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Originally Posted by host
Why ace, haven't you and IBD folded your Zarqawi "card"?
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First there is intel that allegedly supports the report that Zarqawi was in Iraq. Two of the people convicted of the murder indicated there was a link with al queda and that they received orders from Zarqawi.
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A statement from the Jordanian government said the two men, identified as Salem Sa'ed Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan national, and Yasser Fathi Ibraheem, a Jordanian, confessed to their membership in al Qaeda and that they received their orders from a senior al Qaeda leader.
According to the statement, "bin Suweid and Ibraheem confessed that they are members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization, and are affiliated with bin Laden's lieutenant, Ahmad Fadeel Nazal Al-Khalayleh, known as Abu Musa'ab Al-Zarqawi."
Zarqawi left Jordan in 1999 and has been convicted in absentia of a plot to bomb tourist hotels in Amman during the millennium celebrations.
Treatment in Iraq
He reportedly fled Afghanistan after U.S. operations began there, going first to Iran, then Iraq, where he was said to have received medical treatment. President Bush referred to him -- without mentioning his name -- during a speech in Cincinnati in October.
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/m...ordan.killing/
There are also reports that the men convicted of the murder talked about the links to Iraq.
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The CIA also looked into the possibility that the Iraqi regime was involved in the al-Zarqawi network murder of USAID official Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan in December 2002. [Redacted] two suspects in the Foley murder, indicated that Iraqi territory may have been used to facilitate travel and the supply of weapons to the al-Zarqawi group in Jordan. But, neither of the two suspects provided any information on links between al-Zarqawi and the Iraqi regime. [Redacted] one of the two suspects in the Foley murder stated that al-Zarqawi directed and financed the operations before, during and after his stint in Baghdad between May and July 2002. The other suspect mentioned that weapons for their operations in Jordan had come from an unspecified place in Iraq. [Redacted] an associate of Foley's killer left Jordan to join al-Zarqawi in Iraq after the murder to obtain weapons and explosives for future operations. Both of the suspects [redacted] mentioned that one member of the al-Zarqawi network traveled repeatedly between regime-controlled Iraq and Syria after March 2002."
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http://thomasjoscelyn.blogspot.com/2...nce-foley.html
It is possible these men lied. It is possible that the intel is wrong. Perhaps there was a link to Iraq and Saddam did not know that his country was being used, which I doubt.
But, regardless the author of the editorial stated that "perhaps" there was a link. I don't think we know with certainty either way. You speculate, just like the author of the editorial. So, what does that prove?