Posted on 10/20/2005 7:55:47 AM PDT by TDCAnalyst
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ryan Mauro, the 19-year-old author of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq and the youngest hired geopolitical analyst in the country. He is an analyst for Tactical Defense Concepts and Northeast Intelligence Network and is the owner of WorldThreats.com. He will be speaking at the 2006 Intelligence Summit on his work in open-source intelligence.
FP: Ryan Mauro, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Mauro: Thank you for having me.
FP: You are quite a young fellow. It is quite exceptional for a 19-year-old to be an expert in geopolitical affairs. What got you involved in your work?
Mauro: Due to a visual disability of mine, I couldn't play sports as a kid. So with my time I read a lot and then around age 11 or 12, I got my first computer, which was around the time of the bombing of Iraq in December 1998. It started my interest in geopolitical affairs, even though my parents were not political. I can remember in 2000 not knowing the candidates involved in the race, but knowing the locations of all the Middle Eastern countries.
FP: I want to talk to you today about what your sources reveal about the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, WMDs in Iraq under Saddam, and the Syrian-Iranian connection to the terrorism in Iraq. But first, let’s talk about the referendum in Iraq the other day and the high-voter turnout. This is quite a devastating blow to the terrorists isn’t it?
Mauro: This is a disaster for the terrorists. Lots of critics in the mainstream media pointed to the delays in writing the constitution and bickering, but no where else in the Arab world can such bickering occur. And you can bet that the Iraqis and the region as a whole noticed that...
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but no where else in the Arab world can such bickering occur.
And the only place bikcering can occur here is the Republican party and Free Republic.
Mauro: My book compiles all the evidence available that demonstrates Iraq worked with Al-Qaeda on all levels.
In the 1980s, Saddam regularly sponsored Palestinian groups and Iraqi intelligence even poisoned Israeli oranges that they exported to Europe, an obvious economic assault. After the Gulf War, Hasan al-Turabi, the spiritual leader of Sudan, helped bring all sorts of Islamic groups together--this included the Iraqis and Osama Bin Laden. It was a time of great reconciliation. Iraq and Iran began burying the hatchet, and Sudan became a base for cooperation.
It's worth clicking on the link to read the whole thing. Some of the best parts are further down--see excerpt above...
If it were a Clinton war, the media would be all over the Iraqi-AQ ties... I remember the Kossovo charade, in comparison, and back then they even were inventing stuff
nice article and link. hope more than a few people read it. what is most gratifiying is that many of the ideas - but not the all of the details have been on the FreeRepublic during the past 5 years. we are not in the dark, because Jim created a forum.
Fantastic article - forwarded to friends.
wow, would have thought this article would be more popular!
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