How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory

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How America let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/07/iraq-weapons-factory-al-qaida-us-failure)


Dominic Streatfeild explains how despite expert warnings, the US let al-Qaida buy an arsenal of deadly weapons – then tried to cover it up

This just goes to show both how utterly incomptent the US military is, and how the Iraq war had nothing to do with preventing 'terrorism'. Ignoring warnings from the IAEA, Iraqi military and security experts the US military failed to secure the Middle-East's largest weapons and amunition facility and allowed some 40,000 tonnes of High-exposives to fall into the hands of Islamic militants.

Another success for the War on Terror and the Military-Industrial Complex.

[brigadista]

do people believe al qaida exist?

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do people believe al qaida exist?

Well, if you read the article you'd see how it wasn't Al-Qaida, (which does exist, but it is far from some complex scheme by fundamentalist muslims to rule the world), but rather the broad range of Islamic militant groups that operated in Iraq at the time, the use of the term 'Al-Qaida' is little more than for shock value, but do you really expect a comprehensive analysis of the various anti-american militant groups in Iraq from what is essentially the capitalist media?

[gorillafuck]

This is because of damn socialist Obama going easy on the terrorists!

[brigadista]

thought Al qaida was the name of the cia database?

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thought Al qaida was the name of the cia database?

No, why would they give it the arabic for 'the base' as a name? Seems like some kind of weird conspiricy.

AQ does exist, and was founded sometime in the late 80s in Pakistan's tribal regions, while there is no over arching command and control network, it would seem that the various groups across the world (AQ in the Arab Peninsula, AQ in Iraq, AQ Organization in the Arab Magreb etc, etc) are connected by more than a 'brand name'. While I doubt very much Bin laden and his cronies have some kind of batcave in the Afghan hills from where the control the whole group, he certainly holds massive influence over the various parts.

While it is likely that AQ and other various islamist style groups are somewhat the product of 'Operation Cylone' (CIA Operations to encourage the mujahaden in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war), I seriously doubt they were intended as some kind of huge false flag operation. Governments aren't that competent. Most of the forigen fighters in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war were funded from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

[gorillafuck]

Al-Qaeda isn't a CIA false flag organization, the CIA wouldn't be stupid enough to call it's false flag operation "The Base" if it actually was a false flag operation.

[brigadista]

to clarify not the literal translation from Arabic (!) meaning database but a database with that name according to adam curtis (see the power of nightmares)

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to clarify not the literal translation from Arabic (!) meaning database but a database with that name according to adam curtis (see the power of nightmares)

It'd not be surprising that the CIA had a database of the mujahaden fighters it was funding in Afghanistan, but Milton Bearden, CIA Field Officer for Afghanistan from 1985 to 1989, states that there was no need to use foriegn fighters (who had limited knowledge of the environment, language, geography and culture of Afghanistan), since they had around 1/4 milion local afghans willing to fight for them. As I previously stated, and as has also been further supported by several of the recent wikileaks cables, most funding for AQ/similar organizations comes from either Saudi Arabia, or the Emeraties, both in the Soviet-Afghan war, and now.