Iraq, Al Queda, Iraq, Al Queda, Iraq, Al Queda

[Nbadan]

Keep your eye on the dancing ball...


President Bush, stressing that Americans face an ongoing threat from terrorists, shared intelligence on Wednesday asserting that Osama bin Laden was working in 2005 to set up a unit inside Iraq to hit U.S. targets.

Much of the information Bush cited in a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy described terrorism plots already revealed, but he fleshed out details and highlighted U.S. successes in foiling planned attacks since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.


"In the minds of al-Qaida leaders, 9-11 was just a downpayment on violence yet to come," Bush said on a bright, sunny day at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement, held at a stadium along the Thames River. "It is tempting to believe that the calm here at home after 9-11 means that the danger to our country has passed."

"The danger has not passed. Here in America, we are living in the eye of a storm," he said, depicting the struggle in Iraq as a battle between the United States and al-Qaida. "All around us, dangerous winds are swirling and these winds could reach our shores at any moment."

Bush said that intelligence showed that in January 2005

ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3204572)

Where is Osama bin forgotten anyway?

[Nbadan]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, trying to defend his war strategy, declassified intelligence Tuesday asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq — and that the United States should be the top target.

Frances Fragos Townsend, the White House homeland security adviser, said the intelligence bolsters the Bush administration’s contention that al-Qaida wants to use Iraq as a staging area to launch terrorist attacks around the world, including the United States.

Linky (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/22/america/NA-GEN-US-Terrorism.php)

The words, Dubya and intelligence, should never be used in the same sentence again.

[Nbadan]

Al Queda, Iraq, Al Queda, Iraq, Al Queda, Iraq, Al Queda, Iran, Al Queda, Iran, Al Queda, Iran!


BAGHDAD (AFP) - US forces have killed two gunmen and discovered a large amount of Iranian currency and bomb-making materials in a raid on the Baghdad Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday.

US troops searched 11 buildings during the raid in search of a cell involved in importing weapons from Iran into Baghdad and southeastern Iraq.

"As they continued to search the buildings, coalition forces found a large quantity of Iranian money, more than 6,000 dollars in US money and improvised explosive device-making materials," said the statement.

During the search US forces came under attack from four gunmen and confirmed killing two of them. Washington has repeatedly accused Iran of funding armed groups in Iraq and trying to distabilise the country, a charge it has denied.

On May 28, the US and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq will meet to discuss their respective policies in the war torn country.

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070523/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusunrestraid)

The story continues....


"As they continued to search the buildings, coalition forces found more than 6,000 dollars in US money, a large quantity of Iranian money and improvised explosive device-making materials," said the statement.

bet you won't hear about the U.S. dollars found on wing-nut radio.

[xrayzebra]

Ah, Dan, your point being?

[Nbadan]

Washington - US President George W Bush, who has warned that a hasty US pullout from Iraq would be catastrophic, said on Thursday that US forces would leave if the fledgling Baghdad government asked them to.

"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation," he said at a White House press conference.

"If they were to say 'leave', we would leave."

News 24 (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_2118788,00.html)

Someone remind the resident Bozo that the Iraqi parliment, the saviors of the B.A., have gone on record as asking us to leave Iraq.