Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert

Bush's references to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and his assertions that it is the same group that attacked the United States in 2001, have greatly oversimplified the nature of the insurgency in Iraq and its relationship with the Qaeda leadership.
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Bruce Hoffman, an expert on terrorism at Georgetown University, said that if American forces were to withdraw from Iraq, the vast majority of the group's members would likely be more focused on ... Full Story »

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Julian Friedland
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by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

Nice to see the mainstream media finally doing its job by showing the duplicity of the White House's linking of the Iraqi "Al Qaeda" with Bin Laden's 9/11 group, when it's actually a Sunni front in a war against the Shiites. Remains to be seen if those funded by right wing "think" tanks like Michael Yon will get the message, when their job requires them not to.

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