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  Iraq (War on Terrorism). SLA News Division Web Site.
Iraq - from The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Showdown: Iraq - This is a special news report on the status of Iraq's compliance of the United Nation Security Council's Resolution 1441 (November 8, 2002) on weapons inspection.
Iraq and the UN - from the Federation of American Scientists.
www.ibiblio.org /slanews/internet/iraq.htm   (4611 words)

  
 Bush on terrorism and Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
A brutal dictator, with a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great potential wealth will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and threaten the United States.
It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see and destroy them as directed.
www.ups.edu /faculty/sousa/pg111/stateofunion.htm   (2675 words)

  
 JIHADI TERRORISM—FROM IRAQ TO KUWAIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Iraq continues to be the main hub of jihadi terrorism, with a very high level of suicide terrorism indicating that there has been no weakening in the morale and motivation of the terrorists and resistance fighters.
Iraq, which had remained free of Shia-Sunni violence under Saddam Hussein, who used to suppress the observance in public of Shia as well as Sunni religious occasions with equal ruthlessness, has overtaken Pakistan in the sharpness of the sectarian divide.
Next to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a country of growing concern in the so-called war against terrorism is Kuwait.
www.saag.org /papers13/paper1261.html   (2527 words)

  
 State­Sponsored Terrorism - Iraq
Iraq has not managed to recover its pre-Gulf war international terrorist capabilities, but it is slowly rebuilding its intelligence network.
Iraq continues to provide safehaven to a variety of Palestinian rejectionist groups, including the Abu Nidal organization (ANO), the Arab Liberation Front (ALF), and the former head of the now defunct 15 May Organization, Abu Ibrahim, who masterminded several bombings of US aircraft.
In mid­November a Jordanian diplomatic courier was murdered in Iraq on the road from Amman to Baghdad, and his diplomatic pouch stolen.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism-Iraq.html   (234 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Blair defends stance over Iraq
Mr Blair called the terrorist attack "an act of pure wickedness" and told a hushed house that the message remained "one of total defiance, of determination, in the face of this evil, to prosecute the fight against them the world over, until in time they are defeated".
And he insisted that terrorism would be defeated, by a mix of "police, intelligence and even military action".
Mr Powell added: "When we talk about the campaign against terror, we are going after those responsible for what happened in Bali, those who are responsible for 9/11 and those regimes that are supporting terrorists and developing weapons of mass destruction.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,812447,00.html   (646 words)

  
 Corruption, Not Terrorism, Rules Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Iraq may be free of Saddam, but it is not yet free of the corrupt practices that allow someone like Saddam to take power, and keep it.
While much is made of the terror Saddam used to keep Iraqis in line, we forget that he often used corruption, and the willingness of too many Iraqis to take the money and look the other way.
Until Iraq can confront and conquer this enemy, they will not be able to enjoy the benefits of their oil wealth.
www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/20056821728.asp   (563 words)

  
 The American Spectator
That is, in order for Kerry to argue that the war in Iraq "diverted" attention from the war on terrorism, he has no choice but to say that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was terrorist-free and that Saddam Hussein wasn't a terrorist himself.
Iraq so as to free up his reasoning that America would have won the war on terrorism while ignoring one of its chieftains.
Kerry says that he would have focused his "energies" on capturing the Zarqawis and bin Ladens instead of dissipating them in the "wrong place." But since Zarqawi was in Iraq before the war and Kerry says he wouldn't have entered Iraq, we know that he doesn't mean it.
www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7174   (702 words)

  
 Terrorism in Iraq
HAMAS was formed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and has become Fatah's principal political rival in the occupied territories.
Thought to have flocked to Iraq to fight the coalition, some reports indicate they are providing bomb making and organization where needed.
A large number of government organizations in Iraq were devoted to watching for subversion amongst the Iraqi people, and remarkably for each one there was also a group watching them.
www.milnet.com /pentagon/centcom/iraq/Terrorism-in-Iraq.html   (1662 words)

  
 Terrorism: Q & A | Iraq
The question of Iraq’s link to terrorism grew more urgent with Saddam’s suspected determination to develop weapons of mass destruction, which Bush administration officials feared he might share with terrorists who could launch devastating attacks against the United States.
Moreover, Iraq has hosted several Palestinian splinter groups that oppose peace with Israel, including the mercenary Abu Nidal Organization, whose leader, Abu Nidal, was found dead in Baghdad in August 2002.
After the war, the U.N. Security Council maintained economic sanctions on Iraq; established two “no-fly” zones patrolled by U.S. and British planes to protect Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south; and imposed international weapons inspections to prevent Saddam from rebuilding his arsenals of weapons of mass destruction.
www.terrorismanswers.com /sponsors/iraq.html   (877 words)

  
 Revolts in Iraq Deepen Crisis In Occupation (washingtonpost.com)
Revolts in Iraq Deepen Crisis In Occupation (washingtonpost.com)
The most visible leader of the resistance is Sadr, a firebrand whose appeal long appeared to be limited to the young, unemployed Shiites who made up his militia, the Mahdi Army.
But worries about a different kind of civil war have been generated by reports that Iraq's ethnic Kurds are fighting alongside U.S. Marines and against the insurgency.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A20690-2004Apr17_2.html   (1139 words)

  
 United Press International: Analysis: Anti-terrorism and Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Meanwhile in Iraq, the renegade Shiite leader Moqtada al Sadr, who had been quiescent for more than two months, suddenly declared the United States the enemy, and the battles of last April erupted once more across a large swath of the country.
But diplomatic sources in Iraq said the timing of the flare-up was hard to fathom.
The other theory, more recondite but for all that not implausible in the context of Iraqi looniness, is that the fighting is somehow an angry reaction to the week's intelligence successes against al-Qaida.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040807-040630-9352r   (711 words)

  
 Foreign troops 'gear up' to enter Iraq - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq are more like terrorist attacks being carried out by criminals, foreign terrorists and officials from the ousted government of Saddam Hussein, he said.
U.S. forces in Iraq launched a major sweep Sunday, arresting suspected terrorists and others who are believed to be behind recent attacks.
Rumsfeld compared post-Saddam Iraq to the years after the end of the Revolutionary War, when the newly formed United States went through a period of "chaos and confusion," including protests by demobilized soldiers that forced Congress to temporarily move out of Washington.
washingtontimes.com /national/20030630-113754-7706r.htm   (1005 words)

  
 The War on Terrorism: Post-Saddam Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For resources on the situation in Iraq before then, including life under Saddam, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the debate over military action, and the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), please see our companion page The War on Terrorism: Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and the Democratization of Post-Saddam Iraq: (http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2004/issue4/jv8no4a2.html).
Most reports focus on military trends and events, though some analyses of postwar Iraq, and the possible economic impact of military action, are included.
personal.ecu.edu /durantd/wot/iraq2.html   (2188 words)

  
 Crowd Protests Terrorism in Iraq
HILLAH, Iraq — Thousands of mostly fl-clad Iraqis protested Tuesday outside a medical clinic where a car bomber killed 125 people a day earlier, braving the threat of another attack as they waved clenched fists, condemned foreign fighters and chanted "No to terrorism!"
Wahhabism was a clear reference to foreign fighters who are supporters of Al Qaeda and adherents of the strict Wahhabi form of Islam, which is the version practiced in Saudi Arabia.
At least 10 foreigners remain in the hands of their captors, more than 30 were killed and the rest were freed or escaped.
www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/crowd_protests_terrorism.htm   (935 words)

  
 Terrorism and Iraq: The Link Is Real Now, by Alan Bock
The fact that Iraq has become a "magnet" for terrorists is not a problem, Peters avers.
In fact, what's happening in Iraq is a validation of at least one aspect of the criticism the more thoughtful war critics made before the war.
If there are several factions of guerrillas or terrorists operating in Iraq, perhaps at cross-purposes sometimes but always with most of the focus on U.S. or U.S.-related interests or people, it could present a much more difficult and dangerous problem for the "coalition" forces.
www.antiwar.com /bock/b082603.html   (1903 words)

  
 Russia, Anti-Terrorism Campaign, Iraq
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said Tuesday global operations to rout out terrorism were only in their first phase but it did not support military action against Iraq.
Bush's comments were the most explicit linkage so far of Iraq to the U.S.-led war on terrorism launched in the wake of the Sept. 11 airliner attacks on the United States.
The zones, which are not recognized by Baghdad, were set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Kurds in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from attack by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's military.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5568-8.cfm   (511 words)

  
 TERRORISM IN IRAQ IS INCREASING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Syrian government has not commented on allegations that foreign fighters are both slipping into Iraq across its shared border and holding clandestine planning meetings in its country.
Around Sunni mosques on Friday, clerics repeated a call from three of Iraq's most influential Sunni Muslim organizations for the places of worship to be shut for three days to protest alleged Shiite violence against them.
The protests followed Muqtada al-Sadr's call Wednesday to reject the U.S. occupation of Iraq by painting Israeli and American flags on the ground outside mosques to be stepped on in protest raids against holy places.
home.earthlink.net /~undisputed_facts/id6.html   (1462 words)

  
 Terrorism is Iraq's new danger
BY JONATHAN S. WASHINGTON -- Terrorism has become the gravest threat to U.S.-led efforts to stabilize Iraq, and there are indications that Saddam Hussein loyalists have begun cooperating with Muslim extremists, U.S. officials said Thursday.
U.S. officials and their Iraqi allies face the challenge of keeping Iraq's political and economic reconstruction on track while battling increasingly sophisticated and ruthless attacks by Iraqis and foreigners united by their hatred for the United States.
Officials and analysts say the terrorists' aim is to weaken U.S. resolve, deter the United Nations and other countries from aiding the occupation, discourage Iraqis from cooperating in reconstruction, and fuel instability and discontent by disrupting public services.
www.freep.com /news/nw/iraq22_20030822.htm   (818 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Myths of the War on Terrorism and Iraq | Powell Laden tape lie, Iraq war ...
Non-governmental agencies, such as Oxfam[7], dealing with the tragic humanitarian crisis[8] caused in Iraq by the Western sanctions[9], report similar projections for human misery should Iraq be invaded.
In fact, officials from Iraq are adamant that their party and al-Qaeda do not share the same ideology.
Iraq was slow to comply, and when the report was received, UN members condemned it for the weapons of mass destruction it revealed
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /myths.html   (7824 words)

  
 Bush's New Morally Bankrupt PR Campaign on Terrorism and Iraq
But it’s also important that we never forget what the Iraqi people will never forget — that during the 1980s the U.S. government was an ardent supporter of their cruel and tyrannical dictator, Saddam Hussein, even furnishing him with weapons of mass destruction, which, as we all know, U.S. officials are still looking for.
So, Bush’s and Cheney’s use of their so-called war on terrorism to justify their invasion and continued occupation of Iraq is patently ludicrous and manifestly deceptive.
Also, Bush and Cheney cannot be unmindful of the fact that the more successful they are in scaring the American people with the prospects of terrorism, especially terrorism with weapons of mass destruction, the less opposition there will be to government suppression of civil liberties here at home.
www.fff.org /comment/com0310e.asp   (1201 words)

  
 Terrorism in Iraq widening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A pair of car bombings killed a U.S. soldier and 12 Iraqis yesterday and gunmen assassinated a senior Education Ministry official.
The attacks continued a wave of violence against the U.S. occupation and Iraqis who cooperate with it as the June 30 transfer of power approaches.
The bombings were among a variety of violent engagements, occurring at the rate of 35 to 40 a day, in a campaign designed to demonstrate a lack of U.S. and government control in the days leading to restoration of Iraqi sovereignty June 30, the officers said.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04166/331553.stm   (527 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Hans Blix: "Iraq War Stimulated Terrorism"
Many critics of the invasion argue it opened Iraq to Islamist militants involved in an insurrection against coalition forces, while distracting attention from a campaign against the al-Qaeda group blamed for September, 2001 attacks on the United States.
"I advise my brothers, the sons of Iraq, who are working for the government agencies, in intelligence, the armed forces and the police to repent,'' one of the men said.
Washington says Zarqawi is its number one enemy in Iraq and his group has claimed responsibility for some of the bloodiest suicide bombings and attacks against U.S. forces and Iraqi government officials.
www.truthout.org /docs_04/101504Y.shtml   (803 words)

  
 Down deep in Texas: The View from Waco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I don't think it comes as any surprise that the Shi'ite leadership in Iraq feels that Al Zarquawi and his thugs are trying to start a civil war.
BAGHDAD: Shi'ite political leader Abdel Aziz Al Hakim lashed out yesterday at Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's Islamic militants and Saddam Hussein loyalists after a car bombing of a mosque in Baghdad, which he said was aimed at sparking civil war.
And they seem to be ready and willing for the elections and are not going to let these 'people' keep them from voting.
downdeepintexas.blogspot.com /2005/01/terrorism-in-iraq.html   (416 words)

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