”we will not accept less than a victory”: said George W Bush

Is this the real time to see Bush administration engaging talks with terrorists, due to their policy failure in Iraq? The main reasons that have led the US into war in Iraq was the alleged association of Saddam Hussein to the Al Qaeda as the extremist group accused in the bombing of the World Trade Center and possibility of what could be the next actions if the world could allow Iraqi regime to emerge as an influencing power in the region, with ability to produce dangerous weapons which may fall in the hands of terrorists as US secretary of State Collin Powell stated in his address to the UN:
“Our concern is not just about these illicit weapons; it's the way that these illicit weapons can be connected to terrorists and terrorist organizations. But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbours a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants.
Zarqawi, a Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan War more than a decade ago. Returning to Afghanistan in 2000, he oversaw a terrorist training camp. One of his specialties and one of the specialties of this camp is poisons. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp, and this camp is located in North-eastern Iraq. You see a picture of this camp. Graphic, above. There were no WMDS at this camp according to ABC report; see below the network is teaching its operative how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch imagine a pinch of salt less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food would cause shock, followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote. There is no cure. It is fatal.
Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein's controlled Iraq, but Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered Al Qaeda safe haven in the region. After we swept Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, some of its members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today. We know these affiliates are connected to Zarqawi because they remain, even today, in regular contact with his direct subordinates, including the poison cell plotters. And they are involved in moving more than money and materiel. Last year, two suspected Al Qaeda operatives were arrested crossing from Iraq into Saudi Arabia. They were linked to associates of the Baghdad cell, and one of them received training in Afghanistan on how to use cyanide. From his terrorist network in Iraq, Zarqawi can direct his network in the Middle East and beyond. Note he is present in several countries at the same time. According to detainees, Abu Atiya, who graduated from Zarqawi's terrorist camp in Afghanistan, tasked at least nine North African extremists in 2001 to travel to Europe to conduct poison and explosive attacks. Since last year, members of this network have been apprehended in France, Britain, Spain and Italy. By our last count, 116 operatives connected to this global web have been arrested. The chart you are seeing shows the network in Europe. We know about this European network, and we know about its links to Zarqawi, because the detainee who provided the information about the targets also provided the names of members of the network. We also know that Zarqawi's colleagues have been active in the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, and in Chechnya, Russia. The plotting to which they are linked is not mere chatter. Members of Zarqawi's network say their goal was to kill Russians with toxins. We are not surprised that Iraq is harbouring Zarqawi and his subordinates. This understanding builds on decades-long experience with respect to ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.As I said at the outset, none of this should come as a surprise to any of us. Terrorism has been a tool used by Saddam for decades. Saddam was a supporter of terrorism long before these terrorist networks had a name, and this support continues. The nexus of poisons and terror is new; the nexus of Iraq and terror is old. The combination is lethal. With this track record, Iraqi denials of supporting terrorism take their place alongside the other Iraqi denials of weapons of mass destruction. It is all a web of lies. When we confront a regime that harbours ambitions for regional domination, hides weapons of mass destruction, and provides haven and active support for terrorists, we are not confronting the past, we are confronting the present. And unless we act, we are confronting an even more frightening future." The reality of Middle East conflict is that campaigns have been led on the wrong countries for many reasons among which reports after September 11 state that two out of three suspects in the plot were Saudi born who are freely living in their country, problem existing between Israelis and Palestinian never been mentioned as possible reason which may lead to the spread of extremist ideology on the name of Islam as is likely possible to have a young Palestinian man be attracted to join extremist groupings in the name of revenge against Israel, in the above speech ,Powell described Iraqi modern methods of killing people ignoring the impact of occupying the independent state without the consent of its people constitute the most dangerous methods of killing more than accusations based on allegation, before the US find what led them into war in Iraq emerging proof of their nightmare state to emerge in the so called most civilised world with the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, died of radiation poisoning in London while desperately looking for weapons of mass destruction in a wrong place others have created more smart haven for themselves to murder innocents(2006-12-10 The Sunday Independent).there is no need to say shift of policy in Iraq is the result of their uncontrolled collapse in both houses of the congress, they started giving up early before the event of their collapse, once realising the mistake made Powell was the first to be forced for early retirement ,the secretary of defence Ramsveld and now the US ambassador to the UN John Bolton (pioneers of war in Iraq), then the strong resistance Israel have received from a Lebanese fights led them to approached previously described as evil regimes to be partners and part of the solution in the region namely Syria and Iran.
By Lubungo Tafadhali Ngwy
Student(Public Administration and development Studies, University of South Africa ) and independent researcher sharing views on social issues in South Africa and Africa in general
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