[lit-ideas] Re: Al Zarqawi
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:02:28 -0700
A very interesting profile, Eric.
A couple of years ago I read Mary Anne Weaver's A Portrait of Egypt, A
Journey through the World of Militant Islam. She is a gutsy lady --
fearless in going after a story. I have a lot of respect for her. On the
back cover it says, "She is not afraid to wander down dark alleys, taking us
from the pungent slums of Cairo . . . to a Saudi-funded militant
'university' near Peshawar on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan." In
another place it says, "Mary Anne Weaver is a staff writer for The New
Yorker who has written numerous articles on the Islamic world, including
profiles of Benazir Bhutto and Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. She lives with her
husband in New York City."
If she were my wife, I'd be worried sick about what she does.
Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Yost
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:31 AM
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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