[lit-ideas] Re: Al Zarqawi
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:30:55 -0400
Mary Weaver's article in the Atlantic magazine, which
Hitchens references, can be found here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200607/zarqawi
The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
[from page 4]
“We know Zarqawi better than he knows himself,” the
high-level Jordanian intelligence official said. “And I can
assure you that he never had any links to Saddam. Iran is
quite a different matter. The Iranians have a policy: they
want to control Iraq. And part of this policy has been to
support Zarqawi, tactically but not strategically.”
“Such as?” I asked.
“In the beginning they gave him automatic weapons, uniforms,
military equipment, when he was with the army of Ansar
al-Islam. Now they essentially just turn a blind eye to his
activities, and to those of al-Qaeda generally. The Iranians
see Iraq as a fight against the Americans, and overall,
they’ll get rid of Zarqawi and all of his people once the
Americans are out.”
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