groups fighting US forces in Iraq as inspired by Usama bin Ladin and intent on attacking Americans.
"Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists. ...These jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focused on acts of urban terrorism. They represent a potential pool of contacts to build transnational terrorist cells, groups and networks in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other countries.
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists," Goss said. 2/17/05 Porter Goss
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 Saad al-Faqih
By Mahan Abedin, Terrorism Monitor 12/12/2005 (excerpts from)
Dr. Saad al-Faqih heads the Saudi opposition group, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA), and is a widely acknowledged expert on al-Qaeda.
Saad al-Faqih: ... Al-Qaeda has reached the conclusion that the sudden collapse of the [Saudi Arabian] regime will either invite foreign interference or chaos. Both scenarios are now favored by the jihadis, who have learned great lessons in the Iraq theater over the past 33 months. In fact the jihadis would welcome an American invasion, knowing full well that it will provide a massive recruitment opportunity for them and hence they will be the ultimate winners, as they think they are proving to be in Iraq.
MA: Do you think that the jihadis now see the Internet as the most important battle space?
SF: Only the jihadis in Iraq, because the only place on earth where the jihadis feel safe is Iraq.
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"Nothing America could have done would have provided al-Qaeda . . . a better recruitment device than our unprovoked invasion of an oil-rich Arab country."
–Richard Clarke, “Against All Enemies,” March 2004.
Former counter-terrorist czar (under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, & Bush) Richard Clarke, believes the Iraq war served to significantly increase the terrorist threat to our nation. Not only by giving rise to more terrorists, but by alienating our potential allies in the war against terror. Why was this point not at the heart of the pre-war debate?
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Trust Clarke: He's Right About Bush
The Brookings Institution
The author not only shines light on the truth behind Clarke's accusation that "everything Mr. Bush has done after 9/11 has made us less safe," but also explains how "confirmation of Mr. Clarke's basic accusations comes from none other than George W. Bush himself."
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Rumsfeld Unsure of Iraq as Anti-Terror Strategy
Oct. 16, 2003 — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
“Does the US need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists? The US is putting relatively little effort into a long-range plan, but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists. The cost-benefit ratio is against us! Our cost is billions against the terrorists’ costs of millions. . . . Is our current situation such that ‘the harder we work, the behinder we get’?”
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April 27, 2005
The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week.
Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides who were briefed on statistics covering incidents including the bloody school seizure in Russia and violence related to the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir.
washington post
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