The guy who couldn't shoot straight
Posted on 08/14/2006 7:57:14 PM PDT by jmc1969
The insurgents allowed her to conduct occasional interviews about their organization in which she learned that they belonged to an insurgent council, including members of al Qaeda.
"The main captor during all these interviews I would do was anxious to tell me about this. He told me his name was Abdullah Rashid," she said. "He said he had helped form this council … in Iraq that brought together some of the main Sunni insurgent groups, and he was the head of it. One of those groups in that council was al Qaeda and Zarqawi."
She was held from Jan. 7 through March 30, months before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq. Her captors told her that Zarqawi had inspired them.
"Al Qaeda and the whole idea of global jihad was their real overachieving motivation and ideological guide. And they loved Zarqawi. He was … a superhero to them," Carroll said. "They all worshipped him. … They would play his sermons for me all the time. … I would hear them talk about this council, and the council was always meeting and making decisions about things … regarding me."
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The guy who couldn't shoot straight
How can this be. Al Qaeda is not in Iraq.
Quoting Jill Carroll from the article:
He was really cute," she said, talking about the 5-year-old. And he wants to be a holy warrior," she said. "It was this entire family unit. … If you're going to combat insurgency, you have to kill the entire family or something. Or imprison the entire family. That 5-year-old boy is going to grow up and pick up a gun one day and start shooting. Obviously, he's being trained for that."
Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Ms. Carroll refuse to be debriefed?
An internet statement posted by the Mujahideen Shura Council - a grouping of insurgents that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq - said it had abducted the men [the two US soldiers Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker] and slit their throats.The posting, which cannot be independently confirmed, said the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq - Abu Hamza al-Muhajir - had been "favoured by God" in being allowed to carry out a Sharia law tribunal death sentence.
The former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a US air strike near Baquba on 7 June.
------------ "BBC: US soldiers' bodies found in Iraq ~ Bodies Booby Trapped,...Zarqawi successor killed," BBC, Tuesday, 20 June 2006
You are wrong.
Zarqawi was also the leader of the group formerly known as Ansar al-Islam- which for a time the libs tried to claim wasn't in cahoots with al Qaeda since it would mean that for all practical purposes al Qaeda was in Iraq prior to 9/11.
Sounds like she was a houseguest of some terrorists.
al Zarqawi aka Khalayleh was also affiliated with Iran's shiite regime, Iraq's former Baathist regime, and with Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Upon furthur research it appears she dragged her feet for a couple of days.
I hope she gets help and gets over feeling responsible for her colleague's death. The bad guys killed him, not her.
ping
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